He emigrated to Israel at the age of 20 under the Law of Return, where he served in the military and gained a BA in social sciences from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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As of 8 June 2002, nine of the fourteen chaplains in the U.S. military received their religious training from the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences (GSISS) in Leesburg, Virginia.

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Several months ago, Northrop Grumman became the fourth big military contractor to locate its headquarters in the office park where General Dynamics, DynCorp and Computer Sciences were already ensconced, having departed the Los Angeles Basin where Northrop was founded in 1939.

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