Thanks to the scapegoat, the Children of Israel were cleansed of their collective sins.

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And the people of Israel, especially the children of Israel, deserve a future with both.

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The Reverend evoked a harsh God, who turned Lot's wife into a pillar of salt, and condemned the Children of Israel, who gave their golden earrings to Aaron to fashion Baal, the false god.

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When I touched my hand against the Western Wall and placed my prayer between its ancient stones, I thought of all the centuries that the children of Israel had longed to return to their ancient homeland.

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Yes, the children of Israel have returned to "to their own border"- to the Land of Israel-and the long history of Moroccan Jewry is a special part of Israel's unique saga, achieved with much tears, pain, and suffering, but also with joy and hope, and great expectations over the ages.

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The 2008 study of more than 5, 000 children in each country in the Journal of Allergy Clinical Immunology found the rate of peanut allergies among the U.K. children was 10 times that of those in Israel.

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Yet of all the Hanukkahs of years past, the most memorable for me was spent in Israel with my children at the home of dear friends.

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The haredim, a tiny proportion of the Jewish population when Israel was created in 1948, are now the fastest-growing section of society: 26% of Jewish children entering primary school in Israel are haredim.

ECONOMIST: Israel needs to solve a problem with its most religious Jews

Baroness Tonge, who lost the Lib Dem whip for comments about Israel, has a question on the health of children and pregnant women in Gaza.

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