The country's highest court will hear petitions by Palestinian patients stuck in war-torn Gaza, but whenever an urgent intervention is needed to save lives, the judges choose to delay and defer, often at a terrible cost

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Historian Marc Bloch, who was tortured and executed in 1944, was recently inducted into the Pantheon. What followed was an important lesson on contemporary politics, narrative and antisemitism