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Appointment of Hershkowitz as Bar Ilan President Approved
the appointment of former Science and Technology Minister Rabbi Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz as president of the university. The appointment will take effect next year. Hershkowitz will replace Prof. Moshe Kaveh, who has served as president of the university for the past 18 years. A senior lecturer at Bar Ilan welcomed the appointment, ...
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Syria’s Idriss warns Lebanon to restrain Hezbollah
Supporters of Hezbollah and relatives of Hasan Faisal Sheker, an 18-year-old Hezbollah member, carry the coffin during his funeral in Nabi Sheet near Baalbeck May 20, 2013. ...
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Hezbollah role in Syria grows more prominent
Hezbollah fighters in their military uniform, foreground, carry the coffin of Hezbollah fighter Hassan Faisal Shuker, 18, who was killed in a battle against Syrian rebels in the Syrian town of Qusair, during his funeral procession in his hometown of Nabi Sheet in the eastern Bekaa valley, Lebanon, Monday May 20, 2013. (AP ...
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The Lede Complete Text of Israel’s Report on the Muhammad al-Dura Video
A frame from a video shot in Gaza in September 2000 showed Jamal al-Dura attempting to shield his son Muhammad, 12, during a gun battle between Israelis and Palestinians. As my ...
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Hezbollah guerrillas step up for Syria’s Assad lose 30 in fighting
Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas have fought their biggest battle yet for Syria's beleaguered president, prompting international alarm that the civil war may spread and an urgent call for restraint from the United ...
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Ten Years After US Invades Iraq Israel Eager to Take the US Into Round Two
Ten years after the US invaded Iraq in 2003, another Middle East war looms large between the West and Muslim states. Signs point to the strong possibility that Israel, and its US Zionist supporters, remain determined, first, to draw the US into the Syrian Civil War, and second, to lead Israel in a joint attack against Iran. All from the skies, of course. Boots on the ground have not served ...
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2 ultra-Orthodox soldiers attacked in Mea Shearim
Police said dozens of ultra-Orthodox men assaulted two haredi IDF soldiers in Jerusalem's Mea She'arim neighborhood Sunday night, resulting in the hospitalization of both victims."There were two male soldiers in uniform walking in the neighborhood and all of a sudden there were calls from people around the area to rough them up," said Police Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld on ...
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Kfir battalion leaves W. Bank for Lebanon border
A battalion from the IDF's Kfir infantry brigade has departed the West Bank to take up new positions along the Lebanese border shortly.The move is part of a planned reshuffle of infantry forces, and points to the IDF's growing reliance on a brigade that was originally set up to operate only in the West ...
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Ctee IDF must strike balance for haredim women
Haredim must serve in units that allow them to maintain their lifestyle but without violating the rights of women in the IDF, Ministerial Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women chairwoman Limor Livnat said Monday.The Likud Beytenu MK participated in a committee meeting on the expected effects of haredi enlistment on ...
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Israel Land Fund rejects compromise over land dispute
The Israel Land Fund rejected a compromise from the High Court of Justice on Monday to resolve an appeal of a 2012 district court decision to evict an east Jerusalem Arab family from Beit Merivah in Sheikh Jarrah.The seemingly simple ownership lawsuit for the Shamasna family, filed in 2009, is one of the frontline battles between groups of Palestinians and Jews over the future character and ...
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NGO watchdog flags ‘inconsistencies’ to Congress
NGO Monitor report meant to inform US lawmakers of recent grants bestowed to Palestinian organizations by the National Endowment for Democracy and ...
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Obama Voices Concern Over Hizbullah Involvement in Syria
U.S. President Barack Obama told Lebanese President Michel Suleiman on Monday that he was concerned about the involvement of Lebanese Hizbullah terrorists in the fight in Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad. According to the White House, Obama and Suleiman spoke by telephone after about 30 Hizbullah terrorists, ...
