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In 1998, the Israeli army came to demolish the Shawamreh family home in Anata for the first of seven times, for lack of a permit that Israel was determined not to give them. While I was in another location getting ready for a planned demonstration against home demolitions, a bus on the way diverted to Anata. Two board members of Rabbis For Human Rights, the NGO I directed at the time, were on the bus: Rabbis Ben Hollander z”l and Max Warschawski z”l It was a violent day. Bullets were flying. One young Palestinian lost a kidney. Rabbi Warschawski, the former chief rabbi of Strasberg, and former partisan who fought against the Nazis, was already an elderly man. His worried fa