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The Port of Ashdod is the gateway to the economy of Israel, it has played a central role in the development of the state and will play a central role in future development, hence the reason for an ambitious $500 million expansion project currently underway in two stages (in the picture, green represents stage 1 and brown stage 2).

The Port of Ashdod is currently undergoing the largest construction project ever undertaken in the history of Israel. In 1999, Israel news media reported that the government wanted to double the cargo capacity of Ashdod, an ambitious construction project was therefo ... more


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Sunday 5th February, 2012

    • Israel 'plans attack on Tehran within months'

    Israel News.Net

    Israel is planning to attack Iran "within months", the Daily Mail reported Saturday. Fears of a global nuclear war breaking out were stoked after Israel said Iran has been developing missiles with ...

    • Khamenei warns Iran will back 'any nations, any groups' fighting Israel

    Israel News.Net

    Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned that his country will back any group or nation targeting Israel. "From now onward, we will support and help any nations, any groups fighting against ...

    • Ya'alon: Assad's fall could break 'axis of evil'

    Jerusalem Post

    Vice Premier Moshe Ya'alon on Sunday rejected the notion that Israel supports the continuation of Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, saying that the autocratic leader's fall ...

  • Right-wing graffiti sprayed in W. Bank village

    Jerusalem Post

    Spray-painted on the taxi and the building was "Death to Arabs," "revenge" and "closed military zone," slogans previously used in so-called 'price tag' ...

  • US 'disgusted' at Russia, China UNSC veto on Syria

    Jerusalem Post

    Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Saturday calling for Syrian President Bashar Assad to resign, prompting the US delegate to react with "disgust" that the ...

  • Dance Review: Israel Ballet

    Jerusalem Post

    Forty-five years since its inception, the Israel Ballet has good cause to celebrate. Against all odds its founders Berta Yampolsky and Hillel Markman turned the budding ballet company into a fine ...

  • Israeli bill aims to grant financial aid to Haredi youths leaving religious world

    Haaretz

    Legislation advanced by Meretz MK Zehava Gal-On would provide ultra-Orthodox youths who choose a secular lifestyle -Yotzim Beshe'ela - the same aid given to new ...

  • Delek, Noble Energy discover gas at Tanin well

    Globes

    NBL ) today reported a substantial natural gas discovery at a depth of 5,500 meters (including water) in the offshore Tanin 1 (Crocodile) well, 120 kilometers northwest of Haifa. The Tanin discovery ...

  • Sinai gas pipeline bombed for 12th time

    Globes

    Saboteurs today blew up a pipeline in northern Sinai, near El Arish that supplies gas to Israel and Jordan, according to Egyptian security officials. This is 12th attack in the past year. Gas ...

  • Top IEC execs handed NIS 14,000 pay rise

    Globes

    ELEC.B22 ) is demanding an additional NIS 2.5 billion from the public to finance pensions alongside cutting employees' perks, Minister of Finance Yuval Steinitz has agreed to a generous pay ...

  • [Ehud Barak did not understand strategic importance of subs] Jerusalem and Berlin sign contract for sixth submarine

    IMRA

    [Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: For a reminder that, contrary to the PR, Ehud Barak has hardly a perfect record in strategic thinking: "But the story behind the submarine project is to a large ...

  • 'Public funding for updating health basket eroding'

    Jerusalem Post

    Although the cost of the basket of health services that the four health funds provide rose to more than NIS 32 billion last year, the erosion in public funding for updating the basket continues, ...

  • Across the great divide

    Jerusalem Post

    SAN FRANCISCO - That icon of all icons, the Golden Gate Bridge, is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, so I happily used the occasion to re-visit this engineering masterpiece, which links ...

  • Fayyad Faces Protests Over Austerity Plans

    Arutz Sheva

    reported that in the largest protest to date against economic measures announced last month, the demonstrators chanted, "Salam Fayyad, get out! You are an agent of the United States and ...

  • Ban: Russia, China Veto 'Undermines' the United Nations

    Arutz Sheva

    quoted a statement by Ban in which he said he "deeply regrets" the failure to agree on a resolution condemning the deadly crackdown on protesters by President Bashar al-Assad.Ban said the ...

  • Nevada Win Gives Romney Two in a Row

    Arutz Sheva

    Nevada Republican presidential caucuses .With ten percent of the results in, Romney had about 48 percent of the vote while Rep. Ron Paul and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich were in a tight race ...

  • Egyptian Gas Pipeline Blown Up for 12th Time

    Arutz Sheva

    .The officials told the French news agency that the latest attack occurred overnight Saturday (local time) as masked gunmen planted explosives under the pipeline in the Al-Massaeed area, close to ...

  • Analysis: Why Did Russia and China Veto UN Resolution on Syria?

    Arutz Sheva

    veto they were mistaken. Arab opinion had helped change a Chinese and Russian red light to a flashing yellow in Libya, allowing for the successful intervention that deposed the regime of Moammar ...

  • U.S. and Israel Set Stage for False Flag and Iran Attack

    Infowars Ireland

    February 4, 2012 Events over the last several days reveal that the United States and Israel plan to conduct a false flag terror event to be blamed on Iran. The event will likely occur within the ...

  • Israel and Serbia mark 20 years since renewal of diplomatic ties 1-Feb-2012

    IMRA

    Israel and Serbia mark 20 years since renewal of diplomatic ties 1 Feb 2012 (Communicated by the MFA Spokesperson's Bureau) A salute to Israel was held on Tuesday night (31 January) at the ...

  • Republican Romney sails to easy win in Nevada

    Jerusalem Post

    LAS VEGAS - Republican front-runner Mitt Romney cruised to an easy victory in Nevada on Saturday, crushing his three remaining rivals and taking firm command of the party's volatile ...

  • PA's Abbas, Hamas's Mashaal to meet in Qatar

    Jerusalem Post

    Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to meet in Qatar on Sunday with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal to discuss the formation of a Palestinian unity government.Abbas is also ...

  • Book debunking ‘Protocols of Zion’ now in Farsi

    Jerusalem Post

    Translation of the book into Farsi was done by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, a small research group led by Col. (res.) Reuven Erlich, a former Military Intelligence officer who ...

  • Spotlight on slimy, speckled swamp species

    Jerusalem Post

    This weekend, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority (INPA) celebrated the lives of some slimy, speckled swamp species, devoting events on Saturday to animals such as the salamander and the Hula ...

  • Those helping Holocaust survivors to be honored

    Jerusalem Post

    A new award aimed at honoring those who have worked to help improve the lives of thousands of Holocaust survivors in Israel and highlight the contributions survivors have made to the state will be ...

  • Egyptian Pipeline Supplying Israel Is Attacked

    International Herald Tribune

    Saboteurs on Sunday blew up a pipeline in Egypt that supplied gas to Israel, the 12th such attack in a year, security officials said. Masked gunmen planted explosives under the pipeline near ...

  • Protesters set fire to gov't building in Cairo

    Jerusalem Post

    CAIRO - An Egyptian government building was set on fire on Sunday as protests disrupted the heart of Cairo for a fourth day and public figures demanded a faster transition to civilian rule.It was ...

  • Police re-arrest mother in twin babies’ abuse probe

    Jerusalem Post

    twin babies on suspicion of abuse on Saturday night.The woman, who denies any wrong doing, failed a lie detector test last week, while she was under house ...

  • Prince William Leaves Kate For Duty In The Falkands Islands

    Arutz Sheva

    The renewed flare-up of tensions between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands two months before the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war in which Britain defeated Argentina has prompted ...

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