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Syrian rebels target Hezbollah fire rockets into Lebanon
>Read a version of this story in Arabic.(CNN) -- The fighting in Syria has taken another dangerous turn, with rebel rockets targeting Hezbollah locations in Lebanon. Rebels battling for control of Qusayr, a strategically important western town in Syria, fired rockets Sunday across the Lebanese border at the militant group's areas, the rebel Free Syrian Army said. Hezbollah, the pro-regime and ...
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Hezbollah buries Syria fighters
A Lebanese activist holds a placard in which they replaced Hezbollahs logo with the word freedom", and its slogan of "Hezbollah shall be victorious" with the words, the people shall be victorious", during a Beirut protest against the participation of Hezbollah members in the fighting in the Syrian town of ...
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A-G seeks probe into illegal West Bank settlement building
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein appeals to Defense Minister to create a unit to enforce law against those in involved in illegal West Bank construction in ...
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Orbach Media is Making Murder an Option
The Israeli media is unintentionally encouraging murder, Minister for Pensioners Affairs Uri Orbach (Bayit Yehudi) warned Wednesday. In a post to his Facebook page, Orbach criticized media coverage of ...
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Detroit Leaders Should Have Spurned Not Embraced Farrakhan
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed deep disappointment with the members of Detroit City Council and local clergy who met with and embraced the anti-Semitic and racist leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, during his visit to the city last week. During his visit to Detroit, Minister Farrakhan was invited by Rev. Wendell Anthony, President of the Detroit Branch of the ...
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Tower teams with Crocus in magnetics market
TSEM ) has teamed up with California-based Crocus Technology Inc. Under the licensing and joint promotion agreement, Tower will use ...
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Israel Railways improves punctuality
Israel Railways says that its punctuality improved to 94.78% of all trains in the first quarter of 2013 from 92.11% in the corresponding quarter of 2012 and 86.45% in the corresponding quarter of 2011. It added that punctuality during rush hour rose to 94.77% of all trains in the first quarter from 91.84% in the corresponding quarter of 2012 and 84.91% in the corresponding quarter of 2011. ...
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Biocancell raises NIS 16.5m in secondary offering
BICL ) has raised NIS 16.5 million, net of NIS 900,000 in expenses, in yesterday's secondary offering on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE). The company issued 22.1 million shares at NIS 0.79 per share. The shares were sold in units of 100 shares each. Market sources estimate ...
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State Comptroller to probe public officials expenses
State Comptroller Joseph Shapira today announced that, in response to requests by MKs and the public, he will open an investigation into expenses of public officials for whom the government partly covers expenses in Israel and overseas. Shapira's announcement follows media reports on expenses for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. These include an 80% jump in the expenses of the prime ...
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Partner profit plunges 79
PTNR ) saw net profit plunge 79% in the first quarter of 2013 to $9 million compared with the corresponding quarter of 2012. Revenue was $314 million in the first quarter, down 27% from the corresponding quarter. Service revenue was $263 million, down 23% but operating expenses including the cost of equipment sold was up 23% to $246 million. Free Cash flow before interest was $56 million, down ...
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Palestinian child shot in West Bank by Israeli troops
Israeli forces have seriously wounded a child in the West Bank. AFP Photo Israeli troops shot and seriously wounded a 12-year-old Palestinian boy who was walking with his friends in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Palestinian security and medical officials told AFP.They said that Atta Mohammed Sharadeh was hit during one of what have become almost daily attacks against Palestinian youths by ...
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Young objector challenges Israeli army on ideological grounds citing occupation of West Bank
Left wing activists hold signs during a protest calling for the release of Israeli conscientious objector Natan Blanc from military prison, in front of the ministry of defense office in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The Israeli military has jailed Blanc for six months because of his opposition to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, in one of the most protracted cases by a ...
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Rebel Feiglin barred from Knesset Education Ctee
Likud Beytenu removed MK Moshe Feiglin from the Knesset Education Committee Tuesday night, as a result of his rebellion against the coalition because Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will not allow him to visit the Temple Mount.Knesset House Committee chairman Tzachi Hanegbi (Likud Beytenu) announced in the Knesset plenum Tuesday night that coalition chairman Yariv Levine, also of Likud ...
