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Waze, an Israeli mobile satellite navigation application, is seen on a smartphone in this photo illustration taken in Tel Aviv May 9, 2013. Facebook Inc is in advanced talks to acquire Israeli mobile satellite navigation start-up Waze for $800 million to $1 billion, business daily Calcalist reported on Thursday. REUTERS/Nir Elias (ISRAEL - Tags: BUSINESS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - RTXZG7E

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Palestinians react as a stun grenade was thrown towards them during clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinian protestors during a demonstration for Nakba (Catastrophe) day near Damascus Gate at Jerusalem's old city May 15, 2013. Palestinians clashed with Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and at East Jerusalem on Wednesday during demonstrations to mark 65 years since what they call the Nakba (Catastrophe) when Israel's creation caused many to lose their homes and become refugees. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST ANNIVERSARY)

“Proclamation of Nationhood is read by Israel’s Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. Around him are members of the provisional government, including Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok (third from right). Labor Minister Moshe Ben Tov (extreme right) wears sport shirt. Portrait above is of Theodor Herzl, Zionism’s founder.”

"Proclamation of Nationhood is read by Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. Around him are members of the provisional government, including Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok (third from right). Labor Minister Moshe Ben Tov (extreme right) wears sport shirt. Portrait above is of Theodor Herzl, Zionism's founder."

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

“Armed forces of new state are built on Haganah militia. Members are shown here riding trucks down Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway to go into action near Bab el Wad.”

"Armed forces of new state are built on Haganah militia. Members are shown here riding trucks down Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway to go into action near Bab el Wad."

Oded Balilty / AP Photo

Cigarettes are for sale with a stamp of approval reading in Hebrew, "kosher for Passover" at a kiosk in the Jewish ultra-Orthodox town of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Mar. 25, 2013. (No relation to our magazine)

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Palestinians mourners cry during the funeral of Salem Paul Sweliem in Gaza City, Nov. 20, 2012. According to the family, the 52-year-old Greek Orthodox Christian carpenter was killed during an Israel Air Force strike on a high-rise building, in which Ramez Harb, a senior figure in Islamic Jihad's military wing, was also killed. Sweliem was in a car when the strike took place and he died on his way to the hospital from shrapnel wounds.

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Palestinians throw stones at Israeli soldiers after the death of Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh in Israeli jail in the West Bank city of Hebron, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. Abu Hamdiyeh, 64, who was serving a life sentence for his role in a foiled attempt to bomb a busy cafe in Jerusalem in 2002, died Tuesday of cancer in an Israeli jail. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement at his office in Jerusalem January 23, 2013. Netanyahu narrowly won an election in which disgruntled voters catapulted a new centrist challenger into second place and he now faces the daunting task of building a coalition.

A Hamas supporter burns a poster depicting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a protest in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip November 3, 2012. Abbas made a rare if symbolic concession to Israel on Thursday, saying he had no permanent claim on the town from which he was driven as a child during the 1948 war of the Jewish state's founding. In Gaza, Hamas denounced Abbas, saying he spoke only for himself. The Islamist movement does not recognise Israel and has regularly exchanged fire with it. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

Oded Balilty / AP

Yair Lapid, popular former TV anchorman and head of the new centrist party Yesh Atid, poses for a portrait at his house during an interview for the Associated Press, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, June. 16, 2013. Lapid predicted he will one day become prime minister and said he would fight for a more moderate policy towards the Palestinians. Oded Balilty—AP

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray as they perform the Tashlich ritual on Sept. 24, 2012 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Tashlich, which means 'to cast away', is the practice by which Jews go to a flowing body of water and symbolically 'throw away' their sins during the days of repentance between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the upcoming Jewish Day of Atonement, which begins this Tuesday evening.

Oded Balilty / AP

Supporters of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wait for the results of the legislative elections in Tel Aviv, Jan. 22, 2013. The signs read, "Strong Prime Minster, Strong Israel."

Sebastian Scheiner / AP

Israeli security forces search for a rocket thought to have been fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip, in Jerusalem, Nov. 16, 2012. Hamas rocket squads targeted Israel's self-declared capital Jerusalem for the first time Friday, along with commercial hub Tel Aviv, showing off their expanded reach with what they said are Gaza-made projectiles being fired for the first time.

REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

A Palestinian stone-thrower holds a flag as he stands atop a garbage bin during clashes with Israeli security forces outside Ofer prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah on November 18. The clashes broke out following a protest against Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip.

