The Knesset speaker, Avraham Burg, who had been considering a run, was caught wrong-footed.

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Interestingly, the names Avraham, Sawayid and Avitan didn't make it into Yediot's ten year-anniversary retrospective.

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There is talk of the Knesset speaker, Avraham Burg, running against Mr Barak in the Labour Party primaries.

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Another prominent fan is the former Speaker of the Israeli Parliament, Avraham Burg.

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He is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Then, in the words of Avraham Shalom, the oldest of the six leaders, the agency's operatives started working in antiterrorism without knowing what it was.

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Finally, Schiffer reported that in the summer of 1987, unbeknownst to Shamir, Peres dispatched Avraham Tamir, then Foreign Ministry director general, to Mozambique to meet secretly with PLO leader Yasser Arafat.

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One institution that emphasized a religious, even mystical, form of Zionism was the Mercaz Harav yeshiva, a center of study in Jerusalem that revolved around the rabbinical legacy of Avraham Kook and his son Tzvi Yehuda Kook.

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