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PM to Kerry Lets Get Talks With PA Going
At a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday morning, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said that Israel was very interested in reopening negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. A spokesperson in the Prime Minister's office said that the discussions were "positive," and that Israel had urged Kerry to do what he could to convince the PA to return to the ...
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Contractors head slams proposed purchase tax
"Levying a purchase tax on people moving upmarket isn't a tax; it's a fine," said Israel Builders Association president Nissim Bublil today at the association's annual conference at Herod's Hotel in Eilat. "It's unacceptable that a couple with a new baby and needs another room should have to pay an additional NIS 80,000 in taxes, or someone who moves to ...
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Terra Ventures to donate carried interest to Tmura
Tmura - The Israeli Public Service Venture Fund . The new model will replace the current method in which start-ups donate to Tmura options exercisable in the event of a sale or IPO by the company. Terra co-founder and general partner Dr. Astorre Modena will join Tmura's advisory committee of leading Israeli venture capitalists and high-tech entrepreneurs. Tmura, founded in 2002, is an NGO ...
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Israel government divided on peace issue Livni
Head of Israel's parliamentary opposition Tzipi Livni attends a news conference at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Sebastian ...
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Ideological differences in Israeli govt over settlements stalling peace plan - Livni
The Israeli government cannot reach a consensus over the Palestinian peace process, Israeli Justice Minister, primary negotiator and head of Israel's parliamentary ...
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25 000 guests at Jerusalem wedding
Some 25,000 people gathered to celebrate the wedding of Shalom Rokeach, the grandson of the Chief Rabbi of Belz, Yissachar Dov Rokeach, and his bride, Hannah Batya Penet, in ...
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Kerry begins round of talks with Israel Palestinians
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry began a round of separate talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials on Thursday but acknowledged there was considerable skepticism that the two sides would resume peace ...
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France seeks to brand Hezbollah a ‘terrorist’ group
France is to call for the military arm of Hezbollah to be added to an EU terror blacklist due to its backing of the Syrian regime, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius ...
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Kerry To Meet With Netanyahu Abbas
Secretary of State John Kerry is in the Middle East. He's meeting with Israeli and Palestinians leaders in a new push to revive the moribund peace ...
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PM to Kerry Peace talks top Israels agenda
Reviving peace talks with the Palestinians tops Israel's agenda, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday as they met in Jerusalem at the start of the American diplomat's latest visit to the region."This is something that both you and I want, and I hope also the Palestinian want," Netanyahu said as they posed for the media at the ...
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Israeli restaurateur faces deportation from US
Israeli restaurateur goes viral with online meltdown His lawyer had no comment on how Bouzaglo ended up in immigration court proceedings, but it seems it has something to do with jail time the Moroccan-born Israeli did for drug distribution and extortion charges before his arrival in the US 13 years ...
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Beit Shemesh Family Arrested in Jordan
Eight members of a hareidi family from Beit Shemesh were arrested late Wednesday – in Jordan – after they crossed the border from Israel. A report on Channel Two Thursday morning said that the crossing took place in the area of Nachal Hayoun, in the Arava desert. Israeli officials are negotiating an arrangement to return the family to ...
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Panel Releases Final Recommendations on Hareidi Army Service
The Perry Committee on equal IDF service for all on Thursday filed its recommendations with the government. The recommendations include a series of policy ideas and proposals for changes in legislation, to encourage all segments of the population, including the hareidi Jewish sector, to serve a full or partial service term in the ...
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Azrieli reports flat Q1 revenue
AZRG ) reported flat revenue for the third quarter of 2012. Consolidated revenue was unchanged at NIS 2.25 billion for the first quarter, while revenue from real estate rose to NIS 354.6 million from NIS 343.7 million for the corresponding quarter of 2012. The company reported a net loss of NIS 7.8 million on the fair value of properties for the quarter. Net profit attributable to majority ...
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Mazor Robotics to begin trading on Nasdaq next week
MZOR ) will begin trading on Nasdaq Capital Market next Tuesday. The company will list American Depositary Shares (ADSs), each of which will represent two shares traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE). The ADRs will be traded under the ticker "MZOR". Trading in the ADSs will be through the Bank of New York Mellon. Mazor develops and sells the Renaissance surgical navigation robot ...
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Housing cabinet approves 150000 rental apartments
The housing cabinet unanimously approved the construction of 150,000 rental apartments at its first meeting yesterday. "Lowering housing prices is one of the government's great tests," said Minister of Finance Yair Lapid. "We have a housing emergency, which threatens an entire generation of young people who are afraid to go out into the world if they ...
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Ryanair considers Israel-Krakow flights for school groups
Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair Ltd. (ISEQ: RYA, LSE: RYA, NASDAQ: RYAAY) is considering initiating flights between Ben Gurion Airport and Krakow in Poland, to serve the high demand for educational trips to Auschwitz and other former death camps by Israeli students. At a press conference earlier this week, Ryanair deputy CEO Howard Millar said that the airline had been mulling flights to Israel ...
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Support Grows in Europe for Listing Hezbollah as Terror Group
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah meets with Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in this 2005 photo. (Photo: Supreme Leader website) (CNSNews.com) - Reversing long-held positions, the governments of Germany and France have both signaled their support for the European Union to designate Hezbollah - or at least its purported "military wing" - as a terrorist organization. The ...
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Israeli Settler Hits A Palestinian Youth in South Nablus
Nablus, May 23 (BNA) - A Jewish settler ran oevr a palestinian youth in Beita village crossroad , south of Nablus, Ghassan Daghlas, the settlement file official in the northern West Bank said on Thursday. Daghlas added that the israeli settler ran over palestinian youth marwan zakariya assouss, aged 16 at the crossroad of beita village , south of nablus noting that the palestinian youth was ...
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Huge circular structure in Sea of Galilee a mystery to Israeli archaeologists
File - In this April 14, 2011 file photo, a boat is by the jetty of the Capernaum National Park in the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. The monumental structure, made of boulders and stones with a diameter of 70 meters, was found through a sonar scan at the bottom of the Sea of Galilee in 2003. Now, archaeologists are beginning to put together grant proposals and funding requests in a bid to ...
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Syria crisis Friends of Syria call on Iran and Hezbollah to withdraw
o Iran and Hezbollah urged to pull out of fight for Qusairo US backs UK's bid to amend EU arms embargooSyria negotiates with Russia over attendance at talks o Opposition gathers in Turkey to decide on ...
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PM Netanyahu Remarks at Start of Meeting US Secy. of State Kerry
PM Netanyahu's Remarks at the Start of his Meeting with US Secy. of State John Kerry (Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this morning (Thursday, 23 May 2013), in Jerusalem, made the following remarks at the start of his meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry: "John, ...
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Kerry Continues Israeli-Palestinian Peace Push
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is holding another round of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders aimed at getting the two sides to restart their stalled peace ...
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France backs call to put Hezbollah on EU terror list
Official say Paris is ready to support British initiative to blacklist armed wing of Hezbollah on EU's list of terrorist organizations; France has been cautious of such a move fearing it could destabilize ...
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Peres to Sarkozy at breakfast Friends are friends
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who came to Israel primarily to receive an honorary doctorate from Netanya Academic College had a breakfast meeting on Thursday morning with President Shimon Peres, whom he knows well and with whom he had enjoyed previous meetings in Jerusalem and Paris over the past decade, spoken on the phone, and exchanged correspondence.If Sarkozy, instead of being ...
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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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