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Breaking News Israeli Man Sets Self on Fire During Protest
An Israeli man set himself on fire Saturday during a Tel Aviv demonstration marking the anniversary of last summer’s social protests. As thousands marched down Kaplan street in Tel Aviv to mark one year since the start of social protests, one of the protesters, a 52-year-old man, poured gasoline on his body and set himself…
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Breaking News Condoleezza Rice Plays Down Veep Hopes
The political establishment in the United States has been abuzz over a recent report which appeared on the Drudge Report which claimed that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who served under George W. Bush, is one of the leading candidates being considered by Mitt Romney for the Republican vice presidential slot. According to the…
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Breaking News Rival Rallies Planned on Protest Anniversary
Israeli organizers expect tens of thousands to take part in nationwide demonstrations on Saturday night to mark the first anniversary of last summer’s social justice protests. But despite efforts to project a unified front, organizers have failed to find a way to prevent two protest marches from taking place simultaneously in Tel Aviv. One, organized…
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Breaking News Israelis Form Anti-Immigrant Group
Dozens of residents of south Tel Aviv and activists from other cities convened on Thursday to urge the government to deport all African migrants. But the organizers stressed that they oppose violence, deeming it both wrong and counterproductive. “It was very hard for me at first to say ‘expulsion,’” said attorney Ronit Cohen-Oren of Tel…
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Breaking News Iran Just Two Years From Bomb: Britain
In an unusually frank briefing to senior British civil servants, Sir John Sawers, the chief of MI6, Britain’s foreign intelligence service said that British agents have been active against Iran’s nuclear program since 2008. Despite their efforts though, Sawers said that Iran would likely achieve nuclear capability by 2014. Sawer’s remarks reported today in the…
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News German Novelist Admits Tie to Munich Massacre
A popular German detective novelist accused of being directly involved in the 1972 Munich massacre apologized for his involvement in the attack and denied being a neo-Nazi in an interview with Haaretz earlier this week. Willi Voss, who was revealed to be an accomplice to the massacre by a report compiled by the German Federal…
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Breaking News Tel Aviv Mayor Makes World’s Best List
Mayor of Tel Aviv, Ron Huldai, may have lost (temporarily?) the support of his more radical and liberal constituents, following the heavy-handed way his municipal inspectors treated the new wave of social protestors in recent weeks, but at least on the pages of the Monocle, the international jet-set’s style bible, he is still one of…
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News Mofaz Sets Monday Deadline for Draft Law
Kadima Chairman Shaul Mofaz warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday that if a new IDF draft law is not agreed on by Sunday, his Kadima party will quit the governing coalition. Later on Wednesday, Mofaz plans to meet Netanyahu for a face-to-face meeting. Mofaz convened his party members on Wednesday to discuss the next…
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