Mr. EZER HERDAWI (Cabdriver): This is like number one on the list, the gas is number one.

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This was later commuted by the then-president, Ezer Weizman, to 15 years and later to 11 years.

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That gets expensive for cabdriver Ezer Herdawi(ph), who's waiting for a holiday fare outside the San Diego Airport.

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This week, on top of a meeting between Yasser Arafat and President Ezer Weizman, the tireless Dennis Ross was back, trying.

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Mrs Albright wisely began her stay in Israel by visiting victims of the bombings in a Jerusalem hospital, together with President Ezer Weizman, a strong supporter of Oslo who urged the Americans to be more intrusive in their peace-making.

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President Ezer Weizman, two years into his second five-year term, is on the verge of resigning after disclosures that he received money from a foreign businessman while serving as a minister or Knesset member in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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The outgoing president, Ezer Weizman, who was forced to resign over financial irregularities, criticised the Rabin-Peres government for pursuing the peace process during a wave of Palestinian terror bombings but was even more scathing in his attacks on Mr Netanyahu for failing to pursue peace.

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But he beat his more famous left-of-centre rival, perhaps because he was low profile - unlike his flamboyant predecessor, Ezer Weizman, who was forced to resign after a financial scandal - and because of his perceived commitment to depoliticise the presidency, analysts at the time said.

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