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State Comptroller to probe public officials expenses
State Comptroller Joseph Shapira today announced that, in response to requests by MKs and the public, he will open an investigation into expenses of public officials for whom the government partly covers expenses in Israel and overseas. Shapira's announcement follows media reports on expenses for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. These include an 80% jump in the expenses of the prime ...
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Partner profit plunges 79
PTNR ) saw net profit plunge 79% in the first quarter of 2013 to $9 million compared with the corresponding quarter of 2012. Revenue was $314 million in the first quarter, down 27% from the corresponding quarter. Service revenue was $263 million, down 23% but operating expenses including the cost of equipment sold was up 23% to $246 million. Free Cash flow before interest was $56 million, down ...
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Palestinian child shot in West Bank by Israeli troops
Israeli forces have seriously wounded a child in the West Bank. AFP Photo Israeli troops shot and seriously wounded a 12-year-old Palestinian boy who was walking with his friends in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Palestinian security and medical officials told AFP.They said that Atta Mohammed Sharadeh was hit during one of what have become almost daily attacks against Palestinian youths by ...
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Young objector challenges Israeli army on ideological grounds citing occupation of West Bank
Left wing activists hold signs during a protest calling for the release of Israeli conscientious objector Natan Blanc from military prison, in front of the ministry of defense office in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The Israeli military has jailed Blanc for six months because of his opposition to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, in one of the most protracted cases by a ...
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Rebel Feiglin barred from Knesset Education Ctee
Likud Beytenu removed MK Moshe Feiglin from the Knesset Education Committee Tuesday night, as a result of his rebellion against the coalition because Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will not allow him to visit the Temple Mount.Knesset House Committee chairman Tzachi Hanegbi (Likud Beytenu) announced in the Knesset plenum Tuesday night that coalition chairman Yariv Levine, also of Likud ...
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Islamists release seven Egyptians kidnapped in Sinai
kidnapped by Islamist militants in the Sinai Peninsula last week were released on Wednesday, the army said.Security sources said they were freed following talks mediated by local Bedouin tribal leaders. The men were handed over to the army in an area south of Rafah, near the border with ...
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Government watchdog demands PM appoint deputy
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu must appoint a permanent deputy, the Movement for Quality Government demanded Tuesday.The government watchdog NGO wrote a letter to the Prime Minister's Office and Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein pointing out that Basic Law: Government says that if the prime minister is abroad or incapacitated, his deputy will temporarily take his place as acting prime ...
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Independent probe needed for Claims Conference
Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky has called for an independent probe to investigate allegations against senior executives of the Claims Conference, a spokesman ...
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US Imams to Visit Auschwitz
The US envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the US diplomatic envoy to combat anti-Semitism this week will join imams for a visit to Auschwitz, the State Department said Tuesday.Special Envoy to the OIC Rashad Hussain will make the trip with "newly appointed Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Ira Forman, Ambassador Mike Kozak, and imams from ...
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Energy Minister to reduce gas export quota - report
Minister of Energy and Water Resources Silvan Shalom will reduce the amount of natural gas that can be exported and raise the minimum quota for the amount of gas that must remain in Israel as a basic condition for exports, "Yediot Ahronot" reports this morning. Shalom has reportedly not yet made a final decision by how much he will alter the conclusions of the Tzemach Committee and he ...
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Irans Ahmadinejad says will challenge allys ban from election
Iran's electoral watchdog on Tuesday disqualified Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, Ahmadinejad's former chief of staff, from running in the June 14 presidential vote. "In my opinion there will be no problem with the Leader and I will take up this issue until the last moment with him," Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday, according to the ISNA news agency. "I am hopeful the problem ...
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Israel-Syria Border War Heats Up
NICOSIA [MENL] -- Israel and Syria have been engaged in an increasinglybitter border war. Western diplomatic sources said Israeli and Syrian forces were battlingon a nearly daily basis along the Golan Heights. They said the fighting oftenbegan with Syrian Army or proxy attacks on Israel Army outposts and ...
