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Café Hillel

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “cafe”. Today it says “israeli chain of coffehouses and restaurants”.
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Café Hillel ( Hebrew : קפה הלל ) was an Israeli chain of coffehouses and restaurants. Established in 1998 by Koby and Yossi Sherf, the chain had more than 25 locations across Israel. The German Colony location of the chain was the site of the 2003 Café Hillel bombing . The chain closed down the same year.

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cafe

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israeli chain of coffehouses and restaurants

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