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Levite overseer during King Hezekiah’s revival (2 Chron. 31:13) (9)

6 Cartographer’s book, abridged after much delay (5)

9 Jewish-Austrian composer from Harlem (18601911) (6)

10 Tevye’s shtetl (‘Fiddler’) (8)

13 Military brass in charge fenced in by tenders (8) 14 Strong man holding everything loses an adjunct to prayer (Hebrew) (6)

15 Ishmael’s mother (Gen. 16:1) (5)

17 Tribe member put to death by King Saul (2 Sam. 21:1) (9)

19 Right-wing extremist assassin of Yitzhak Rabin (5,4)

20 Israeli city on the coastal plain south-east of Tel Aviv-Yafo (5)

22 Charge exorbitantly for a warm woollen coat (6) 23 Post-Passover ceremony celebrated by Sephardi Jews (8)

25 Rabbi’s wife (Hebrew) (8)

26 Club welcoming laugh, finally, in comedy routine (Yiddish) (6)

27 Infant beginning to learn confused sounds (Gen. 11:9) (5)

28 Original inhabitant of ‘The Promised Land’ (Gen 15:21) (9)

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Yam Kinneret by its English and New Testament name (3,2,8)

3 Shaphat’s father (1 Chron. 27:29) (5)

4 Laurence ****** , Anglo-Jewish star of ‘Room At

The Top’ (1928-1973) (6)

5 People from Basra (5)

7 Nazi extermination camp north-east of Warsaw (9)

8 Stretch of water which could be black, red, white or yellow (3)

11 Type of music - Israel’s is ‘The Hatikvah’ (6)

12 The 1938 Nazi pogrom ‘The Night of Broken Glass’ (13)

16 A cock bird no friend to the Israelites (Gen. 14:7) (9)

18 Sidelocks grown by hasidic Jews (Yiddish) (6) 21 Look at a Tanakh book, say, or have a nap (6) 23 Chap picked up an unexpected windfall (Ex. 16:31) (5)

24 Frequently lessen the impact, going topless (5) 25 Old honorific address of respect to a secular Jewish male (Hebrew) (3)