Ammar Awad / Reuters

Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid (There's a Future) party, addresses supporters at his party's headquarters in Tel Aviv January 23, 2013. Lapid, a former television news anchor whose new centrist party stormed to second place in Israel's election, may well be the kingmaker holding the keys to the next coalition government.

An Israeli flag is seen in the background as a man casts his ballot for the parliamentary election at a polling in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ofra, north of Ramallah January 22, 2013. Israelis voted on Tuesday in an election that is expected to see Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu win a third term in office, pushing the Jewish state further to the right, away from peace with the Palestinians and towards a showdown with Iran. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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A worker touches a cannabis plant at a growing facility for the Tikun Olam company near the northern city of Safed August 22, 2010. In conjunction with Israel's Health Ministry, the company currently distributes cannabis for medicinal purposes to over 1800 people to help relieve pain caused by various health conditions. Picture taken August 22, 2010. REUTERS/Nir Elias (ISRAEL - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY) - RTR2HGXZ

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Palestinians carry a man that was wounded in an Israeli army raid, into hospital in Deir El Bahlah in the central Gaza Strip, early Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008. Israel launched an airstrike on Gaza early Wednesday after its troops clashed with Hamas militants who fired mortars into Israel, leaving six Palestinians dead. It was the first battle since a June truce mostly quieted violence in the volatile territory

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An Israeli missile from the Iron Dome defence missile system is launched to intercept and destroy incoming rocket fire from Gaza on Nov. 17, 2012 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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An Israeli soldier walks by an 'Iron Dome' short-range missile defense system positioned near the northern city of Haifa on Jan. 31, 2013 in Israel. The Iron Dome missile defense system is designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells.

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An Israeli missile from the Iron Dome defense system is launched to intercept and destroy incoming rocket fire from Gaza in Tel Aviv on Nov. 17, 2012.

Ariel Schalit / AP

Palestinians laborers ride a Palestinian-only bus on route to the West Bank from working in Tel Aviv area, Israel on Monday, March 4, 2013.

Oren Ziv / Getty Images

A post office worker shows to an Israeli child how to wear a gas mask at a gas mask kit distribution station in a mall Jan. 31, 2013, in Pisgat Ze'ev, East Jerusalem, Israel. Israel remains on high alert after the Israeli air force reportedly launched an airstrike Jan. 30, on a convoy that Israeli officials said was carrying weapons from Syria to Lebanon on the Syria-Lebanon border.

Palestinian Muslim schoolgirls visit the Church of the Nativity in the biblical West Bank city of Bethlehem on December 22, 2011, as Christian pilgrims started gathering in the traditional birthplace of Jesus Christ to attend the Christmas midnight mass. AFP PHOTO/MENAHEM KAHANA (Photo credit should read MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images)

FILE - This undated handout photo provided by the Anchorage Police Department shows Israel Keyes. Keyes, charged in the death of an Alaska barista, has killed himself, and authorities say he was linked to at least seven other possible slayings in three other states. Keyes was found dead in his Anchorage jail cell Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. Officials say it was a suicide. (AP Photo/Anchorage Police, file)

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Two Filipino women in the flat they rent in Tel Aviv. Like many other Filipino migrant workers in Israel, they work as caregivers to the elderly

TARA TODRAS-WHITEHILL / AP

An ultra-Orthodox man stands in the light used to project images on the Hurva synagogue during its rededication in Jerusalem's Old City, Monday, March 15, 2010. Adding to tensions Monday in Jerusalem was a ceremony in the Old City, where Jews rededicated an ancient synagogue destroyed after the war that followed Israel's creation in 1948. Israeli police sent in reinforcements to prevent riots.

A Palestinian protester holds a placard in front of Israeli soldiers during a demonstration in the West Bank village of al-Masara near Bethlehem, marking the recognition of a sovereign Palestinian state by the United Nations. Friday Nov. 30, 2012. The United Nations General Assembly on 29 November voted 138-9 with 41 countries abstaining to upgrade the Palestinian status at the world organization to a non-member state.(AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

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U.S. President Barack Obama (2nd L) stands next to Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd R) as he speaks with Israeli ministers after landing at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv March 20, 2013.

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U.S. President Barack Obama (2nd L) stands next to Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd R) as he speaks with Israeli ministers after landing at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv March 20, 2013.

