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Player Barred Over Being Covered Head to Toe in Nazi Tattoos
Reuters A Hungarian martial arts fighter was banned from participating in a tournament in Prague, after coming under fire for being "covered from head to toe in Nazi tattoos." Marital Arts artist Attila Petrovszki was reportedly disinvited from the May 17 event after organizers of the show found themselves immersed in a wave of controversy. According ...
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North Korea Launches Fourth Short Range Missile Test
Reuters North Korea on Sunday launched its fourth short-range projectile into waters off its east coast, marking the latest provocation from Pyongyang. South Korean officials had called the weapons tested "short-range guided missiles." On Sunday, they began referring to what was launched over the last two days as "projectiles," saying they may have included not only ...
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Israel’s ‘illegal’ military entry permit bars selected tourists from West Bank - report
Tourism Many tourists hoping to visit the West Bank are finding it impossible to do so - because Israel requires certain visitors to have an entry permit. Obtaining permission is anything but easy, because Tel Aviv doesn't explain the process, Haaretz reported. The requirement for military entry permits reportedly began at the beginning of 2013. However, not everyone is required to ...
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Key Israeli leader calls for interim peace deal with Palestinians
File - In this Jan.16, 2013 file photo, Yair Lapid, popular former TV anchorman and head of the new centrist party Yesh Atid, poses for a portrait at his house during an interview for the Associated Press, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Lapid, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s senior coalition partner, said in a published interview Sunday, May 19, 2013, that reaching a final peace agreement with ...
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In Israel a modern wall is halted by ancient terraces
Israel's high court has issued an injunction against extending the separation barrier through the Palestinian village of Batir, famed for its 2,500-year-old terraces and ...
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Israel denies its forces killed Palestinian boy
JERUSALEM // Israel has completed an investigation into a decade-old French TV report that claimed Israeli forces killed a Palestinian boy in a gunbattle with Palestinian militants, saying the video was misleading and unfairly blamed Israel. France 2's images from September 2000, days after a Palestinian uprising erupted, allegedly showed the death of Mohammed Al Dura, cowering with his ...
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Poverty in Israel – and the PM’s expenses
Think About It: OECD figures published last week indicate that among the 34 members of the organization, the rate of poverty in Israel is the ...
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Meuhedet’s 4000 staffers to go on warning strike
Some 4,000 staff members of the third-largest health fund - Meuhedet - will hold a one-day warning strike on Monday.The dispute involves what the workers claim is foot-dragging in negotiations over the last 18 months on reaching a new collective ...
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Peres Teach the very young respect for the elderly
The Jerusalem Post to ask President Shimon Peres - a very active almost 90, about how to solve the problem.Peres said that it was a matter of education from the earliest possible age. Children have to be educated to respect human dignity, he ...
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The Region Where does Israel’s greatest threat lie
There is a passionate, but somewhat academic debate over the following issue: Which is the greater threat, the Sunni Islamists (Egypt, Tunisia, Gaza Strip and perhaps soon to be Syria) or the Shia Islamists (Iran, Lebanon, Syria at the moment)? My answer would be the Iran-led Shia bloc. But with two reservations: the margin isn't that big, and it also depends on the specific place and ...
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Gay rights are human rights
The invitation was so unexpected, and email scams are becoming so sophisticated, that I was sure this was one of the latter: "The Ambassador of the United States of Americaa reception in honor of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Community in Israel."Well really! How stupid did the sender think I was? Except that it wasn't a scam, and the US ambassador to ...
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Muslim Clerics to Visit Auschwitz in Anti-Genocide Program
Fourteen Muslim clerics from around the world will visit the former Nazi German Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland next week as part of a Holocaust awareness and anti-genocide program, organizers said Friday. "This is an opportunity for imams who are influential in their communities to look at the Holocaust first hand and to go to Auschwitz, to see what that kind of hatred led ...
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Video Shows Shooting of Rabbi Mertzbach
has aired security video footage showing an IDF soldier mistakenly firing at Rabbi Dan Mertzbach's car 18 months ago, fatally injuring him. The tragic event took place in the early morning hours of November 11, 2011. IDF soldiers in the south Hevron area were placed on alert and told to watch out for a Skoda-type car and stop it. The video shows the soldiers setting up a roadblock but the ...
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AFSI Sen. Grassleys Hitler Reference is Spot On
Sen. Chuck Grassley's tweet reference to Hitler's 1939 invasion of Poland, as part of statement that the US currently lacks a foreign policy, is "spot on," says Mark Langfan, Chairman of Americans for a Safe Israel ...
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Hezbollah takes fight to rebels as Syria’s war spills into Lebanon
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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Comptroller set to probe PMs financial issues
financial controversies surrounding Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu from "Bibi-tours" to the general jump in expenses to "bed-gate," said his spokesman on Sunday.Reportedly, Shapira is asking Netanyahu's office for various clarifications regarding the allegations, though Shapira's spokesman downplayed the possibility of any immediate major ...
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Israel must protect its Beduin citizens
One day each summer, my childhood camp was magically transformed into a mini-Israel for "Yom Yisrael," Israel Day. My favorite part of Yom Yisrael was the Beduin tent. There was something mysterious and astonishing about the characters who served us sweet, strong coffee and welcomed us to sit with them on the tent's floor. I was taught that the Beduin were part of the very ...
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Reality Check Israel’s modern-day royal family
It's a shame Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spent the flight to London for Margaret Thatcher's funeral asleep on the double bed that cost the taxpayer an extra half-a-million shekels. He could have used the flight time more profitably by reading up on a how a truly great conservative leader regarded the use of taxpayers' money for prime ministerial personal comforts.Soon ...
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Health minister attacks dental health protection
Fluoridation of community water supplies is under attack by the new health minister, despite its success in Israel in reducing dental caries in ...
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Panel Muhammad Al-Dura May be Alive
A government investigative committee that was set up to determine the truth of allegations that IDF soldiers killed 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura during the "Second Intifada" have determined that not only were the allegations – and a report by French television purporting to show IDF soldiers shooting and killing the boy – a lie, but that the al-Dura may not even be dead. ...
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Arabs Deface Tomb of Shimon Ben Yaakov
Arab vandals defaced the tomb of Shimon Ben Yaakov – believed to be the burial place of the father of one of the 12 tribes of Israel. While the tomb – located near Kibbutz Eyal, just off Route 6 – is not one of the most popular tombs of forefathers, it is frequented on a more or less daily basis by Jews. Those who came there in recent days found that the tomb has been ...
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Meretz chair Lapid not worthy of being finance minister
Meretz leader MK Zahava Gal-On told "Globes TV" that Yair Lapid is not keeping the promises that he made to the public but is implementing the policies of the finance ministry ...
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Israel acts to deny Hezbollah arms says PM Netanyahu
Israel is "acting" to prevent weapons from Syria from reaching Lebanon's Hezbollah and will continue to do so, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on ...
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US robots Israeli drones to help make 2014 World Cup in Brazil one of safest sporting events ever
World Cup 2014 Brazil has added 30 US military robots to the Israeli drones and 'Robocop-style' glasses with face recognition cameras to its arsenal after the country allocated $900 million to make 2014 World Cup "one of the most protected sports events in history." The 30 PackBot 510 units, which usually cost between $100,000 and $200,000 apiece, will arrive in Brazil as ...
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Hezbollah steps up Syria battle Israel threatens more strikes
AMMAN (Reuters) - Lebanese Hezbollah militants attacked a Syrian rebel-held town alongside Syrian troops on Sunday and Israel threatened more attacks on Syria to rein the militia in, highlighting the risks of a wider regional conflict if planned peace talks ...
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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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