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Israel warns Assad over action in Golan Heights
Israel's army chief said that Bashar al-Assad would suffer heavy consequences if he destabilised the Golan Heights, in one of the most explicit warnings yet to the Syrian leader by a public official. The comments came after a night that saw Israel fire into Syria following an attack on one of its military ...
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Livni asks German counterpart to blacklist Hezbollah
initiative within the EU to list Hezbollah as a terrorist organization at a meeting with her Germany counterpart Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger on Tuesday night.The meeting of the two high-powered female justice ministers was the first major one of the German justice minister's visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories, said a statement by the German ...
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Wayne Federman coming back for laughs
The last time Los Angeles-based comedian Wayne Federman performed in Israel 10 years ago, it was the aftermath of the Second Intifada. Palestinians had blown up pizza parlors and Passover Seders, and Israelis needed a reason to laugh.Comedian Avi Liberman approached his fellow Jew Federman at LA's Improv comedy club and asked him to come with him to Israel to "brighten the mood." ...
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New UNRWA Controversy over Map of ‘Palestine’
The United Nations’ Relief and Works Agency is again facing accusations of supporting anti-Israel sentiment. In the latest incident, the UNRWA director in Lebanon, Ann Dismorr, was pictured posing with a map that showed all of Israel as "Palestine." The picture was made public by the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) organization. The map Dismorr was photographed displaying shows ...
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IDF Identifies Soldier Killed in Accident
The IDF has identified the soldier killed in training Tuesday as 19-year-old Roi Alfi of Gan Yavne. His family has been informed of the tragedy. Alfi was training with the Combat Engineering Corps. He was killed by an exploding land mine while assisting in clearing a field of land mines. The incident took place in the Golan. IDF commanders said that the mine-clearing operation had been done ...
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Shekel resumes gains as slide stalls
The shekel has strengthened against the dollar in morning inter-bank trading today halting the slide against the US currency which began early last week when the Bank of Israel unexpectedly cut the interest rate by 25 basis points to 1.5%, the lowest rate in three years. Since then the shekel had weakened by more than 3% against the dollar. However, this morning the shekel-dollar exchange rate ...
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Iran Hezbollah role in Syria complicates peace strategy
As evidence grows of increased Iranian support for the Syrian government, the Obama administration's strategy to bring the bitter fighting there to a close faces more challenges than ever. With White House support, Secretary of State John Kerry has pushed for an international conference in Geneva in June that would bring representatives of the Syria government together with the ...
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Lebanese Syrians protest Hezbollah’s involvement in Syria
A number of Lebanese and Syrian nationals held a demonstration on Tuesday in the Martyrs' Square in downtown Beirut to protest against Hezbollah's intervention in the al-Qusair battles in Syria, LBCI reported on ...
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Israel US threatens war with Syria as sectarian fighting spreads across region
Israeli and Syrian forces exchanged fire across the cease-fire line in the Golan Heights yesterday, amid rising US and Israeli threats of intervention in the US-led sectarian proxy war in Syria, which is rapidly spreading throughout the region. Fighting in the Golan Heights started overnight when Syrian forces fired at an Israeli vehicle that allegedly crossed into Syrian territory. Israeli ...
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Create unit to investigate illegal W. Bank building
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein appeals to Defense Minister to create a unit to enforce law against those in involved in illegal West Bank construction in ...
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Syria and Israel exchange fire as Hezbollah sends in fighters
Hezbollah , the Lebanese militant group, sent more reinforcements to help the Assad regime attack a border town as the conflict spilled further into the country's ...
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Jordanian prisoners in Israel continue hunger strike in bid for better treatment
Jordanian prisoners in Israel have been on hunger strike for 20 days, campaigning for better treatment and family visits, among other things. Getty image, for illustrative purposes only. Five Jordanians imprisoned in Israel have entered their 20th day on open hunger strike, a prisoner rights groups said Tuesday."Five of around 30 Jordanian prisoners in Israeli jails are currently ...
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Likud Punishes Feiglin Dismisses Him from Knesset Committee
MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud) was dismissed on Tuesday from the Knesset’s Education Committee, a punitive action due to his recent decision to suspend his parliamentary ...
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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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