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‘In 1949, they brought a cardboard box and called it a ballot box’: Veterans recall 77 years of elections

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“‘In 1949, they brought a cardboard box and called it a ballot box’: Veterans recall 77 years of elections”

Zir Luz, 97, cast his first vote from a cardboard box as a soldier in 1949, while Pinchas Avhar, 91, first voted in 1955; ahead of Tuesday's election, the two recall Ben-Gurion, changing loyalties and the growing divisions they hope Israel can heal

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