"In practice, on the ground, construction is continuing and the pace is even picking up, " said Yesh Din researcher Dror Etkes.

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The UPZ is the US campus representative of the Labor and Meretz parties as well as of Hashomer Hatzair and Habonim Dror.

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Dr Dror's and Dr Hampikian's experiment presented data from a real case to 17 DNA examiners working in an accredited government laboratory in North America.

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Dr Dror thinks that in about 25% of cases, tiny samples or the mixing of material from more than one person can lead to such ambiguity.

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Which is why Dror Shimshowitz is spending all his waking hours trying to figure out how to attract a whole new kind of user to YouTube.

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Though they cannot prove it, Dr Dror and Dr Hampikian suspect the difference in contextual information given to the examiners was the cause of the different results.

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It meant the popular Dror Kashtan - now the coach of Israel - was dumped after one season, despite leading the club to a league and cup double.

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Some of these things are out of Israel's hands, but Mr Dror reckons that what happens to the country in future will depend mostly on its own decisions.

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"At the end of the day, the Prime Minister of Israel said exactly four years ago to the day that he is for a two-state solution, " emphasised Dror Moreh.

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