Hello. My name is Banji and I went to Israel for winter vacation. I wanted this to be a diary of that visit. Will it

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Every Shabbat, after the haftarah, our custom is to recite a prayer for the government. The prayer begins “HaNoten teshua la’melachim, He Who gives salvation