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<P _extended="true"><B _extended="true">(CNN)</B> -- Police in Israel are investigating the burning of hundreds of New Testaments in a city near Tel Aviv, an incident that has alarmed advocates of religious freedom.</P>
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<P _extended="true">Investigators plan to review photographs and footage showing "a fairly large" number of New Testaments being torched this month in the city of Or-Yehuda, a police spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld, said Wednesday.</P>
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<P _extended="true">News accounts in <A class=cnnInlineTopic href="http://topics.cnn.com/topics/israel" _extended="true"><STRONG><FONT color=#004276>Israel</FONT></STRONG></A> have quoted Uzi Aharon, the deputy mayor of Or-Yehuda, as saying he organized students who burned several hundred copies of the New Testament. The deputy mayor gave interviews to Israeli radio and television stations after word of the incident surfaced about two weeks ago.</P></DIV>
<DIV _extended="true"><BR>The full article is at</DIV>
<DIV _extended="true"><A href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/28/bible.burning/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/28/bible.burning/index.html</A></DIV>
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<DIV _extended="true"><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff size=3>Art</FONT></STRONG></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></td></tr></table><br>