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Yehoshua Sofer

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli martial artist”. Today it says “name of a victim of the june 2010 west bank shooting”.
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Yehoshua Sofer is also the name of a victim of the June 2010 West Bank shooting . Sofer in 2011 Yehoshua Sofer ( Hebrew : יהושע סופר ) is an Israeli-Jamaican hip hop and rap artist, and a martial artist . As a martial artist, he is the founder of Abir Warrior Arts Association of Israel , teaching his own style of “ Abir-Qesheth Hebrew Warrior Arts ” (אבי״ר-קשת אומנות לחימה עברית‎) in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, claiming it to be a tradition of his family dating to Israelite antiquity preserved by an underground school of "Bani Abir" in Habban , Yemen . Sofer perceives this style of martial arts training to be a continuation of the practices of the Jewish people prior to the Second Temple period . The style takes inspiration from the Hebrew alphabet, basing moves and stances on Hebrew letters.

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israeli martial artist

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name of a victim of the june 2010 west bank shooting

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