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Unity

We have unified to fight for our survival.

Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.

Pro- and anti-reform demonstrations, secular-religious confrontations, road-blocking, horn-blowing Israelis angry with each other and showing it! Enjoying the freedom to loudly express ourselves in a free and democratic state.

It all disappeared.

Overnight.

Literally.

As we unify to fight for our survival.

Political cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., made aliyah to Israel in 1971 and began drawing “Dry Bones” in January 1973. The internationally syndicated, award-winning cartoons ran in The Jerusalem Post for 50 years. They were reprinted in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME and other mainstream media publications. The “Dry Bones” story has been covered by CBS, CNN and Forbes, among other outlets. He was a member of America’s National Cartoonists Society and the Israeli Cartoonists Society. Kirschen died at 87 on April 14, 2025.
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