Israeli President Ezer Weizman (R) looks to the former Russian President Boris Yeltsin during a luncheon given in his honour at the president's residence in Jerusalem, January 6. Yeltsin predicted that the war in Chechnya would end within two months with the defeat of Moslem rebels he brands "terrorists". Yeltsin is in the Holy Land for the first time, and will celebrate the Orthodox Chrsitmas in Bethlehem on January 7.

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