Israel's President Shimon Peres pauses during a meeting with Brazil's Defense Minister Nelson Jobim in Brasilia November 10, 2009. Reuters Pictures 3 months ago

Israel's President Shimon Peres pauses during a meeting with Brazil's Defense Minister Nelson Jobim in Brasilia November 10, 2009.

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  1. Palestinian youth stand at the site of a destroyed building, following an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. The Israeli army says it has carried out airstrikes on a number of sites in the southern Gaza Strip in response to militant rocket fire on Israel in recent days. Palestinian medical officials reported no injuries or deaths.
  2. Palestinian woman walks at the site where the Israeli carried out an airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. The Israeli army says it has carried out airstrikes on a number of sites in the southern Gaza Strip in response to militant rocket fire on Israel in recent days. Palestinian medical officials reported no injuries or deaths.
  3. A Palestinian man examines a damaged building, following an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. The Israeli army says it has carried out airstrikes on a number of sites in the southern Gaza Strip in response to militant rocket fire on Israel in recent days. Palestinian medical officials reported no injuries or deaths.
  4. Palestinians tries to break off bricks from a building at an abandoned airport that was destroyed by an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip February 10, 2010. Israel launched an air strike in the southern Gaza Strip in response to Palestinian rocket fire, an army spokesperson said on Wednesday.
  5. Palestinians survey a building at an abandoned airport after it was destroyed by an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip February 10, 2010. Israel launched an air strike in the southern Gaza Strip in response to Palestinian rocket fire, an army spokesperson said on Wednesday.
  6. New York Knicks' Wilson Chandler (21) shoots over Sacramento Kings' Omri Casspi, (18), of Israel, during the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010 in New York.
  7. Alize Cornet of France returns a backhand to Israel's Shahar Peer during their Paris Open tennis tournament match at the Coubertin stadium in Paris, February 9, 2010.
  8. Alize Cornet of France reacts during her Paris Open tennis tournament match against Israel's Shahar Peer at the Coubertin stadium in Paris, February 9, 2010.
  9. Alize Cornet of France serves to Israel's Shahar Peer during their Paris Open tennis match at the Coubertin stadium in Paris, February 9, 2010.
  10. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in his office in Jerusalem in this February 7, 2010 file picture. Netanyahu called for immediate and "crippling" sanctions against Iran on February 9, 2010, as it began making higher-grade nuclear fuel in defiance of international censure.
  11. Spaniard Ariadna Jove Marti (2nd L) and Australian Bridgette Chappell, both activists belonging to the International Solidarity Movement, appear in Israel's Supreme Court in Jerusalem February 8, 2010. Israel's Supreme Court ordered the two pro-Palestinian foreign activists released on bail on Monday, saying Israeli immigration officers overstepped their bounds by detaining them in the West Bank.
  12. Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman attends an Yisrael Beiteinu party meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem February 8, 2010.
  13. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (front) attends a Likud party meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem February 8, 2010.
  14. An Israeli security guard stands next to a truck with gas at the gas depot in the southern city of Ashkelon, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Police say an explosive device strapped to a gasoline truck was discovered and defused at the entrance to a major gas depot in southern Israel.
  15. Children attend a class after two non-government organizations from Israel set up a classroom at a camp for earthquake survivors in the Golf Club of Petionville in Port-a-Prince, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Thousands were killed and many displaced after Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake.
  16. Children watch at a makeshift classroom, set up by two non-government organizations from Israel, at a camp for earthquake survivors in the Golf Club of the Petionville suburb in Port-a-Prince, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Thousands were killed and many displaced after Haiti's Jan. 12 powerful earthquake.

