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Breaking News Israeli and Palestinian Business Leaders Call for Two-State Solution
About 300 Israeli and Palestinian business leaders called on their governments Monday to move swiftly toward a two-state solution and end the conflict between the two peoples. Members of the Breaking the Impasse initiative said they would use their business experience to persuade their governments to launch serious negotiations. They were speaking at the World…
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Breaking News Kerry Pleads for Solution To End ‘Perpetual War’
Secretary of State John Kerry urged Israel and the Palestinians to reach a political settlement, warning that the absence of peace would result in “perpetual war.” “Do we want to live with a permanent intifada?” Kerry asked in his address to the World Economic Forum on the Jordanian shores of the Dead Sea. There was…
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Breaking News Obama’s Speech on Counter-Terrorism Raises Concerns Among Israeli Lawmakers
Israeli intelligence experts, defense mavens and foreign policy gurus should be poring over President Barack Obama’s address to the National Defense University by now. Many of them, one can safely posit, won’t like what they’re reading, in the text and between the lines. And it’s not only because Obama, contrary to conventional wisdom in Israel,…
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Breaking News Iran Denies Supporting Assad’s Army in Syria War
Iran on Friday denied it has forces in Syria supporting President Bashar Assad’s army, one day after foreign backers of the Syrian leader’s rebel foes demanded Tehran withdraw its fighters from the country’s territory. “The true enemies of Syria make up these accusations to provoke the people of this country,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi…
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Breaking News Western Wall’s Many Planned Jewish Makeovers — And Why They Died
In 1990 El Al Israel Airlines caused, indirectly, great embarrassment to Israel with an advertisement that appeared in its in-flight magazine at the time, IsraELAL. The ad, for the jewelry company NDC, appeared on the back cover, and featured an image of the Third Temple in the center of the Temple Mount plaza. The Dome…
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Breaking News IDF Stung by Billion Dollar Budget Cuts, But Bonus Looms on Horizon
It’s best to take with a grain of salt the complaints that will be voiced in the near future by the General Staff about the implications of the cuts included in the state budget passed this week. True, in the years ahead, the Israel Defense Forces will be required to dismiss 4,000 career soldiers (while…
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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu Spends $127K on El Al Airplane ‘Resting Chamber’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent $127,000 of Israeli taxpayers’ money on a “resting chamber” that was especially constructed for him and his wife on their five-hour flight to London last month, Channel 10 reported. The Prime Minister’s Office asked that the plane be fitted with 22 business class seats and a resting chamber – a…
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Breaking News New Road Will Help Pave the Way to an Indivisible Jerusalem
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last Sunday joined Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat to dedicate Route 20, a highway that connects Jewish neighborhoods in northern Jerusalem and happens to have an interchange named after the prime minister’s father, historian Benzion Netanyahu. “We are working unceasingly, systematically, to link Jerusalem to itself,” the prime minister declared. The road…
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