Last weekend Assaf received a call from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, West Bank.

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Late last week, I received the call that myself and over 65, 000 people around the world have been waiting for.

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More than one hundred proposals were received from close to fifty countries further to an open call for submissions last September.

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