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- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (3r) meets with Mexican businessmen in Mexico City, September 14, 2017. (Prime Minister's Office)
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (c) meets with Mexican businessmen in Mexico City, September 14, 2017. (Prime Minister's Office)
- IDF vehicles driving along the road parallel to the border fence separating the Israeli and Syrian regions of the Golan Heights, July 19, 2017. (AFP/MENAHEM KAHANA)
- Then-defense minister Shimon Peres (c), along with former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (l), meets the hostages released from Entebbe as they land in Israel on July 4, 1976. (Uri Herzl Tzchik/IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Defense Ministry Archives)
- Defense Minister Shimon Peres (r) with Prime Minster Yitzhak Rabin welcoming the released Entebbe hostages upon their return to Israel on July 4, 1976. (Defense Ministry Archives)
- President Reuven Rivlin and ex-British PM Tony Blair shake hands during a ceremony marking one year since the death of late former president Shimon Peres, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, on September 14, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
- Former British prime minister Tony Blair, Dr. Henry Kissinger and Yoni Peres at the first state memorial in honor of Shimon Peres at Mound Herzl in Jerusalem, September 14, 2017. (Josef Avi Yair Engel)
- People pay their respects near the grave of the late Shimon Peres during a ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, marking one year since his death, September 14, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
- An illustrative photo of the 2012 Giro D'Italia. (CC, BY-SA Wikimedia)
- In this frame grab provided on Tuesday, Sept. 05, 2017, by Russian Defence Ministry press service, showing what they say is along-range Kalibr cruise missile launched by the Russian Navy Admiral Essen frigate in the Mediterranean. (Russian Defence Ministry Press Service photo via AP)
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