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Gemayel Hezbollah is ruling Lebanon
Phalange Party bloc MP Sami Gemayel on Monday said that Hezbollah was governing Lebanon and imposing its policy by the force of its weapons. "Hezbollah is ruling the country, taking decisions and imposing a de facto situation by the force of its ...
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Video Election wont change Irans nuclear ambitions Netanyahu says
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran's presidential election, which brought into power a cleric widely seen as a moderate, was unlikely to bring about any change in Iran's nuclear policy. Mana Rabiee ...
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Livni swears on peace process despite Bennett’s comments
Justice minister insists that a diplomatic process with Palestinians will begin soon, regardless of economy and trade minister's eulogy for the two-state ...
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Exclusive Israel India agree to start hi-tech trade fund
Indian Communications and IT Minister Kapil Sibal tells 'Post' that purpose of fund will be to enhance ties between Israel's innovative IT sector and India's burgeoning hi-tech manufacturing ...
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Expert 10 of Southern Residents Not Inoculated Againt Polio
Israel needs to go on an emergency campaign to inoculate individuals in southern Israel against polio, the Knesset Health Committee said Monday. Samples of sewage containing the virus have cropped up in six cities in the Negev, with the outbreak suspected of beginning in a Bedouin village. According to experts testifying at the committee, some 10% of the residents of the Negev, have not received ...
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Yaalon Doubtful Irans New President Will Bring Change
Speaking during a meeting in France with the country’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, Yaalon said, "There is no doubt that the Iranian people want to see change, but I'm not sure Rowhani, who is an Ayatollah, will bring the change that the Iranian people expect to ...
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Barbra Streisand criticises treatment of women by Orthodox Jews
Barbra Streisand waded into one of Israel's touchiest issues on the first major stop of her tour of the country – Jewish religious practices that separate men and ...
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Clinton and Netanyahu Not Good for Obama
With friends like former President Bill Clinton and current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, what is a fellow like President Obama to do? As a start, he could get a few second opinions. President Obama is struggling to help resolve an ugly civil war in Syria. He is also working to relieve U.S. tensions with Iran, which has just elected Hassan ...
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Gamzu pledges more doctors and nurses in public system
Health Ministry director-general Prof. Ronni Gamzu promised the Knesset Finance Committee on Monday that 1,300 medical students would graduate every year to cope with the growing shortage of physicians.He did not say in what year exactly that number of students would graduate, but apparently they have already begun their studies - with a minimum seven years needed to produce an MD.A major ...
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A look at Rami Hamdallah
I have known Rami Hamdallah for the past 15 years, and have worked side by side with him on academic, international and regional issues. Over the years, we have broadened our professional partnerships in the fields of social work, law, architecture, housing, education and medicine, and, on a personal level deepened our trust, respect and friendship. I have witnessed and come to admire the broad ...
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The new Palestinian prime minister
I first had the opportunity to meet my colleague Rami Hamdallah in the context of his rectorship of An Najah University, a member of the Mediterranean Universities Union-UNIMED. UNIMED is an association founded in 1991 whose main aim is to develop scientific and educational cooperation in the Euro-Mediterranean region, by establishing collaboration between universities on the shores of the ...
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Chicago Violence Mars Fathers Day Weekend
Seven are dead and at least 41 others wounded after weekend violence ended happy Father's Day preparations for some in the city of Chicago. Six of the seven deaths occurred Saturday night, and so did 13 of the shootings that marked the weekend violence. Among the dead was a 16-year-old boy. An 18-year-old man was also shot in a drive-by shooting that sank bullets into his head, chest and ...
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Orthodox Toronto Family Finds Swastikas on Garage Door
An Orthodox Jewish family in Toronto woke up this week to a swastika and the words "watch your children" scrawled on their garage door, the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center said in a news release Friday. According to a report ...
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Thousands of Egyptian Islamists Rally for Syria Jihad
Thousands of Islamists rallied in Cairo on Friday in support of calls by Sunni Muslim clerics for a holy war against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The demonstration took place outside a mosque where Saudi preacher Mohammed al-Oreifi called in a sermon for a "jihad in the cause of Allah in Syria", ...
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Israel minister attempt to establish Palestinian state has ended
The economy minister's flouting of the official government platform is likely to cause tensions ahead of another visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry this ...
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Hamas calls for Hezbollah withdraw forces from Syria
Gaza, June 17 (BNA) -- Palestinian Hamas Movement today called for the Lebanese Hezbollah to withdraw its forces from Syria and keep their weapons only directed against the Israeli occupation, noting Hezbollah's intervention in Syria has contributed to increase sectarian division in the region. Hamas added, in a statement, it supports the Syrian people in achieving their rights and ...
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Gulf States to Launch Sanctions Against Hezbollah
Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addresses his supporters from a screen during a rally to commemorate Hezbollah Wounded Veterans Day in Beirut suburbs, Lebanon, June 14, ...
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Syria Israel and the Obama Administrations Absentee Foreign Policy
Where has the Obama administration been in all of this? For all intents and purposes, they have largely been absent from the scene. There have been some actions taken, like the use of military force in Libya, but even that appears to have been more of an accident, a distraction if you will, than something growing out of a well thought out tactical and strategic vision. Even the Clinton ...
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Hamas tells Hizbollah to withdraw fighters from Syria
A Syrian rebel tries to locate the positions of Assad's forces in Aleppo. Hamas wants Hizbollah to stop fighting the rebels and to instead focus on a common enemy: ...
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Bill Clinton Israel must make peace to survive
JERUSALEM -; Former President Bill Clinton is urging Israel to make peace with the Palestinians in order to survive as a Jewish and democratic ...
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PM reaffirms two-state solution after Bennett says it’s at a dead-end
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reaffirmed Israel's commitment to a negotiated two-state solution after Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett (Bayit ...
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Rohani puts moderate foot forward yet shows no sign of halting nuclear program.
Iranian President-elect Hassan Rohani took only one stab at Israel during an hour-long press conference Monday where he held out the prospect of better ties with the West, but gave no indication he would stop Iran's relentless nuclear march.Rohani, now widely touted in the western media as a "moderate cleric," said the sanctions against his country were "brutal," and ...
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National service for all
All four of my children have undertaken their obligatory national service. Some of them spent a great deal more than the minimum three (men) or two (women) years in the service of their country, combining military service with additional years of social voluntary projects. By the time they started studying in their mid-twenties, they were at an age where most people elsewhere in the world have ...
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The Iranian election Have the people really won
In elections heralded as being neither free nor fair - with the candidates preselected for their loyalty to the supreme leader, and the voters suffering under massive domestic repression - Iranians overwhelmingly elected a "moderate" cleric, Hassan Rohani, as president, an outcome that has been hailed as a harbinger of positive change.It is true that, during the campaign, Rohani ...
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In $$500k Speech Clinton Praises Lectures Israelis
In a sometimes rambling speech, an aging Bill Clinton praised Israel's high tech accomplishments, suggested ways to improve the world's economies, described the work he has been doing since he retired from politics, and lectured Israel on the need to give in to PA demands that it withdraw from the lands liberated in the Six Day War. Clinton was in Israel to celebrate Shimon ...
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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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