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Las Vegas veteran comic Butch Bradley headlined the six-city Comedy for Kobe tour of Israel.
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Las Vegas veteran comic Butch Bradley headlined the six-city Comedy for Kobe tour of Israel.
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Benefit raises $25,000; for attendees, the performances also show how to be funny and creative through hard times in Jewish history
Tami Varon needed a night out to laugh. With two of her sons just back from fighting Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, she joined some 400 others at a comedy show of visiting U.S. comics in Israel to try to forget about the war for a while. For Varon and the show's organisers, comedy can help to heal those who remain deeply traumatised by the Oct. 7 attack when Hamas killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in southern Israel, and triggered the war in Gaza.
Steadily, some form of normality has returned in Israel; now, comedy shows are sold out as rocket attacks from Gaza have started to subside.