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The village of Bukata is located in the Golan Heights, an area Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East War. Thousands living in Druse villages like Bukata have turned out to show support for Syria's President Bashar Assad as he faces anti-government protests. But the pro-reform wave stirs mixed feelings for the 20,000 Druse, who never stopped seeing themselves as Syrian but are used to freedoms under Israeli rule. (Associated Press)
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A father and daughter in Bnei Brak, Israel, pass burning leavened items — including bread — as Jews made final preparations Monday for the beginning of Passover at sunset. (Associated Press)
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An Israeli soldier sits in a tank along the border between Israel and southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, April 9, 2011. Palestinian militants fired more than a dozen rockets at southern Israel on Saturday, and Israeli warplanes killed four militants in the Gaza Strip in the most intense fighting since Israel's 2008-09 offensive in the Hamas-ruled territory. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Israeli soldiers inspect a school bus hit by an anti-tank missile fired from the Gaza Strip near the border between southern Israel and Gaza at Sa'ad, Israel, on Thursday, wounding two people, including one child critically, Israeli officials said, prompting a fierce Israeli retaliation. (Associated Press)
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Illustration: Israel by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem office on April 3, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Some of the famous and influential people who have been Mr. D'Ambrosio's clients are (from top left) former Vice President Dick Cheney, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Anthony Alito Jr., former D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, former Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray, nd Archbishop of Washington Donald W. Wuerl.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates (left), shown with Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv on Thursday, said the rocket attacks against Israel were "repugnant." (Associated Press)
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Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav (center) leaves court in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, March 22, 2011, after being sentenced to seven years in prison on a rape conviction. Katsav is the highest-ranking Israel official ever sent to jail. (AP Photo/Oliver Weiken, Pool)
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Sarah Palin is appearing in foreign forums this weekend in India and Israel to beef up her foreign policy bona fides and create global photo-ops for her political future. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2005 file photo Israel's Dana International, who won the Eurovision song contest 1998, performs during the 50th anniversary of the Eurovision contest in Copenhagen, Denmark. Israel's transgender pop diva, Dana International, is heading back to the Eurovision to try to recapture the top prize she won 13 years ago. The flamboyant singer, known as Yaron Cohen before a sex change operation nearly two decades ago, was selected Tuesday March 8, 2011 to represent Israel with the Hebrew-English song "Ding Dong." (AP Photo/John McConnico)
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Illustration by Moshik Maariv, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Illustration: Israel by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times
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Egyptian Vice-President Honsi Mubarak, right, speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in Alexandria, Egypt, on Aug. 18, 1981. (AP Photo/File)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convenes his weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011. Mr. Netanyahu said his country's 30-year-old peace agreement with Egypt must be preserved, in his first public comment on the political unrest roiling Israel's neighbor and regional ally. (AP Photo/Tomer Appelbaum, Pool)
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Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is putting together an interim peace plan that would grant the Palestinians limited independence in an attempt to blunt their efforts to win international recognition of an independent state, a government official said Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement Sunday about an Israeli government probe of the 2010 Gaza Strip flotilla raid. The military and government were cleared of wrongdoing. Nine passengers were killed in the clash with commandos. (Associated Press)
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Orthodox Jewish children gather outside a school in Beni Brak, Israel, on Thursday. Dramatic changes may be coming in Israel. Demographers now estimate about a third of last year's Jewish babies were born into the ultra-Orthodox community, an insular and devout minority that has long been at loggerheads with the rest of the increasingly modern and prosperous country. (Associated Press)
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Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak plans to form a new parliamentary faction inside the governing coalition. (Associated Press)
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Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak attends a press conference in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, Monday, Jan. 17 2011, where he abruptly announced that he was leaving his Labor Party and forming a new parliamentary faction inside the governing coalition. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
