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World Brief | Middle East Gunman Kills Four in Bank in Southern Israel
An unemployed former security guard shot and killed four people in a bank in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on Monday hours after the bank had refused his request for financial assistance, the police said. The gunman committed suicide after holing up in the bathroom of the bank with a female hostage for about an hour. The hostage escaped unharmed. The gunman, who lived nearby, had ...
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Obama voices concern to Lebanon on Hezbollah role in Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama told his Lebanese counterpart on Monday he was concerned about Lebanese Hezbollah militants fighting in Syria to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the White House ...
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5 Dead in Bank Robbery in Israel Man Commits Suicide as Police Raid Building
Three women and two men were left dead after a botched bank robbery in Israel's southern city of Beersheba. The robbery occurred around noontime at Bank Hapoalim, according to reports. An additional three people were also injured.Investigators are still unclear about the number of robbers involved in the crime. One of the bank robbers, who had taken a female hostage, turned the gun on ...
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Israel contests France TV over Palestinian boys death
29/03/2013 19:15 CET Israel says there is new evidence that a French television report whose harrowing images helped inspire the second Palestinian uprising was unfounded. The report in 2000 showed a father and son in Gaza caught up in Israeli-Palestinian crossfire. The 12-year-old was later pronounced dead – hit, said France 2, by Israeli troops. Nearly 13 years later, the Israeli ...
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Hezbollah’s death toll 28 largest in a single Syrian battle
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Fighting raged for the second day on Monday in the strategic Syrian city of Qusayr, as government forces, backed by Shiite fighters from the Lebanese militant group ...
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Iran Russia Hezbollah Top Backers in Syrian Regimes Success
The protracted fighting in Syria is not happening within a bubble, amid reports of clandestine support for the Bashar al Assad regime from Hezbollah, Iran and Russia, and an ongoing effort to establish an international peace ...
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Saudi princes may face UK court over claim they laundered money for Hizbollah
LONDON // Two Saudi princes will hear this week if they are successful in extricating themselves from answering to accusations in a UK court case linking them, and companies in which they are shareholders, with money laundering for Hizbollah and smuggling gems out of Africa. The challenge is the latest development in a case brought by Global Torch, a company linked to the two princes, in 2011 ...
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Dozens of Hizbollah members killed in Syria activists say
BEIRUT // Fierce street fighting in Qusayr has killed at least 28 members of Lebanon's militant Hizbollah group, activists said yesterday, as Syrian government forces pushed to retake the strategic, opposition-held town near the Lebanese border. More than 70 Hizbollah fighters had been wounded in the fighting around the town, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. If ...
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Gunman storms bank in Israeli city kills 4 people then self after hostage standoff
An Israeli policeman stands guard at the scene of a shooting at a Bank Hapoalim branch in the southern city of Beersheba on May 20, 2013. (AMIR ...
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Mass murder shocks Beersheba neighborhood
Remo Vaknin says he's lucky to be alive. Grabbing a cigarette outside of Beersheba's Soroka Hospital on Monday afternoon, Vaknin described how he was standing in the Neve Zeev neighborhood Bank Hapoalim branch when ...
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Palestinian tragic film takes Cannes by storm
CANNES - A tragic love story between two Palestinians living under Israeli occupation received a standing ovation at the Cannes film festival on Monday and broke new ground as the first film fully funded by the Palestinian cinema industry."Omar" by director Hany Abu-Assad, known for the 2005 award-winning film "Paradise Now", is a political thriller interwoven with a story of ...
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Qatar Arab Spring makes peace more pressing
thrown his state's riches behind Arab uprisings, said on Monday that the emergence of 'people power' had put Arabs in direct confrontation with Israel and made a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict more pressing."We heard in the past that reform (in the Arab world) must wait until a peaceful settlement with Israel is achieved, but everybody should realise that ...
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Dershowitz to PM Watch ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’
Comedian Larry David has been called a lot of things over the course of his long and successful career, but we're pretty sure "peace maker" has never been one of them. Until now. Well, almost sort of, anyway.Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has sent an episode of David's HBO show "Curb Your Enthusiasm" to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, in hopes that he ...
