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The theme of the week was turmoil. Turmoil in the banks, which have proved vulnerable to rising interest rates; and turmoil in the Middle East, where Israel is tearing itself apart over reforms to the Supreme Court proposed by the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu.

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