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Two Men Acquitted of Conspiracy To Fund Hamas Activities in Israel 
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A federal jury in Chicago acquitted two men yesterday of charges that they were part of a long-running conspiracy to finance Hamas activities in Israel -- marking the latest defeat for the Justice Department in cases involving support for radical Palestinian groups.Israel welcomes first Muslim minister The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News - Feb 01 12:00 AM
Flanked by two bodyguards courtesy of the Israeli secret service, Raleb Majadele cruised through the corridors of Israel's parliament, the Knesset, as admirers and adversaries stopped to wish the country's first Arab Muslim minister well on his first day on the job.Israel finds two Hezbollah bunkers The Washington Times - Feb 01 4:38 PM
Hezbollah successfully tunneled in Israel near the Lebanon border, the Middle East News Line reported Thursday. Citing sources in the Israeli military, MENL said two bunkers were discovered and filled in Jan. 26. They were stocked with food, water and other supplies.Hillary Clinton calls Iran a threat to US, Israel Khaleej Times - 1 minute ago
NEW YORK - Calling Iran a danger to the US and one of Israel s greatest threats, US senator and presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said no option can be taken off the table when dealing with that nation.German Jews try to repair rift in community over Israel support JTA - Feb 01 3:42 PM
BERLIN, Feb. 1 (JTA) Jewish leaders and activists in Germany appear to be putting aside sometimes vehement differences about how to rally support for Israel, and are moving ahead because of the importance of the cause.Israel has no plans against Iran AP via Yahoo! News - Jan 31 5:18 PM
Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres says that Israel does not intend to use military force against Iran, which Israel suspects is building nuclear bombs.Israel logs first same-sex marriage Planet Out via Yahoo! News - Jan 31 5:37 PM
SUMMARY: Avi and Binyamin Rose wed in Canada and return a married couple, thanks to a November ruling that Israel must recognize foreign same-sex marriages.Israel's Peretz selects anti-rocket defense system People's Daily - Feb 01 5:42 PM
Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz on Thursday decided to select Israel's Rafael, or Armament Development Authority, to design and develop anti-missile defense system for intercepting short-range missiles such as Qassam and Katyusha rockets, local Ha'aretz said.Africa Israel breaks off talks with farmers to buy Tnuva Haaretz Daily - Feb 01 4:30 PM
Africa Israel has given up on its efforts to reach an agreement with the dairy farmers on a joint proposal to buy fresh foods and dairy cooperative Tnuva.Israel another Storm trooper FOXSPORTS.com.au - Feb 01 5:01 PM
ISRAEL Falou, 17, has a long way to travel before he leads Melbourne to the promised land of premiership glory.Israel - Occupied Palestinian Territories quartet meeting: new approach needed to break deadlock Amnesty International - Feb 01 9:57 AM
At tomorrow's meeting the Quartet members should fully reassess their approach to the situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).Suicide bomber strikes: 3 killed in first attack in Israel in nine months The Davis Enterprise - Feb 01 12:30 PM
Published Jan 29, 2007 - 19:20:38 CST. EILAT, Israel - A Palestinian suicide bomber attacked a bakery in this southern Israeli resort town on today, killing three people and himself, police said.Israel another Storm trooper Townsville Bulletin - Feb 01 4:38 PM
ISRAEL Falou, 17, has a long way to travel before he leads Melbourne to the promised land of premiership glory. But he is already being touted as a future star in the game, built in the same mould as dual international Lote Tuqiri.Israel finds two Hezbollah bunkers EARTHtimes.org - Feb 01 4:34 PM
Hezbollah successfully tunneled in Israel near the Lebanon border, the Middle East News Line reported Thursday.Beth Israel Medical Center Expands Document Workflow Solutions from Streamline Health(R) SYS-CON Media - Feb 01 8:14 AM
Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. , one of the leading providers of integrated document workflow solutions, today announced that Beth Israel Medical Center, a member of Continuum Health Partners in New York City, will expand their Streamline Health document workflow solutions into the preoperative department across several additional healthcare facilities. Under this expanded agreement, Beth ...Ex-diplomat spills beans on three-year secret talks between Syria and Israel Gulf News - Feb 01 12:55 PM
Occupied Jerusalem: A retired Israeli diplomat went public on Wednesday about secret talks between Israel and Syria, describing how negotiators met in a luxury Swiss hotel and dodged the media for three years.African countries to turn out for Israel tourism fair africast.com - Feb 01 9:54 AM
