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Red-Dead conduit to be jointly promoted by gov’t KKL-JNF
Development of the proposed Red Sea-Dead Sea conduit will occur under the joint administration of the State of Israel and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund, leaders from both parties announced on Tuesday.Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom, KKL-JNF chairman Efi Stenzler and presidents of JNF chapters from all over the world agreed to the joint pursuit of this enormous project ...
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Agassi Green future inevitable – it’s cheaper
As renewable technologies continue to become more efficient and affordable, industries and entrepreneurs will inevitably switch to cleaner fuel sources - even if not for environmental reasons, Shai Agassi said Wednesday.The founder and former CEO of the now bankrupt Better Place spoke at the Israeli Presidential Conference 2013 in Jerusalem on the panel "Is There Hope for a Green ...
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Shaalvim More than 50 Years of Jewish Education
More than 250 people attended the annual alumni dinner for the graduates of Yeshivat Sha’alvim and Sha’alvim for Women, which took place in ...
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Mortar Shell from Syria Explodes in Israel
The civil war in Syria once again spilled into Israel on Wednesday night, as a mortar shell that was fired during the fighting between President Bashar Al-Assad’s and rebels exploded in an open area in the Golan ...
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Israeli soldiers cross technical fence
UNIFIL peacekeepers mobilized near the site of incident in response. A UNIFIL spokesperson said there was no violation of the Blue Line, created in the aftermath of Israel’s 2000 withdrawal from south Lebanon, adding that the situation along the demarcation was calm. Elsewhere, the Lebanese Army reported that three Israeli airplanes violated Lebanese airspace. One flew over areas of the ...
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Writings from Israel Nepal and Myanmar included in UNESCO world register
Print 19 June 2013 – Documentation on Holocaust victims, a collection of Buddhist scriptures written on stones from Myanmar, two rare manuscripts from Nepal and diaries belonging to Ernesto Che Guevara, are among 54 ...
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Iran’s president-elect may shift country’s policies toward Persian Gulf Israel
TEHRAN, Iran - To understand the changes likely to occur under Iran’s new president, Hasan Rowhani, consider this summation of the outgoing regime by a veteran foreign policy analyst. Iran’s approach to the world was ideological and focused attention on the Arab-Israeli conflict and Lebanon – issues far from the country’s vital interests, said Davood Hermidas Bavand, a ...
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Senators pressure Obama on no fly zone in Syria
WASHINGTON - Less than a week after the White House announced findings of chemical weapons use in Syria and the initiation of a policy that would allow the CIA to provide Syrian rebels with light weaponry and ammunition, President Barack Obama is answering critics who say that small arms are no longer enough to turn the direction of the war.In a letter from leading senators on foreign ...
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Cisco CEO Israel will be the first digital state
Israel will be the first end-to-end digital nation, Cisco CEO John Chambers said on Wednesday in Jerusalem. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Chambers agreed earlier in the day to establish a working group to explore how Cisco can help upgrade Israel's digital infrastructure.Whereas most countries upgrade one area at a time, Israel is moving to connect homes with fiber-optic ...
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AIPAC warns on Iranian president-elect Rohani
WASHINGTON - In a memo to supporters, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee expressed deep suspicion of Iranian President-Elect Hassan Rohani, saying that he "has signaled no willingness to halt Iran's illicit nuclear program."The powerful pro-Israel lobby in Washington said the Iranian people voted for Rohani because they saw him as the best chance for sanctions ...
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No Sanctions on Arab MK Who Denounced Apartheid
Zahalka, who lectured in Toronto on March 30 in honor of the Arab Land Day, claimed that there is no democracy in Israel and that Arabs are victims of Israel’s "apartheid" ...
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Britain fails to put Hezbollah on EU terror list
Britain failed to put Hezbollah's militant branch on the European Union's (EU) terror list on Wednesday, as several goverments expressed fears over the move fuelling more violence in the Middle East, diplomats told Reuters. Following an inconclusive meeting on June 4, when the UK pushed for the blacklisting of the Lebanese ...
