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Kerry urges Abbas to resume peace talks with Israel source
The United States Secretary of State John Kerry is urging Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume direct peace talks with Israel, a well-informed Palestinian source said Saturday.The source, which spoke on condition of anonymity, told Xinhua that during their meeting held on Thursday in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Kerry presented to Abbas his plan on resuming direct talks with ...
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Hezbollah Commits Full Fight to Keep Assad in Power
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Hezbollah promises ‘victory’ in Syria conflict
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday vowed "victory" in Syria, where militants of his powerful Lebanese Shiite movement are fighting alongside regular troops against rebels trying to topple the ...
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Hezbollah Syria push for gains in rebel stronghold
seize more rebel territory in the border town of Qusair on Saturday, sources on both sides of the conflict said.Rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad said additional tanks and artillery had been deployed around opposition-held territory in Qusair, a Syrian town close to the Lebanese ...
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Netanyahu will not freeze West Bank settlements
Is Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu nearing his second declaration in four years on a building freeze in the West Bank in order to facilitate the renewal of peace talks with the Palestinians? The answer is probably ...
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Abbas under pressure to start talks without preconditions
PA official: Western FMs pressure Abbas to return to negotiating table even if Israel doesn't commit to settlement freeze, accept pre-1967 lines; PA president fails to update PA officials on meetings with ...
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Politicians slam German Greens for ‘Israel boycott’
BERLIN - The German Green party is under fire because of its push in the Bundestag to label Israeli products from the West Bank and the Golan Heights.Leading German politicians and academic specialists weighed in last week, accusing the Greens of promoting Nazi-style boycotts of Jewish products and ignoring the lessons of the ...
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Dozens protest near MKs home over gas exports
Dozens of protesters demonstrated on Saturday night in Ramat Gan around Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom's residence over the government's intention to approve the export of natural gas from Israel, Army Radio reported. A central website of the social protest movement j14 declared on Saturday that the "Israeli public is waking up and beginning to understand that natural ...
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Pro-Israel caucus forming in Russian parliament
A select group of Russian parliament members will soon be urging their colleagues to say "da" to Israel after a delegation of Israelis took steps to initiate the formation of a pro-Israel caucus in the Duma in meetings last week in Moscow.The delegation from the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus (KCAC) and the World Jewish Congress met with influential Christian leaders from across ...
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Haredi draft proposals to face challenges in vote
The bill drawn up to form the basis of legislation for drafting haredi men into national service is unlikely to emerge in one piece following votes on Sunday on each of its clauses by the committee that drafted it.The ministerial committee headed by Science, Technology and Space Minister Yaakov Peri of Yesh Atid will meet for a marathon session to begin on Sunday evening. Each of the ...
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BGU experts to help preserve Galapagos Islands
The exotic Galapagos Islands, which lie on the equator about 1,000 kilometers off the west coast of South America, are a treasure trove of unusual animal species because of their isolation for thousands of years. They have eroded over the millennia, making them much smaller today, but they still provoke much curiosity and wonder. The islands, which are owned by Ecuador, prompted Charles ...
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Welfare minister Remove remote settlements now
Welfare Minister Meir Cohen (Yesh Atid) said on Saturday that Israel should dismantle isolated settlements immediately without waiting for negotiations, Israel Radio reported. "These settlements cost us alot of money and we must do the utmost so we do not appear to be a state that does everything to scuttle negotiations," Cohen said in a cultural event at Holon ...
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away
Although less than two percent of national health expenditures go to education, promotion and prevention of disease, this doesn't reflect a lack of interest among the public. At a recent Women's Health Day organized for the 11th time at Jerusalem's Israel Museum by Hadassah University Medical Center's Patricia and Russell Fleischman Women's Health Center, 2,000 ...
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Jobbik MP Auschwitz museum may not reflect facts
The Jerusalem Post has learned.During a debate in parliament on Thursday, Jobbik MP Tamas Gaudi-Nagy announced that he believed that the museum at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland "may not reflect real ...
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Brawl breaks out among Berlin Jewish community
BERLIN - A meeting of the elected leadership of the conflict- ridden Berlin Jewish community -Germany's largest with 10,500 members - spilled over into physical attacks on Thursday due to disputes over the 2013 budget.The session turned "brutal," said one observer at the community's representative meeting ...
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Center vs periphery The roots of terror
On April 30, Haytham al-Mishal, implicated in recent rocket attacks on Eilat, was driving down the road in Gaza City on a motorcycle. Without warning, he was engulfed in an explosion from an Israeli air strike. The air strike was the first since the previous outbreak of violence in Gaza in November 2012. This continued back-and-forth is a dangerous, and often fatal, reminder of the ...
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Israel’s interests in Syria
It is a mistake for Israelis to express support for Bashar Assad. Israel should stay out of the Syrian conflict altogether while hoping for the fall of the Assad regime. Ultimately, Israel would be better served by a failed state next door than by a strong, Iranian-backed entity there.Several prominent Israelis have expressed their preference for an Assad victory in the Syrian civil war. ...
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HU students find cheaper housing for Jerusalemites
In response to last summer's social protest movement against increasingly prohibitive cost-of-living standards throughout the country, student entrepreneurs from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem created a company to provide affordable housing for the capital's young residents.The business, called "UniverCity," is managed by students from the university's Student ...
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Israel and Palestine Consequences of Deterrence
"Deterrence has to be maintained," said Gabi Siboni, a colonel for strategic affairs at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. "It was only a question of time until this moment arrived." It seems the Palestinians are of like mind. As things stand, this latest round of conflict between Israel and the Palestinians was probably inevitable. Escalation and ...
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Hezbollah wants to bring victory to Assad
Syria saw one of the deadliest days of fighting in its civil war Saturday. Meanwhile, the leader of the powerful Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said his fighters would wage an all-out battle to save President Bashar Assad. NBC's Richard Engel ...
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Hezbollah confirms involvement in Syria conflict for the first time
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is fighting alongside the government troops in Syria. Hezbollah is a Shi’ite Muslim group and it is backing Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad who is from the minority Alawite sect – an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam. During a televised speech, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah confirmed for the first time the group’s involvement in the ...
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Israeli official Syrian group tried to disrupt Haifa water system
A Syrian group attempted, but failed, to disrupt computers controlling the Haifa water system, an Israeli official said Saturday. The alleged cyberattack was a response to Israeli airstrikes on Damascus, Ynetnews reported. Yitzhak Ben-Yisrael, chairman of the National Council for Research and Development, said Israel's infrastructure is subject to almost continuous cyberattacks. He said ...
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Hezbollah chief commits to victory in Syria
BEIRUT (AP) -- The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group vowed to help propel President Bashar Assad to victory in Syria's bloody civil war, warning that the fall of the Damascus regime would give rise to extremists and plunge the Middle East into a "dark ...
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Excerpts Hariri re Hizbullah fighting in Syria.Preventing weapons fromSyria reaching Hizbollah.Israel re weapon to Hizbullah via Syria.Qatar-funded Al Jazeera U.S. launch.Syrian May 20 2013
Excerpts: Hariri re Hizbullah fighting in Syria.Preventing weapons from Syria reaching Hizbollah.Israel re weapon to Hizbullah via Syria. Qatar-funded Al Jazeera U.S. launch.Syrian May 20, ...
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Hezbollah Chief Orders Fight to Save Syrias Assad
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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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