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      <title>The civic leadership New York needs now</title>
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      <title>To help its immigrants, Israel must invest in education</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Thousands of young “olim” in the geographic and economic periphery are not able to succeed due to a system that is increasingly challenging.]]></description>
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