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Israeli Vice Prime Minister Dan Meridor
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Palestinian supporters of Khader Adnan, a senior member of the Islamic Jihad who has been on a hunger strike for 66 days while being jailed in Israel, demonstrate in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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Palestinian demonstrators surround the convoy of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as it enters the Erez border crossing between Israel and Gaza on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), followed by his wife, Sara, casts his vote during the Likud party primary elections in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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In this Monday, Dec. 19, 2011 photo, seen through a gun slit, trucks with goods destined for Gaza wait to be unloaded on the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Each day, dozens of trucks move food, consumer products and industrial materials into the Gaza Strip at this heavily fortified crossing, in an odd arrangement that has turned Israel into a key supplier to a territory governed by its bitter enemy Hamas. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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In this Monday, Dec. 19, 2011 photo, a worker rests on the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Each day, dozens of trucks move food, consumer products and industrial materials into the Gaza Strip at this heavily fortified crossing, in an odd arrangement that has turned Israel into a key supplier to a territory governed by its bitter enemy Hamas. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was indicted Thursday on corruption charges for allegedly seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** An anti-ballistic missile then under development by the U.S. and Israel lifts off in a test just off the California coast in July 2004. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert gives a statement to the media at his Jerusalem office in March 2009. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas could pay a heavy price among Palestinians if he returns to formal peace negotiations without an Israeli settlement freeze. (Associated Press)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks Jan. 1, 2012, during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. (Associated Press)
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The minaret of a vandalized mosque in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood is seen Dec. 14, 2011, after unknown arsonists torched the inactive mosque, provoking calls in Israel for a more effective crackdown on Jewish extremists suspected in a string of increasingly brazen acts of violence. (Associated Press)
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Illustration: Israel by John Camejo for The Washington Times
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Zalman Shoval, a senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a former ambassador to the U.S., says Middle Eastern nations, with the exception of Israel, will lose confidence in the U.S. if Iran develops nuclear weapons. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)
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Illustration: Israel by John Camejo for The Washington Times
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Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan (right) comforts the family of slain military attache Joseph Alon on July 2, 1973. (Associated Press)
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Col. Joseph Alon (left) was an ace fighter pilot in Israel. He is shown here in 1969 with Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan (center) and Mordechai Hod, commander of the Israeli air force. (Alon family via Associated Press)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Gali Tibbon, Pool)
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A Palestinian customs worker checks a truck loaded with boxes of strawberries at the Kerem Shalom crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. Farmers in Gaza began exporting tons of produce to Europe on Sunday after Israel cracked open the volatile border. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)
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Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has ordered his ministry to end its dealings with the Mossad spy service, which he says refuses to share any intelligence material. (Associated Press)