Israeli and Palestinian leaders speak by phone for the first time in years
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Israel's new Prime Minister Yair Lapid and the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas held a phone conversation Friday morning, which is believed to be the first such contact between Israeli and Palestinian leaders for five years.
A short statement from Lapid's office said the two men "spoke about the continuation of cooperation and the need to ensure quiet and calm."
Abbas had congratulated Lapid on becoming Prime Minister, the statement said, while Lapid passed along his best wishes to the Palestinian leader ahead of Eid al-Adha, the Muslim holiday which begins Friday.
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