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Criminal Charges Should Be Filed Over Al-Dura Blood LIbel
"Criminal charges should be filed, and Charles Enderlin should never be allowed to practice journalism in Israel again," asserted Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center, in response to a report released Sunday by the Israeli government, which ...
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Arabs Fly Nazi Flag near Hevron
Hundreds of residents of Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem, were astounded Monday morning to see an oversized Nazi flag flying next to a mosque in the Arab town of Beit ...
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Jo Amars Family Well Return to Israel
and voiced their hope that the family would make aliyah to Israel. Born in Settat, Morocco, Amar became one of the greatest Sephardic singers and chazanim (cantors) in recent Jewish history, and a pioneer in the introduction of Moroccan Jewish liturgical music (piyyutim) to ...
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4 Dead in Apparent Bank Heist
Four people have been shot dead and another is injured in the aftermath of what seems to be a bank heist gone awry, in a Bank Hapoalim branch in Be'er Sheva's Neveh Ze'ev community.. Magen David Adom emergency services declared the scene at the bank branch "a multiple victim event." According to testimony from eyewitnesses, there was a gun battle at the bank. There ...
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Haifa Port workers earn average NIS 38000 monthly
ELEC.B22 ), according to the Government Companies Authority's report for 2012, published today, detailing the business condition, assets, and operating results of the 98 government companies and non-profit organizations, which employ 60,000 people. The report states that government companies' aggregate revenue was NIS 67.3 billion in 2012, NIS 4 billion more than in 2011. Revenue from ...
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Haredim raising $100m fund to blunt budget measures
"A Lapid bypass plan," is how haredi (ultra-orthodox) magazine "Mishpacha" terms an initiative in the community "to help the world of the Torah get through the years of distress with a minimum of harm." In today's issue, in an article entitled "Supporting the Torah","Mishpacha" reports that a number of haredi tycoons have been recruited for ...
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Syria civil war Hezbollah takes fight to anti-Assad rebels as they storm rebel-held town of Qusair
Hezbollah launched a major offensive in support of the Assad regime today, with fighters from the Lebanese militant group playing their most significant role yet in Syria's two-year-old civil ...
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Syria fighting kills Hezbollah members near Lebanon
Syrians inspect the rubble of damaged buildings due to government airstrikes, in Qusair, Homs province, Syria. The town has been besieged for weeks by regime troops and pro-government gunmen backed by the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group. (Qusair Lens/Associated ...
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Israeli military says gunfire from Syria has again hit Israeli-controlled Golan Heights
JERUSALEM - The Israeli military says gunfire from Syria has hit the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights overnight. The military said on Monday that the gunfire did not cause any damage or injuries. The military says it believes the fire was accidental. Israel has found itself in a difficult position as clashes from Syria's civil war rage near its frontier with the Golan Heights, a strategic ...
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Vandals spray-paint slogans against liberal Jewish womens prayer group in Israel
JERUSALEM - Israeli police say vandals have spray-panted slogans on the home of one of the leaders of a liberal Jewish women's group that has angered ultra-Orthodox communities over its demands for equality of worship. Israeli TV footage showed black writing on the hallway and door of the Jerusalem home. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Monday police were investigating. The group, ...
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Israel cancels UNESCO mission
ISRAEL on Monday announced it was cancelling a United Nations delegation scheduled to begin an investigative mission in Jerusalem's Old City, due to Palestinian "politicisation" of the mission. "The Palestinians were not respecting the understandings. The visit was supposed to be professional, (but) they were taking measures that showed they were politicising the event and not ...
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UNESCO delegation arrives on rare inspection trip to Jerusalem
WAM JERUSALEM, May 20th, 2013 (WAM) -- A delegation from UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, arrived on Sunday to inspect preservation work in Jerusalem's Old City, as part of a deal whereby Israel would let the delegation tour the Old City, and the Palestinians would postpone five anti-Israel resolutions pending before the body. According to a ...
