President Shimon Peres said Sunday that both Israel and Egypt have a real interest in seeing the Sinai Peninsula return to being "a peninsula of peace."
The president made the remarks while visiting the family of a St.-Sgt. Moshe Naftali, the Golani soldier who killed during a terror attack near Eilat on Thursday, He was expected to visit the family of Pascal Avrahami, a senior Police Counter-Terrorism Unit officer who was also killed in a firefight during the attack.
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