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Defense Minister Iran Remains the Biggest Threat
Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said on Wednesday that the Iranian nuclear threat remains the number one threat to Israel as well as to the entire world, despite the fact that most of the world’s attention is currently directed towards the civil war in ...
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Israel finds more hostility in Britain
(2 mins ago) A senior Israeli minister described the ';animosity'' shown towards the state by British media, non-governmental organizations and academics, as ';disguised anti-Semitism,’’ in an interview published in today's Daily Telegraph in London. Yuval Steinitz, Israel's intelligence and strategic affairs minister, said he was ...
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US Lawmakers Pledge to Back Israel Against Iran
The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved a resolution affirming America's firm opposition to Iran's nuclear ambitions, and pledging full support for Israel in the event of an Israeli military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. The chance to slam Iran’s government and speak up for Israel brought a rare moment of complete bipartisan unity to the Senate. Republican ...
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Turkey translates Prophets sayings for 21st Century
ANKARA - Scholars around the Muslim world were alarmed five years ago by news reports that Turkey planned a new, possibly heretical compilation of the Prophet Mohammad's sayings that might scrap those it thought were out of date.Turkish religious leaders and theologians received anxious calls asking about Western media reports they would edit a "radical" new set of hadiths, ...
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Sarkozy Hits Out at Europe Over Syria
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, on a visit to Israel, hit out at Europe on Wednesday for failing to act in the wake of the ongoing civil war in ...
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Minister Ariel Well Return to Gush Katif
Housing Minister Uri Ariel expressed hope on Wednesday that Israel will eventually return to Gush Katif, from which it unilaterally withdrew in 2005 – a move which resulted in hundreds of missile barrages aimed at southern Israel and two IDF operations that attempted to stop ...
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Palestine urges UN Security Council to end provocations by Israel
Palestine has asked the UN Security Council to press Israel to end its "provocations," including restricting access to holy sites in East Jerusalem, a Palestinian envoy told reporters on ...
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German minister There is a chance for peace
The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.She said the new Israeli government was more disposed toward peace and that "US Secretary of State John Kerry is very much engaged [in the process]."She added that "my colleague, Justice Minister Livni, she gives me the impression that there is a chance at this moment, it is difficult, but there is a chance."Later, the German minister met ...
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JA chairman Sharansky Independent probe needed
The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.As agency chairman, Sharansky has a seat on the board of the conference, which was established in 1951 to secure restitution for Holocaust survivors and their heirs from the German ...
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Berman Claims Conference staff unaware of fraud
Claims Conference chairman Julius Berman continued to deny having any knowledge of fraud being conducted within his organization prior to 2009 - only hours before JTA reported on Wednesday that he and other senior executives had launched a probe into the matter in 2001.According to documents obtained by JTA, Berman's law firm, Kaye Scholer LLP, launched a 2001 probe that failed to ...
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New IAEA Report Iran Still Expanding Nuclear Program
Iran is making significant progress in expanding its nuclear program, including in opening up a potential second route to developing the bomb, a new UN atomic agency report showed Wednesday, according to ...
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Oklahoma Teacher Shielded Students Despite Injury
A heroic teacher who shielded her students from Oklahoma’s tornado this week is recovering in the hospital after the metal leg of a desk speared her in the ...
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Jordanian FM hopeful Kerry will relaunch talks
Nasser Judeh in Amman says US Secretary of State's round-the-clock-efforts may create "inducing environment" to relaunch Israeli-Palestinian negotiations; Kerry scheduled to meet Netanyahu, Peres, Livni in ...
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Shapira to investigate Netanyahu over foreign trips
investigate the financial controversies surrounding Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as well as other public officials relating to their foreign trips.It was unclear what the scope of the investigation would be and what aspects it would add to ongoing investigations, but it was expected to include all of the latest developments in everything from the "Bibi Tours" affair to the ...
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Govt bulldozers demolish 2 east Jerusalem homes
Government bulldozers demolished two residential buildings in east Jerusalem on Tuesday morning for being illegally constructed on a national park, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.However, Meretz city councilman Dr. Meir Margalit, who holds the east Jerusalem portfolio, dismissed the ministry's claim as a "dirty trick" that the government was using to confiscate land ...
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High Court summons A-G over east Jlem property
In an unheard-of development, a seven-judge panel of the High Court of Justice ordered Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein to appear personally to explain the state's position on using a 1950 property law to confiscate east Jerusalem properties from Arabs for the benefit of Jews and the state, the courts announced on Wednesday.Weinstein essentially never attends hearings; he sends ...
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Prosor angered by UNRWA’s map of Arab Palestine
NEW YORK - Early this month, Ann Dismorr, director of the UN Relief and Works Agency in Lebanon, stood in front of cameras holding a map of Israel labeled "Arab Palestine." Framed in green and black and shoddily printed, the projected Palestinian state is shown surrounded by countries with modern borders: Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.Israeli officials are well used to seeing maps ...
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Israeli embassy slams Germany party over labeling
BERLIN - The Israeli embassy slammed the German Green Party on Wednesday for its Bundestag efforts to label products from the West Bank, calling those efforts "another try to negatively single out Israel while promoting an economic boycott of it."In a statement ...
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Danon IDF Has Backing for Heavy Hand Against Rock Rioters
Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon on Wednesday visited the town of Beit El in the Binyamin region. With the visit, Danon sought to show solidarity with residents of the town, who suffer from incessant rock attacks by Arabs from villages in the ...
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Sidon on edge after tense burial of Hezbollah fighter
Hezbollah while fighting for the Islamist party, which supports President Bashar Assad’s regime, during the raging battle for the town of Qusair in the Syrian province of Homs. The son of a Sunni father and a Shiite mother, Sabbagh became a Shiite and joined Hezbollah years ago. His family, with the exception of his mother, insisted he be buried at a Sunni cemetery in Sidon. But a group ...
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France seeks to brand Hezbollah as terrorist group
Laurent Fabius said on Wednesday. "Because of the decisions that have been taken by Hezbollah and the fact that they are fighting very harshly the Syrian population, we have decided to ask that the military branch of the Hezbollah would be considered as a terrorist organisation," Fabius told reporters in English. The United States has long designated the Lebanon-based militant group, ...
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Friends of Syria demands withdrawal of Hezbollah Iran fighters
AMMAN (Reuters) - The Friends of Syrian alliance called on Iran and its Lebanese Hezbollah ally on Thursday to withdraw fighters immediately from Syrian territory and described their armed presence in the country as a threat to regional stability. In a communiqué issued after a meeting in Amman, the alliance said any transitional government in Syria being proposed as a core of a ...
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France wants Hezbollah on terror blacklist
FRANCE will 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 says. "Because of the decisions that have been taken by Hezbollah and the fact that they are fighting very harshly the Syrian population, we have decided to ask that the military branch of the Hezbollah would be considered as ...
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Soldier killed in Golan mine accident to be buried
killed in a minefield accident on Wednesday as Roee Yisrael Alfi, 18, of Gan Yavne, and promoted him posthumously to the rank of corporal.Alfi, who had been in training and was tasked with clearing a minefield on the Golan Heights, died after one of the mines, which had been exposed and marked ahead of its clearance, went off for an unknown ...
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Complaints lead ministry to examine math tests
The Education Ministry said on Wednesday it will conduct an "organized examination" of the mathematics matriculation exam that took place on Tuesday afternoon, after students complained about the difficulty of the test.The ministry added that if the claims are found to be justified, it will deal with the matter so that no harm is done to students.After the test, students from ...
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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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