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DEBKAfile
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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 ... 
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May 12, 2008, 7:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Jerusalem district court Friday, May 9, approved the prosecution's application to allow the US financier Morris Talansky, 75, from Long Island, to testify in a pre-trial hearing to handing large sums of cash to prime minister Ehud Olmert.
The court decided to open the session to the public. Talansky ...
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May 11, 2008, 11:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
He had stepped out of his house in Kibbutz Kfar Azza to work in the garden when he took a direct hit from a mortar shell Friday night, May 9. A kibbutz veteran and reserve paratrooper, Jimmy Kedoshim is survived by a wife and three children. Palestinian attacks also injured ...
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May 10, 2008, 11:13 AM (GMT+02:00)
Two spectators and a paratrooper were seriously injured when he was swept off course by a gusting wind and landed at the edge of a crowd watching a free fall- aerobatic spectacle over Tel Aviv beach. Five more spectators suffered minor injuries.
Across the country, during the day, after a night ... 
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May 9, 2008, 12:53 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's political sources report that circles closest to Ehud Olmert, prime minister and leader of the Kadima party see little hope of him surviving the political fallout from the new, as-yet unpublished police investigation against him.
Tuesday, May 6, is seen as marking the critical point in the inquiry, ...
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May 9, 2008, 12:12 AM (GMT+02:00)
Jerusalem district court allowed publication of the prosecution's request to hear a foreign witness's sworn testimony in the case against prime minister Ehud Olmert in a pre-trial proceeding. However, the court delayed its reply until after Independence Day, Thursday, May 8. The witness's departure before the hearing could seriously damage ...
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May 8, 2008, 10:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
A mysterious stranger from America laid fresh information before the Israeli police last week initiating Corruption Investigation No. 5 against Ehud Olmert. All five pre-date his two years as Israeli prime minister and none have so far produced an indictment. But this time, the Attorney General ordered the police to ...
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May 8, 2008, 9:07 AM (GMT+02:00)
Thursday night, May 8 the court gag order imposed on the police investigation against the prime minister was partially lifted. Olmert immediately denied the charge published against him of bribe-taking, admitted only accepting political campaign funds which never reached his pocket and said he would only resign if indicted.
The charge ...
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May 5, 2008, 10:47 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli transport minister Shaul Mofaz, speaking at Yale University Tuesday night, April 30, on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, warned Iran may attain command of enrichment technology before the end of this year. He said: "Israel will not stand for a nuclear-armed Iran. This time, the Jewish people ...
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May 4, 2008, 6:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile reports that prime minister Ehud Olmert was faced with pressing demands at the defense and foreign affairs cabinet session Wednesday, April 30, to explain why Israel is accepting the truce in negotiation with Hamas instead of getting down to the promised military campaign to eradicate its missile ...
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April 29, 2008, 11:20 AM (GMT+02:00)
Yossi Harel died in Tel Aviv aged 90. The story of the epic Exodus voyage with thousands of Holocaust survivors, turned back by the British from Palestinian shores, was first told in a book by Leon Uris and made into a Hollywood film starring Paul Newman as the Exodus captain.
From ... 
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April 29, 2008, 11:20 AM (GMT+02:00)
Maj. Gen. Eliezer Shkedy tells CBCNews 60 Minutes Bob Simon that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threats against Israel must be taken extremely seriously. In an interview to be aired Sunday, April 27, the general said: "I think it is a very serious threat to the state of Israel, but more than this, ...
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April 28, 2008, 8:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
Military authorities leading the campaign against Palestinian terror told debkafile Monday, April 28, that the removal of the permanent roadblock at Asariya a-Shemaliya north of the West Bank town of Nablus lays the entire area including central Israel open to terrorist attacks which that very roadblock had long ...
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