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| | The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Moshe Katzav, who was sworn in on Tuesday as Israel's eighth president, garnered a bouquet of firsts. |
 | | Inevitably, Katzav, who surprised the nation and the pundits by defeating Shimon Peres 63-57 in a secret ballot of Knesset members, projected himself as a president who can unify a society riven between Easterners and Westerners, religious and secular, rich and poor, veterans and newcomers, Jews and Arabs. |
 | | Moshe Katzav, whose family came here from Iran when he was 6 years old, has a mixed public record. |
| www.jewishjournal.com /archive/08.04.00/mideast.08.04.00.html (898 words) |
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