In a soccer-crazed country like Israel, the unlikely success of an Israeli baseball team at the World Baseball Classic hasn't attracted much local attention.
And it has helped mend ties between Israel and American Jews that have been flagging recently due to backtracking of a government-funded egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall and a new law that forbids entry to foreign nationals who call for economic, cultural or academic boycotts of either Israel or the settlements.
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