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Islamists release seven Egyptians kidnapped in Sinai
kidnapped by Islamist militants in the Sinai Peninsula last week were released on Wednesday, the army said.Security sources said they were freed following talks mediated by local Bedouin tribal leaders. The men were handed over to the army in an area south of Rafah, near the border with ...
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Government watchdog demands PM appoint deputy
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu must appoint a permanent deputy, the Movement for Quality Government demanded Tuesday.The government watchdog NGO wrote a letter to the Prime Minister's Office and Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein pointing out that Basic Law: Government says that if the prime minister is abroad or incapacitated, his deputy will temporarily take his place as acting prime ...
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Independent probe needed for Claims Conference
Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky has called for an independent probe to investigate allegations against senior executives of the Claims Conference, a spokesman ...
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US Imams to Visit Auschwitz
The US envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the US diplomatic envoy to combat anti-Semitism this week will join imams for a visit to Auschwitz, the State Department said Tuesday.Special Envoy to the OIC Rashad Hussain will make the trip with "newly appointed Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Ira Forman, Ambassador Mike Kozak, and imams from ...
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Energy Minister to reduce gas export quota - report
Minister of Energy and Water Resources Silvan Shalom will reduce the amount of natural gas that can be exported and raise the minimum quota for the amount of gas that must remain in Israel as a basic condition for exports, "Yediot Ahronot" reports this morning. Shalom has reportedly not yet made a final decision by how much he will alter the conclusions of the Tzemach Committee and he ...
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Irans Ahmadinejad says will challenge allys ban from election
Iran's electoral watchdog on Tuesday disqualified Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, Ahmadinejad's former chief of staff, from running in the June 14 presidential vote. "In my opinion there will be no problem with the Leader and I will take up this issue until the last moment with him," Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday, according to the ISNA news agency. "I am hopeful the problem ...
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Israel-Syria Border War Heats Up
NICOSIA [MENL] -- Israel and Syria have been engaged in an increasinglybitter border war. Western diplomatic sources said Israeli and Syrian forces were battlingon a nearly daily basis along the Golan Heights. They said the fighting oftenbegan with Syrian Army or proxy attacks on Israel Army outposts and ...
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Israel warns Assad over action in Golan Heights
Israel's army chief said that Bashar al-Assad would suffer heavy consequences if he destabilised the Golan Heights, in one of the most explicit warnings yet to the Syrian leader by a public official. The comments came after a night that saw Israel fire into Syria following an attack on one of its military ...
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Livni asks German counterpart to blacklist Hezbollah
initiative within the EU to list Hezbollah as a terrorist organization at a meeting with her Germany counterpart Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger on Tuesday night.The meeting of the two high-powered female justice ministers was the first major one of the German justice minister's visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories, said a statement by the German ...
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Wayne Federman coming back for laughs
The last time Los Angeles-based comedian Wayne Federman performed in Israel 10 years ago, it was the aftermath of the Second Intifada. Palestinians had blown up pizza parlors and Passover Seders, and Israelis needed a reason to laugh.Comedian Avi Liberman approached his fellow Jew Federman at LA's Improv comedy club and asked him to come with him to Israel to "brighten the mood." ...
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New UNRWA Controversy over Map of ‘Palestine’
The United Nations’ Relief and Works Agency is again facing accusations of supporting anti-Israel sentiment. In the latest incident, the UNRWA director in Lebanon, Ann Dismorr, was pictured posing with a map that showed all of Israel as "Palestine." The picture was made public by the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) organization. The map Dismorr was photographed displaying shows ...
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IDF Identifies Soldier Killed in Accident
The IDF has identified the soldier killed in training Tuesday as 19-year-old Roi Alfi of Gan Yavne. His family has been informed of the tragedy. Alfi was training with the Combat Engineering Corps. He was killed by an exploding land mine while assisting in clearing a field of land mines. The incident took place in the Golan. IDF commanders said that the mine-clearing operation had been done ...
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Biggest construction project in Israeli history
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 therefore envisioned, involving the building of new piers, new docks, warehouses and cargo handling equipment. It was to take place in two stages, with the total project costing around $500 million. Read more
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