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  1. JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - FEBRUARY 3: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (R) signs the guest book of Israel's president Shimon Peres at the President's Residence on February 3, 2010 in Jerusalem, Israel. Berlusconi is on a three-day state visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Berlusconi pledged Italy's firm support for Israel, urging 'effective sanctions' against Iran, saying the World 'cannot accept' a nuclear-armed Iran and speaking out against a damning UN report on the Gaza war.
  2. JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - FEBRUARY 3: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (L) toasts with Israel's president Shimon Peres during a lunch held in the honour of Berlusconi at the President's Residence on February 3, 2010 in Jerusalem, Israel. Berlusconi is on a three-day state visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Berlusconi pledged Italy's firm support for Israel, urging 'effective sanctions' against Iran, saying the World 'cannot accept' a nuclear-armed Iran and speaking out against a damning UN report on the Gaza war.
  3. JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - FEBRUARY 3: Israel's President Shimon Peres receives Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at the President's Residence on February 3, 2010 in Jerusalem, Israel. Berlusconi is on a three-day state visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Berlusconi pledged Italy's firm support for Israel, urging 'effective sanctions' against Iran, saying the World 'cannot accept' a nuclear-armed Iran and speaking out against a damning UN report on the Gaza war.
  4. JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - FEBRUARY 3: Israel's President Shimon Peres receives Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at the President's Residence on February 3, 2010 in Jerusalem, Israel. Berlusconi is on a three-day state visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Berlusconi pledged Italy's firm support for Israel, urging 'effective sanctions' against Iran, saying the World 'cannot accept' a nuclear-armed Iran and speaking out against a damning UN report on the Gaza war.
  5. JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - FEBRUARY 3: Israel's President Shimon Peres watches Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (L) embrace the Israeli singer Rita after her performance at a lunch held in the honour of Berlusconi at the President's Residence on February 3, 2010 in Jerusalem, Israel. Berlusconi is on a three-day state visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Berlusconi pledged Italy's firm support for Israel, urging 'effective sanctions' against Iran, saying the World 'cannot accept' a nuclear-armed Iran and speaking out against a damning UN report on the Gaza war.
  6. JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - FEBRUARY 3: Israel's President Shimon Peres watches Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (L) embrace the Israeli singer Rita after her performance at a lunch held in the honour of Berlusconi at the President's Residence on February 3, 2010 in Jerusalem, Israel. Berlusconi is on a three-day state visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Berlusconi pledged Italy's firm support for Israel, urging 'effective sanctions' against Iran, saying the World 'cannot accept' a nuclear-armed Iran and speaking out against a damning UN report on the Gaza war.
  7. JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - FEBRUARY 3: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (L) meets with Israel's president Shimon Peres at the President's Residence on February 3, 2010 in Jerusalem, Israel. Berlusconi is on a three-day state visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Berlusconi pledged Italy's firm support for Israel, urging 'effective sanctions' against Iran, saying the World 'cannot accept' a nuclear-armed Iran and speaking out against a damning UN report on the Gaza war.
  8. JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - FEBRUARY 3: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (R) meets with Israel's president Shimon Peres at the President's Residence on February 3, 2010 in Jerusalem, Israel. Berlusconi is on a three-day state visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Berlusconi pledged Italy's firm support for Israel, urging 'effective sanctions' against Iran, saying the World 'cannot accept' a nuclear-armed Iran and speaking out against a damning UN report on the Gaza war.
  9. JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - FEBRUARY 3: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (L) toasts with Israel's president Shimon Peres during a lunch held in the honour of Berlusconi at the President's Residence on February 3, 2010 in Jerusalem, Israel. Berlusconi is on a three-day state visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Berlusconi pledged Italy's firm support for Israel, urging 'effective sanctions' against Iran, saying the World 'cannot accept' a nuclear-armed Iran and speaking out against a damning UN report on the Gaza war.
  10. Israel's President Shimon Peres, center, shakes hands with Jordan's King Abdallah, right, while Jordan's Prime Minister Samir Rifai passes by, during a meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010.
  11. Israel's President Shimon Peres (L) his German counterpart Horst Koehler (C) and President of the Lower house of Parliament Bundestag Norbert Lammert arrive to a commemoration ceremony at the lower house of parliament Bundestag to mark Holocaust memorial day in Berlin January 27, 2010. Peres called Iran a threat to the entire world in a speech in Hebrew to Germany's parliament on International Holocaust Memorial Day on Wednesday and warned against the perils of procrastination.
  12. BERLIN - JANUARY 27: Israeli President Shimon Peres speaks to the German parliament, the Bundestag, at the Reichstag as members of the German government cabinet sit behind on the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on January 27, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. Peres is on a four-day visit to Germany and today's speech, on International Holocaust Remebrance Day, was the highlight.
  13. Israel's President Shimon Peres (R) is helped by his German counterpart Horst Koehler with his headphones at a commemoration ceremony at the lower house of parliament Bundestag to mark Holocaust memorial day in Berlin January 27, 2010. Peres called Iran a threat to the entire world in a speech in Hebrew to Germany's parliament on International Holocaust Memorial Day on Wednesday and warned against the perils of procrastination.
  14. Israel's President Shimon Peres (L) acknowledges the applause after he addressed a commemoration ceremony at the lower house of parliament Bundestag to mark Holocaust memorial day in Berlin January 27, 2010. Peres called Iran a threat to the entire world in a speech in Hebrew to Germany's parliament on International Holocaust Memorial Day on Wednesday and warned against the perils of procrastination.
  15. BERLIN - JANUARY 27: In this handout image supplied by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO), Israeli President Shimon Peres stands next to German President Horst Koehler after Peres spoke to the German parliament, the Bundestag, at the Reichstag on the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on January 27, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. Peres is on a four-day visit to Germany and today's speech, on International Holocaust Remebrance Day, was the highlight.
  16. BERLIN - JANUARY 27: In this handout image supplied by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO), Israeli President Shimon Peres sits next to German President Horst Koehler after Peres spoke to the German parliament, the Bundestag, at the Reichstag on the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on January 27, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. Peres is on a four-day visit to Germany and today's speech, on International Holocaust Remebrance Day, was the highlight.

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  11. Toro Rosso Formula One driver Sebastien Buemi from Switzerland drives his car during a testing session at the Jerez race track in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010.
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  14. Pope Benedict XVI looks on in the Paul VI hall during his weekly general audience at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010.
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