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Report Hamas Leaders to Meet Turkish PM in Ankara
Senior leaders of the Islamist Hamas terror organization will meet on Tuesday in Ankara with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a diplomatic source told the AFP news agency. The group's exiled leader Khaled Meshaal, along with Gaza's prime minister Ismail Haniya, will discuss Erdogan's planned visit to the Gaza Strip as well as the situation in Syria, the source said ...
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Analysis Hezbollah takes Syrian centre-stage yet remains in shadows
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The voice crackling over the Hezbollah radios was clear and authoritative, and the guerrillas poised to attack the Syrian border town of Qusair recognized it ...
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Barbra Streisand Jumps Right Into Delicate Subjects In Israel
Barbra Streisand is touring Israel right now and has broached a very delicate subject on her first major stop: the treatment of women by Orthadox Jews. The iconic singer was there to receive an honorary doctorate in philosophy from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and will perform two concerts in Tel Aviv, as well as sing for Israeli President Shimon Peres’ birthday, but on Monday she spoke ...
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Arab village in Israel targeted in racial attackVandals daubed Arabs out graffiti and punctured tyres in an Arab village near Jerusalem on Tuesday targeting a community widely seen in Israel as a showcase for Jewish-Arab coexistence.
Jewish-Arab coexistence . Unlike similar attacks that have damaged Arab mosques, homes, vehicles and olive groves, the vandalism took place in an Arab village in Israel popular with Jewish visitors, rather than in a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank. Abu Ghosh, where the tyres of 28 cars were punctured and anti-Arab slogans scrawled on walls, is located along the main Tel ...
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Flow of arms to Syria alarms Israel
Israel is worried about continued arms supplies to the Syrian regime from Russia, which has ignored Israeli pleas not to deliver promised shipments of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles which could target planes taking off from Israeli territory, according to a senior Israeli official. But officials also say that Israel is also cautious about Western plans to supply weapons to the divided ...
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Israeli general warns of unrest if no peace talks
An Israeli-Arab and children are seen on a street next to a graffiti in the village of Abu Gosh near Jerusalem, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Israeli police have launched an investigation to find perpetrators who vandalized cars and sprayed hate graffiti in an Arab town near Jerusalem. The Hebrew graffiti reads, "Racism or assimilation" and "Arabs out." (AP Photo/Mahmoud ...
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Israeli Maneuver to Annex Part of Belen Denounced
Ramallah, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) Israeli occupation authorities authorized the confiscation of nearly six acres of land of Belen city, where the Christian tradition locates the birth of Jesus Christ, denounces a non-governmental organization today. The procedure bases on the Israeli law of absent owners that allows the government to transfer the property of lands and the technicality consists on ...
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Activist Man deported to Uganda now to head to Eritrea
An Eritrean man who agreed to be deported from Israel to Uganda was deported for a short time to Egypt shortly after arriving in the central African country, and now faces deportation to Eritrea, an activist in touch with the man ...
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Live Feed Peres star-studded conference
Facing Tomorrow conference gets underway Tuesday night in Jerusalem, with hundreds of world leaders, dignitaries and famous faces in attendance. Hollywood royalty Robert De Niro, Barbra Streisand, and Sharon Stone are joining Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, former US president Bill Clinton, former British prime minister Tony Blair and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at the conference, ...
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Send President Peres a birthday greeting
President Shimon Peres will celebrate his 90th birthday Tuesday night at the start of his fifth annual Facing Tomorrow conferee night in Jerusalem, with hundreds of world leaders, dignitaries and famous faces in attendance. Peres, born in Vishnyeva, Belarus, just outside of Minsk, is a Nobel Laureate and the 9th and current President of the State of Israel.Hollywood royalty Robert De Niro, ...
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Bill Clinton places a note in the Western Wall
Former US President Bill Clinton visited the Western Wall and the Western Wall Tunnels on Tuesday, accompanied Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz.Clinton placed a note in the Wall and expressed emotion over visiting the holy site and praying ...
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Yaalon Iran may exploit Rohani win to advance nuclear program
Defense minister warns against delusions, saying that "Rohani is a part of conservative regime, Islamic revolution" and Khamenei may exploit the moderate image of the president-elect to push nuke ...
