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Netanyahu Firm on Syrian Threat to Tel Aviv
Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu opened Sunday's weekly cabinet meeting with a response to a report in the London Sunday Times that Syrian President Bashar Assad is preparing to use missiles against Tel Aviv if Israel strikes Damascus. Netanyahu countered that Israel will continue to thwart efforts by Syria to ship weapons to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. "Our ...
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Syria in frame Netanyahu vows ‘continued’ protection of Israel against ‘leakage of weapons to Hezbollah’
Syria Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting that he will prevent the transfer of weaponry to Hezbollah, implying Syria could be struck in the process. Fatal blasts battered Damascus in early May, allegedly executed by Israel. In public remarks made at his weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, Netanyahu said with great emphasis that the Israeli government would "continue to ...
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With Hezbollahs help Syrian troops push to regain Lebanese border areas
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 30 people, including 16 rebel fighters and one woman, were killed in Qusair in morning fighting, but that the death toll was expected to ...
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Weed grow room found in haredi girls school
For some time before Sunday, a strong herbal aroma wafted through the halls of a Kiryat Gat school for haredi girls, puzzling the school's faculty and staff. On Sunday, the principal decided to investigate, and made her way to a basement bomb shelter, where she stumbled upon a marijuana grow room, Negev subdistrict police reported on Sunday.The principal called police and when investigators ...
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Bennett Decision on Ports Is Historic
Finance Minister Naftali Bennett stood behind the government's austerity budget Sunday. Speaking with Arutz Sheva, he also took pride in the decisions to allow privatization of port ...
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Tshuva Gas exports worth $100b to Treasury
"It is especially important these days to remember that gas exports alone will generate $100 billion for the treasury and the Israeli economy over the next 20 years," ...
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Teva CFO I hope we can move more activities to Israel
"We'll have to examine the new tax environment. Israel is a priority, and over the years we've moved as much activity here as possible, partly because of the tax breaks. I hope we can continue to do this," ...
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Israel acts to deny Hezbollah Syrian arms Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. His remarks came two weeks after Israel carried out air strikes near Damascus, which a senior Israeli source said were aimed at preventing the transfer of sophisticated Iranian arms to Hezbollah, the Lebanese ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Netanyahu said ...
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Assad Hezbollah forces enter Syria rebel town Qusayr
Assad regime's "barbaric and destructive" assault on Qusayr could render "meaningless" US-Russian attempts to organize a conference on ending two years of bloodshed in the country. The Arab League called an emergency meeting for Thursday, ahead of the conference, following demands from the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) for it to meet and "stop the ...
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Bennett reveals reform of religious services
Minister for Religious Services Naftali Bennett, alongside deputy minister Eli Ben-Dahan, unveiled a series of reforms on Sunday for the provision of religious services in Israel, calling the measures proposed "revolutionary."Speaking at a press conference in Jerusalem, Bennett said that the objective was to improve the professionalism of religious services and make them more ...
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Israeli cos provide translation services for Google apps
Two Israeli companies are behind Google Inc.'s (Nasdaq: GOOG) new translation service for applications, which the company unveiled at its I/O developers conference in San Francisco last week. Google offers the service for Android app developers who want their apps translated in order to increase exposure around the world. App developers can purchase translations via Google's Play ...
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Syrian forces launch airstrike on rebel-held city of Qusayr
Syrian forces launched an attack Sunday on the rebel-held city of Qusayr, killing at least 13 people, opposition leaders and state-run media said. The airstrikes came after months of fighting on the outskirts of the city in Homs province near the Lebanese border, ...
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Jordan scuttles attempt to expel Israeli envoy
expel Israel's ambassador ended when several members of parliament backed-down according to official sources. Despite the failure of the move to send Israeli Ambassador Daniel Nevo packing, the incident underscores the viability of opposition to normalization with the Jewish state.A strong majority of 86 out of 150 lawmakers had signed a memorandum calling for a parliamentary session to ...
