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Moshe Carmel
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “born in minsk”. Today it says “israeli major-general and politician who served as minister of transportation for eight years”.
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Moshe Carmel ( January 17 , 1911 – August 15 , 2003 ) was born in Minsk , then in Russian Empire , now in Belarus . He emigrated to Palestine in 1924 when he was 13 years old. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli war , he was commander of the Carmeli Brigade , which was especially known for Operation Hiram . From 1955 to 1977 he was a member of the Knesset , initially in the Ahdut ha-Avodah (Unity of Labour) party and later in the Labour Party. He served several terms as Transport Minister.1
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born in minsk
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israeli major-general and politician who served as minister of transportation for eight years
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