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Palestinians fire rocket at South shattering calm
Shattering a lengthy period of calm, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired an unknown number of rockets at southern Israel, triggering air raid sirens in Ashkelon and surrounding areas early on Wednesday morning and awakening residents.As of Wednesday evening, the IDF, which launched a search of the area, found no projectiles in Israeli territory, and an army source indicated the rockets may ...
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Netanyahu recommends keeping 60 of natural gas
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will propose to the cabinet on Sunday that Israel maintain 540 billion cubic meters of natural gas in its reservoirs - a 20-percent jump from previous government recommendations.Netanyahu presented the proposed export policy, which has been a contentious subject since the discovery of Israel's copious gas supplies, at a press conference in his Jerusalem ...
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IDF major gets 13-year sentence for selling drugs
A former IDF major was sentenced on Wednesday to 13 years in prison, for selling hundreds of kilos of heroin and hashish that his unit seized from smugglers on the Sinai border.Eran Kabalo, a 33-year-old father of two, was convicted by the Southern District Military Court of conspiracy to commit a crime, dealing dangerous controlled substances, fraud and breach of ...
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Michigan Governor hopes Waze will reroute to his state
recently purchased Israeli firm Waze to the US, why not to the search company's R&D facility in the state instead of its headquarters in Silicon Valley? That is a question Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder asked this week on a visit to GPS-based navigational app company Waze's headquarters in Ra'anana that he described as one of the highlights of his nine-day trade mission to ...
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The world’s preferred refugees
For millions of refugees, World Refugee Day is a day like any other. From Mali to South Sudan and from Myanmar to Haiti, countless men, women and children will once again awaken today to an uncertain future.They are aided in their perilous journey by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which works with governments to advocate and seek asylum for all refugees. That is, ...
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Media Comment The media and their icons
Media outlets report the news. They also serve as a platform for public debate and the exchange of views. Many critics see the media as also managing the news and setting agendas."The news" then morphs from being a collection of facts into an opinion-driven manipulation of events. A reporter and his/her editor, if biased, can alter reality.The academic literature has long ...
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What Really Happened to TWA Flight 800
A documentary on the 1996 explosion that brought down TWA Flight 800 offers "solid proof that there was an external detonation," its co-producer ...
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Israeli Consul General Responds to Authors Boycott Calls
Alice Walker’ s overt calls to boycott the Jewish state, noting that there is a "strange twist" is her efforts to undermine freedom and pluralism. In an open letter to Walker published Wednesday in ...
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Lebanese Suspects Re-arrested Over Hezbollah Arms
By Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A criminal charge slammed against four Lebanese arrested in connection with an illegal arms cache discovered in Kano, Northern Nigeria, was on Wednesday struck out by Chief Magistrate Muyiwa Oyeyepo of Karu Magistrate Court in Abuja. The Department of State Security, SSS, had filed the charge on 5 June following the arrest of the Lebanese in connection with the unlawful ...
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Right-wing MKs slam pretentious Peres birthday celebration
star-studded birthday party thrown in honor of his 90th birthday party.Knesset members on the Right called the 11 million shekel event a waste of money, even though it was funded by contributions and not ...
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Encountering Peace Decision-making time
Naftali Bennett's "the idea of a Palestinian state has come to a dead end," if true, should be restated as "the idea of the Zionist movement has come to a dead end." That is the only logical conclusion of the ideology of Bennett and his followers. If the idea of the partitioning of the land between the river and sea into a "Jewish state and an Arab state" ...
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Washington Watch Iranian elections worry Netanyahu
Binyamin Netanyahu is a worried man. The results of the Iranian presidential election were a deep disappointment, judging by his rhetoric lately. He's afraid that partners in the no-nukes-for- Iran coalition might be seduced by descriptions of President-elect Hassan Rohani as a moderate.He is reminding everyone that "moderate" is a relative term when it comes to describing ...
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Almost there King David’s Crown Residences Jerusalem
Few building sites in Jerusalem, if any, can match the size and location of this one. Situated on the site of the former Beitar Jerusalem football field formerly owned by the YMCA, this is a prime location in an historic area, in close proximity to the King David and David's Citadel hotels, the Mamilla quarter and the Old City, not to mention excellent access to the center of town.You ...
