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“The situation in Syria is very harsh. Civilians have been slaughtered for years only a few dozen kilometres from Israel. I have decided to order professionals in my ministry to work toward absorbing children on humanitarian grounds in order to render assistance and rescue 100 of them from the horrors and afford them good and normal lives in Israel.”

(Interior Minister Aryeh Deri on Israel absorbing 100 orphaned Syrian refugees from the civil war, 27/01/2017)