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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert this afternoon, toured northern Israel and met with 20 confrontation line mayors and local council chairmen at the lower Galilee moshav of Kakhal.
 
Prime Minister Olmert also toured Safed and met with Mayor Yishai Maimon and members of the City Council, security establishment and rescue service representatives, GOC Home Front Command Maj.-Gen. Yitzhak Gershon, Israel Police Northern District Commander Dan Ronen, Ziv Medical Center Director Dr. Oscar Ambon and other senior officials.  The Prime Minister was briefed on actions being taken in the city due to the emergency situation in both the military and civilian spheres.

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Prime Minister Olmert expressed his support for Mayor Maimon and said that the visit gave him strength of heart.  The Prime Minister added: “We are conducting a war that is different from all those that we have waged in the past.  Even though it was unplanned, two weeks after it began, the country is rendering all possible assistance to the home front, which has become a battlefront.  The operation will not go on for months even if it takes more time than we anticipated; we will know how to find appropriate solutions for residents.  I do not intend to announce when we will halt the operation.  They will learn this on their own, the hard way.  Our strength is what you give to us and I hope that next year, if you invite me, I will open the Klezmer Festival.”