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(IsraelNN.com) Russian-Israeli billionaire Arkadi Gaydamak said Wednesday that he would pay for 200 teens from Sderot to spend the weekend vacationing outside the city.  More students will receive brief vacations in the upcoming days, he said.

Gaydamak paid for Sderot residents to take brief vacations in Eilat in November of 2006, and helped sponsor a trip out of the city for more than 1,000 residents of Sderot in 2007.  He recently announced that he would give NIS 90 million to the city in order to fortify homes against rocket attacks.