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Deri Defends Comments ‘Evildoer’ Doesn’t Mean Bad
) and compared his potential selection as Chief Rabbi to putting an idol in the Temple. According to Deri, it was not a personal insult. "Someone who is an evildoer isn’t necessarily a bad person," he said. Rabbi Yosef was ...
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Cisco opens innovation center with Pelephone
Pelephone Communications Ltd. to develop and deploy a radio network topology for handling the surge in demand for mobile Internet services. Cisco said that it will test on Pelephone's live production network the world's first self-optimizing heterogeneous configuration that combines small-cell, Wi-Fi and macro technologies. Cisco said that its self-optimizing network (SON) software, ...
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Israel hit by Grad rocket today
Occupied Jerusalem: June 19 -- (BNA)-- "Radio Israel" reported that one (Grad) rocket hit this morning near Ashkelon city. The Israeli radio station said that the source of the rocket was from Gaza Strip and that no human causalities or property damage were reported so far. The Hebrew Radio pointed out that two rockets were launched however both rockets landed inside Palestinian ...
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Israeli authorities arrest 3 Palestinian youngsters and dismantle the doors of 10 shops in Jenin today
Ramallah: June 19 -- (BNA)-- Israeli occupation forces arrested three Palestinian youngsters from Jenin province at dawn today (Wednesday: 19 June 2013) and dismantled the doors of ten commercial shops in the industrial area. Local security sources quoted by the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) reportedly said that a large number of Israeli occupation forces stormed into Jenin City, abducting ...
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Barbra Streisand echoes Monroes birthday tribute for Shimon Peres
Barbara Streisand sings Israel's national anthem next to Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda, and former US president Bill Clinton at Shimon Peres's 90th birthday gala. Click for full image. Photograph: Jim Hollander/AFP/Getty ...
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Afghanistan suspends security pact talks with U.S. amid Taliban peace process
Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a joint news conference with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen following a security handover ceremony at a military academy outside Kabul June 18, ...
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Israel Reports New Arms Deals
TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Israel has reported a series of arms export deals. The state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries reported a series of newcontracts with unidentified foreign militaries. IAI said the contracts,awarded in 2013, exceeded $100 ...
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Deputy minister Ben-Dahan to stay in IDF corps
Since being elected to the Knesset and appointed deputy minister for religious services, Bayit Yehudi MK Eli Ben-Dahan has had to fight battles on numerous fronts - be it the struggle within his party over which candidate to back for chief rabbi, or the internecine skirmishes that have erupted within the coalition over pieces of contentious legislation.But while clear-cut successes in the ...
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Lost Music of Holocaust Comes Alive Once Again
news agency reports.Nicholas Biniaz-Harris is a young American classical pianist who is more at home performing Bach, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff than the obscure works of Nazi concentration camp inmates. But as the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, the 17-year-old Washingtonian felt a special attachment to the variations on a Polish patriotic theme that Leon Kaczmarek put together in Dachau ...
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Jews Attacked in Jerusalem Say ‘This Will End in Murder’
neighborhood of Israel's capital city. They were driving through Jerusalem's A-Tur neighborhood when their car was were suddenly hit by a barrage of rocks, smashing through the vehicle's windows. The two men stopped to call police, and immediately were set upon by dozens of Arab youth and men who began hitting them mercilessly. The Jews managed to flee to a nearby junction, where ...
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PA Terror Rocket Attack Explodes in Gaza
An early morning attack intended for southern Israel following President Shimon Peres’s birthday bash fizzled with at least one – and possibly two -- of the rockets intended to kill Jewish civilians exploding instead inside Gaza. A total ...
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Teva to disclose senior executive pay
TEVA ) will disclose senior executive pay in its 2013 financial report, the company announced today. Last January, "Globes" revealed that Teva was exploiting the dual listing law to switch to reporting under US law, filing financial reports and statements as a foreign company listed on Wall Street, rather than as an Israeli company listed on the TASE. As a consequence, Teva stopped ...
