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Mazal Mualem

Mazal Mualem

Dec 5, 2014

Labour party candidates Itzik Shmuli (R) and Stav Shaffir attend a mock election at a high school in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv December 6, 2012. The leaders of a grassroots social protest movement that swept Israel in 2011, Shaffir and Shmuli, have shot to the top of a rejuvenated Labour party that polls say will at least double its power in a Jan. 22 general election that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud is forecast to win. Picture taken December 6, 2012. REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL - Tags — Labor Party candidates Itzik Shmuli (R) and Stav Shaffir attend a mock election at a high school near Tel Aviv, Dec. 6, 2012. — REUTERS/Amir Cohen

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