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Hillel Bardin has been a well-known and pioneering figure among the advocates of nonviolence in Jerusalem, advocating dialogue and bottom-up peacebuilding. His effort to work for nonviolence while wearing the Israel Defense Force uniform has been truly unique.... Looking around the region at present and seeing the empowerment of civil society in popular demands for regime change, it is difficult to predict their impact on Israel.... A one-person enterprise, like that of Hillel Bardin, cannot provide a full answer, but it remains a strong source of inspiration.from the foreword