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Aviad Raz
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli professor of sociology”. Today it says “israeli professor of sociology at ben-gurion university of the negev”.
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Aviad Raz Sociologist at Tel Aviv University who specialises, inter alia, in the IDF , kibbutz organisations, and Japanese organisations. Raz is also an author . Books include Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland , published by Harvard University Press . v t e1
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israeli professor of sociology
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israeli professor of sociology at ben-gurion university of the negev
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