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Prosor angered by UNRWA’s map of Arab Palestine
NEW YORK - Early this month, Ann Dismorr, director of the UN Relief and Works Agency in Lebanon, stood in front of cameras holding a map of Israel labeled "Arab Palestine." Framed in green and black and shoddily printed, the projected Palestinian state is shown surrounded by countries with modern borders: Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.Israeli officials are well used to seeing maps ...
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Israeli embassy slams Germany party over labeling
BERLIN - The Israeli embassy slammed the German Green Party on Wednesday for its Bundestag efforts to label products from the West Bank, calling those efforts "another try to negatively single out Israel while promoting an economic boycott of it."In a statement ...
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Danon IDF Has Backing for Heavy Hand Against Rock Rioters
Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon on Wednesday visited the town of Beit El in the Binyamin region. With the visit, Danon sought to show solidarity with residents of the town, who suffer from incessant rock attacks by Arabs from villages in the ...
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Sidon on edge after tense burial of Hezbollah fighter
Hezbollah while fighting for the Islamist party, which supports President Bashar Assad’s regime, during the raging battle for the town of Qusair in the Syrian province of Homs. The son of a Sunni father and a Shiite mother, Sabbagh became a Shiite and joined Hezbollah years ago. His family, with the exception of his mother, insisted he be buried at a Sunni cemetery in Sidon. But a group ...
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France seeks to brand Hezbollah as terrorist group
Laurent Fabius said on Wednesday. "Because of the decisions that have been taken by Hezbollah and the fact that they are fighting very harshly the Syrian population, we have decided to ask that the military branch of the Hezbollah would be considered as a terrorist organisation," Fabius told reporters in English. The United States has long designated the Lebanon-based militant group, ...
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Friends of Syria demands withdrawal of Hezbollah Iran fighters
AMMAN (Reuters) - The Friends of Syrian alliance called on Iran and its Lebanese Hezbollah ally on Thursday to withdraw fighters immediately from Syrian territory and described their armed presence in the country as a threat to regional stability. In a communiqué issued after a meeting in Amman, the alliance said any transitional government in Syria being proposed as a core of a ...
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France wants Hezbollah on terror blacklist
FRANCE will call for the military arm of Hezbollah to be added to an EU terror blacklist due to its backing of the Syrian regime, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says. "Because of the decisions that have been taken by Hezbollah and the fact that they are fighting very harshly the Syrian population, we have decided to ask that the military branch of the Hezbollah would be considered as ...
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Soldier killed in Golan mine accident to be buried
killed in a minefield accident on Wednesday as Roee Yisrael Alfi, 18, of Gan Yavne, and promoted him posthumously to the rank of corporal.Alfi, who had been in training and was tasked with clearing a minefield on the Golan Heights, died after one of the mines, which had been exposed and marked ahead of its clearance, went off for an unknown ...
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Complaints lead ministry to examine math tests
The Education Ministry said on Wednesday it will conduct an "organized examination" of the mathematics matriculation exam that took place on Tuesday afternoon, after students complained about the difficulty of the test.The ministry added that if the claims are found to be justified, it will deal with the matter so that no harm is done to students.After the test, students from ...
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Bar-Ilan honors Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Former Mossad director Efraim Halevy and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra were among those who received honorary doctorates from Bar- Ilan University on Tuesday night, as was South African immigrant, venture capitalist and philanthropist Morris Kahn.Also honored in the conferment ceremony on the lawns of the Dahan Family Unity Park were Nobel laureates Prof.Dan Shechtman and Prof. Edward ...
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Non-Orthodox Jews can use mikvaot for conversion
Deputy Religious Services Minister Eli Ben-Dahan said on Wednesday that ritual baths, or mikvaot, could be used by Conservative and Reform groups for their conversion process, even though the Chief Rabbinate does not recognize conversions conducted by non-Orthodox Jewish denominations.Ben-Dahan was speaking during a hearing of the Knesset Internal Affairs Committee, which was reviewing the ...
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Labor faction chairman Herzog forms lobby for IBA
Labor Party faction chairman Isaac Herzog has set up a Knesset lobby to protect the interests of the Israel Broadcasting Authority, for which he was responsible when he served as welfare and social services minister.Herzog formed the lobby in response to a report in ...