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Hezbollah ups the ante helps rout Syrian rebels near Lebanons border
Members of Lebanon's Hezbollah carry the coffin of their comrade Fadi Mohammed al-Jazzar during his funeral in southern Beirut on May 20, 2013. At least 23 members of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have been killed fighting alongside regime troops in the Syrian town of Qusayr, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. (STR/AFP/Getty ...
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Hezbollah suffer 28 losses in Syrian violence
Members of Lebanon's Hezbollah carry the coffin of Fadi Mohammed al-Jazzar during his funeral in southern Beirut on Monday. AFP Photo 28 Hezbollah fighters and an estimated 20 Syrian Army members have been killed during clashes in the Syrian town of Qusair on Monday, Reuters ...
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Israel questions Gaza boy’s death
The father of Muhammad el-Dura, a Palestinian child killed in Gaza in 2000 during an exchange of fire between Israeli troops and Palestinian police, says he is willing to exhume his son's body to refute Israeli claims that he was not shot by ...
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Man Linked by U.S. to Hezbollah Is Arrested in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO -- The Brazilian police have arrested a businessman listed by the United States as a member of Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese militant group, under suspicion of operating a fraudulent scheme in the clothing industry -- a far cry from the arms, drugs, explosives and counterfeit bills that American officials have suspected him of trafficking in during the ...
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Father of shot Gaza boy disputes Israel report
The father of a Palestinian boy shot dead in Gaza in 2000 said Monday he was willing to have his son exhumed to disprove an Israeli report denying he was killed by Israeli ...
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Steinitz Al-Dura probe will spur honest Israel coverage
revelations in the al-Dura case will discourage the foreign press from forging stories about Israel in the future, Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday."Even if we should have looked into the incident long ago, it was important to finish the investigation so that it would deter international media organizations that ...
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Kuperwaser defends gov’t findings on al-Dura’s death
government report published Sunday that claimed that IDF fire did not kill or injure Muhammad al-Dura in 2000, the report's main author, Strategic Affairs Ministry director-general Brig.-Gen. (res) Yossi Kuperwaser, defended its findings on Monday.The 12-year-old al-Dura was allegedly killed, and his father Jamal injured, by IDF fire during the second intifada as he crouched behind his ...
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Rahat mayor seeks media apology for false report
mass murder in Beersheba on Monday to two residents of the city, and are asking for a public apology, Rahat Mayor Faiz Abu-Seheban said Monday."There is a lot of anger in the city because they blamed the city of Rahat and its residents for this despicable act that we condemn ...
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Lapid clarifies stance after NY Times interview
Yesh Atid favors an immediate return to peace talks toward a two-state solution, Finance Minister Yair Lapid clarified Monday.Lapid set off waves of opposition within his party and others, after saying settlement construction should not be frozen ahead of peace talks and Jerusalem will not be ...
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Analysis Words vs. pictures in al-Dura affair
Al-Dura says he is willing to exhume son's body After the piece - which showed favorable footage of Reagan over negative commentary - aired, Stahl did indeed receive a call from White House advisor Dick Darman. But he called to praise, not berate, her."Way to go, kiddo. What a great piece. We love it," he told the correspondent.Stahl, confused because her piece was highly ...
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EU Denies it is Postponing Labelling of Settlement Products
newspaper reported that the EU had delayed labelling the products to the end of June at the request of the United States. "Contrary to what was recently reported in the Israeli media, work on the effective enforcement of EU legislation with regard to the labelling of settlement products has not been delayed. Nor has the EU been asked to postpone such work," a statement said, according ...
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Concern over Hezbollahs growing role in Syria after fierce fighting in al-Quasir
Mourners carry the coffin of 18-year-old Hezbollah member Hasan Faisal Sheker after the fiercest fighting this year in the rebel stronghold of ...
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Israel and Palestine Consequences of Deterrence
"Deterrence has to be maintained," said Gabi Siboni, a colonel for strategic affairs at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. "It was only a question of time until this moment arrived." It seems the Palestinians are of like mind. As things stand, this latest round of conflict between Israel and the Palestinians was probably inevitable. Escalation and ...
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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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