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Other Receivables And Prepaid Expenses (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2012
Other Receivables And Prepaid Expenses [Abstract] |
Schedule Of Other Receivables And Prepaid Expenses |
|  | December 31,
|  | 2012 |  | 2011
Deferred income taxes, net | $ | 31,801 | $ | 35,263
Prepaid expenses |  | 45,219 |  | 37,504
Government institutions |  | 56,340 |  | 72,266
Derivative instruments |  | 35,580 |  | 20,520
Held-for-sale investment (*) |  | 1,172 |  | 1,748
Other |  | 9,991 |  | 12,723
| $ | 180,103 | $ | 180,024
(*) See Note 1(D).

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