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Israeli military chief warns Syrian regime
ALTERNATE CROP -- Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Israel, May 19, 2013. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose air force struck suspected weapons shipments to Hezbollah from Damascus twice this month, warned at a weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday that Israel is prepared for any eventuality in Syria. (AP Photo/Ronen ...
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Syria Warns Israel Violation of its Sovereignty Will See Response
Damascus, May 21 (Prensa Latina) The General Command of Syria's Army and Armed Forces warned today that any violation of national sovereignty by Israel will meet with a response, after a vehicle from that country which illegally crossed the border was destroyed. A communique from the high military command explained that early Tuesday morning an Israeli vehicle with its passengers was ...
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Saudi Arabia blocks access to Jpost.com
Commentator article Ahmed Abdel-Raheem is an Egyptian artist and a PhD student who works as a lecturer at Al-Lith College for Girls, Um Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia, according to his byline on the website of ...
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Jordan refuses entry to thousands of Syrian refugees
AMMAN - Jordan has turned away thousands of Syrian refugees in the past week in the first such clampdown since the crisis in Syria began more than two years ago, diplomats, activists and aid workers said on Tuesday.Jordan, due to host an international conference on Syria on Wednesday, has already taken in 473,587 Syrians out of a total of 1.5 million who have fled the conflict in an exodus that ...
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UK asks EU to place Hezbollah on terror blacklist
BRUSSELS - Britain said on Tuesday it had asked the European Union to put the military wing of Islamist group Hezbollah on its list of terrorist organizations.Britain's request came after Bulgaria accused the Lebanese militant movement on February 5 of carrying out a bomb attack on a bus in the Black Sea city of Burgas that killed five Israelis and their Bulgarian driver in July last ...
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Three killed in Syria-related clashes in Lebanon
TRIPOLI, Lebanon - Three people were killed in further sectarian fighting in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Tuesday, security sources said, raising the death toll from four days of sporadic conflict related to Syria's civil war to nine.Rocket-propelled grenades and heavy gunfire shook Tripoli on Tuesday afternoon. Snipers positioned in apartment blocks made walking through some ...
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Chabad opens shelter for those displaced by tornado
displaced by a deadly tornado .The Chabad Community Center of Southern Oklahoma also is collecting supplies for those left homeless by the tornado that tore through an Oklahoma City suburb on Monday afternoon, leaving at least 24 people dead, including several children, and injuring ...
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Syria’s rebels blame Putin for prolonged fight
Khalid Dayli, a 23-year old fighter with Syria's rebel forces, flicked through the channels on his television, ogling at the scantily clad female singers and dismissing the talents of a Saudi soccer team. But when he reached a news channel reporting on Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to end the Syrian civil war he sneered. "Without Russian support, we could have toppled ...
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Israeli Government Pledges to End Ports Monopoly
The Israeli government is planning to issue a tender to build a privately run seaport in the coming months, pledging to end the monopolies of the two main ports of Ashdod and ...
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Melisron to open Prima business hotel in Raanana
Prima Hotels Ltd. will open the first business hotel in Ra'anana. Melisron bought the rights to the hotel when it bought a property in the city's northern business district from the owners of the Holmes Place fitness chain several years ago. The building has eight office floors above a commercial ground floor and parking garage, and has building rights for ten more floors, zoned for ...
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Ishay Davidi Tax the rich and levy an estate tax
"The calculations are very clear: people who earn more than NIS 40,000 should pay a 5% surtax, and people who earn more than NIS 100,000 should pay a 10% surtax for a set period of two years. This will make it possible to lower the tax rates on lower income-earners, or cut VAT. An estate tax should also be levied. There is no reason why Israel should have this tax," ...
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ADHD co Alcobra to raise $25m on Nasdaq today
Sources inform ''Globes'' that Alcobra Pharmaceuticals Inc., which is developing a treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) will hold its Nasdaq IPO tonight (Israel time) and announce the results tomorrow. Sources said that the company obtained positive feedback during its road show. Just before the road show, the company expanded its prospectus from ...