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Unifying Jews at the Western Wall
It is deeply painful to see ideological differences in Jewish modesty laws lead to violence and bigotry against women prayer groups at the Kotel. Intolerance is counterproductive to preserving one's views, and of course contradicts the Jewish traditions rich history of diversity.Even though some respected haredi (ultra- Orthodox) legalists like Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and Rabbi Yosef ...
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The Majlis Shura al-Mujahidin Between Israel and Hamas
A wave of Salafi protest against the ruling Hamas government has swept the Gaza Strip over issues including the treatment of prisoners, corruption, and ...
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Govt UNESCO Lied So Planned Jerusalem Visit Canceled
The government on Monday informed UNESCO, the United Nations organization responsible for educational, scientific, and cultural matters, that a delegation of the organization that planned to visit Jerusalem was not welcome. The UNESCO group will not be given visas to enter the country, the government said. The UNESCO group had planned to come to Jerusalem to catalog religious and cultural ...
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The killing of 12-year-old Mohammed al-Durrah in Gaza became the defining image of the second intifada. Only Israel claims it was all a fake
One of the most evocative and shocking episodes of the second Intifada, the shooting of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy by the Israeli army, was staged. Indeed, Mohammed al-Durrah was not even injured in the incident. Those, at least, are the findings of an investigation by the Israeli government, published today, which has described the case as a "blood libel on the state of ...
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Israeli Occupation Forces Shoot Irish Activist 6 Times 20-5-2013
PlanxtySumoud -- A very unsatisfactory interview with Keith Finnegan of Galway Bay FM radio station: not once did he enquire into the serious situation in the West Bank, instead, his line of questioning is anchored in establishing my bona fides as a card carrying journalist (non existent) and guilt tripping me with the accusatory "why do I put my life in danger," when the elephant in ...
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If Youre in Washington D.C. on May 28th and Think About the Future of Israel....
...Then come to an Atlantic-sponsored discussion at the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue about Israeli democracy, demographics and, also, everything else. The panelists will be Ari Shavit, Israel's leading columnist and the author of the forthcoming "My Promised Land" (which I have read in galleys, and which I guarantee you, you will want to read, too), along with Goldblog. ...
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Four dead in Israeli bank shooting spree
At least four people were killed and several others injured Monday in a possible bank robbery gone wrong in Israel, police said. An hour-long standoff with Beersheba police ended after the suspect released a hostage from inside the bank and then killed himself, Ynetnews.com reported. Survivors said the suspect, identified by police as a 40-year-old resident of Beersheba, did not demand any ...
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Lebanon president denies receiving a warning from Israel
Lebanon President Michel Suleiman denied on Monday receiving a warning from Israel that it would destroy Lebanon in case of a Hezbollah attack on the Jewish state. The denial came after an Israeli website reported that Tel Aviv has sent a warning to Lebanon through the U.S. administration that it would "take Lebanon 50 years backwards" if Hezbollah attacked ...
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Comment A society fraying at the edges
Anyone who's had to deal with the Israeli banking system has probably felt like taking up firearms at some point. Between the exorbitant fees for every little transaction, the long lines, and the general philosophy of "you don't have an alternative, you have to deal with us so we can do whatever the hell we want," Israeli banks are a well-documented horror story that can ...
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Majority of Israeli students work while studying
About 73% of students in the country worked during the 2012-2013 academic year, earning an average monthly wage of NIS 3,230, according to a survey released by the National Union of Israel Students on Sunday, to mark National Student Week.Some 71% of the working students work up to 100 hours each month. about a third of the students - 29% - work over 100 hours a month.In addition, while 10% ...
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IDF Jeep Seen in Syria Video Left Behind in Lebanon Withdrawal
An Arab news outlet on Monday circulated a video purporting to show an IDF jeep that Syrian soldiers claimed to have captured from Syrian rebel groups. The video, said a Syrian government spokesperson, proves that Israel has been working with the rebel groups to remove Bashar al-Assad from power. The Lebanese al-Mayadeen channel said that the jeep had been used by members of the Free Syria ...
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Hezbollah fighters killed in Syrias battle for Qusayr city
At least 23 pro-Assad fighters of the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah have been killed in the battle for the strategically vital Syrian city of ...
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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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