NIR ELIAS / REUTERS

Israeli researcher Noam Tzvikel holds a bat in a laboratory at Tel Aviv University during an examination of the changes in the its nose structure, which reflect the focus, direction and width of its sonar beam, July 23, 2012. Israeli researchers aim to reveal the secrets of bats to shed more light on the behaviour and cognition of the species. They hope their findings could pave the way for new and improved radar systems and robotic technologies. Picture taken July 23, 2012.

AP / Nasser Shiyoukhi

Former US President Jimmy Carter speaks to the media following a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. The Elders are visiting the region and holding meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

Ariel Schalit / Reuters

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert arrives at the Jerusalem District court before the reading of the verdict in his trial July 10, 2012. Olmert was found guilty on Tuesday of a corruption charge in the first criminal trial of a former Israeli prime minister, but acquitted on two other counts in what was widely seen as a significant victory for him.

Ahmad Gharabli / AFP / Getty

Paul McCartney listens to a guide during a visit to the Church of Nativity in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on September 24, 2008. McCartney arrived in Israel today ahead of his first-ever concert in the Jewish state.

ABIR SULTAN / EPA

Israeli soldiers are seen manning a machine gun seen during a military exercise in the Golan Heights, norhtern Israel, 21 August 2012. Israeli Armed Forces have been conducting manoeuvers amid raising tensions in the region.

JIM HOLLANDER / EPA

Bedouins from the Jahalin tribe with their sheep nearby the Jewish settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, east of Jerusalem, Dec. 2, 2012. Israel intends to carry out extensive building in this area known as E-1 between Ma'ale Adumim and Jerusalem and announced the day after the UN voted to grant Palestinians non-member observer state status, that 3,000 additional housing units will be built in the West Bank settlements and East Jerusalem.

Tivadar Domaniczky / VII for TIME

Soldiers on patrol at Kibbutz Nir Am, a mile from Gaza. Even after the start of Israel's Jan. 4 ground offensive, communities near the border remained vulnerable to Hamas' rockets.

AVISHAG SHAR YASHUV / EPA

Yityish Aynaw, age 21, stands with friends after being crowned Miss Israel 2013 in a beauty pageant in Haifa, northern Israel, 27 February 2013.

Palestinian Authority / AP

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and his wife Suha hold hands prior to Arafat's departure from his compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Oct. 29, 2004. He died two weeks later in France.

Lior Mizrahi / Getty Images

Two nails that Israeli journalist Simcha Jacobovici says may have been used in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ are shown during a press conference on April 12, 2011, in Jerusalem. The Israel Antiquities Authority, however, cast doubt on Jacobovici's claims

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The SV Estelle is seen during an operation off the southern Greek island of Gavdos, south of Crete. The Israeli navy boarded a boat carrying pro-Palestinian activists and parliamentarians seeking to breach Israel's naval blockade on Gaza, led the ship to the southern Israeli port of Ashdod on Oct. 20, 2012.

Oded Balilty / AP for TIME

Ultra Orthodox Jews attend the funeral of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv in Jerusalem, Wednesday, July 18, 2012. Elyashiv, revered by Jews worldwide as the top rabbinic authority of this generation for his scholarship and rulings on complex elements of Jewish law, died Wednesday, hospital officials said. He was 102.

Adel Hana / AP

In this Thursday, March 1, 2012 file photo, Palestinian participants in the second Gaza marathon brave the wind on the beach road in Gaza City

Mohammed Ostaz / APA Images / Polaris

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil hold the hand of a patient who was injured during an Israeli strike, on their visit to a hospital in Gaza City, Nov. 16, 2012. Israel's military denied that it carried out attacks in the Gaza Strip during Kandil's visit.

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American peace activist Rachel Corrie speaks during an interview with MBC Saudi Arabia television March 14, 2003 in the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Corrie was run over and killed by an Israeli bulldozer two days later when she tried to stop it from destroying a Palestinian house in Rafah.

Bernat Armangue / AP

Masked Palestinian demonstrators throw stones towards Israeli security forces, not pictured, during clashes that erupted after a demonstration against the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims" that ridicules Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Shuafat refugee camp, Jerusalem on Sept. 18, 2012. U.S.-funded ads on Pakistani television include President Barack Obama extolling America's religious tolerance. To many in the Muslim world, this misses the mark in efforts to calm the outrage over a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad.

