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Damascus claims it destroyed Israeli military vehicle on joint border
Israeli soldiers of the Golani brigade take part in an exercise near the border with Syria at the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty ...
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Israel Snipes warned to keep budgets lean
The budget outlook is brighter, but it's not time for a taxpayer-funded spending spree, county commissioners told the sheriff and other top county leaders Tuesday.Property tax money has started flowing back in, thanks to rising property values. But county commissioners said they still want to run the kind of lean government they pared down to during the Great Recession. And they said ...
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SF Officials Demand City Donate Money From Anti-Israel Bus Ads
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) – Several San Francisco supervisors want the city transit agency to donate revenue from an anti-Israel bus ad campaign to the city's Human Rights Commission after the agency did the same for an ad campaign that targeted Muslims. The city's Municipal Transportation Agency donated revenue made ...
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Without much effort imagine the world reaction if Jews were in the situation of the Palestinians with them having a large army building a wall of shame and forcing the people to live in ghettos Thus the boycott of Israel is valid and I agree with it
As for the Jewish people, who are always on the lookout for any news that is broadcast on international media whose intent is critical to their behavior on this sensitive issue with Palestine, they deserve to be reprimanded, yes. Without much effort, imagine the world reaction if Jews were in the situation of the Palestinians, with them having a large army, building a wall of shame, and forcing ...
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Israel - Restrictions on movement are biggest hurdle for journalists in Israel Palestine
The International Press Institute (IPI) has called for an end to restrictions on freedom of movement for journalists working in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.In a report released by IPI today, the lack of free movement for journalists emerges as the single greatest challenge to local reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Most Palestinian journalists are unable to enter Israel, and are ...
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Netanyahu Arrives in China
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began an official visit to China Monday despite tensions back home following the alleged Israeli airstrikes on Syrian weapons storage facilities. Israeli commentators said it was important for Netanyahu to maintain his plans to signal that Israel is continuing its business as usual. Netanyahu did delay his departure slightly Sunday ...
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Britain asks EU to put Hezbollah military on terrorist list
Hezbollah 's military sector a terrorist organization. The request, which is scheduled to be informally discussed at an EU meeting in Brussels Wednesday, and officially taken up on June 4, could open the way for sanctions to curtail Hezbollah activity in Europe if successful, the British newspaper The Financial Times reported Tuesday. Motivated by an investigation that blamed Hezbollah ...
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ExcerptsIsrael says no vehicle destroyed in Golan. Lebanon re
Excerpts:Israel says no vehicle destroyed in Golan. Lebanon re Hezbollah in Syria May 21, 2013 +++SOURCE: The Syria Report 20 ...
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Mourners bid farewell to victim of bank shooting
Several hundred people gathered at the Omer cemetery on Tuesday night to bid farewell to Avner Cohen, the 40-year-old manager of the Bank Hapoalim branch in Beersheba who ...
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IDF soldier killed while clearing Israeli minefield
An IDF soldier was killed while taking part in the clearing of a minefield in the southern Golan Heights.The soldier was of the Engineering Corps. His family has been notified.Ground Forces Commander Maj.-Gen. Guy Tzur appointed a committee of inquiry to investigate the incident.The mine exploded for unknown reasons during an advanced training phase of the Engineering Corps, a senior army ...
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Egyptian army secures Sinai in hunt for Islamists
Rafah near the border with Gaza on Thursday in the latest setback for the Cairo government's efforts to reinstate law and order in the Sinai ...
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US envoy Hussein to combat Holocaust denial
United States Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is to travel to Poland on Wednesday to visit Jewish communities, the site of the former Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and other Holocaust historical ...
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The Synagogue that Nearly Became a Church
This is the story of a Queens, New York synagogue, that found itself in arrears on a large debt to the local bank, which decided to repossess the synagogue building and sell it to the highest bidder. The synagogues congregants were part of the 50,000 strong Bukharian community in Brooklyn. Speaking from New York, Daniel Panhasov said that of all groups found to be interested in buying the ...
