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Five Dead In Bank Robbery In Southern Israel
Five people are dead after an apparent bank robbery in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba went tragically wrong yesterday. Around lunchtime yesterday, an armed man entered a branch of Bank Hapoalim in a residential area. In the ensuing standoff with police, two bank employees and two customers were killed before the gunman killed himself. ...
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3 Hezbollah fighters die of wounds from Syria
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Three members of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group died of wounds sustained while fighting for control of strategic Syrian town near the Lebanese border, activists said Tuesday, as the battle in the area raged for the third straight ...
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Syria Israel exchange fire over border
DAMASCUS, Syria -; Syria said Tuesday it destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed the ceasefire line in the Golan Heights overnight, while the Israeli military said gunfire from Syria had hit an Israeli patrol, damaging a vehicle and prompting its troops to fire ...
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After the al Qusayr victory Syria and Hizballah plan war on Israel
the strategic town of al Qusayr, Sunday, May 19, are making no secret of their plans for the "great confrontation," i.e. military confrontaiton withIsrael after they win the Syrian civil war. Israel's military leaders are taking with the utmost seriousness the words of Ibrahim al-Amin, editor of the Hizballah organ Al Akhbar, and a close buddy of Syrian president Bashar Assad, who ...
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Israel restores Gaza fishing area to six miles
Israel is restoring the Gazan fishing area to six miles (11km), the IDF said Tuesday, after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon had confirmed the decision.The announcement came two days before ...
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IDF denies Syrian claim Israeli vehicle destroyed in Golan
Syrian military leadership says on state TV that its armed forces destroyed an Israel vehicle, but the IDF says it was just lightly damaged; soldiers return fire; defense source: "The fire was directed at ...
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Jewish terrorist Tytell appeals murder conviction
conviction and his two life sentences for murdering two Palestinians to the Supreme Court.On April 9, the Jerusalem District Court sentenced Tytell to two life sentences and an additional 30 years in prison for the murder of two Palestinians and an assortment of other ...
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Lapid Publishes Budget Q-and-A
Finance Minister Yair Lapid published a question-and-answer document on how the new budget is expected to impact various sectors of society. The document aims to counter media reports according to which budget cuts will negatively impact the needy, special education students, and more. Below is Lapid-the-journalist’s interview with ...
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Zionist Yeshivas Angry with Bennett
There is great anger in the Zionist high yeshivas and hesder yeshivas because of the planned slashing of their funding, and the anger is directed largely at Bayit Yehudi head Naftali Bennett, who is the Religions Minister, and his deputy, MK Rabbi Eli Ben Dahan. "We will not be able to pay salaries," a senior official in the federation of yeshivas told Arutz Sheva. "This cut will ...
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Rivlin U.S. Criticism is Out of Line
United States Secretary of State John Kerry was wrong to condemn Israel for legalizing Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria (Shomron), former Knesset Speaker MK Reuven Rivlin said Tuesday. Kerry called Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren, last week, to protest the planned legalization of four outposts. "Kerry’s protest is out of line," Rivlin said, speaking ...
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Israel returns fire after gunshots from Syria
/enpproperty--> JERUSALEM - The Israeli military fired missiles into Syria after its troops got shot on a patrol near the Syrian frontier on the Golan Heights, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement Tuesday. There were no casualties on the Israeli side but a military vehicle was damaged in the incident, the statement said. Israeli media said an artillery unit fired across the ...
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23 Hezbollah men killed in Syria
BEIRUT: Syrian government forces pushed deeper into a strategic opposition-held town near the Lebanese border on Monday, battling rebels in fierce street fighting, Syrian state media said. An activist group said at least 23 elite fighters from ...
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Syria says destroys Israeli vehicle which crossed ceasefire line
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria said on Tuesday its armed forces destroyed an Israeli vehicle after it crossed a ceasefire line into Syrian territory from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The statement by Syrian military leadership, broadcast on state television, came ...