ALESSIO ROMENZI FOR TIME

Palestinians celebrate a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Gaza in Gaza City, Nov. 21, 2012.

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A Palestinian shepherd overlooking greater Jerusalem as he stands watching his flock as it grazes on the area of Givat Hamatos, in southern Jerusalem, Dec. 19, 2012.

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Caption for this photo from LIFE. "Dolly, friend from France who found a fruitful life in Israel." The girl at third from left in the sandbox photo, then Dolly Citroen, she is shown above with her husband, Shmuel Shoshan, and three of their four kids, on a picnic outside Jerusalem.

Joachim Ladefoged / VII for TIME

Ramzi Thaer Rafik lives with his family in a small apartment in a West Bank town. He doesn't know any Israelis

Ali Ali / EPA

Palestinian students burn a poster depicting Syrian President Bashar Assad, during a demonstration against his regime at the Unknown Soldier Square in Gaza City on February 21, 2012. Some 500 Palestinians gathered in a Hamas-authorized demonstration in solidarity with Syrian protesters.

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Not published in LIFE. Adolf Eichmann awaits trial in Israel, 1961.

Gjon Mili—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Not published in LIFE. Adolf Eichmann awaits trial in Israel, 1961.

Gjon Mili—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Not published in LIFE. Adolf Eichmann awaits trial in Israel, 1961.

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Not originally published in LIFE. The former Dolly Citroen with her family, Israel, 1959.

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Not originally published in LIFE. The former Dolly Citroen with one of her four children, Israel, 1959.

Oded Balilty / AP

Israelis watch a military Iron Dome defense missile system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells from Gaza, in Tel Aviv, Nov. 19, 2012.

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Not originally published in LIFE. The former Dolly Citroen, now married to Shmuel Shoshan, in Israel, 1959.

Baz Ratner / Reuters

Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.

Photograph by Holly Pickett

A Bedouin smuggler, armed with a Glock pistol, in the Sinai Peninsula. Some Bedouin make a living smuggling goods and humans from Egypt across the Gaza and Israel borders

AP / FBI

Israel Keyes

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Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon, left, meets with Turkish ambassador to Israel Ahmet Oguz Celikkol, right, in Jerusalem. Ayalon summoned the Turkish ambassador to criticize a Turkish television drama depicting Israeli security forces as kidnapping children and shooting old men.

Uriel Sinai / Getty Images

Developer Eran Lumbroso holds mice during a drugs and explosives detection demonstration at The 2nd International Conference of Israel Homeland Security expo on November 12, 2012 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Not originally published in LIFE. The former Lies Goosens, now married to Walter Pick, in Jerusalem with her family, 1959.

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Not originally published in LIFE. The former Lies Goosens, now married to Walter Pick, in Jerusalem with her family, 1959.

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Not originally published in LIFE. The former Lies Goosens, now married to Walter Pick, in Jerusalem with her family, 1959.

Bartek Wrzesniowski / WpN

Shna Ndo Holy Rock was a pilgrim on his way to Jerusalem who stopped in the town of Lac, Albania, and performed miracles. Today, followers believe that touching the rock, as the boy is doing, can heal sickness.

Tess Scheflan / Israel Sun / Landov

Palestinian protesters in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem. The Obama Administration has ordered Israel to halt construction of a new Jewish-owned hotel on the eastern side of Jerusalem

ARNOLD NEWMAN / GETTY

Teddy Kollek, former Mayor of Jerusalem, in 1979. Kollek died on January 2 at the age of 95.

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Teddy Kollek, former Mayor of Jerusalem, in 1979. Kollek died on January 2 at the age of 95.

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Not originally published in LIFE. Lies and Dolly, childhood friends of Anne Frank, with their children in Jerusalem, 1959.

Vision TV / AP

The entrance to a burial cave in southern Jerusalem is seen in this undated photo. Archaeologists and clergymen in the Holy Land derided claims in a new documentary, The Last Tomb of Christ, produced by the Oscar-winning director James Cameron, that contradict major Christian tenets.

MUHAMMED MUHEISEN / AP

Palestinian security officers guard the Palestinian parliament building in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Monday. Hundreds of armed Fatah security officers went on a violent rampage against the Hamas-led government riddling the parliament building and Cabinet offices with bullets before setting them ablaze to protest a Gaza attack

Moti Kimhi / AFP / Getty Images

A picture dated on August 28, 2007 shows Israeli businessman Sami Ofer (R), chairman of Ofer Brothers Group, a shipping transport company, posing for a picture with current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C), then opposition leader, and his wife Sara during a ceremony at Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv. Ofer died June 3, 2011.

