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David Lau, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel speaks during a Commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Nazi pogrom Kristallnacht of 9-10 November 1938 in the Beth Zion Synagogue in central Berlin on November 10, 2013. AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE (Photo credit should read JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images) — David Lau, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel speaks in the Beth Zion Synagogue in central Berlin, Germany, Nov. 10, 2013. — JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images

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An Israeli man walks past an electoral billboard bearing portraits of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flanked by extreme right politicians Itamar Ben Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich and Michael Ben Ari, with a caption in Hebrew reading "Kahana Lives" in a reference to a banned ultranationalist party in the 1994, in Jerusalem, on March 29, 2019. - Israeli general elections will be held on April 9, 2019. (Photo by THOMAS COEX / AFP) (Photo credit should read THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)

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