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** FILE ** President Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Monday, March 5, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is on alert for plots to kill Israelis overseas, including the Olympics. Eleven Israelis were killed at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. (Associated Press)

** FILE ** Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Kadima Party leader Shaul Mofaz shake hands before holding a joint press conference to announce the new coalition government in Jerusalem on Tuesday, May 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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Israeli President Shimon Peres (right) and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton share a laugh before their meeting at the president's residence in Jerusalem on Monday, July 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

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In this photo taken Thursday, July 12, 2012, freed Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, center, speaks with the French Ambassador to Israel Christophe Bigot at the ambassador’s residence in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Illustration United States and Israel by John Camejo for The Washington Times

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (center) leaves Jerusalem's District Court on Tuesday, July 10, 2012, following a verdict hearing at which he was cleared of the major charges in a corruption trial that forced him from power. (AP Photo/Gali Tibbon, Pool)

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Rita Jahan-Foruz, who in 2008 was named Israel's top female singer ever, has made an album of classic Iranian songs sung in Farsi. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this April 29, 1987, file photo, Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir, attends a press conference while on an official visit in Paris. The former Israeli prime minister, who clung throughout his life to the belief that Israel should hang on to territory and never trust an Arab regime, has died. He was 96 years old. (AP Photo/Michel Lipchitz, File)