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June 8, 2008, 5:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
The meeting between the Israeli prime minister and president George W. Bush lasted less than an hour; It was more a farewell between two leaders on their way out than a down-to-earth exchange. debkafile's Washington sources report Olmert was informed ahead of his visit that the White House ...
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June 7, 2008, 6:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
What brought the unnamed accuser from America to the door of the Israeli police at this time? According to an Israeli paper, he laid before police investigators strong evidence of a new and grave corruption charge against prime minister Ehud Olmert, the fifth case opened against him thus far - ...
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June 6, 2008, 9:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
Amnon Rosenberg, who is survived by a wife and three children, was killed by a shell fired from Gaza while at work in the Nir Oz factory, Nir-Lat, Thursday, June 5. Four more Israeli civilians were injured in the attack, two seriously. Hamas and Jihad Islami attacks on the neighboring ...
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June 4, 2008, 10:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
Prime minister Ehud Olmert was forced to back down on his plan to call a security cabinet session Sunday to decide on the Egyptian-brokered truce in Gaza before leaving Monday, June 2, for a week of talks in Washington.
A majority has come around to the position that effective military action ...
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June 3, 2008, 12:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tzahi Hanegbi, chairman of the foreign affairs and security committee, has charted a three-point plan to extricate the country from the political crisis sparked by the corruption scandal surrounding prime minister Ehud Olmert. MK Hanegbi, hitherto considered a staunch Olmert loyalist, said Saturday, May 31, the government no longer has ...
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May 31, 2008, 7:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Jerusalem sources report: Tzahi Hanegbi, chairman of the Knesset foreign affairs and security committee has always been a staunch loyalist of prime minister Ehud Olmert. A shrewd party tactician, Hanegbi picked up on the line promoted by the prime minister's defense team, which challenged his rivals to ...
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May 31, 2008, 12:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert schedules a consultation on the lingering Gaza missile crisis with defense minister Ehud Barak and foreign minister Tzipi Livni Sunday, June 1 before taking off Monday for a week of talks in Washington.
The prime minister is traveling in the face of rising pressure for ... 
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May 31, 2008, 11:16 AM (GMT+02:00)
Long Island financier Morris Talansky, the chief prosecution witness in the inquiry against prime minister Ehud Olmert described a long history of sums amounting to $150,000 handed to the suspect in cash or personal credit card when the recipient refused to accept checks.
The financier testified to the Jerusalem district ...
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May 28, 2008, 8:54 AM (GMT+02:00)
At the first session of the Golan lobby in Jerusalem Monday, May 26 National Union Knesset member Aryeh Eldad, citing the Treason clause 97 of the Penal Law, declared: "He who acts to remove state-owned territory from state sovereignty and cedes it to a foreign state is punishable by death ...
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May 22, 2008, 8:58 AM (GMT+02:00)
As this damaging revelation emerged in the High Court Monday, May 19, prime minister Ehud Olmert's office announced he would undergo a routine hospital test that night to monitor his prostrate cancer, which was disclosed last October as not life-threatening. Several lawmakers on both sides of the house want him ...
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May 22, 2008, 8:30 AM (GMT+02:00)
Outgoing Air Force commander, Maj. Gen. Eliezer Shkedy said in a radio interview Saturday, May 17, that the peril comes from thousands of missile stocked by Syria, Hizballah, Hamas and possibly Iran. Israel has developed new defensive capabilities to reduce their impact.
He revealed that during the 2006 Lebanon War, the ...
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May 20, 2008, 5:39 PM (GMT+02:00)
Internal security minister Avi Dichter said in a radio interview Saturday, May 17, that on no account may a terrorist entity be permitted to exist between Israel and Egypt. The Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip did not qualify as a state and should not be treated as one, he stressed. No accommodations ...
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May 20, 2008, 4:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military and Middle East sources report that Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak informed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak at their meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh Monday, May 19, that the kidnapped Israel soldier Gilead Shalit must be included in the ceasefire deal. However, Egyptian go-betweens headed by intelligence minister ...
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May 20, 2008, 11:19 AM (GMT+02:00)
The poll, conducted by Prof. Yitzahk Katz's Maagar Mohot institute, found 51 percent of the sample canvassed in favor of fighting Hamas; 39 percent preferred an accommodation. Only 31 percent trusted prime minister Ehud Olmert and defense minister Ehud Barak to deal with the Palestinian missile offensive from Gaza; 21 ...
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May 18, 2008, 2:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
Once again, after two previous successes, Hamas proved Saturday, April 19 it was capable of ramming through Israel's border defenses against the Gaza Strip. This time, Israeli troops acted expeditiously and boldly enough to prevent a major Palestinian breakthrough at the Kerem Shalom crossing and fatal casualties. Thirteen members of ...
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May 17, 2008, 5:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
Jihad Islami and Popular Committees claimed the attack with Hamas blessing. After examining the rocket shrapnel, police commander Uri Barlev confirmed it was a Grad (Katyhusha) military rocket made in Iran.
Of the 100 people injured in Ashkelon's bustling mall, four people were seriously hurt including a mother and her ...
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May 17, 2008, 9:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
Handing over the command of the air force at a ceremony on Tuesday, May 13, Maj. Gen. Eliezer Shkedy warned that Israel faces threats unknown in the past. "We must prepare itself to withstand them as a nation, as an army and as an air force," he said. The incoming ...
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May 16, 2008, 1:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
Some unusual aspects stand out in the German Chancellor Angela Merkel's four-day official visit to Israel starting Sunday, March 16. One is her arrival with seven of her top ministers, including foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and defense minister Franz Josef Jung. Both will hold bilateral talks with their Israeli counterparts. ...
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May 14, 2008, 10:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
Shuli Katz, 70, mother of four, grandmother of five, from Kibbutz Gvar-Am, was on a family visit to Moshav Yesha south of Ofakim. She was killed instantly as she stepped out of a car by an exploding Qassam missile fired from Gaza. Jihad Islami claimed the second Israeli fatality of ...
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May 13, 2008, 10:03 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Middle East sources report that the police investigations hanging over prime minister Olmert's head are beginning to undermine his government's ability to engage in Middle East diplomacy. Most political circles have begun the countdown to his political demise in the short term.
Sunday night, Cairo had not ... |
