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Breaking News Abbas Vows To Seek Palestinian Statehood
Mahmoud Abbas announced Saturday that the Palestinian Authority has decided to seek United Nations recognition as a non-member state. This will happen, said the Palestinian president, despite United States pressure opposing the move. Abbas, who spoke to reporters Saturday afternoon in the West Bank city of Ramallah, said the PA intends to submit the request…
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Breaking News Maariv Newspaper To Be Sold
Israel’s Maariv daily will be sold to Shlomo Ben-Zvi, owner of the daily Makor Rishon, for NIS 85 million, Maariv said on Friday. Nochi Dankner, who controls Maariv, reached an agreement Friday afternoon with Ben-Zvi, publisher of the Makor Rishon daily, which is considered a right-wing publication. The deal does not include Maariv’s printing house…
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Breaking News Catholics Warn Israel on Anti-Christian Attacks
The “price tag” vandalism this week of the monastery at Latrun, in which the culprits sprayed the building’s facade with the words “Jesus is a monkey” and set the front door alight, prompted a fierce statement of condemnation signed by Catholic church leaders here. In a rare interview, Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa cautioned Israelis over how…
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Breaking News Left-to-Die Palestinian’s Family Settles for $250K
The State of Israel will compensate the family of a Palestinian who was left to die by Israeli police officers four years ago, in a compromise agreement obtained by Haaretz on Thursday. The state will give 875,000 shekels, or about $250,000. in damages In 2008, Omar Abu Jariban, who had illegally entered Israel from Gaza,…
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Breaking News Troops Prevent NGO From Helping Trapped Africans
Israel Police barred on Thursday members of an Israeli physicians’ NGO from providing aid to African migrants who have been trapped between the fences on the Israeli-Egyptian border. For the past week, 21 Eritrean migrants, among them a 14-year-old boy, are trapped between the fences on the Israeli-Egyptian border and are guarded by IDF troops….
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Breaking News Court Will Decide Fate of Africans in No Man’s Land
An Israeli NGO petitioned the High Court of Justice on Wednesday and demanded that Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Interior Minister Eli Yishai clarify why they have been denying 21 Eritrean migrants, who are trapped between the fences on the Israeli-Egyptian border, entry to Israel. The NGO “We are Refugees” has also asked the High…
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Breaking News Israel Foots Bill To Move Illegal Settlers
The Israeli government is footing the bill, worth hundreds of thousands of shekels, for moving caravans in the now-evacuated West Bank outpost of Migron. The caravans are owned and rented out by an organization called “Amana,” which supports settlements in the West Bank and other areas of Israel. The mobile structures at Migron are not…
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Breaking News Furious at Leak, Bibi Scraps Cabinet Meeting
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unexpectedly canceled a security cabinet meeting on Wednesday morning, telling ministers that information from the first part of the meeting, held the day before, was leaked. “A short while after the meeting yesterday something serious happened,” Netanyahu said. “A leak from the cabinet discussions… someone severely damaged the trust that Israel’s…
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