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Why is the UK media scared to name names
While the rest of the world media, not to mention the Internet, is awash with rumours of the identities of two people at the center of British politics who allegedly had an affair, the British media itself, even its famously fearless tabloids, has hardly spoken of the matter.So while Israeli radio listeners hear speculation about London Mayor Boris Johnson and the prime minister's wife, ...
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If negotiations are out the UN will be in
When US Secretary of State John Kerry first tackled the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in late March, he made a serious request of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas: In order to give talks a chance, pledge to temporarily refrain from bringing Israel before the International Criminal Court or taking unilateral actions at the UN. By early April, reports surfaced that Abbas had ...
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North Korea Ruler Distributes Hitlers Mein Kampf
North Korean ruler Kim Jong-Un has reportedly given copies of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" to his top officials on the occasion of his birthday celebration last January, urging them to study it as a leadership skills manual, according to a report ...
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Hezbollah fights rebels near Damascus NGO
BEIRUT--Fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah joined Syrian troops battling rebels near Damascus on Wednesday, monitors said, as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime kept up a push to cut off the insurgents' supply ...
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Feds 2 upstate NY men tried to make X-ray weapon so they could secretly harm Israel foes
ALBANY, N.Y. - Federal authorities on Wednesday accused two upstate New York men of assembling a portable X-ray weapon that they intended to use to secretly sicken opponents of Israel. Prosecutors said 49-year-old Glendon Scott Crawford and 54-year-old Eric J. Feight have been charged with conspiracy to provide support to terrorists following a yearlong undercover investigation. Investigators ...
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Lapid criticizes ally Bennett on Palestinian state
Finance Minister Yair Lapid issued rare criticism of his ally, Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday when he said that Israel should make every effort to bring about two states for two peoples.Bennett made waves when he declared ...
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Dagan Arab peace proposal a starting point
Meir Dagan, the former head of the Mossad, said that Israel first needs to make peace with the rest of the Arab world before the Palestinians. He said that the Arab world was in open conflict between Sunnis and Shi'ites and that this is "creating unique opportunities for Israel to seek different alliances." He noted that Israel has common interests with much of the Sunni Arab ...
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Interview with a vampire
With Turkey embroiled in month-long anti-government protests, Istanbul resident Peter Murphy has only been able to watch the events in Taksim Square unfold from afar.The British-born Goth rock pioneer who founded '80s post-punk favorites Bauhaus has been on the road in the US throughout the uprising, and has been forced to rely on information from his family and friends back in ...
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Peres confers Medal of Distinction on Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton the 42nd President of the United States of America is known to be an emotional human being. He has been the recipient of numerous accolades both at home and abroad, but he does not take his arsenal of honors for granted. Thus when President Shimon Peres conferred the Presidential Medal of Distinction on him on Wednesday in recognition for he has done for humanity at ...
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The Kosovo case Punishing friends rewarding enemies
The monument is of the most perfect simplicity. A plain, upright marble slab.In Albanian, Serbian, Hebrew and English it records the site as the ground where the last synagogue in Pristina stood. In Kosovo, the Jewish presence is small, but has been constant since the fateful day in 1492 when the Catholic monarchs of Spain ordered the expulsion of Jews. Many settled in the Balkans, living ...
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Kerry Makes Fifth Visit to Israel
US Secretary of State John Kerry leaves Friday on a 12-day trip during which he will return to the Middle East, hold high-level talks in Southeast Asia and make his first visit to India. At the start of his seven-nation tour, Kerry will head first for Doha to meet with top Qatari leaders and take part in a meeting of the core ministers from the Friends of Syria group, State Department ...
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Arab Israeli village shocked after hate crime
View Photo AFP/Ahmad Gharabli - An Arab Israeli man points to Hebrew graffiti that reads "Arabs out" (L) and "assimliation" (R), a negative reference to Jews and non-Jews mixing, on the wall of a house in the Arab ...
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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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