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In a photo taken on Aug 8, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inspects the site where an off-duty Israeli soldier was found dead with stab wounds near the settlement of Migdal Oz in the occupied West Bank.
PHOTO: AFP
Gil Yaron
TEL AVIV - There used to be one issue on which both Democrats and Republicans demonstrated concord - support for Israel.
Last Friday (Aug 9), a delegation of United States Republican congressmen arrived in Israel for a week-long tour, just as a group of 41 of their Democrat counterparts were about to finish their week-long sojourn here.
