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In this Monday, Dec. 19, 2011 photo, a worker rests on the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Each day, dozens of trucks move food, consumer products and industrial materials into the Gaza Strip at this heavily fortified crossing, in an odd arrangement that has turned Israel into a key supplier to a territory governed by its bitter enemy Hamas. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was indicted Thursday on corruption charges for allegedly seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** An anti-ballistic missile then under development by the U.S. and Israel lifts off in a test just off the California coast in July 2004. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert gives a statement to the media at his Jerusalem office in March 2009. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas could pay a heavy price among Palestinians if he returns to formal peace negotiations without an Israeli settlement freeze. (Associated Press)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks Jan. 1, 2012, during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. (Associated Press)
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The minaret of a vandalized mosque in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood is seen Dec. 14, 2011, after unknown arsonists torched the inactive mosque, provoking calls in Israel for a more effective crackdown on Jewish extremists suspected in a string of increasingly brazen acts of violence. (Associated Press)
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Illustration: Israel by John Camejo for The Washington Times
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Zalman Shoval, a senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a former ambassador to the U.S., says Middle Eastern nations, with the exception of Israel, will lose confidence in the U.S. if Iran develops nuclear weapons. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)
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Illustration: Israel by John Camejo for The Washington Times
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Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan (right) comforts the family of slain military attache Joseph Alon on July 2, 1973. (Associated Press)
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Col. Joseph Alon (left) was an ace fighter pilot in Israel. He is shown here in 1969 with Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan (center) and Mordechai Hod, commander of the Israeli air force. (Alon family via Associated Press)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Gali Tibbon, Pool)
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A Palestinian customs worker checks a truck loaded with boxes of strawberries at the Kerem Shalom crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. Farmers in Gaza began exporting tons of produce to Europe on Sunday after Israel cracked open the volatile border. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)
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Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has ordered his ministry to end its dealings with the Mossad spy service, which he says refuses to share any intelligence material. (Associated Press)
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, warned Israel and the United States on Thursday to expect military response if Iran's nuclear facilities are attacked. (Associated Press)
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In this video image released by the Israeli Defense Ministry on Nov. 4, 2011, Israeli soldiers on several small military boats appear to board a civilian boat believed to be one of two protest boats trying to violate Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip. (Associated Press/Israeli Army)
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WARNING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a nuclear Iran would be a "grave threat" and is trying to persuade his Cabinet to support a pre-emptive attack. (Associated Press)
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A smoke trail from a missile Israel test-fired Wednesday is seen from Yavne, Israel. The missile reportedly can carry an atomic warhead and hit Iran, and the launch has increased speculation that Israel is planning a pre-emptive strike. (Associated Press)
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's agreement on the prisoner swap shifted Israel's focus "on much more troubling fronts - in distant Iran and in the Arab revolutions around us," a journalist wrote. (Associated Press)
