Joshua Prawer was a notable Israeli historian and a scholar of the Crusades and Kingdom of Jerusalem whose work often attempted to portray Crusader society as a forerunner to later European colonialist expansion. He was also an important figure in Israeli higher education, was one of the founders of the University of Haifa and Ben-Gurion University, and was a major reformer of the Israeli education system. Wikipedia
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