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President Isaac Herzog toured the Beit El settlement in Samaria this past Wednesday. The president began his tour at the famed Beit El yeshiva, where he met with the rabbi of the yeshiva, Zalman Baruch Melamed, and with the head of the local council Shai Alon. After that, he continued to the biblical site said to be the place where Jacob had his famous 'ladder' dream mentioned in Genesis 28, at the site children from the community welcomed him. From there, Herzog continued to the "Ramat Beit-El" neighborhood where the president and the head of the council inaugurated the new neighborhood and planted an olive tree.
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