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Yair Hoffmann
August 4, 2019, 9:07 am
Israeli chess prodigy sits out championships set on Yom Kippur and Tisha b’Av
Yair Hoffmann will not travel to India and Slovakia to compete in tournaments because they fall on Jewish holy days
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