Israel

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, June 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner, Pool)

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Atif Zarka, 64, a volunteer teacher's assistant, plays the violin for fourth-grade students studying Aramaic in the Arab village of Jish in northern Israel. Mr. Zarka (below) holds the Gospel of Luke written in Aramaic, the language that Jesus spoke, which dominated the region 2,000 years ago. (Associated Press)

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In a Wednesday, May 2, 2012 photo Atif Zarka, 64, a volunteer Aramaic teacher's assistant holds a copy of the Gospel of Luke in Aramaic script in the Arab village of Jish, northern Israel. Jish is one of two villages in the Holy Land's tiny Christian community that are teaching Aramaic to their children in an ambitious effort to preserve the language that Jesus spoke, centuries after it all but disappeared from the modern Middle East. (AP Photo/Diaa Hadid)

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Palestinians wait as trucks carrying coffins containing the remains of bodies of 12 Palestinian militants transferred from Israel to the Palestinians arrive in the Gaza Strip through the Erez crossing, in Beit Hanoun, on Thursday. (Associated Press)

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Members of the Palestinian security forces take pictures May 31, 2012, in the West Bank city of Ramallah as they stand around coffins containing the remains of bodies of 91 Palestinian militants transferred from Israel to the Palestinian Authority. Israel transferred the bodies in an effort to induce Palestinian President Mehmoud Abbas to renew negotiations. Palestinian officials said all were killed either while carrying out suicide bombings or other attacks on Israeli targets. (Associated Press)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to travel to China in the coming weeks. Israel and China established diplomatic relations in 1992, and the two countries traded military technology for nearly a decade.

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**FILE** Gen. Chen Bingde (left), chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Israeli President Shimon Peres (center) and Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, Israel military chief, pose for the media during a meeting at Peres' residence in Jerusalem. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's economic adviser Mohammed Rashid (right) and then-Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres (left) shake hands May 11, 2002, as Rome's mayor Walter Veltroni looks on at a ceremony before the start of a concert in Rome's Colosseum. (Associated Press)

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Palestinian Akram Bader, council chief of the West Bank village of Battir, estimates at least 320 acres of village land will end up on the Israeli side if Israel completes its separation barrier, which will stretch an estimated 500 miles. (Associated Press)

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Palestinians mark the 64th anniversary of "Nakba," Arabic for "catastrophe" — the term used to mark the events leading to Israel's founding in 1948 — in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday, May 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)