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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert this afternoon  visited the Kiryat Shemona municipal stadium.  He spoke with players from the local professional soccer team, as well as with players from the youth team, and received an autographed soccer ball. 
 
Kiryat Shemona Mayor Sammy Malul told Prime Minister Olmert: “Thanks to you we have a proper stadium, as befits a team in the top division.” 

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Prime Minister Olmert also met with Mayor Malul and members of the Kiryat Shemona City Council and said: “Kiryat Shemona is a symbol of the development and prosperity of the north in recent years.  The fact that the northern border has been quiet for two years, without daily friction on the boundary line, has helped the development that has begun here.  We are investing in infrastructure, developing highways and building industrial parks.  The headline regarding Government investment here is in education.  When I see the quiet and tranquility here, the developing factories and the growing city, I feel proud of what we have done.” 
 
Prior to visiting the stadium, Prime Minister Olmert visited the memorial to the soldiers who perished in the 1997 helicopter disaster.