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A Ukrainian mother of two was among the prisoners released by Israel on Tuesday in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. The woman, Irina Polishchuk, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for assisting in a terrorist attack in the central Israeli city of Rishon LeZion in May 2002 that killed two people and injured 40, the newspaper Segodnya said.

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