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Israel 60 years on

06 May 2008

Israel 60 years ago and today - in pictures.

Source: Micha Perry/GPO via Getty Images

Israeli troops raise their national flag after capturing the Jordanian outpost of Umm Rashrash March 10, 1949, later to be called Eilat, Israel's southernmost city on the Gulf of Aqaba.

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