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Enemies: A Love Story TAU's Alliance Center for Iranian Studies is a world authority on Iran and its Jews By Melanie Takefman
E
ven though they have been enemies in official channels for decades, Iranians and Israelis have a mutual fascination with each other. "Young Iranians are very intrigued by Israelis and are eager to contact them through social media," says Dr. Liora Hendelman-Baavur, the new Director of TAU's Alliance Center for Iranian Studies and a historian of Iranian women and media in the 20th century. "They want to know what is beyond the image of the ‘Zionist enemy’ as presented by Iranian sources." In parallel, the popularity of Tehran, a critically-acclaimed TV series about a Mossad agent in Iran, attests to
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