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eBay launches Israeli developed purchase manager
Stuff , which was developed in Israel, to enable consumers to manage all their purchases on a single site. eBay's Israel Innovation Center, based on its acquisition of The Gifts Project in 2011, developed Stuff as the next thing in proper consumer management. After the user provide authorization, Stuff scans his or her e-mails to locate receipts for past purchases, whether or not they were ...
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Powermat acquires Finlands PowerKiss
Powermat Ltd. has acquired rival PowerKiss of Finland. The company did not disclose the size the deal, but it was probably a few tens of millions of dollars. Powermat was founded in 2006 by CEO Ran Poliakine and Dr. Amir Ben-Shalom. The company makes flat surfaces for recharging electronic devices. Two years ago, it established a joint venture with Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG) subsidiary ...
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Syrian rebels target Hezbollah militia fire into Lebanon
>Read a version of this story in Arabic.(CNN) -- The fighting in Syria has taken another dangerous turn, with rebel rockets targeting Hezbollah locations in Lebanon. Rebels battling for control of Qusayr, a strategically important western town in Syria, fired rockets Sunday across the Lebanese border at the militant group's areas, the rebel Free Syrian Army said. Hezbollah, the pro-regime and ...
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Syrian and Hezbollah Fighters Push Qusayr Assault
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Third exchange of fire over Golan Heights in a week heightens concern at violence on Israel-Syria border
Israeli and Syrian troops exchanged fire across the Golan Heights today, the third time this week that the two sides have clashed across the disputed ...
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Iran acts to expand sensitive nuclear capacity diplomats
VIENNA (Reuters) - A U.N. nuclear agency report due this week is expected to show Iran further increasing its capacity to produce material that its adversaries fear could eventually be put to developing atomic bombs, Western diplomats said on ...
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Syria activists 31 Hezbollah fighters killed in Qusair
BEIRUT Three members of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group died of wounds sustained while fighting for control of a strategic Syrian town near the Lebanese border, activists said Tuesday, as the battle in the area raged for its third straight day. According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the deaths brought the total number of Hezbollah fighters killed since Sunday ...
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Israel Appears to Have More Natural Gas
Operators of two large Israeli natural gas fields said that another offshore field under exploration shows promise. The Karish field, off Israel's northern coast, contains "significant signs of natural gas," according to a statement from Delek Group Ltd., whose subsidiaries also control the large Tamar and Leviathan fields along with U.S.-based Noble Energy Inc. Although it ...
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Growth seen for Israels UAV exports
Israel's unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturers are the world's top UAV exporters, garnering $4.62 billion from 2005-12. A market analysis firm Frost and Sullivan said Britain is Israel's leading customer, with India and Brazil showing strong spending for UAVs from Israeli original equipment manufacturers. "Israeli defense firms rely on exports for the majority of their ...
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Syria says destroys Israeli vehicle on its territory
By Dominic EvansBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria said its troops destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed into its territory from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday and warned that any attempt to violate its sovereignty would meet "immediate and firm retaliation".Israel said the incident took place on its side of Golan ceasefire line and the vehicle was damaged but not destroyed, ...
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Israel Syria clash on Golan Heights cease-fire line
By Albert Aji, The Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria -- Syria said Tuesday it destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed the cease-fire line in the Golan Heights overnight, while the Israeli military said gunfire from Syria had hit an Israeli patrol, damaging a vehicle and prompting its troops to fire back.The two sides appeared to be referring to the same incident.Sporadic fire from Syria's ...
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Beersheba mayor Our whole city is wounded
Thousands turned out Tuesday for the funeral of Anat Even-Haim, one of four people who were gunned down in a shooting attack a day earlier at a bank in the southern city of Beersheba. Bank Hapoalim branch manager Avner Cohen, 44, his assistant manager Meir Zeitoun, 40, and customers Anat Even-Haim, aged 34, and Idan Schnitzer Sabari, 22, were shot dead by 40-year-old local resident Itamar Alon ...
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IDF Shin Bet thwart terror attack kidnapping in W. Bank
Shin Bet reveals that in past two months it nabbed members of two separate Hamas, Islamic Jihad cells that were planning to kill an Israeli and demand the release of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the ...
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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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