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Palestinian Attack, Kidnapping Angers Israel

NPR | By Linda Gradstein
Published June 26, 2006 at 5:00 AM CDT
An Israeli soldier near the Gaza border reads a newspaper on Monday with a picture of Gilad Shalit on the cover.
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An Israeli soldier near the Gaza border reads a newspaper on Monday with a picture of Gilad Shalit on the cover.

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Linda Gradstein
Linda Gradstein has been the Israel correspondent for NPR since 1990. She is a member of the team that received the Overseas Press Club award for her coverage of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the team that received Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for her coverage of the Gulf War. Linda spent 1998-9 as a Knight Journalist Fellow at Stanford University.
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