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J’lem to offer free checkups for hearing awareness
Jerusalem's Hadassah Academic College will conduct free hearing tests for the general public, performed by Hadassah University Medical Center ear-nose-and-throat specialists along with the college's clinical-communications students on Tuesday as part of National Hearing Awareness Day events.Events will be held on Tuesday, May 28 at starting at 8 a.m. in cooperation with various ...
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Jordan Red Cross tours J’lem women’s health clinic
A delegation from the Jordanian Red Cross came to Jerusalem on Wednesday to tour Bishvilaych, a nonprofit medical clinic for haredi and Modern Orthodox Jewish women in the capital's Givat Shaul neighborhood.Many traditionally religious women feel uncomfortable about being examined by male doctors and discussing intimate matters with them - and according to the heads of the clinic, ...
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Shalom Gas exports to be capped at 40
Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom intends to set the maximum natural gas export allocation at 40 percent rather than the expected 53% figure, he told Channel 2 on Wednesday night. As companies continue to explore and drill through Israel's eastern Mediterranean waters, export allowances have become a topic of contention across the country. The 282-billion cubic meter Tamar ...
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Smartphone app updates bus proximity in real time
Rather than pacing at a bus stop wondering why the 8 a.m. line still has yet to show up at 8:15, Israeli travelers are now able to take advantage of a smartphone application that provides updates about their bus's proximity in real time.The iPhone and Android app NetBus is the brainchild of four young men who came up with the idea during their army service and are equal partners in the ...
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Claims Conference leaders must resign now
Over the past few days, there have been additional mind-boggling exposures of further scandals, lack of transparency, cover-ups and ethical failures at the highest possible levels of the Claims Conference leadership and management. Unless these latest reports appearing ...
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Iran Hizbullah Are Propping Up Assad Says Britains Hague
Iran and its Shiite Lebanese ally Hizbullah are "propping up" President Bashar al-Assad and providing him with increasing support, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Wednesday. Britain would urge international powers to set a date in the next few days for an international conference to try to end the two-year-old conflict engulfing Syria and threatening regional ...
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Hezbollahs Fallen Soldiers - By Phillip Smyth
Where is the decision on Afghanistan? Amid comeback, Petraeus at center of Benghazi; Sexual assault prevention workers to get furlough reprieve; Whose fault is sexual assault? No pics of bin Laden; and a little bit more. - by Gordon ...
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Wedding 25000 Guests Huge Wedding Takes Place in Jerusalem
A wedding with 25,000 guests has taken place this week in Jerusalem. News of a wedding with 25,000 guests has stunned viewers across the globe, as the massive party was held in Jerusalem on Tuesday night.The massive wedding was for Shalom Rokeach, 18, and new wife Hannah Batya Penet, 19 – both reportedly from very well connected families.Rokeach is the grandson of the leader of the Hasidic ...
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Palestinians have little faith in John Kerrys efforts to restart peace talks
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a joint news conference with his Jordanian counterpart, Nasser Judeh, not pictured, in Amman Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Secretary of State John Kerry says the United States and its Arab and European allies will step up their support for Syria’s opposition to help them ';fight for the freedom of their country'; if President Bashar ...
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Iran calls attention to aggressive plans of the U.S. and Israel
"Some Persian Gulf countries are supporting U.S. plans in the region and it harms the countries of the region", the Chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran, the national parliament, Alaedin Boruyerdi said on Saturday (27th). Crimes and discord are the buzzwords of the ...
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British guilty of disguised anti-Semitism says Israeli minister
Exclusive: A senior Israeli government minister has attacked British attitudes towards his country as "disguised anti-Semitism" and said that Britain was more hostile towards the Jewish state than other Western ...
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With Hezbollah coffins Syria now exporting conflict
HERMEL, Lebanon - On a country road in Lebanon's northeast, traffic is heavy; ambulances screech by, sirens blaring, and cars packed with mourners follow coffins as Hezbollah brings wounded fighters home from Syria, and its dead.With the bodies from the battle over the border at Qusair, comes the violence, as civil conflict between Syria's Iranian-backed ruler and Sunni rebels ...
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‘I won’t let Bikur Cholim close’ says Gamzu
After years of financial trouble, Jerusalem's Bikur Cholim Hospital is now being run "impressively" by the capital's Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Health Ministry director-general Ronni Gamzu ...
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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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