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Protalix signs $280m Brazilian Gaucher deal
PLX ) announced today that it has entered into a supply and technology transfer agreement with Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), an arm of Brazil's health ministry, for its Gaucher treatment Uplyso. The seven year technology transfer deal is worth at least $40 million annually for a total of $280 million, the company said. The agreement may be extended for an additional ...
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Lebanese March 14 coalition call for Hezbollahs Syria withdrawal
The March 14 coalition called Tuesday for an immediate withdrawal of Hezbollah from the fighting in Syria and the deployment of the Lebanese Army along the tense border to prevent recurrent attacks on Lebanon.In a memorandum delivered to President Michel Sleiman, the coalition also called for ...
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Israel celebrates 90 years of Shimon Peres
Celebrations have been taking place to mark the 90th birthday of Israel’s President Shimon Peres, although his real birthday is on August 2. Some 3,000 guests ...
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Syria peace talks delayed after Putin unyielding
Syrian peace talks will be delayed after Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to boycott talks that assume President Bashar Assad will resign, officials said. The international peace conference in Geneva, Switzerland, proposed by Washington and Moscow six weeks ago to be held as soon as May is now likely to be delayed until September, a Western official told several news organizations after ...
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As Europe Debates Hezbollah Question Burgas Probe Called into Question
JTA On a continent led by Western capitals with diminishing sympathy for Israel's problems, Jerusalem has come to rely on Eastern European allies in its drive to have Hezbollah placed on the European Union's list of terrorist organizations.In February, Israel seemed to score a breakthrough on this front when the Bulgarian government implicated the Lebanese group in a deadly bus ...
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Palestinians launch rockets toward South shattering calm
"Code Red" warning sirens sounded in Ashkelon and surrounding areas early Wednesday morning, an IDF spokesperson confirmed.Shortly after the sirens went off, three rockets fell in open areas, landing in Palestinian areas, Israel Radio ...
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Rohani Iran nuclear work never meant to be exposed
UNITED NATIONS - Years before he became Iran's president-elect, Hassan Rohani spoke approvingly about concealing his nation's nuclear program and said that when Pakistan got atomic bombs and Brazil began enriching uranium, "the world started to work with them." The comments offer an intriguing window into the past thinking of Rohani, widely seen as a moderate or ...
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Woman Sets Medical History Twice in Birth without Cervix
Four years ago, after many prayers and medical treatments, Leah Gal-Ad made Israeli medical history by being the first woman in Israel to carry a pregnancy to term and to give birth without a cervix. This week saw her set a surprising second record, as Leah gave birth to her second daughter, setting a medical record for the first second birth in Israel to a woman with no cervix. Leah was ...
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Demographer 62 Jewish is Not Enough
Israel cannot annex Judea and Samaria (Shomron) and remain a viable state, demographer Professor Sergio Della Pergola warned in a recent interview ...
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Gas export decision imminent
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Energy and Water Resources Silvan Shalom, Minister of Finance Yair Lapid and Governor of the Bank of Israel Prof. Stanley Fischer will meet today to decide on the recommendations they will put forward on natural gas exports, sources inform "Globes." The four men will draft a decision that will be submitted to the cabinet on Sunday for ...
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Rockets fired from Gaza hit Israeli coast
Three grad rockets fired from the Gaza Strip hit the Israeli coastal town of Ashkelon this morning, according to media reports, the first time missiles from the Palestinian enclave have hit Israel for nearly two ...
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Israeli president Shimon Peres 90 says he expects peace with Palestinians within his lifetime
Weeks away from his 90th birthday, Israel's president Shimon Peres, has said that he expects to see peace with the Palestinians within his ...
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Presidential Conference 2013 ready to kick off Day Two
The most festive aspect of this year's "Facing Tomorrow" conference - the fifth in the Presidential Conference series - was the celebration of President Shimon Peres's 90th birthday on Tuesday night at the Jerusalem International Convention Center. In attendance were past and present world leaders, international scholars, social activists, poets, scientists, artists, ...
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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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