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Does Israel have a long-term strategic plan
Every year there is a new state budget with new cuts. What was approved last year has just been retracted. Half-built roads and incomplete infrastructure have been abandoned to gather dust. Metropolitan Tel Aviv still has no light rail or subway, even though plans to build them have been in the works for decades. Year after year the defense establishment is allocated more funds than any ...
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Malkin Faults British Progressives for Murder
Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin accused British progressives of complicity in enabling attacks like the murder of a soldier in England on Wednesday. ...
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US and Israel raise hopes of peace restart in the Middle East
May 23, 2013: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets with Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. The United States and Israel are raising hopes for a restart of the Middle East peace process after more than four years of hardly any ...
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Israeli leader says UN pressure having no effect on curbing Iranian nuclear program
Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague, left, listens to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint news conference before their meeting in Jerusalem, Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Ronen Zvulun, ...
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Israel eyes Syrian missile threat to gas fields
Hezbollah , has heightened Israeli concerns about protecting its offshore natural gas fields. Israel began production in March from its second largest field, Tamar discovered 40 miles off northern Israel in 2009. The field, jointly operated by Nobel Energy of Houston, and its Israeli partners, Delek Group, Isramco and Dor Alon, has reserves of around 8 trillion-10 trillion cubic feet -- enough ...
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France Wants Hezbollah Armed Wing on EU Terror List Soon
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Abbas Israel must act before returning to table
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday reiterated his demand for a full cessation of settlement construction and the release of Palestinian prisoners before returning to the negotiating table with Israel.Abbas raised with visiting US Secretary of State John Kerry the issues of continued construction in settlements, Israeli assaults on Jerusalem, settler assaults and the ...
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Four killed in traffic accidents in North South
In the afternoon, two people, a woman aged 39 and a 42-year-old man, were killed in a head on collision between a truck and a private car on the road outside Kfar Mimon in the western Negev. The two killed were trapped inside the car and had to be evacuated from the mangled vehicles by rescue personnel.Another passenger was taken to Soroka Hospital in serious condition.Police said initial ...
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Police dismissed over conduct in murder case
after an internal police committee found them guilty of a dereliction of duty in ignoring a complaint issued Monday night by a woman whose two daughters were found murdered less than 24 hours later.The committee found "severe failures in the performance of all levels among the officers of the Arad station in every aspect of their handling of the mother's complaint," and ...
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Kerry to Peres This moment is critical for Israel region
In visit to president's residence in Jerusalem, US secretary of state says peace is a question of whether Israelis, Palestinians "make the choice" to compromise; Peres says Israel will stand by his side "all the ...
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Parshat Beha’alotecha Educational punishment
This lesson which we learn from the story of Miriam the Prophetess is a message which the Torah wants us to remember every day: Punishment should only be one which advances and educates the ...
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Rage in London after Unforgivable Beheading
the gruesome murder of a soldier by Muslims in Woolwich, in southeastern London, on Wednesday. The murdered man was Drummer Lee Rigby, of the British Army's 2nd Battalion. "There is rage in London; the feelings are very bad," a Jewish resident of Golders Green ...
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Kerry Meets Abbas for 2 Hours Visits Peres
US Secretary of State John Kerry went straight into talks with met Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas Thursday immediately after talks with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. He then returned to Jerusalem and met with President Shimon Peres. He will have breakfast Friday with Netanyahu. "I know this region well enough to know there is skepticism, in some quarters there is cynicism and ...
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Israel - Israels accusations against TV stations coverage of boys death are unsupported
's coverage of 12-year-old Palestinian Muhammad al-Durrah's death during rioting in the Gaza Strip on 30 September 2000 and the disputed claim that he was killed by a shot fired from Israeli ...
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Kerry heads back to Israel for fourth time since February continuing peace push
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives for a joint press conference between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on March 20, 2013. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty ...
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Hezbollah should be labeled a terrorist group say France Britain Germany
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Hezbollah should be labeled a terrorist group by the European Union, France, Britain and Germany said Wednesday. The Lebanese militant group ...
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Eini to Netanyahu Call Bennett to order
"Since the current government under your leadership took office, we have been witness to unbridled incitement, unprecedented in its extremeness, on the part of ministers in your government against organized labor and working people in Israel." Thus Histadrut (General Federation of Labor in Israel) chairman Ofer Eini wrote to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a very strongly worded ...
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John Kerry acknowledges failures over Israeli-Palestinian peace process
John Kerry , has acknowledged years of disappointment over the Israeli-Palestinian peace process at the start of his fourth recent visit to the area, but added that he hoped to confound sceptics and cynics.Kerry met the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, and won strong support for his peace mission from the British foreign secretary, William ...
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Hizbollah sends hundreds of fighters to Qusayr as Syrias violence spreads
HERMEL // On a country road in Lebanon's north-east, traffic is heavy. Ambulances screech by, sirens blaring, and cars packed with mourners follow coffins as Hizbollah brings wounded fighters home from Syria, and its dead. With the bodies from the battle over the border at Qusayr, comes the violence, as civil conflict between Syria's Iranian-backed ruler and Sunni rebels spreads ...
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Israeli Military Road Graders Cross into Gaza Strip
Gaza, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Israeli soldiers driving road graders crossed the Gaza strip demarcation line at Khan Younis, said Palestinian witnesses. The heavy engineering vehicles advanced several hundred meters and their crew began firing, witnesses told the Maan news agency. In recent weeks, Israeli armored vehicles had approached but not crossed the border, site of a sea-ground and air ...
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BIU awards honorary doctorate to Holocaust survivor
Bar Ilan University awarded an honorary doctorate this week to Hungarian Holocaust survivor Susanne Czuker, who escaped Auschwitz at a young age and endured several difficult attempts to escape the Holocaust, in recognition of her "profound commitment to Jewish education continuity and heritage, and her devotion to the State of Israel. " The university also dedicated the lobby and ...
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Kerry samples Palestinian sweets shawarma
RAMALLAH, West Bank) - US Secretary of State John Kerry stepped off the diplomatic track on Thursday and onto a West Bank street where he sampled a shawarma sandwich and a pistachio-sprinkled Palestinian sweet.In a rare gesture for a US secretary of state - but a staple of US political campaigns - Kerry dropped by the Samer Restaurant in the Palestinian city of Ramallah to enjoy typical ...
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Technion Scientists Develop an Advanced Biological Computer
Technion scientists developed and constructed a molecular transducer, which is an advanced computing machine. This molecular computer was built entirely of biomolecules, such as DNA and enzymes that can manipulate genetic codes. This unprecedented device can compute iteratively, namely, it uses the output as a new input for subsequent computations. Furthermore, it produces outputs in the form of ...
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Yisrael Beytenu Enlist Arabs Too
The Yisrael Beytenu faction, headed by MK Avigdor Lieberman, is unhappy with the recommendations of the Perry Committee on equal IDF service for all. The faction wants the Committee to address the matter of Arab enlistment, and demands that the necessary budget for enforcing Arab enlistment this be included in the bill that the government is set to ...
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Israel Corp. mulling closure of Better Place
ILCO ), Better Place's main investor, on the electric car venture's future, and whether or not it will continue will depend upon its ability to continue raising cash. In that regard, Idan Ofer, who controls Israel Corp., recently approached potential investors. Better Place said in response to the report, "In the past few months Better Place has continued its many efforts to ...
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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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