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DEBKAfile
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July 15, 2008, 10:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
Following the two-hour police interrogation of prime minister Ehud Olmert at his Jerusalem home, Friday, July 11, the Justice ministry and Police jointly announced their investigation had been widened beyond the Talansky case.
Olmert and his agents are now suspected of fraudulently obtaining the costs of each of his foreign trips ...
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July 15, 2008, 7:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
Monday, July 14, the Knesset interior committee Monday approved a bill ahead of second and third reading penalizing individuals guilty of aiding terror, terrorist organization membership, espionage and treason with loss of Israeli citizenship or permanent residency. The minister of interior would make this decision on the strength of a ...
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July 12, 2008, 9:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
It was obvious that US president George W. Bush's denunciation of those who would negotiate with "terrorists and radicals" had put the Democratic candidate, Senator Barack Obama, on the spot. Minutes after the words had been spoken on Thursday, May 16, in a special 60th anniversary session of the Israeli ...
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July 11, 2008, 3:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
Following the two-hour police interrogation of prime minister Ehud Olmert at his Jerusalem home, Friday, July 11, the Justice ministry and Police jointly announced the widening of their investigation beyond the Talansky case.
Olmert and his agents are now suspected of fraudulently obtaining the costs of each of his foreign ... 
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July 7, 2008, 5:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
The bulldozer assault on July 2, a first in terrorist annals, claimed three Israel lives and left more than 70 people injured. The victims were Elizabeth Goren-Friedman, 54, Bathsheva Onterman, 33, and Zen Raluay, 68.
One common denominator of all three attacks, which has been largely obscured by Israeli authorities, was ... 
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July 6, 2008, 9:12 AM (GMT+02:00)
In a rampage along Jerusalem's crowded Jaffa Street thoroughfare, a bulldozer driven by a terrorist hoisted and overturned a packed 13 bus, while extending its shovel and plowing into several vehicles and pedestrians.
The victims were Elizabeth Goren-Friedman, 54, Bathsheva Onterman, 33, and Zen Raluay, 68, all from Jerusalem. Bathsheva saved ... 
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July 6, 2008, 9:12 AM (GMT+02:00)
According to debkafile's military and intelligence sources, the overriding considerations that will determine if and when Israel attacks Iran are these: whether to strike before George W. Bush's exit, whether Iran's strategic ties with Syria and the Palestinian Hamas can be severed in advance and what prime minister ...
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July 5, 2008, 12:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's counter-terror sources identify the "Galilee Liberators Brigades" as a clandestine Hizballah offshoot which has established centers in the Arab villages of Manda and Kana in the northern Israeli Galilee. The Galilee Liberators' murderous record goes back five years, according to our sources. In 2003, its members kidnapped ...
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July 4, 2008, 9:28 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile: The unusual publicity given to prime minister Ehud Olmert's visit to Israel's nuclear reactor at Dimona, in the southern Negev region, on July 1 - albeit after the fact - is a more than gentle hint to Iran of Israel's determination to pre-empt a nuclear-armed Iran.
It further ...
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July 2, 2008, 12:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
A rampaging bulldozer driven by a Palestinian lifted and overturned a bus and rammed several vehicles on the crowded Jerusalem's Jaffa Street opposite the National broadcasting Center. The tractor drive was shot dead by policeman. Police and emergency teams at scene digging out victims.
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June 30, 2008, 10:01 AM (GMT+02:00)
The deal with a Sept. 25 deadline for a Kadima primary effectively forestalled the Likud-led opposition Knesset dissolution vote Wednesday, June 25 and its support by Labor members, which would have brought the government down, debkafile's political sources report.
The two ruling parties, Kadima and Labor, reached an ... 
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June 29, 2008, 9:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
Meir Dagan, whose term of office as head of Israel's external intelligence service, Mossad, Prime Minister Ehud Olmet extended June 22 by a year to the end of 2009, directed the intelligence-gathering effort for the attack on Syria's North Korean plutonium reactor Sept. 6, 2007. He may now be entrusted ...
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June 28, 2008, 9:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
Shin Bet director Yuval Diskin reported more smuggled arms from Sinai were reaching Gaza in the first 72 hours of the Israel-Hamas truce and Palestinian combat training had been stepped up. Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah had suffered a serious setback.
Justice minister Prof. Daniel Friedman called the Israel-Hamas truce deal "a ...
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June 28, 2008, 9:07 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report powerful explosions rocked Sderot Tuesday, June 24, for the first time in the six days since the Israel-Hamas truce went into effect last Thursday. One injured civilian and three shock victims were treated. They were claimed by the Iran-backed Jihad Islami, which vowed to ...
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June 28, 2008, 9:01 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Western military sources do not believe that if Israel does attack Iran's nuclear facilities, it will resort to the old-fashioned aerial blitz tactic employed in 1981 for bombing Iraq's Osirak reactor. They therefore challenge the US officials' conclusion that Israel's aerial exercise in conjunction with the Greek ...
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June 25, 2008, 9:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
The High Court in Jerusalem ruled Monday, June 23, in favor of the government, deciding not to intervene in its decision to accept a ceasefire with Hamas and reopening of the Gaza crossings without making the deal contingent on an exchange of prisoners. The crossings, closed Monday for the hearing, ...
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June 23, 2008, 11:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
US Pentagon sources report that more than 100 Air Force F-16 and F-15 fighters participated in the maneuver over the eastern Mediterranean and Greece in the first week of June. The maneuver included helicopters used for rescuing downed pilots and refueling tankers. They flew 1,440 km, roughly the distance between ...
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June 23, 2008, 11:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
Palestinian security sources said that at 9 am local time Sunday, June 22, the Israeli army reopened the Sufa and Nahal Oz crossings and let 90 trucks of basic food supplies go through to the Gaza population.
The Olmert government is under heavy fire from some of its own members, ...
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June 21, 2008, 9:48 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile military sources report that Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak has bowed to Hamas' insistence on assigning the negotiations for the release of Gilead Shalit, kidnapped two years ago, to "stage two" of the Egyptian-brokered truce accord. In other words, it has been left out of the deal. ...
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June 20, 2008, 6:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
Commenting on the truce deal shaping up between Israel and Hamas for the Gaza Strip, debkafile's military sources note that the Olmert government has given way to Hamas on its two key demands: the incorporation in the package of the Israeli soldier, Gilead Shalit, who was kidnapped two ...
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