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1319 articles tagged "Israel"
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September 28, 2008, 5:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
The gang of 7 Jerusalem Arab residents and one Palestinian were sought for the murder of two Israeli policemen, Rami Zohari and David Shriki, in two separate terror attacks in the city earlier this year. They were indicted at the Jerusalem district court ten days ago for murder, attempted murder, ...
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September 27, 2008, 5:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
US Secretary of State Condoleezza said Friday Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comments are unacceptable. She said the UN Security Council shoud "deal with this now." Rice referred to the Iranian president's anti-Israel comments to the UN General Assembly Tuesday and his frequent calls for Israel to be wiped off the ...
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September 27, 2008, 5:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
Three out of four Israeli men below 29 are unmarried, compared with 60 percent of women in the same age group, according to the 2006 annual statistic report published for the New Year. Israel's total population today is 7,337,000, one fifth of which are Arabs - a proportion which is ...
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September 27, 2008, 10:41 AM (GMT+02:00)
Some are still in hospital, one, a girl soldier is in serious condition. The terrorist, after crashing his black BMW into a group of soldiers and civilians in downtown Jerusalem Monday night, Sept. 22, was shot dead by Lt. Elad Amer, an artillery office.
The soldiers were trampled on the ... 
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September 25, 2008, 8:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's political sources disclose that, while Israeli president Shimon Peres was solemnly entrusting Kadima leader Tzipi Livni with the task of forming a government, Monday night, Sept. 22, the defense minister, Labor's Ehud Barak and opposition leader Likud's Binyamin Netanyahu were quietly moving forward with a rival plan. ...
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September 24, 2008, 9:30 AM (GMT+02:00)
President Shimon Peres entrusts new Kadima leader, foreign minister Tzipi Livni with forming a government Monday night, Sept. 22, at the end of 24 hours of consultations with party representatives in a race against time. He began the round Sunday night after Ehud Olmert tendered his resignation as prime minister ...
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September 22, 2008, 11:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
Exactly a week after a Palestinian escaped after stabbing a 9-year old Israeli boy and burning a building at Yitzhar on the West Bank, the scenario was repeated - except this time he did not reach the village. Israeli soldiers and border guards spotted him in time. When he began ...
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September 22, 2008, 1:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
Transport minister Shaul Mofaz's announcement of time out from politics and his public duties after he lost the Kadima leadership primary to foreign minister Tzipi Livni by a single percent has seriously divided the party. His supporters claim he was treated unfairly by the party and media, all of which ...
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September 20, 2008, 1:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's political sources report that outgoing prime minister Ehud Olmert will not hand in his resignation at Sunday's cabinet meeting but only present the ministers with his schedule.
This is complicated by president Shimon Peres' trip to New York to speak for Israel at this week's new UN ... 
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September 20, 2008, 11:30 AM (GMT+02:00)
Foreign minister Tzipi Livni declared herself victor of the Kadima party's first leadership primary before dawn Thursday, Sept. 18, although her win was challenged by transport Shaul Mofaz, one percent behind her (43 to his 42 percent). All night, he demanded a partial recount in view of election irregularities, claiming ...
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September 18, 2008, 5:54 AM (GMT+02:00)
Foreign minister Tzipi Livni, 50, was awarded 47-48-49 percent of a scant 50 percent of Kadima's registered voters (34,000), compared with 37 percent won by her closest rival, transport minister Shaul Mofaz.
Outgoing prime minister Ehud Olmert promised to hand over to the winner of the Kadima primary Wednesday Sept. ... 
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September 17, 2008, 10:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
Defense minister Ehud Barak of Labor and opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu of Likud are in advanced negotiations to rotate the premiership between them in order to cut the ground from under ruling Kadima which votes for a new chairman Wednesday, Sept. 17. The ultra-religious Shas is in on the plan.
This ...
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September 13, 2008, 10:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
The pilots were Maj. (Res.) Shai Danur, 35, father of five, from Rosh Ha'ayin, and Yuval Holtzman, 40, father of three, from Matan Hasharon.
The helicopter on a training mission went down Wednesday, Sept. 10, near Kibbutz Ginegar in the Jezreel Valley, apparently due to a technical failure, bursting into ...
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September 12, 2008, 6:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
The discovery of large sections of the city's southern wall from the times of the Hasmonean kings is a major contribution to the knowledge of Jerusalem, marking out the city's full extent during its heyday as the thriving center of Jewish pilgrimage from all parts of the ancient world.
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September 12, 2008, 5:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Russian raid was disclosed by UPI chief editor Arnaud de Borchgrave. The Russian raid of two Georgian airfields, which Tbilisi had allowed Israel to use for a potential strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, followed the Georgian offensive against South Ossetia on Aug. 7.
debkafile's intelligence sources report ... 
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September 9, 2008, 12:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli police decided Sun. Sept. 7 that it has sufficient evidence to bring criminal charges against Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert on two cases of corruption pre-dating his present incumbency.
Their recommendation was referred to attorney general Menahem Maziz, who alone is competent to indict a prime minister and who ... 
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September 3, 2008, 10:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
Hamas is no longer under pressure to conclude a deal with Israel for the release of Gilead Shalit, 22, the kidnapped Israeli soldier spending a third birthday in Gazan captivity.
Sunday, Aug. 31, a special ministerial committee will convene in Jerusalem to draw up a fresh list of jailed Palestinian ... 
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August 31, 2008, 9:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
The geography of the accident Tuesday, Aug. 26, belied the reiterated claims of Israeli ministers and UN officials that Hizballah's rockets had been pushed back from the Lebanese-Israeli border under the terms of the Resolution 1701 ceasefire. The Hizballah operative was discussing with his men how far inside Israeli territory ...
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August 29, 2008, 5:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak wanted to hear about progress in Egypt's mediation for the release of the Israeli soldier kidnapped in 2006 by Hamas, when he met the president Hosni Mubarak Tuesday, Aug. 26. However, debkafile reports that Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak preferred first to lay ...
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August 9, 2008, 11:32 AM (GMT+02:00)
In 50 ceremonies up and down the country, some 8,500 members of Gaza's former 21 communities and many sympathizers from Israel and abroad marked the third anniversary of their forcible evacuation. More than 80 percent are still living in temporary accommodation, many still jobless. The Knesset has set up a ...
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