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Pet Shop Boys Israel not like apartheid-era South Africa
When you're the most successful British musical duo in history, you tend to attract some attention. But this is the kind of interest that Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe who make up the wildly successful techno/Britpop team the Pet Shop Boys could probably do without.In the midst of a high-profile world tour ahead of the release of their 12th ...
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Jerusalem Infused With Stars for Peres Celebration
An array of celebrities, politicians and public figures are in Jerusalem to take part in Israeli President Shimon Peres's 90th birthday celebrations to be held later on Tuesday. Former US president Bill Clinton, British ex-premier Tony Blair, Monaco's Prince Albert II, and Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird are among figures who will attend the opening event of the fifth ...
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China Urges Peace Talks to Settle Palestinian Question
China called for a resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority at a conference in Beijing Tuesday, as the rising global power seeks greater diplomatic influence in the Middle East. "We need to redouble efforts to promote peace talks," assistant foreign minister Ma Zhaoxu said at the United Nations International Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian ...
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Father of NSA Whistleblower Gives Candid Interview
The father of National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden has pleaded with his son to stop leaking information and to return home to the United States, ...
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Teva to stop filing for patents in Israel
TEVA ) is stopping filing for patents in Israel for products developed in the country and will file for them in Switzerland instead. The step will enable the pharmaceutical giant to benefit from tax exemptions and incentives that are granted in Switzerland but are not available in Israel for development, manufacturing and registering patents, sources inform "Globes." As ...
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Israeli leaders divided over new Iran president
Hassan Rouhani served as the country's chief nuclear negotiator from 2003-2005. But some observers have hailed the new leader as pragmatist that will lift Iran out of international ...
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Israel Think Tank Deems Iran Vote Fair
TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Israel's leading strategic think tank has deemed Iran'spresidential elections as fair. The Institute for National Security Studies determined that Iran'spresidential elections on June 14 were not tampered by the mullah regime. Ina report by Ephraim Kam, the institute said the landslide victory by HassanRowhani marked a surprise and reflected a desire for change ...
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Palestinians Demand Clarification of Israeli Minister Statements
Ramallah, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) The Palestinian presidency demanded from Israel today clarification of statements in recent hours by Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennet, according to which the independent Palestinian State is at a dead end. The main hindrance to clarify this is reticence in the heart of the cabinet, said Bennet in a meeting of Israeli settlers, among which his party ...
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Abbas Palestinians keen to see Kerrys peace efforts succeed
US Secretary of State John Kerry may return to the region next week as part of his efforts to revive the stalled peace talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israel, Palestinian officials in Ramallah said Tuesday.PA President Mahmoud Abbas emphasized that the Palestinians were keen on ...
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Officials US Taliban to open direct dialogue
US officials on Tuesday said that the first formal meeting involving US and Taliban representatives is scheduled to be held next week in Doha.A senior Taliban official said on Tuesday no date had been agreed for talks in Qatar on ending Afghanistan's 12-year-long war, after US officials said they would meet representatives of the Islamist insurgency next week in the Gulf ...
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Sharon Stone fans basic instinct for photography in TA
It's unclear whether the man pictured in the picture below is a fan of Sharon Stone or a fan of campy t-shirts. Either way, he had what was surely a surreal moment Monday when, dressed in ...
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Deri ‘Appalled’ by Abu Ghosh Graffiti
overnight attack by vandals . The attacks slashed the tires of 28 cars and spray-painted the words "Arabs out" on walls. Deri began by visiting the local council building, where he and MK David Azoulay (Shas) met with local politicians, including local Shas activists. The hareidi-religious Shas party has won support from many Israeli Arabs due to policies including support for large ...
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Lapid Hitler Facebook Image Goes Viral Stirs Outrage
An image posted on Facebook on Monday showing an image of Finance Minister Yair Lapid wearing a Nazi uniform and looking like Hitler has gone viral on the social networking site, causing outrage in Israeli society. The picture caption said, "enemy of the Israeli economy." Public relations man Rani Rahav called the police to launch an investigation following the publication of the ...
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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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