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Israel Bank RobberyFour people have been dead Be’er Sheva bank robbers Breaking News
At least four people – three men and one woman – were killed and several others were injured, including one person in serious condition, during a robbery gone wrong at a Be’er Sheva bank on Monday. The victims reportedly died during a shootout at a branch of Bank Hapoalim in the southern Israeli city of Be’er Sheva. A further shot was heard from the bank at around ...
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Beersheba killer told court needed gun for defense
shot and killed four people in a Beersheba bank on Monday, had a weapon despite an earlier police request to confiscate his weapon, the courts sent out a copy of the transcript of the hearing over confiscating his weapon.The court transcript from August 8, 2011 reveals that Alon's "winning argument" for keeping his weapon appeared to be that his life was in danger and he needed ...
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Many kids among 91 feared dead in US tornado
MOORE, Okla. - At least 91 people, including 20 children, were feared killed when a 2 mile wide tornado tore through an Oklahoma City suburb, trapping victims beneath the rubble as one elementary school took a direct hit and another was destroyed.President Barack Obama declared a major disaster area in Oklahoma, ordering federal aid to supplement state and local efforts in Moore after the ...
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AFI Development doubles profit
AFIL ), today announced $33.4 million revenue for the first quarter of 2013, 3% more than for the corresponding quarter of 2012. The AFIMall City in Moscow contributed $23.2 million revenue. Net profit doubled to $15.6 million for the first quarter. The gross value of AFI Development's properties rose 19% to $2.48 billion at the end of March from $2.08 billion at the end of 2012. The ...
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Treasury sources Budget chief was pushed out
Budget Director Gal Hershkowitz announced yesterday that he will leave his post when the Knesset passes the state budget in two months. However, sources inform ''Globes'' that this is effectively his resignation. The resignation comes because ...
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Hezbollah sends new fighters to bloody Syria battle
Members of Lebanon's Hezbollah carry the coffin of their comrade Fadi Mohammed al-Jazzar during his funeral in southern Beirut on May 20, 2013. AFP ...
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Israeli troops in Syrian border shoot-out
Israeli troops shot at a target across the Syrian frontier today in response to gunfire that struck its forces in the Golan Heights, the Israeli military ...
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Israeli government justifies torture with national security
Six days after Arafat Jaradat was arrested by the Israeli army and the Shin Bet (Israeli intelligence agency), he was dead. Between the day of his arrest, February 18th, and the day of his death, February 23rd, his lawyer, Kamil Sabbagh, met with Arafat only once: before a military judge, the Kishon interrogation center of the Shin ...
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Livni PA must know peace talks are the only game in town
Israeli is continuing an intense dialogue on the peace process with US Secretary of State John Kerry, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said Tuesday during the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting. The common goal, she said, is re-starting direct talks between the Israelis and Palestinians: "We want the Palestinian Authority to know that peace talks are the only game in ...
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The New Syria Flogging in the Town Square
The rebellion against Syrian strongman Bashar Assad is turning increasingly Islamist in nature, seeing as the rebel forces are largely affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda and salafist Islam. Videos streaming in daily from Syria document this Islamist influence, which comes in the form of executions and torture carried out in the name of Islam, among other things. The embedded ...
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Murder Victim’s Phone Pictures Stolen
reports. The phone was given to Borovsky by the theater group he worked with, and was registered under the name of the group’s director, Oshri Maimon. The phone contained hundreds of pictures and video clips of his theater work and of his wife and children. "It has a lot of pictures of Evyatar with the children," his widow Tzofia said. "We hardly ever take pictures, and it ...
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Rabbi Bedouin Attack Part of a Pattern of Violence
An attack on a Jewish woman in the Negev on Monday was part of a greater pattern of Bedouin violence against Jews in the region, according to Rabbi Avichai Ronsky, a former IDF Chief Rabbi and former resident of the Negev. On Monday, Bedouin men threw a massive stone at an Israeli woman’s car as she drove near Kfar Retamim. "She was a hair’s breadth away from serious ...
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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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