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Terrorists Fire 3 Rockets at Ashkelon
Terrorists from Hamas-controlled Gaza fired three Qassam rockets at southern Israel early Wednesday morning. Two of the rockets were fired at the city of Ashkelon, and the third one was fired towards the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council. The rockets exploded in open regions, causing no physical injuries or damages. The rocket attacks come after a period of relative quiet in the region. The Israel ...
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Jerusalem Journal A-List Celebration Traces Leader’s Trajectory and Israel’s
President Shimon Peres turns 90 in August. He is the last of Israel's founding fathers still in office, and in recent months has strained his largely ceremonial role by speaking out on resolving the Israeli-Palestinian ...
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When artists scapegoat Israel
Dear Ms. Walker,I am writing this letter to you with great pain, after encountering your name in the news, again, calling for a boycott on my home and country. Recently, you urged a popular American artist to boycott Israel. In your statement you claimed that "under a campaign named ‘Brand Israel,’ Israeli officials use culture and arts to showcase Israel as a modern, welcoming ...
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Fiji Offers More Troops to Golan Heights UN Force
Fiji has offered more than 500 troops to the UN Golan Heights peacekeeping force after several countries withdrew because of the spillover from the Syria conflict, diplomats said Tuesday, according to ...
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Former South African Ambassador Slams Israeli Apartheid
The recently retired South African ambassador to Israel has sent a letter to pro-Arab, anti-Israel activists in which he slammed Israel’s "replication of ...
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Turkey PM Erdogan welcomes Hamas leaders
As the European Union cancels a parliamentary visit to Ankara, embattled Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosts Hamas heads Mashaal and Haniyeh; unclear if visit is instead of Erdogan traveling to ...
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Putin Not Ruling Out Sending More Arms to Assad
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that his country would not rule out sending fresh arms to the Syrian regime and warned the West against arming "criminals" in the ...
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Activist to Netanyahu Keep Your Promises Build
that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had ordered him to freeze construction bids in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem following United States President Barack Obama’s visit to ...
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Spanish Govt Funding Anti-Israel NGOs Finds New Report
The Spanish government provided funding between 2009 and 2011 to political NGOs leading the campaigns to delegitimize Israel through demonization, boycotts, lawfare and other forms of political attacks, according to an NGO Monitor report issued on ...
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Platini Praises Israel as Spain Take Spoils Once Again
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Star-studded party for Israels Peres 90
More than 3000 guests, including prominent politicians and Hollywood stars, have turned out for a gala dinner held in honour of Israeli President Shimon Peres, who will turn 90 in August."We have our queen, you have your Shimon," said former British prime minister Tony Blair as the celebration got under way on Tuesday evening in Jerusalem.Former US president Bill Clinton, former Soviet ...
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Pet Shop Boys Rejects Calls to Cancel Israel Concert
Neil Tennant, the singer in the pop duo Pet Shop Boys, on Monday rejected calls from pro-Palestinian Authority activists to cancel the band's Tel Aviv concert, scheduled for June 23, ...
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Peres Touts Peace in Birthday Speech
"I greatly appreciate that you have chosen to celebrate the birthday of a man whose only sin was to grow a year older," Peres said. He added that his grandfather and Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben Gurion were the two figures who have left the deepest imprint on his ...
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Shimon Peres celebrates 90th birthday with Clinton Blair and Streisand
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - JUNE 18: (ISRAEL OUT) (L -R) Singer Barbra Streisand, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Israeli President Shimon Peres attend Peres' 90th birthday gala June 18, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. The celebration also marks the start of the Israeli Presidential Conference, a gathering of global figures in Jerusalem. (Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO via Getty Images) (Kobi ...
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Stars mark Israeli leaders 90th
Hollywood superstars have joined Israeli and global leaders and local celebrities to honour president Shimon Peres for his forthcoming 90th birthday, reflecting world respect for one of the country's peace ...
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A battle won Ben-Dahan gets to stay in the Artillery Corps
Since being elected to the Knesset and appointed deputy minister for religious services, Bayit Yehudi MK Eli Ben-Dahan has had to fight battles on numerous fronts - be it the struggle within his party over which candidate to back for chief rabbi, or the internecine skirmishes that have erupted within the coalition over pieces of contentious legislation.But while clear-cut successes in the ...
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MK Cohen State failed to absorb Ethiopian olim
The state has failed in the absorption of Ethiopian olim, Knesset State Control Committee chairman Amnon Cohen (Shas) said at a committee meeting on the subject that took place on Tuesday."We could have integrated them better and faster," he ...
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Soldiers’ ombudsman blasts young commanders for verbal violence
The Defense Ministry's soldiers' ombudsman released his annual report on Tuesday and criticized the conduct of some young commanders.He cited verbal violence and an excessively confrontational approach as problems that require the army's ...
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Arens Israel does not need US aid
The more than $3 billion in annual foreign aid that Israel receives from the United States is not essential for the country's survival, former foreign minister Moshe Arens said on Tuesday at a meeting launching a Knesset caucus on US-Israel relations.Arens and former US ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer spoke at the Knesset Caucus on US-Israel Relations inaugural event. The caucus, ...
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On the road to recovering Spain’s Jewish roots
barrios (neighborhoods), which had all but disappeared and been reduced to redeployed buildings and ancient street signs, have begun to see serious evidence of Jewish presence thanks to a project called the Red de Juderas, or the Network of Spanish Jewish Quarters. Old synagogues are being reclaimed and filled with displays of Jewish artifacts and explanations of Jewish customs, and there ...
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‘I would convert and make aliya if it weren’t for the camels’
Ben-Gurion U center to study conversions "I've always wanted to do Israel," he says, although his wife Michelle "was nervous because she thought she'd be shot or killed by rockets as soon as she got here.""So far no," he notes.Barry, whose widely syndicated Miami Herald column ran from 1983 to 2005, is the author of numerous best-selling humor books ...
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Saudi Arabia is Hottest New Twitterspace
The kingdom now shows the highest rate of tweeting in relation to number of users worldwide, with some 1.5 million tweets per day. More than three million users are registered to the Twitter social networking Internet site – 12 percent of Saudi Arabia's population. Users span the country, and are based not only in Riyadh or Jeddah but also in far-flung areas of the kingdom. ...
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Time to Leave Conflict Behind Panellists Say as International Meeting on Israeli-Palestinian Peace Considers Viability of Two-State Solution
BEIJING, 18 June ‑ The United Nations Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace this afternoon heard appeals to leave perpetual conflict behind, as experts grappled with ways to revitalize the two-State solution and re-engage the international community in that effort, amid regional turmoil and, by some accounts, societal and political indifference within ...
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As Syria crisis roils Middle East Ban says Israeli-Palestinian peace remains urgent priority
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said ';we must not lose sight of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,'; whose resolution was no less urgent. Calling for a ';clear political horizon'; to break the impasse and maximize present momentum, Mr. Ban told the UN Asia and Pacific International Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace, in ...
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Gilad Farm residents mull removal of 4 homes
Residents of the Gilad Farm outpost met Tuesday night to consider voluntarily removing four unauthorized homes in their hilltop community of several dozen families, according to outpost spokesman Itai Zar.As of press time, no decision had been ...
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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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