TEL AVIV, February 01 -- The number of African countries scheduled to be represented at Israel' s annual tourism exhibition is the highest ever. Angola, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Mozambique have all planned booths at the 12th International Mediterranean Tourism Market.Religious leaders pressure Rice to intervene in Israel The Jewish Advocate - Feb 01 7:21 AM
Religious leaders across the nation are pressuring the U.S. government to play a more active role in ending the escalation of violence in Israel and the Palestinian-controlled territories.U.S. Questions Israel s Use Of Cluster Bombs Baltimore Jewish Times - Feb 01 7:42 AM
Israel probably violated the terms of its purchase of U.S.-made cluster bombs, U.S. officials say, but -- unlike the last time Israel used the deadly munitions in Lebanon -- it's unlikely to face repercussions.Opinions: Op-Ed: Israel and you Stanford Daily - Feb 01 3:06 AM
What is Israel?Former Israel justice minister convicted AP via Yahoo! News - Jan 31 3:02 AM
An Israeli court convicted former Justice Minister Haim Ramon of forcibly kissing a young female soldier a case that riveted the country's attention and added another layer of scandal to Israel's beleaguered leadership.Israel PM grilled by Lebanon war commission AFP via Yahoo! News - Feb 01 10:06 AM
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was grilled for six hours by an Israeli commission probing failures of the Lebanon war, amid a series of scandals that have left his government teetering.Israel checks WWII Arab 'saviour' BBC News - Jan 31 9:59 AM
Israel's Holocaust memorial centre proposes the first Arab for recognition as a "righteous gentile" who saved Jews.Israel Diary Totally Jewish - Feb 01 4:52 AM
With the swearing in of Ghaleb Majadele as a government minister on Monday, Israel threw down a new challenge to its many detractors far and wide. It s possible not only to live in Israel as a Moslem or Christian, but to rise to power and become part of the establishment.Israel Venture Network Announces Winners of Social Entrepreneur Fellowships [Press Release] Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Feb 01 9:00 AM
TEL AVIV, Israel & PALO ALTO, Calif.----Israel Venture Network's Social Entrepreneur Fellowship Program, together with its strategic partners, the New Israel Fund and the Sacta-Rashi Foundation, is delighted to announce this year's winners of IVN's Social Entrepreneur Fellowships for 2007-2009.Israel Records Same-Sex Marriage for the First Time Gay Wired - Feb 01 12:03 AM
Jerusalem has just had a same-sex marriage put on record for the first time, 365Gay reports. The couple who had their marriage recorded was Binyamin and Avi Rose , who both live in Jerusalem, were wed in Canada on June 28, and came back to Israel after.Israeli troops wound Palestinian along Gaza-Israel border Pravda - Feb 01 1:52 AM
Israeli troops shot and wounded a Palestinian man along the fence separating the Gaza Strip from Israel on Thursday morning, Palestinian and Israeli officials said.ISRAEL-LEBANON: US inquiry into use of cluster bombs IRIN - Feb 01 12:12 AM
TEL AVIV, 31 Jan 2007 (IRIN) - Israel may have violated agreements regarding the use of American-made cluster bombs during its war in Lebanon in July 2006, the US State Department said on Monday.Israel to extend wall 5 kilometres into Palestinian land Calcutta News - Jan 31 11:37 PM
Israel's government says it is considering moving the West Bank security barrier eastward, farther into the West Bank to enclose two Jewish settlements.Israel PM quizzed by Lebanon war commission AFP via Yahoo! News - Feb 01 6:36 AM
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is being grilled by an Israeli commission probing failures of the Lebanon war, amid a series of scandals that have left his government teetering.Israel Philharmonic still resonating at 70 International Herald Tribune - Jan 31 6:50 AM
The orchestra, under the direction of Zubin Mehta, began its U.S. tour with a concert at Carnegie Hall. Its 70th-anniversary concerts, which began in Israel last month, included guest artists such as Daniel Barenboim, Pinchas Zukerman, Yefim Bronfman, Evgeny Kissin, Kurt Masur, and Valery Gergiev.Bloomberg: U.S. Support Israel Against Terrorism Israel National News - Feb 01 5:05 AM
(IsraelNN.com) New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday that the U.S. should support Israel in time of need. No one should force agreements on Israel. What 'Israel's right to exist' means to Palestinians The Christian Science Monitor - Feb 01 3:18 PM
Recognition would imply acceptance that they deserve to be treated as subhumans. 'Israel don't fret; if Iran nukes you Tehran will be razed' Jerusalem Newswire - Feb 01 1:08 AM
Israel shouldn't be overly concerned if Iran acquires a nuclear bomb or two, Fench President Jaques Chirac said this week.2007 Annual Membership Dinner & Presentation of the 2006 Israel A. Shapiro Award (open to the public) News 10 Now Syracuse - Jan 31 10:13 PM