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Gunfire from Syria hits Israeli-controlled Golan
Israel has found itself in a difficult position as clashes from Syria's civil war rage near its frontier with the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau captured from Syria in the 1967 ...
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Activists Say 23 Hezbollah Militants Killed in Syria Fighting
Citizen journalism image provided by Qusair Lens which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrians inspecting the rubble of damaged buildings due to government airstrikes, in Qusair, Homs province, Syria, May 18, ...
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Israel nixes UNESCO Jlem delegation at last minute
Israel on Monday called off a planned visit by a delegation from UNESCO, the United Nation's cultural organization, to inspect preservation work in Jerusalem's Old City, saying that the Palestinians had "politicized" the delegation."The delegation as a delegation has been postponed," a Foreign Ministry spokesman ...
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Thirty Hezbollah fighters killed in Syrian town
AMMAN - About 30 fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar Assad were killed in heavy fighting with rebels in the town of Qusair, Syrian activists said on Monday.Opposition sources and state media gave sharply differing accounts of the outcome of Sunday's ferocious battles in the town, long used by rebels as a supply ...
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New Protective Suits Advanced GPS to Arm IDF
The IDF Central Command has begun receiving new riot dispersal equipment, including protective suits for soldiers and an advanced GPS system, according to the official blog of the Israel Defense Forces. The new tools are being integrated as part of the IDF’s range of measures for curbing violent riots in Judea and Samaria. Soldiers of the Central Command have already begun using ...
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IDF General Fears Knesset Session with Settler Heads
The Commander of the Judea and Samaria Division, Major General Nitzan Alon, appears to be afraid of a confrontation with heads of Jewish communities, at an upcoming Knesset session to discuss the security situation ...
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Teva Check Point rebound
CHKP ) both rose 4% last week. Both companies had suffered from poor investor sentiment lately. On Friday, Teva's share price crossed the $40 threshold for the first time in five months. The share closed at $40.23, giving a market cap of $34.3 billion. Teva, managed by president and CEO Dr. Jeremy Levin, peaked at over $60 in 2010, but fell to a low of $34 in September 2011. According to ...
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TASE chief Market needs resuscitation
"To be or not to be, that is our situation now, and I use such a terminal expression deliberately. We have a big problem, and the issue of regulation must be addressed - and I have something encouraging to say: the Economic Arrangements bill includes an entire section which deals with the subject. It states that every action by the regulator must also consider economic growth and ...
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Israeli inquiry says film of Muhammad al-Duras death in Gaza was staged
France 2 footage showing Muhammad al-Dura crying beside his father in Gaza in September 2000: the IDF initially claimed it was responsible but later changed its account. Photograph: AFP/Getty ...
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Finance minister says Jerusalem will always be Israeli capital
Jerusalem will always be the capital of Israel, never the capital of a future Palestinian state, Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid said. "Jerusalem is not a place, Jerusalem is an idea. Jerusalem is the capital of the Israeli state," Lapid said in an interview with The New York Times. An interim Palestinian state should be created in the West Bank, with final borders drawn up in ...
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Derogatory graffiti found on house of WoW leader
Degrading graffiti was found sprayed on the Jerusalem house of Women of the Wall member Peggy Cidor Monday morning after the group attempted to pray at the Western Wall, Israeli media reported.The graffiti included remarks such as: "Women of the Wall are despicable," "Tag Torah," "Jerusalem is holy" and personal remarks against Cidor reading: "Peggy you are not ...
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Fierce Fighting Reveals Deeper Hezbollah Involvement in Syrian Civil War
An image released by AP and provided by local residents purports to show the damage sustained in Qusair during a heavy weekend offensive by Syrian and Hezbollah forces. (AP Photo/Qusair Lens) (CNSNews.com) - After months of half-denials and doublespeak, Hezbollah appears now to be openly intervening in Syria's civil war, fighting alongside regime forces amid new signals of defiance from ...
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23 Hezbollah members killed in Syria Report
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that more than 100 Hezbollah members have been wounded in the fighting around the town 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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