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Asim’s nephew Karim contributed bold and colorful portraits that include sabras and other local plants.—Isabel Kershner, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023 After all, Paul Newman played the hero, Ari Ben Canaan, a chiseled, blue-eyed sabra Superman, and the blonde, lithe Eva Marie Saint his American love interest, whose evolution from skeptic to supporter of the Jewish cause mirrored the emotions of millions of sympathetic viewers.—Jane Eisner, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023 His older brother Yoni was his hero, the living image of a sabra, the new, fighting Israeli Jew.—Dominic Green, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022 Israelis often identify themselves with the sabra, the cactus fruit that has a prickly exterior and a soft interior and pride themselves on their frankness and shameless audacity.—Ruth Eglash, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2018
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