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Poll 66 Say Lapid Shouldnt be Prime Minister
Just a few weeks ago he was the most popular politician in Israel, but according to a new poll released Tuesday, two thirds of Israelis do not believe that Yair Lapid has what it takes to lead the country. The poll by the Ma'agar Mohot polling organization said that Lapid's popularity was badly damaged by his ascent to Finance Minister, and his sponsoring of a budget that will see ...
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Video Final Preparations Underway for Belz Wedding in Jerusalem
The Belz Hassidic dynasty and its adherents were decimated by the Holocaust. Their return to a prominent position in the hassidic world, with tens of thousands of hassidim, close-knit communities, a school system, synagogues and study halls, including a landmark synagogue in Jerusalem, is a miracle that the hassidim feel merits that each dynastic wedding be a large and unforgettable ...
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Video Gunman storms Israeli bank killing four
A gunman storms into a bank in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on Monday, killing four people and taking a hostage before killing himself, police ...
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Syrian and Israeli forces exchange fire over the Golan Heights as conflict spreads
Syrian and Israeli forces exchanged fire over the Golan Heights on Tuesday and the Lebanese militant group Hizbollah sent more reinforcements to help the Assad regime attack a key border town as the conflict spilled further to the country's ...
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Eleven Palestinians have died under PA Hamas detention
Eleven Palestinians have died in Palestinian Authority and Hamas detention centers during 2012, according to a report released Tuesday by the Palestinian Independent Commission For Human Rights [ICHR].Two of the Palestinians died in PA detention centers in the West Bank, while the nine others died in Hamas custody in the Gaza Strip. Seven of the Palestinians who died in detention had been ...
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In my own write Right to die
If I could in any way help to change this law [against assisted suicide], it would let me die a proud man, a very proud man - Briton Paul Lamb, left almost totally paralyzed after a car ...
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Report Top politicians banned from Iranian election
DUBAI - Iranian authorities have barred two prominent politicians from running for president, Iranian media reported on Tuesday, leaving the June 14 election to be contested between mostly hardline conservatives loyal to the country's supreme leader.Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, a close aide to president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, failed to make it ...
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From the media’s ‘gotcha’ grip to Zionist fulfillment
Jerusalem Post item this Sunday, sandwiched between sobering Syria updates, was "Israeli restaurateur goes viral with online meltdown."These sideshows reveal a political culture corrupted by media demagoguery and celebrity worship.Naturally, when word leaks out about prime ministerial predilections for designer ice cream, flying beds and fancy threads, cynics delight and moralists ...
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Chabad Issues Oklahoma Relief Appeal to Jews Worldwide
The Chabad Center of Oklahoma City has issued an appeal to the worldwide Jewish community to contribute "as generously as possible" to their preferred relief organizations. "The situation is heart wrenching, to be so close to such devastation yet so distant in circumstance. However, to witness the tremendous outpour of support is comforting and heartwarming," writes Rabbi ...
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IDF Soldier Killed in Training Accident
An IDF soldier was killed Tuesday night in a training exercise when a mine he was handling exploded. The soldier was undergoing training in a battlefield unit, removing mines in a field. The mine exploded, and the soldier later died from his injuries. The soldier's family has been informed. There is no word yet on funeral arrangements. An investigative panel has been formed in the ...
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Europe Parliament Head Says Counting Jews Line a Misquote
President of the European Parliament Martin Schultz has demanded that a Belgian newspaper issue a clarification for reportedly misquoting him as saying that "Hungary wants to count the Jews." "Referring to your article in the 16 May edition where Martin Schulz is quoted as saying that ‘in Hungary they are counting the Jews’ I would like to strongly clarify that this ...
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Airline Mulls Israel-Poland Link For Auschwitz School Trips
Low-cost European airline Ryanair is looking at introducing flights between Israel and Poland to cater for Israeli schoolchildren visiting the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. "It seems that every Israeli child has to go to Poland to go and see Auschwitz. We can help them with that," said the carrier's deputy chief executive, Howard Millar, according to ...
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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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