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From left: New Ukrainian immigrants Arina Asherov, Volodymyr Tkachenko, Valeriaa Aizenberh and Alexandra Katsirova at the Jewish Agency absorption center in Carmiel, northern Israel.

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Avital's arrest in the Netherlands, on Thursday.

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