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March 22, 2000
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Israel rolled out the red carpet for a historic pilgrimage by Pope John Paul II, the first papal visit there in 36 years. But hours before the pope’s scheduled arrival, Israel Television aired footage of a group of fervently Orthodox Jews laying a curse on the pope as a “hater of Israel.”

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