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							<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/jordan-releases-soldier-who-killed-7-israeli-schoolgirls-in-1997/">
							<img width="600" height="375" src="https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-18-at-12.52.18-AM-e1476740374604-640x400.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Ahmed Daqamseh on trial in Jordan in 1997. (YouTube screenshot)" title="Ahmed Daqamseh on trial in Jordan in 1997. (YouTube screenshot)" />
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						<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/jordan-releases-soldier-who-killed-7-israeli-schoolgirls-in-1997/">Jordan releases soldier who killed 7 Israeli schoolgirls in 1997 massacre</a>
					</div><div class="byline">By <a title="AP" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/ap/">AP</a> and <a title="TOI staff" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/times-of-israel-staff/">TOI staff</a></div>
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						<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/jordan-releases-soldier-who-killed-7-israeli-schoolgirls-in-1997/">Ahmed Daqamseh, who served 20 years in prison, received at family home in northern town of Irbid with celebration and song</a>
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						<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-beats-cuba-in-second-round-of-world-baseball-classic/">Underdog Israel crushes Cuba as Cinderella squad stuns baseball tourney again</a>
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						<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-beats-cuba-in-second-round-of-world-baseball-classic/">Team notches 4-1 win over heavily favored opponents to open second round, staying undefeated  in World Baseball Classic; will face Japan, Netherlands later this week</a>
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					<div class="byline">By <a title="Joe Dyke" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/joe-dyke/">Joe Dyke</a></div>
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						<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/ever-unpredictable-trump-throws-mahmoud-abbas-a-lifeline/">Ever unpredictable, Trump throws Mahmoud Abbas a lifeline</a>
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						<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/ever-unpredictable-trump-throws-mahmoud-abbas-a-lifeline/">Friday's first presidential phone call, in which the PA chief was invited to the White House, has the Palestinians extremely upbeat</a>
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							<img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2017/03/000_ML1FZ-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="A demonstrator makes the nationalist &#039;grey wolves&#039; sign during a gathering outside the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam, on March 11, 2017 after Netherlands refused Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu permission to land for a rally to gather support for a referendum on boosting Turkish president Erdogan&#039;s powers. (AFP PHOTO / ANP / Bas Czerwinski)" title="A demonstrator makes the nationalist &#039;grey wolves&#039; sign during a gathering outside the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam, on March 11, 2017 after Netherlands refused Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu permission to land for a rally to gather support for a referendum on boosting Turkish president Erdogan&#039;s powers. (AFP PHOTO / ANP / Bas Czerwinski)" />
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