Avi Issacharoff

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Emerging from a seventh-generation Bukharian Jewish family in Jerusalem, he grew up in the Givat Shaul neighborhood, attended a Kurdish-Jewish synagogue where he learned Arabic, and later earned a degree from Ben-Gurion University followed by an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies and Literature at Tel Aviv University. His fluency in Arabic led to service in the IDF’s Duvdevan Unit and subsequently to…