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Greeting of the Jewish Community in Washington, D.C. and Message for Pesah     My dear friends, I extend special greetings of peace to the Jewish community in the United States and throughout the world as you prepare to celebrate the annual feast of Pesah. My visit to this country has coincided with this feast, allowing me to meet with you personally and to assure you of my prayers as you recall the signs and wonders God performed in liberating his chosen people. Motivated by our common spiritual heritage, I am pleased to entrust to you this message as a testimony...

A year after Israel witnessed one of the worst suicide bomb attacks in its history at the Park Hotel in Netanya on Seder night last year, the Shin Bet announced that over one hundred members of the Hamas military infrastructure from Nablus, Tulkarm and Kalkilya who were involved in the planning of the attack have since either been caught or killed by security forces. A day after the attack on March 27, in which 29 Israelis were killed and over sixty wounded, Israel launched Operation Defensive Shield in the West Bank in an attempt to destroy the terrorist infrastructure and...