In what is being hailed as a historic first, an Israeli national soccer team will play on German soil. Along with some 20,000 fans, several VIPs will attend Wednesday’s game in the western town of Kaiserslautern: German President Johannes Rau; Israel’s ambassador to Germany, Shimon Stein; and Paul Spiegel, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.
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