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Politics Trump Research And Collecting

WAS A COIN collection confiscated for political reasons? That is what a court in Hebron, a Palestinian city on the south West Bank, is determining.

Anwar Zre’ir, also known as Abu Noor, describes himself as a lifelong researcher who has accumulated thousands of rare items throughout the past 50 years. Zre’ir is 80. A search of the internet did not reveal any papers published by Noor.

According to Noor’s court

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