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Breaking News After London Stumble, Romney Eyes Israel
Republican presidential hopeful, Mitt Romney, must wish he was already on the next stop of his foreign tour, in Jerusalem, where he will undoubtedly be getting better treatment than he has so far on his initial visit to London. So far, he has managed to offend his hosts by casting aspersions on their chances of…
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Breaking News Israeli Officer Caught Head-Butting Palestinian
An IDF officer with the rank of lieutenant head-butted a Palestinian youth in the face, a video filmed in the city of Hebron on Wednesday and uploaded to YouTube has revealed. A volunteer for the NGO B’Tselem filmed the video on Wednesday from the window of his home in Hebron, documenting an IDF soldier as…
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Breaking News Obama Signs New Israel Cooperation Bill
The White House may be trying to steal the thunder from Republican candidate Mitt Romney on the eve of his visit to Jerusalem. A day before Romney is due to land in Israel, President Barack Obama will sign the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act, which is meant to approve and expand military cooperation between…
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Breaking News Hardliner’s Aide Hopes to Soften Rules on Immigrants
A public relations expert who was paid by the Shas party to serve as a consultant to Interior Minister Eli Yishai stands to earn hundreds of thousands of shekels from another client if he convinces the Interior Ministry to liberalize restrictions on the use of migrant labor in the construction industry. The PR consultant, Ronen…
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Breaking News Animal Rights Activists Blast Israeli TV Show
The Let the Animals Live association filed a complaint on Wednesday against the reality TV show “Beauty and the Geek” because it said the most recent episode included a challenge that involved the cruel exploitation of animals. The task required participants to go into a compartment containing snakes, rodents, lizards and stick insects, pick them…
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Breaking News Jewish Teens Barely Escaped ‘Batman’ Shooting
Shani Reflow cannot stop shaking, sleeps only in fits and starts and keeps her cell phone on full volume. She has been in this state since her children came home at dawn on Friday and told her they had just fled a shooting rampage at a local movie theatre. It is now clear that the…
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Breaking News Rare 19th Century Map of Jerusalem Unearthed
A map of Jerusalem that was drafted some 190 years ago by a German tourist was recently unearthed by two researchers – one Israeli, the other German – in an archive in Berlin. The map, sketched by hand in 1823, was discovered in the course of a study conducted in tandem by Israeli researchers and…
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Breaking News Munich Moment of Silence Push Gains Steam
The campaign to observe a minute on silence to commemorate 40 years since the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, at the Olympic opening ceremony in London on Friday is attracting unprecedented levels of support including that of United States President Barack Obama and the mayor of the host city,…
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