Eitan Wertheimer, the son of the founder of ISCAR, the Israeli machinery manufacturer - who is now president of the company - tells the same story.

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Labour's Yossi Beilin, a long-time campaigner for getting out of Lebanon, was joined this week by the Likud's Michael Eitan and the Centre Party's Ronni Milo.

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The Eitan is able to perform a mix of missions from surveillance to jamming enemy communications and is clearly more than big enough to carry ground-attack missiles.

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The lefties he pushed into the cabinet despite his party members' objections last time around - Dan Meridor, Benny Begin and Michael Eitan -- were obliterated in the primaries.

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The sounds are music to Eitan Rahimi's ears.

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Mr Eitan has yet to offer an answer.

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Aaron Eitan Meyer recently received his Juris Doctor degree from Touro Law Center, and is currently Assistant to the Director at the Legal Project of the Middle East Forum and Legal Correspondent to the Terror Finance Blog.

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Its chairman, Eitan Wertheimer, said he felt Iscar was reaching its limits as an Israeli firm and needed the backing of a big name for its own plans to break into areas like the American car industry.

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The minister in charge of government efficiency, Michael Eitan of the Likud party, which has both religious and secular supporters, suggests that the computers be programmed to receive online requests from citizens on the Sabbath but to respond to them only afterthe Sabbath.

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