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the monk from the holy land

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The Monk from the Holy Land

Serving as an Israeli military medic in the 1973 war, Jonathan Katzenelson experienced life’s impermanence, leading him to reject the conventional life his father wanted for him and ordain as a Tibetan Buddhist monk. For years,…

By Nizan Lotem

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