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1 Israel’s annual ‘Independence Day’ (Hebrew) (3,2-7)

10 Having come in, registered (7)

11 Set out, in pouring rain, to get some wine (7)

12 Ones pocketing millions - they’re the tops (5)

13 Carcass preserver processed mere lamb (8)

15 Welsh-Jewish poet and author of ‘Ash On A Young Man’s Sleeve’ (1923-2014) (6,4)

16 Being King David’s father, decapitated (4)

18 Backing from former Yugoslavia, what’s more (4)

20 Haifa’s mediterranean headland (4,6)

22 Hunted rabbits - celebrated bagging stray (8)

24 Sequence of drawings - a revealing act? (5)

26 Halachic surety for a debt (Greek/ Hebrew) (7)

27 Sea of ******* - body of water between The Med and Black Sea (7)

28 Israel’s annual ‘Remembrance Day for The Fallen in Defence of The State’ (Hebrew) (3,9)

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2 Seat of old Turkish empire? (7)

3 Galil village northeast of Karmiel (Hebrew - ‘craftsmen’) (8)

4 Adoniram’s father (1 Kings 4:6) (4) 5 Comic actor who played the first ‘Tevye’ on Broadway’s ‘Fiddler’ (19151977) (4,6)

6 Cavities discovered in African travels (5) 7 Ashkenazi sweet carrot dish (Yiddish) (7)

8 Jewish Labour ex-cabinet minister, MP for first one then another Manchester seat (1930-2017) (6,7)

9 Yorkshire-born Anglo-Jewish actress awarded DBE in 2020 (b.1946) (7,6) 14 Traditional Jewish dance song (Hebrew - ‘Let Us Be Joyful’) (4,6)

17 Israeli port town originally named after a Roman emperor (8)

19 Australia encapsulated by scornful quarter-Jewish former President of France (b.1955) (7) 21 King ran into revolutionary Jewish pseudo-convert (7)

23 Uriah The Hittite’s father-in-law (2 Sam. 11:3) (5)

25 Sixth king of old Israel, or I’m mistaken (1 Kings 16:16) (4)