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Shimon Sheves

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “general director of the israeli prime minister 's office under the late yizhak rabin”. Today it says “israeli politician who served as the general director of the israeli prime minister 's office under yizhak rabi”.
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Shimon Sheves ( Hebrew : שמעון שבס ; born 16 March 1952, Petah Tikva , Israel) is an Israeli Politician who served as the General Director of the Israeli Prime Minister 's office under Yizhak Rabin from 1992 to 1995. Sheves now serves as a political strategic advisor to governments and political leaders around the world. He was Chairman of RSLB, a company owned jointly by Sheves, former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff the late Amnon Lipkin-Shahak , Yuval Rabin, son of Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli businessman Gil Berger. [1] , Yuval Rabin, Shimon Sheves, Amnon Lipkin-Shahak , and Gil Birger became the first non-Americans to lobby the US administration on behalf of foreign countries.

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “general director of the israeli prime minister 's office under the late yizhak rabin”. Today it says “israeli politician who served as the general director of the israeli prime minister 's office under yizhak rabi”. Read the current article and compare.
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general director of the israeli prime minister 's office under the late yizhak rabin

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israeli politician who served as the general director of the israeli prime minister 's office under yizhak rabi

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