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Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.
Jonathan Sacks
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Jonathan Sacks
Age: 72 †
Born: 1948
Born: March 8
Died: 2020
Died: November 7
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Yahoo has gone too far in wrongfully accusing us of a conspiracy that doesn't exist. If they are having problems retaining engineers, they should be looking at the internal sources of employee dissatisfaction rather than trying to cover that up with this legal action.
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Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.
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