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July 12, 2002
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John Wallach, the founder of Seeds of Peace, died Wednesday of lung cancer at 59. In 1993, Wallach proposed to then-Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres that the group be created to bring Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian youths together on neutral soil in the United States.

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