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Israel cancels UNESCO delegations visit
Israel has cancelled a planned visit by a UNESCO delegation to Jerusalem due to the efforts of Palestinian factions to politicise it. The Israeli foreign ministry said Monday the Palestinians were trying to turn this visit into a "fact-finding mission of Israel's moves in Jerusalem ". "The delegation's visit has been postponed, " reported Xinhua citing a source. "This was supposed to be a ...
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Israel says talks stalemate harmful for Israel as Palestinian narrative gains traction
JERUSALEM // Israel's chief peace negotiator with the Palestinians said yesterday the current stalemate was harmful for Israel. Tzipi Livni told a parliamentary committee that resuming negotiations was "first and foremost an Israeli interest". She spoke days before the US secretary of state John Kerry was expected to arrive in Israel for his latest push to restart long-dormant ...
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Israeli forces exchange gunfire over Israeli-Syrian border in Golan Heights
The Israeli soldiers said they fired back after shots were fired at a military patrol on the border in the central Golan Heights, damaging a military ...
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Israel Destroys Syrian Army Post
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israeli and Syrian forces exchanged fire along Israel's northern border overnight Monday, with the IDF scoring a direct hit that destroyed the Syrian army post. There were no injuries, but a military vehicle was lightly damaged. "Overnight, shots were fired at an IDF patrol on the border in the central Golan Heights, damaging a military vehicle," the IDF ...
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Israel Vows to Prevent Weapons to Hezbollah
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israel is vowing to keep up its attacks to prevent advanced weapons reaching Hezbollah via Syria. In meetings earlier this week with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it clear Israel would continue to monitor and act against the transfer of weapons to Hezbollah. Despite Syrian President Bashar Assad's warning of an ...
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Israeli peace negotiator Stalemate bad for Israel
Tzipi Livni told a parliamentary committee Tuesday that resuming negotiations was "first and foremost an Israeli interest." She spoke days before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to arrive in Israel for his latest push to restart long-dormant ...
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Syria claims it destroyed Israeli vehicle on its territory
Israel denied the report, saying one of its vehicles was hit by gunfire on its side of Golan ceasefire line, but the incident highlighted the potential for renewed conflict along a frontline that has been largely quiet for nearly four decadesIn a statement broadcast by Syrian state ...
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Israeli Committee Presents al-Dura Findings
JERUSALEM, Israel -- A government committee presented its findings Monday on the controversial death of Mohammed al-Dura, an Arab youth allegedly killed by Israeli troops in September 2000 at the start of the second intifada. More than a dozen years after a French television station aired a video clip showing the boy and his father caught in the crossfire that allegedly killed him and wounded ...
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Israel Syria show teeth Third cross-border shootout in week
Syria Israeli troops opened "retaliating" fire at targets across the Syrian border with Syria later claiming it destroyed an Israeli military vehicle stationed in Golan Heights. This is a third consecutive cross-border shooting in a week, Israeli media say. The Israeli military said their troops had "returned precise fire" after a Syrian soldier allegedly caused damage to ...
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Five Dead In Bank Robbery In Southern Israel
Five people are dead after an apparent bank robbery in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba went tragically wrong yesterday. Around lunchtime yesterday, an armed man entered a branch of Bank Hapoalim in a residential area. In the ensuing standoff with police, two bank employees and two customers were killed before the gunman killed himself. ...
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NYT Smugglers sneak KFC across border into Gaza
GAZA CITY — The French fries arrive soggy, the chicken having long since lost its crunch. A 12-piece bucket goes for about $27 here -- more than twice the $11.50 it costs just across the border in Egypt. And for fast-food delivery, it is anything but fast: it took more than four hours for the KFC meals to arrive here on a recent afternoon from the franchise where they were cooked ...
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Syria Israel exchange fire over border
DAMASCUS, Syria -; Syria said Tuesday it destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed the ceasefire line in the Golan Heights overnight, while the Israeli military said gunfire from Syria had hit an Israeli patrol, damaging a vehicle and prompting its troops to fire ...
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After the al Qusayr victory Syria and Hizballah plan war on Israel
the strategic town of al Qusayr, Sunday, May 19, are making no secret of their plans for the "great confrontation," i.e. military confrontaiton withIsrael after they win the Syrian civil war. Israel's military leaders are taking with the utmost seriousness the words of Ibrahim al-Amin, editor of the Hizballah organ Al Akhbar, and a close buddy of Syrian president Bashar Assad, who ...
