Monday, February 12, 2001 Published at 10:23 GMT


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David Ben Gurion
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Golda Meir
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Menachem Begin
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Profile: Yitzhak Rabin
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Profile: Binyamin Netanyahu
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Arafat: Flawed symbol of Palestine
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