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Babies Narrowly Escape Rock Attack
On Saturday night, one Israeli driver after another fell victim to an ambush near Wadi Harmiya, near Shilo in the Binyamin region. Beginning at 1 a.m., Palestinian Authority Arab attackers waiting near the road hurled a barrage of stones at passing cars with Israeli license plates. Among those targeted by the attackers was the Shlissel family from Ariel. Mother Ayelet was driving, while her ...
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Netanyahu Israel Acting to Deny Hizbullah Syrian Arms
Israel is acting to prevent Syrian weapons from reaching Lebanon's Hizbullah and will continue to do so, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on ...
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Mobile carriers halve workforce
The mobile telephony revolution which Israel has undergone in the past year has exceeded expectations. Prices have plummeted, and the veteran carriers are adapting to the new reality: the public is unwilling to pay more than NIS 100 a month for mobile telecommunications plans. This reality will result in the halving of the number of employees, and within a year or two, each carrier will probably ...
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Half of wage-earners don’t meet tax threshold
Ministry of Finance's State Revenues Administration reported today. It adds that 52.2% of salaried employees and 33.8% of the self-employed did not meet the threshold. The proportion of employees who did not meet the tax threshold rose to 52.3% in 2012. The income tax threshold for a man with 2.25 credit points is NIS 4,703 a month. The report reveals the widening salary gaps in Israel. In ...
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Alvarions troubles mount as Wi-Fi sales fall
Telrad Networks Ltd. for $12 million, and now provides enterprise network communications systems, using Wi-Fi technology, which it acquired through its $30 million acquisition of Wavion in 2011. However, the 20-F statement reveals problems with Alvarion's Wi-Fi business. "Our sales of our Wi-Fi products decreased significantly in the second half of 2012 as the world was migrating to ...
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Haredi smartphone in the works
A smartphone approved by a rabbinical committee will soon be launched in Israel, announced Rabbi David Zilbershlag at the Ariel Conference for Ethics in the Media last week. Until now, haredi (ultra-orthodox) rabbis has strongly opposed advanced mobile devices, claiming that they are corrupting. Zilbershlag said that the smartphones would handle e-mail. Zilbershlag said that such a device was ...
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Yam 3 drilling resumes
SOG ) announced last night that the well operator in the Shemen license had notified the company that measures taken in the Yam 3 well's borehole to deal with the high pressure, which had halted drilling in the upper gas-bearing strata, had been successfully completed. The operator notified its partners in the license that it will continue drilling using an alternative engineering layout, ...
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Agricultural Charity Gives Aid to Israels Poor
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Almost two million Israelis live below the poverty level, including more than a third of the country's children. However, one charity is using a biblical principle to fill in the ...
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Report says Syria aims rockets at Israel
Satellite footage reveals Syria has surface-to-surface Tishreen missiles aimed at Tel Aviv, The Sunday Times reported. Reconnaissance satellites showed the Syrian army preparing to deploy missiles that carry a half-ton payload, the British newspaper said Sunday. The missiles have been put on standby and the military has orders to fire if Israel wages an attack on Syrian soil, the newspaper ...
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Iran hangs two spy suspects
Two Iranian nationals accused of spying for Israel and the United States were executed in Tehran at dawn Sunday, the prosecutor's office in Iran said. Mohammad Heidari was accused of collecting classified information and providing intelligence to Israel's Mossad agency, Iran's Press TV reported. The network said he allegedly received large sums of money from the Israeli spy ...
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Iran sanctions hurt Hezbollah and Assad report
Sanctions imposed against Iran are hurting the Islamic Republic's ability to support its regional allies Hezbollah and the Syrian government, U.S. Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David Cohen told Al Arabiya this ...
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WJC calls for investigation into Claims Conference
World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder has written to senior executives of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany to inform them that he has tasked WJC CEO Robert Singer with "appoint[ing] a task force chaired by Michael Schneider and including himself and WJC General Counsel Menachem Rosensaft" to investigate what senior executives knew of massive fraud within ...
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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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