Three Israelis were arrested for allegedly planing to smuggle Ecstasy pills worth about $42 million into the United States. The three, from Tel Aviv and Holon, tried to smuggle 1.4 million pills by hiding them inside diamond polishing tables shipped from Belgium to New York.
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