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Matti Friedman is an author and was an Associated Press (AP) reporter between 2006 and 2011.
His first book, The Aleppo Codex, won the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and his second, about Israeli infantrymen holding an isolated outpost in Lebanon, will be published next year. He lives in Jerusalem.
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