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From the Times Dispatch

Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, speaking to a joint session of Congress last week: "Among the victims of this brutal and unremitting terror, I am sorry to tell you, are also American citizens. Only last week Daniel Cantor Wultz, a 16-year-old high school student from western Florida, who came to spend the Passover holiday with his parents in Israel, succumbed to his severe injuries and [was] killed in Israel's most recent suicide attack. I asked Daniel's parents and sister who only finished the traditional period of mourning two days ago to be with us here today. Daniel was a relative of Congressman Eric Cantor of Virginia, an Honorable Member of this House. Our thoughts and prayers are with you. I bring the memory of those people and the loss of so many others with me to my new post as prime minister."