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IDF denies Syrian claim Israeli vehicle destroyed in Golan
Syrian military leadership says on state TV that its armed forces destroyed an Israel vehicle, but the IDF says it was just lightly damaged; soldiers return fire; defense source: "The fire was directed at ...
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Israel returns fire after gunshots from Syria
/enpproperty--> JERUSALEM - The Israeli military fired missiles into Syria after its troops got shot on a patrol near the Syrian frontier on the Golan Heights, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement Tuesday. There were no casualties on the Israeli side but a military vehicle was damaged in the incident, the statement said. Israeli media said an artillery unit fired across the ...
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Syria says destroys Israeli vehicle which crossed ceasefire line
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria said on Tuesday its armed forces destroyed an Israeli vehicle after it crossed a ceasefire line into Syrian territory from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The statement by Syrian military leadership, broadcast on state television, came ...
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Israel Bank RobberyFour people have been dead Be’er Sheva bank robbers Breaking News
At least four people – three men and one woman – were killed and several others were injured, including one person in serious condition, during a robbery gone wrong at a Be’er Sheva bank on Monday. The victims reportedly died during a shootout at a branch of Bank Hapoalim in the southern Israeli city of Be’er Sheva. A further shot was heard from the bank at around ...
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Israeli troops in Syrian border shoot-out
Israeli troops shot at a target across the Syrian frontier today in response to gunfire that struck its forces in the Golan Heights, the Israeli military ...
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Israeli government justifies torture with national security
Six days after Arafat Jaradat was arrested by the Israeli army and the Shin Bet (Israeli intelligence agency), he was dead. Between the day of his arrest, February 18th, and the day of his death, February 23rd, his lawyer, Kamil Sabbagh, met with Arafat only once: before a military judge, the Kishon interrogation center of the Shin ...
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Top Palestinian negotiator throws weight behind Kerry peace plan
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in the Middle East on Tuesday (AFP) The chief Palestinian peace negotiator has thrown his weight behind John Kerry's efforts in the Middle East, Reuters reported on Tuesday.The US Secretary of State arrives in Oman on Tuesday, the first stop in a week-long regional visit, which will include meetings with Israeli and Palestinian ...
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Should Palestine switch from the shekel to Bitcoin
The money that circulates most in the Palestinian Authority (PA) is the Israeli new shekel; guided by an interest rate policy set monthly by the Bank of Israel, which dictates Palestinian finances. Palestine has tried for decades to establish independence, but Israel has not been willing to give up its colony, so the occupation continues.But for the first time in history, an emerging country ...
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Israeli troops in Golan return fire from Syria army
Israeli soldiers patrolling the disputed Golan Heights along the border with Syria fired back after coming under fire overnight, an Israeli Defence Forces statement said ...
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Gaza’s Assaf The Arab World’s New Singing Sensation
with his renditions of love songs and patriotic Palestinian songs. Like ';Song for Palestine, ‘Oh you bird going back home'; (above). It’s easy to understand why Palestinians are going crazy for him. Mohammed Assaf has drawn comparisons to the late ...
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Imprivata eyes IPO adds Beth Israels Halamka to board
Dr. John Halamka, the CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, has joined the board of directors at health care IT security firm Imprivata. Lexington-based Imprivata, a IT security firm focused on the health care industry, is expecting an initial public offering within two years after growing to more than $50 million in revenue in 2012, CEO Omar Hussain said in an interview. The ...
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US discussing religious freedom worries with Israel
NEW YORK - The US State Department said on Monday that the Israeli government's respect for freedom of religion has remained consistent through 2012, but that it has engaged in "detailed discussions" with Israeli officials over rights concerns that have persisted for multiple years."Governmental and legal discrimination against non-Jews and non-Orthodox streams of Judaism ...
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Palestine is a potential eco-friendly hub
Palestine, occupied Palestine, the Palestinian Territories or the Occupied Territories, call it what you will, this patch of land in the Middle East has many different name according to political opinion, but what many don’t realize about it is the ingenuity that takes place on a daily basis.
Palestine is one of the poorest regions in the world and certainly in the Middle East, the territory which is loosely made up of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, is a large refugee camp because none of the inhabitants have sovereignty and therefore do not have a centrally strong government to provide basic services. Much of the areas income is derived through donations and money earned by day laborers within Israel. Read more
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