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THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. Please have a seat. A little more than four years ago, I stood with Mr. Tim Geithner and announced him as my first nominee to my Cabinet. We were barely two months into the financial crisis. The stock market had cratered. The housing market had cratered as well. Bank after bank was on the verge of collapse. And worst of all, more than 800,000 Americans would lose their jobs in just that month. And the bottom was not yet in sight.
So I couldn’t blame Tim when he tried to tell me he wasn’t the right guy for the job. (Laughter.) But I knew that Tim’s extensive experience with economic policy made him eminently qualified, and I also knew that he could hit the ground running. As Chairman of the New York Federal Reserve, he had just spent several sleepless and chaotic weeks immersed in the complexities of the crisis, and had been working closely with his Republican predecessor at Treasury to save the financial system.
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“The real danger to world peace is not the Jews who build their ancestral capital, rather the nuclear weapons in Iran and chemicals weapons in Syria which might fall into the wrong hands. Israel understands these threats and copes with them and I urge other countries to join the challenge. Israel wants real peace, we are ready for peace and ready to compromise for peace,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Taglit Birthright Israel's Mega event, held in Jerusalem this evening, Monday 7.1.12, in celebration of the projects Bar Mitzvah year.
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At the event, a social network campaign, including a video and Facebook application, was launched by President Peres and the actor Eyal Kitzis.
President Peres said:
"Vote for your reality. I call upon every young person with the right to vote for the first time, don't miss the opportunity."
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http://web.nli.org.il/sites/nli/english/Pages/default.aspx has launched a special site <http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/Hebrew/collections/treasures/elections/Pages/default2.aspx> (in Hebrew), which features election propaganda and media coverage from every Knesset election since the establishment of the state. The site includes thousands of election slogans and advertisements, campaign photographs of politicians, party platforms, speeches, press releases, articles and reports, etc. Digital files of Internet campaigns from the 2006 and 2009 elections are to be uploaded soon.
