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**FILE** The Jewish neighborhood of Pisgat Zeev in east Jerusalem is seen here on July 29, 2009, with the Shuafat refugee camp (background) and Israel's separation barrier running between them. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this April 5, 2011, file photo Israeli President Shimon Peres speaks to members of the media outside White House in Washington following his meeting with President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. Netanyahu ordered the military in 2010 to go on high alert for a looming attack on Iran's nuclear program, but backed off following strong objections from senior security officials, according to an Israeli news program. The show suggests Israel came close to carrying out the strike, and exposes a deep rift between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his top security men over the wisdom of attacking Iran. (AP Photo/Gali Tibbon, Poo, File)
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Israel says Islamic militants on its borders are receiving weapons through a pipeline created through an alliance between Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Sudanese counterpart, Lt. Gen. Omar Bashir (right). (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Nov. 4, 2012. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** This Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012, file image made from video released by the Israeli Defense Forces shows the downing of a drone that entered Israeli airspace in southern Israel. (AP Photo/Israeli Defense Forces via AP video, File)
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An Israeli military officer surveys the damage of a house after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants hit a community along the Israel-Gaza border in Israel on Wednesday. Rockets and mortars from Gaza have pummeled southern Israel. (The Associated Press)
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Smoke trails from a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip toward Israel on Wednesday. Gaza militants pummeled southern Israel with dozens of rockets and mortars on Wednesday, and Israeli airstrikes killed two Palestinians. (The Associated Press)
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Israeli President Shimon Peres, center, toasts Indian conductor Zubin Mehta, second left, during a ceremony awarding him the Presidential Medal of Distinction at the President's residence in Jerusalem, Monday, Oct. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
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Indian-born conductor Zubin Mehta conducts the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra during a concert for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit (pictured at top) in the Eshkol Park near the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on Monday, July 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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An Israeli army helicopter lands in an open area as soldiers search for the remains of a drone in the Negev in southern Israel on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Yehuda Lachiani)
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Rafah residents burned tires in August to protest a deadly attack. Egypt is struggling to rein in rampant lawlessness and uproot Islamic militants who have attacked military troops and neighboring Israel. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this March 30, 2012 file photo, a Hamas security officer tries to prevent protesters from reaching Erez crossing during a march heading towards the border with Israel in the northern Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa, File)
