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Alpine skier Michael Renzin, left, and the brother-sister ice-dancing team of Roman and Alexandra Zaretsky comprise the Israeli delegation for the Winter Olympics in Vancover, Canada. (The Olympic Committee of Israel / Flash90 / JTA) Some 150 seniors diced a ton of fruits to make what was called the largest Russian fruit salad in an event marking the New Year for Fruits in Moscow at the Chabad-Lubavitch Shaarei Tzedek senior center, Jan. 31, 2010. The fruit salad was later distributed to the needy. (Chabad.org) The IDF relief team in Haiti waits to board an El Al plane home, Jan. 27, 2010. All Haitian patients under Israeli care were transferred to other hospitals. (Joe Shalmoni) Two South American immigrants to Israel dance at a Jewish Agency for Israel welcoming ceremony in Jerusalem on Jan. 28, 2010, for some 100 new olim from South America. (Brian Hendler) Actor Sean Penn, right, greets Joseph, a 20-year-old Haitian who received life-saving surgery, at the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps field hospital in Port-au-Prince. (Joe Shalmoni) Israeli President Shimon Peres speaking before the German parliament, or Bundestag, in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Jan. 27, 2010. (Office of the President of Israel) Capt. Ori Nurick leads in transporting an injured woman into the Israeli army's field hospital in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, Jan. 22, 2010. (Joe Shalmoni) Rabbi Shaul Offen, right foreground, reading the Torah at the Israel Defense Forces Medical Unit Field Hospital Camp, Port-au-Prince, Jan. 22, 2010. (Joe Shalmoni) Israeli President Shimon Peres, flanked by NASA administrator Charles Bolden and Rona Ramon, widow of the Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, displaying a special plaque presented by Bolden showing photographs that Bolden took from space while on a space mission to launch the Hubble telescope. (Office of the President of Israel) The Israel Defense Forces' medical and rescue team in Port-au-Prince rescuing a Haitian government worker who was trapped for five days before evacuating him to an IDF field hospital, Jan. 17, 2010. (IDF / Flash90 / JTA)

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  • Alpine skier Michael Renzin, left, and the brother-sister ice-dancing team of Roman and Alexandra Zaretsky comprise the Israeli delegation for the Winter Olympics in Vancover, Canada.
  • Some 150 seniors diced a ton of fruits to make what was called the largest Russian fruit salad in an event marking the New Year for Fruits in Moscow at the Chabad-Lubavitch Shaarei Tzedek senior center, Jan. 31, 2010. The fruit salad was later distributed to the needy.
  • The IDF relief team in Haiti waits to board an El Al plane home, Jan. 27, 2010. All Haitian patients under Israeli care were transferred to other hospitals.
  • Two South American immigrants to Israel dance at a Jewish Agency for Israel welcoming ceremony in Jerusalem on Jan. 28, 2010, for some 100 new olim from South America.
  • Actor Sean Penn, right, greets Joseph, a 20-year-old Haitian who received life-saving surgery, at the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps field hospital in Port-au-Prince.
  • Israeli President Shimon Peres speaking before the German parliament, or Bundestag, in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Jan. 27, 2010.
  • Capt. Ori Nurick leads in transporting an injured woman into the Israeli army's field hospital in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, Jan. 22, 2010.
  • Rabbi Shaul Offen, right foreground, reading the Torah at the Israel Defense Forces Medical Unit Field Hospital Camp, Port-au-Prince, Jan. 22, 2010.
  • Israeli President Shimon Peres, flanked by NASA administrator Charles Bolden and Rona Ramon, widow of the Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, displaying a special plaque presented by Bolden showing photographs that Bolden took from space while on a space mission to launch the Hubble telescope.
  • The Israel Defense Forces' medical and rescue team in Port-au-Prince rescuing a Haitian government worker who was trapped for five days before evacuating him to an IDF field hospital, Jan. 17, 2010.
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