14 Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (R) meets with U.S. singer Whitney Houston and her former husband Bobby Brown in Jerusalem, in this file photo taken May 27, 2003. Houston was in Israel with her husband, rhythm and blues singer Brown, to visit friends and family among the Black Hebrews, an African-American community that moved to Israel in 1969 and settled in the southern town of Dimona. It's home. It's a friendship I've never had with any other country, Houston, dressed in a long red robe with white embroidery, told Sharon during their meeting. REUTERS/Gil Cohen/Files

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