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1320 articles tagged "Israel"
DEBKAfile
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September 3, 2007, 9:17 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Waqf Muslim authority, using heavy tractors, has so far excavated a trench 120 -meters long, 1.5 meters deep, crushing fragments of monumental building, pottery and glazed tiles in their path. The trench runs through the northern and eastern parts of the 2,000-year old Upper Platform of Temple Mount, where ...
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August 31, 2007, 10:23 AM (GMT+02:00)
Local parents challenged the figures offered by Maj. Gen Yitzhak Gershon, head of the homeland security command, when he inspected the measures for protecting schoolchildren against the daily Qassam missile fire from Gaza Wednesday, Aug. 29. Four days before the school year opens, Gershon reported Sderot has 164 fortified classrooms, ...
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August 31, 2007, 9:33 AM (GMT+02:00)
In his first briefing to the Knesset foreign affairs and security committee Monday, Aug. 27, defense minister Ehud Barak reported that Iranian missiles for Hizballah were being unloaded at Syria's Latakia port. They consist of many times more long-range and short-range rockets than Hizballah had in its arsenal when it ...
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August 27, 2007, 11:17 AM (GMT+02:00)
Their commanders announced they were reverting to their old routines, namely terrorist attacks on Israelis.
Tuesday morning, Aug. 21, three days after Israel's internal security minister Avi Dichter disclosed that 40% of the group which took the pledge to give up terrorism had not turned in their weapons, the IDF rounded ... 
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August 26, 2007, 3:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
As life in areas abutting the Gaza Strip becomes increasingly hellish and dangerous, their Israeli inhabitants feel as though they live in a forgotten land.
debkafile sources report this sensation was dramatized Saturday, Aug. 25, by the display of astonishing new Palestinian military capabilities and their determination to ... 
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August 26, 2007, 10:25 AM (GMT+02:00)
At a news conference Monday, Aug. 20, Ehud Barak warned that the Israeli Defense Forces are in no fit condition to uphold its security missions which he defined as deterrence, early warning and victory. The plan Barak put forward includes reconstituting two disbanded reservist divisions, improving tank armor against missiles ...
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August 22, 2007, 11:29 AM (GMT+02:00)
Sderot parents to boycott schools over government's failure to fortify classrooms against daily Palestinian missiles. The Parents Committee cite the High Court of Justice ruling last school year ordering the government to fortify every classroom within missile range of the Gaza Strip by Sept. 1 when the new school year ...
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August 21, 2007, 9:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
Three Qassam missiles were fired against Kerem Shalom gateway Sunday as more than 130 trucks carried milk, fruit, sugar, flour and equipment for the next school year.
Trucks carrying 100,000 liters of heavy fuel were halted on the Israeli side of the reopened Nahal Oz crossing by the European Community's ... 
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August 21, 2007, 10:56 AM (GMT+02:00)
Since the beginning of the week, Israel's top military commanders have been poring over the situation of the Israeli Defense Forces in a workshop called by Ehud Barak who took over as defense minister two months ago. Some of their most alarming findings were presented by Barak at his first ...
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August 19, 2007, 8:39 AM (GMT+02:00)
As expected, former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu won an overwhelming 73% of his party's support, compared with the nationalist Moshe Feiglin's 23% and Danny Danin's 3.5%. The turnout was 40% of the registered 95,000 members, a considerable feat in a midsummer poll.
But when it came to his victory announcement ...
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August 18, 2007, 11:39 AM (GMT+02:00)
Canvassed on choice of prime minister by pollster Yitzhak Katz, 32% opted for Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu, 30% for the Labor defense minister Ehud Barak (both former PMs) and 5% for the incumbent Olmert.
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August 16, 2007, 9:59 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that the delay in Maj. Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky's scheduled departure as Deputy Chief of Staff, announced by the IDF spokesman Wednesday night, Aug 15, is connected with the war tensions on Israel's northern and Gaza borders and renewed threats from Iran.
Barak inspected the ...
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August 15, 2007, 5:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
More than 100 suspected terrorists detained for questioning, half released later.
The Golani Brigade troops clashed with Palestinian Hamas gunmen who opened fire during a raid on the villages of Qarara and Abassan east of Khan Younes and close to the Israeli border. The force continues to operate in the area, ...
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August 14, 2007, 10:52 AM (GMT+02:00)
They have been identified as Yehiel Rosenfeld, David Cochavi, Yitzhak Hamami and Yehoshua Lustig. The close kin of the fifth soldier has not yet been informed. The remains of the five Israeli soldiers who died in Israel's War of Independence were found at El Arish in northern Sinai.
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August 13, 2007, 2:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
Hatib died in an exchange of fire after he shot and grabbed the sidearm of an Israeli guard who was seriously wounded. Ten people were injured in an exchange of fire as the second guard chased him through the crowded Street of the Christians. Hatib arrived in Jerusalem by a ...
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August 12, 2007, 5:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
Five youngsters were detained, 27 people were injured, after hundreds threw stones and oil at the thousands of police, border guards and soldiers mobilized for the evacuation. The occupants, two families who claimed the two stores were formerly Jewish property, did not resist eviction.
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August 12, 2007, 8:50 AM (GMT+02:00)
Four medals will be awarded posthumously. Thirty-four citations will be conferred by the chief of staff, including 12 Medals for Distinguished Service and 6 Medals of Valor. One posthumous Medal of Valor for exceptional courage will be handed to the family of the late Maj. Roi Klein, 31, from the ...
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July 31, 2007, 9:25 AM (GMT+02:00)
Friday, they fired five mortar rounds, then laid an explosive device near Kerem Shalom in the south. IDF fire detonated the device. Two Qassam missiles exploded outside the Sufa crossing. Another two later Friday.
On the West Bank, Palestinian gunmen fired at an Israeli patrol at Beit Jala in southern Jerusalem. ... 
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July 29, 2007, 9:36 AM (GMT+02:00)
His resignation tendered to the chief of staff Thursday, July 26, was formally termed a "request to terminate his term of duty." debkafile notes: Maj. Gen, Bassat never in the year since the Lebanon War assumed responsibility for attack by a Hizballah shore-to-ship C-802 missile which killed four ...
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July 27, 2007, 10:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
The panel of five High Court justices, headed by Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch, granted the state 21 days to explain how charges of rape included in the original indictment came to be removed from the plea bargain accord negotiated by state attorney Menahem Mazuz. Jail time for Katzav was ...
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