It's got its hands full with the peace process at home, but Israel is also trying to help other countries, Latvia among them, as Katya Cengel reports.When Oded Ben-Hur's father came to Israel, the fires of the Holocaust were still burning and memories of mass murder were still fresh in his mind. The land he and the others of his generation reached was no promised land: hot sun, barren desert, little water and no oil or minerals. Settlement promised to be an uphill battle. But they didn't turn around."They started swimming and now we have a great swimming pool," said Oded Ben-Hur, Israeli am...
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