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      Jerusalemite Elected to Italian Parliament


      Fiamma Nirenstein, a native of Florence who now lives in Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood, has been elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies as a member of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's center-right People of Liberty Party .

      Nirenstein is a prolific author and journalist, and a former director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv. She has published widely about the Middle East, Israel, anti-Semitism and radical Islam.