(Reuters) Jeffrey Heller - The new Israeli parliament's freshman class includes two youth protest leaders, an Ethiopian immigrant, a high tech millionaire and more women than ever. They include Shimon Solomon, who came to Israel as a child in the covert Operation Moses airlift that brought thousands of Ethiopian Jews from refugee camps in Sudan. He became a major in Israel's paratroops and a social worker. Another is Rabbi Dov Lipman, who immigrated from the U.S. in 2004 and became a deputy mayor in Beit Shemesh. Naftali Bennett is a high-tech millionaire, while Orit Struk, mother of 11, is a settler leader in Hebron.
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