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Politics
breaking news Op-Ed: Do everything to bring home captives
breaking news Op-Ed: Releasing terrorists invites danger
breaking news Olmert seen as lackluster at Paris
breaking news Russian Jewish lawmakers forge common cause
breaking news Israel recalls 2006 war
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Middle East
breaking news Food prices squeeze Israel's needy
breaking news U.S. Jewish community mourns soldiers
breaking news Op-Ed: Do everything to bring home captives
breaking news Closure, but no joy, in swap deal
breaking news Op-Ed: Releasing terrorists invites danger
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Peres takes the presidency,
Barak makes a comeback
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Shimon Peres makes his acceptance speech at the Knesset after being elected as Israel's ninth president, June 13 in Jerusalem.
Shimon Peres became Israel's ninth president while another former prime minister, Ehud Barak, made a political comeback by winning a Labor Party leadership election that potentially sets him up to retake the top office.

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