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Cyprus Aims for LNG Facility Deal with US-Israeli Interests
NICOSIA - The Cypriot cabinet approved on Wednesday plans to sign for a deal with a U.S.-Israeli partnership to build a liquefied natural gas plant on the island to exploit untapped energy riches. "The cabinet has approved the decision to sign the memorandum of understanding between Cyprus and companies Noble Energy Inc., Delek Drilling L.P. and Avner Oil Exploration Ltd. Partnership for ...
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Palestinians fire rocket at South shattering calm
Shattering a lengthy period of calm, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired an unknown number of rockets at southern Israel, triggering air raid sirens in Ashkelon and surrounding areas early on Wednesday morning and awakening residents.As of Wednesday evening, the IDF, which launched a search of the area, found no projectiles in Israeli territory, and an army source indicated the rockets may ...
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Netanyahu recommends keeping 60 of natural gas
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will propose to the cabinet on Sunday that Israel maintain 540 billion cubic meters of natural gas in its reservoirs - a 20-percent jump from previous government recommendations.Netanyahu presented the proposed export policy, which has been a contentious subject since the discovery of Israel's copious gas supplies, at a press conference in his Jerusalem ...
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IDF major gets 13-year sentence for selling drugs
A former IDF major was sentenced on Wednesday to 13 years in prison, for selling hundreds of kilos of heroin and hashish that his unit seized from smugglers on the Sinai border.Eran Kabalo, a 33-year-old father of two, was convicted by the Southern District Military Court of conspiracy to commit a crime, dealing dangerous controlled substances, fraud and breach of ...
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Michigan Governor hopes Waze will reroute to his state
recently purchased Israeli firm Waze to the US, why not to the search company's R&D facility in the state instead of its headquarters in Silicon Valley? That is a question Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder asked this week on a visit to GPS-based navigational app company Waze's headquarters in Ra'anana that he described as one of the highlights of his nine-day trade mission to ...
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The world’s preferred refugees
For millions of refugees, World Refugee Day is a day like any other. From Mali to South Sudan and from Myanmar to Haiti, countless men, women and children will once again awaken today to an uncertain future.They are aided in their perilous journey by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which works with governments to advocate and seek asylum for all refugees. That is, ...
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Media Comment The media and their icons
Media outlets report the news. They also serve as a platform for public debate and the exchange of views. Many critics see the media as also managing the news and setting agendas."The news" then morphs from being a collection of facts into an opinion-driven manipulation of events. A reporter and his/her editor, if biased, can alter reality.The academic literature has long ...
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What Really Happened to TWA Flight 800
A documentary on the 1996 explosion that brought down TWA Flight 800 offers "solid proof that there was an external detonation," its co-producer ...
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Israeli Consul General Responds to Authors Boycott Calls
Alice Walker’ s overt calls to boycott the Jewish state, noting that there is a "strange twist" is her efforts to undermine freedom and pluralism. In an open letter to Walker published Wednesday in ...
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Lebanese Suspects Re-arrested Over Hezbollah Arms
By Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A criminal charge slammed against four Lebanese arrested in connection with an illegal arms cache discovered in Kano, Northern Nigeria, was on Wednesday struck out by Chief Magistrate Muyiwa Oyeyepo of Karu Magistrate Court in Abuja. The Department of State Security, SSS, had filed the charge on 5 June following the arrest of the Lebanese in connection with the unlawful ...
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Right-wing MKs slam pretentious Peres birthday celebration
star-studded birthday party thrown in honor of his 90th birthday party.Knesset members on the Right called the 11 million shekel event a waste of money, even though it was funded by contributions and not ...
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Encountering Peace Decision-making time
Naftali Bennett's "the idea of a Palestinian state has come to a dead end," if true, should be restated as "the idea of the Zionist movement has come to a dead end." That is the only logical conclusion of the ideology of Bennett and his followers. If the idea of the partitioning of the land between the river and sea into a "Jewish state and an Arab state" ...
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Washington Watch Iranian elections worry Netanyahu
Binyamin Netanyahu is a worried man. The results of the Iranian presidential election were a deep disappointment, judging by his rhetoric lately. He's afraid that partners in the no-nukes-for- Iran coalition might be seduced by descriptions of President-elect Hassan Rohani as a moderate.He is reminding everyone that "moderate" is a relative term when it comes to describing ...
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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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