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With Hamas emboldened in Gaza and the Iranian threat lurking behind the Syrian border, Israelis wonder whether their new minister of defense, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will make the Jewish state a more secure nation than it was under his predecessor, Avigdor Liberman.
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