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A bus burst into flames as it raced to an Israeli prison during a massive forest fire on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. Dozens of prison guards participating in the rescue mission died, officials said, in one of the deadliest accidents in the nation's history. (AP Photo/Avishag Shar-Yeshuv)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Knesset session on Wednesday. A classified 2009 diplomatic cable disclosed this week tells of secret diplomacy between Israel and Persian Gulf states.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu dismisses as speculation a publicized report that Turkey had listed Israel as a threat in a policy paper.
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert gestures as he speaks to foreign journalists in Jerusalem Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010. Mr. Olmert says he would agree to the U.S. demand that Israel extend its halt to West Bank settlement construction, despite the current leader's hesitation. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
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In this Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009, file photo, Israeli soldiers return to Israel from the Gaza Strip during the Gaza war. The publication of the names and photographs of two hundred Israeli soldiers on a Web site calling them "war criminals" drew a condemnation Friday from the Israeli military. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listens during a press conference in Jerusalem, Monday, Nov. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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An Israeli army vehicle is seen in the village of Ghajar between northern Israel and Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a plan to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday to withdraw from the northern half of Ghajar, recaptured during the 2006 war against Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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German Bundeswehr inspector general Volker Wieker, left, shakes hands with Israel's chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010. Germany's military chief, Volker Wieker, visited Israel's national Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
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Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni (Associated Press)
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Israeli President Shimon Peres (right) listens as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the opening of the winter session in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. Mr. Netanyahu offered to renew a moratorium on Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank but only if the Palestinians meet his demand to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center right) stands during the opening of the winter session of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. Mr. Netanyahu offered to renew a moratorium on Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank if the Palestinians meet his demand to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Monday, Oct. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Ammar Awad , Pool)
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In this image distributed Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010 by the Israel Museum, an image of an 1920 drawing by Swiss artist Paul Klee . The drawing was seized by the Nazis during World War II and has completed a 73-year journey from the hands of its original German Jewish owner to the collection of a Jewish charity in Britain, Israel's national museum said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Israel Museum)
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This image distributed on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010, by the Israel Museum shows a 1920 drawing by Swiss artist Paul Klee. The drawing was seized by the Nazis during World War II and has completed a 73-year journey from the hands of its original German Jewish owner to the collection of a Jewish charity in Britain, Israel's national museum said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Israel Museum)
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says he won't have any "quick reactions" to Israel's resumption of settlement construction in the West Bank. (Associated Press)
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Israeli activists of the 'Peace Now' movement wave Israeli flags as they stand next to placards, calling for the continuation of the construction slowdown in the West Bank settlements, during a protest outside Israel's Prime Ministerial residence, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2009. With a midnight deadline looming, Israel's prime minister on Sunday called on West Bank settlers to "show restraint" after the end of a government-ordered construction slowdown, attempting to lower tensions with the Palestinians and prevent a breakdown in newly relaunched Mideast talks. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Israel's seats in the General Assembly hall sit empty while President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran addresses the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (third from right) chairs the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010. (AP Photos/Jim Hollander, Pool)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton smiles during a meeting at the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Lior Mizrahi, Pool)
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An Israeli army tank advances Wednesday along the border between Israel and central Gaza Strip, seen in the background. Militants launched mortar shells into Israel and Israeli jets bombed targets in Gaza on Wednesday, just as Israeli and Palestinian leaders held peace talks in Jerusalem with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Associated Press)
