Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said Israeli and Palestinian negotiators must find a way to share administration of Jerusalem’s Old City and its holy sites “so there won’t be a split and divided city and there will be free access to all.” Barak told an audience of high school students he would ensure that Jerusalem sites holy to Jews “will be under our sovereignty.”
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