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In this Tuesday, April 18, 2017 photo, Jewish World War II veterans Chaim Erez, left, Zvi Kan-Tor, center, and Yitzhak Arad stand during an interview with The Associated Press inside the unfinished museum honoring Jewish World War II veterans, in Latrun, Israel. Two years after Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to complete the establishment of a museum honoring Jewish World War II veterans, funds have dried up and an abandoned construction site is all that remains of the project. The story of the 1.5 million Jews who fought the Nazis -- and the 250,000 who died in battle -- has long been lost in Israel amid the larger tragedy of the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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This Tuesday, April 18, 2017 photo, shows the unfinished museum honoring Jewish World War II veterans, in Latrun, Israel. Two years after Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to complete the establishment of a museum honoring Jewish World War II veterans, funds have dried up and an abandoned construction site is all that remains of the project. The story of the 1.5 million Jews who fought the Nazis -- and the 250,000 who died in battle -- has long been lost in Israel amid the larger tragedy of the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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Members of Israel's Knesset speak Monday at a roundtable discussion with leaders of the major Jewish communities in the U.S. during the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. Photo by Laura Kelly/The Washington Times
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Rafael Nadal, of Spain, returns the ball to Dudi Sela, of Israel, during the Miami Open tennis tournament, Friday, March 24, 2017, in Key Biscayne, Fla. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)
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Rafael Nadal, of Spain, gestures after defeating Dudi Sela, of Israel, during the Miami Open tennis tournament, Friday, March 24, 2017, in Key Biscayne, Fla. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)
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Venezuelan Jewish converts arrive at an airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, March 23, 2017. For a group of nine struggling Venezuelan converts to Judaism their torturous journey to a better life in the promised land finally brought them to Israel on Thursday. They immigrated under the Law of Return, which gives Jews the world over the right to settle in Israel. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
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Perez family, Venezuelan Jewish converts, arrive to an absorption center in the southern city of Beersheba, Israel, Thursday, March 23, 2017. For a group of nine struggling Venezuelan converts to Judaism their torturous journey to a better life in the promised land finally brought them to Israel on Thursday. They immigrated under the Law of Return, which gives Jews the world over the right to settle in Israel, Israel, Thursday, March 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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Perez family, Venezuelan Jewish converts, arrive to an absorption center in the southern city of Beersheba, Israel, Thursday, March 23, 2017. For a group of nine struggling Venezuelan converts to Judaism their torturous journey to a better life in the promised land finally brought them to Israel on Thursday. They immigrated under the Law of Return, which gives Jews the world over the right to settle in Israel, Israel, Thursday, March 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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Venezuelan Jewish converts Franklin Perez and his wife Sahir Quitero, son Ezra and daughter Hannah settle in their new home in an absorption center in the southern city of Beersheba, Israel, Thursday, March 23, 2017. For a group of nine struggling Venezuelan converts to Judaism their torturous journey to a better life in the promised land finally brought them to Israel on Thursday. They immigrated under the Law of Return, which gives Jews the world over the right to settle in Israel, Israel, Thursday, March 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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Venezuelan Jewish converts Franklin Perez and his wife Sahir Quitero, son Ezra and daughter Hannah walk inside an absorption center in the southern city of Beersheba, Israel, Thursday, March 23, 2017. For a group of nine struggling Venezuelan converts to Judaism their torturous journey to a better life in the promised land finally brought them to Israel on Thursday. They immigrated under the Law of Return, which gives Jews the world over the right to settle in Israel, Israel, Thursday, March 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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In this March 17, 2017 photo, Jewish converts Sahir Quitero, center, her husband Franklin Perez, son Ezra, left, and daughter Hannah, walk to departures lounge of the Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, on their way to Israel. Their journey almost fell apart when late last year, after months of correspondence with officials in Israel, they were denied entry over concerns they weren’t involved enough with Venezuela’s Jewish community and were looking to take advantage of Israel’s immigration policies to flee the troubled South American nation. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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File - In this Tuesday, March 1, 2016 file photo, American servicemen and Israeli soldiers participate in a joint drill simulating a rocket attack at a base in Hatzor, central Israel. Israel is making contingency plans to evacuate up to a quarter million people from communities along the Gaza and Lebanese borders to get them away from missile attacks if war erupts again with Hamas or Hezbollah. The mass evacuations would be the biggest in Israel's history, part of a bigger plan where the army works with municipalities to keep civilians safe. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)
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“We founded this caucus primarily on one single irrefutable principle, and that is first and foremost, Israel has a fundamental right to exist and defend herself. And that is not negotiable,” said Rep. Bill Johnson, Ohio Republican, (left) who chairs the Congressional Israel Victory Caucus with Rep. Ron DeSantis, Florida Republican, (not pictured.) (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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FILE -- In this Monday, March 6, 2017 file photo, Palestinian protesters climb over the separation barrier with Israel during a demonstration marking the 12th anniversary of their campaign against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah. Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Monday, March 6, 2017, that the U.S. notified Israel that imposing Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank would lead to an "immediate crisis" with the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)
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Illustration on economic and technological ties between America and Israel by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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Christians participate in a special Mass at the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, in Tabgha, northern Israel, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017. One of the most famous Catholic churches in the Holy Land reopened with a special mass two years after an arson attack blamed on Jewish extremists. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin attended the reopening ceremony, saying he wanted "to say loud and clearly, that hate cannot win." (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
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Revisionist History of Israel Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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This photo made on Sunday Jan.1, 2017, shows a tenth grader attending a class how to investigate a computer network that has been hacked in Beit Shemesh, Israel. In its quest to become a world leader in cyber security and technology, Israel is placing its hopes in the country's youth. (AP Photo/Daniel Estrin)
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Illustration on Obama's betrayal of Israel by Alexander Hunter/ The Washington Times
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FILE -- In this Nov. 9, 2015 file photo, President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Doubling down on its public break with the Obama administration, a furious Israeli government said, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016, that it has "ironclad" information from Arab sources that Washington actively helped craft last week's U.N. resolution declaring Israeli settlements illegal. The allegations further poison the increasingly toxic atmosphere between Israel and the outgoing Obama administration in the wake of Friday's vote, and raise questions about whether the White House might take further action. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