Tara Todras-Whitehill / AP

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, left, talks as his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov looks on at a press conference following their meeting in Jerusalem, Tuesday, June 29, 2010. Lavrov is on an official visit to the region.

Lucas Jackson/Reuters

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu points to a red line he has drawn on the graphic of a bomb as he addresses the 67th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. Headquarters in New York, September 27, 2012.

MARCO LONGARI / AFP / Getty Images

Palestinians celebrate the beginning of the truce in Gaza City, Nov.21, 2012.

SAIF DAHLAH / AFP / GETTY

A Palestinian militant fires from a car during an Israeli army incursion into the village of Qabatiya, near the West Bank city of Jenin. Israeli troops said they captured two members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.

Ahmad Gharabli / AP

Israeli troops walk past the Dome of the Rock at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, February 9, 2007. Angry Muslim worshippers scuffled with police Friday over contentious Israeli renovation work at a disputed holy site in Old City.

Bernat Armangue / AP

Palestinian relatives cry during the funeral of Mohammed al-Koumi in Gaza City, Nov. 21, 2012.

Gadi Kabalo-AP

An Israeli soldier casts his ballot on Monday in the Gaza Strip. The military votes a day early so they can be on duty when the general population goes to the polls on Tuesday.

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas listens to a question from a journalist during a joint press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (unseen) in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Rice arrived in Ramallah today for talks with Abbas aimed at reviving the stalled Middle East peace process.

Sebastian Scheiner / Pool / AFP / Getty

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice talks with Assistant Secretary of State David Welch during a breakfast meeting with the Israeli Defense Minister in Jerusalem, March 27, 2007. Rice said today that Israeli and Palestinian leaders had agreed to meet every two weeks.

Kevin Frayer / AP

Ethiopian Orthodox Christians sing and dance as they hold candles in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher during the ceremony of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem's Old City, Saturday, April 7, 2007. The Holy Fire ceremony is part of Orthodox Easter rituals and the flame symbolizes the resurrection of Christ.

HEIDI LEVINE / SIPA PRESS

US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta (C) and Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak at a press conference by an Iron Dome rocket battery in Ashkelon, southern Israel, August 1, 2012

Alon Ron / Reuters

Israel's Foreign Minister and Prime Minister-designate Tzipi Livni (L) and Speaker of the Parliament Dalia Itzik attend a Kadima party gathering in Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv.

Ralph Alswang--The White House

DAY 14 No. Finally, No Clinton offers a bridging proposal on Jerusalem, the trickiest issue. Barak seems to agree to it. But Arafat--despite hours of talking--stonewalls the President. At 2:30 a.m., an Arafat aide delivers the bad news to a somber Clinton.

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Palestinians in the West Bank village of Bilin hold Egyptian flags amid tear gas as they protest against Israel's separation barrier on Feb 4, 2011

Bernat Armangue / AP

The West Bank Jewish settlement of Maaleh Adumim, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, pictured on Aug. 26, 2009

Oded Balilty / AP

Israelis sleep in a protest tent encampment in central Tel Aviv, Israel, July 2011.

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Israeli soldier, Cpl. Gilad Shalit, 19, at an unknown location in Israel..

Uriel Sinai / Getty Images for TIME

Israelis at the beach in Tel Aviv

ATEF SAFADI / EPA

MR. PRESIDENT: Abbas outside of the Palestinian Legislative Council in the West Bank

Jason Reed / EPA

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress in Washington, DC, USA on 24 May, 2011.

AMMAR AWAD / REUTERS

Olmert lacks the military credentials of some other Israeli leaders. But a surprisingly aggressive response from Hizballah to Israel's early air attacks prompted a ferocious escalation

MOVING OUT? Sharon has proposed dismantling Gaza settlement, which would mean relocating settlers like these

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A truck loaded with goods for the Gaza Strip enters the Kerem Shalom terminal, on the border of Gaza and Israel

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MEDITERRANEAN MODERN: In Tel Aviv, the strict principle of Bauhaus were softened by contact with a warm and lively port

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Palestinian demonstrators call for political unity between Gaza's Hamas rulers and the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority, which rules from Ramallah, on March 15, 2011, in Gaza City

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