The Greater Watertown-North Country Chamber of Commerce presents the 2007 Annual Membership Dinner and presentation of the Israel A. Shapiro Citizenship Award to Reverend Dr. Fred Garry on February 8, 2007 at 6:00pm, at the Partridge Berry Inn in Watertown, NY. To register, visit www.watertownny.com or call 315.788.4400. The cost for the dinner is $38 per person & $400 for corporate tables.Israel ponders barrier extension BBC News - Jan 31 5:58 AM
Israel says it is considering plans to include two small settlements within the route of the West Bank barrier.PM to tell Winograd panel: Israel won the Lebanon war Haaretz Daily - Feb 01 12:00 AM
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrived at the offices of the Winograd Committee investigating the second Lebanon war, in order to provide testimony in which he is expected to defend his role in the war and say Israel emerged victorious.Israel's Goodwill Ambassador Bestows Special Award to Pastor Hagee and Bishop Butler for Outstanding Dedication to ... [Press Release] PRWeb via Yahoo! News - Feb 01 4:00 AM
Chicago, IL (PRWeb) February 1, 2007 -- The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship) presented its highest honor, the Ambassador's Award, to Pastor John Hagee of Cornerstone Church of San Antonio, TX and Bishop Keith Butler of Word of Faith International Christian Center of Southfield, MI, for outstanding support, leadership, and dedication to Israel.Peres: Israel Has Quiet Contacts With Most Arab Nations Israel National News - Feb 01 3:04 AM
(IsraelNN.com) Vice Premier Shimon Peres said in an interview published by a Qatari newspaper Thursday that Israel maintains quiet communication with most Arab nations in the Middle East.Beth Israel Medical Center Expands Document Workflow Solutions from Streamline Health(R) [Press Release] PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Feb 01 4:00 AM
Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. , one of the leading providers of integrated document workflow solutions, today announced that Beth Israel Medical Center, a member of Continuum Health Partners in New York City, will expand their Streamline Health document workflow solutions into the preoperative department across several additional healthcare facilities.Chirac: Tehran to be razed if Iran attacks Israel Al Bawaba - Jan 31 11:25 PM
French President Jacques Chirac said in an interview with three newspapers that Iran's possession of a nuclear bomb wouldn't be "very dangerous" and that if it used the weapon against Israel, Tehran would be immediately "razed."First same-sex marriage recognized in Israel The Advocate - Jan 31 7:07 PM
The Jerusalem interior ministry has recorded Israel's first same-sex marriage, following a court order to register same-sex unions from abroad.Israel's Goodwill Ambassador Bestows Special Award to Pastor Hagee and Bishop Butler for Outstanding Dedication to ... [Press Release] PR Web - Feb 01 12:32 AM
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, President of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews who Serves as Israel's Ambassador to Evangelical Christians, Honors Pastor John Hagee and Bishop Keith Butler with the Ambassador Award for Outstanding Leadership and Support. (PRWeb Feb 1, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/zingpr.php/WmV0YS1TaW5nLU1hZ24tWmV0YS1NYWduLVplcm8=Israel's Peres: Cluster bombs a mistake Turks.US - Jan 31 7:31 PM
Shimon Peres, Israel's deputy prime minister, has told Al Jazeera that his country's use of cluster bombs in Lebanon during last year's war with Hezbollah was a "mistake".Israel's Former Justice Minister Convicted of Sexual Misconduct Voice of America - Jan 31 11:18 AM
Israel's former Justice Minister has been convicted of indecent acts for kissing a young female soldier against her will.Israel Welcomes First Muslim To Cabinet CBS News - Feb 01 10:00 AM
The appointment of Muslim Labor Party lawmaker Raleb Majadele to the cabinet was celebrated as a symbolic abolition of a barrier to full equality for the country's Arab Muslim minority.U.S. worried about Israel's intellectual property laws Haaretz Daily - Jan 31 4:00 PM
"The American government and American companies are very concerned about the state of intellectual property rights in Israel, and we hope Israel will address these concerns," said U.S. Department of Commerce Deputy Secretary David Sampson yesterday in an interview with TheMarker.Israel Considers Moving Security Barrier Farther into West Bank Voice of America - Jan 31 8:48 AM
Israel's government says it is considering moving the West Bank security barrier eastward, farther into the West Bank to enclose two Jewish settlements. VOA's Jim Teeple reports from Jerusalem, Palestinian officials have condemned the proposal.Israel sets dubious record for use of deadly cluster bombs The Daily Star Lebannon - Jan 31 1:42 PM
Israel's use of cluster munitions in South Lebanon was the most extensive anywhere in the world since the 1991 Gulf War, Human Rights Watch said earlier this week. "We've investigated cluster munitions in Kosovo, Afghan-istan, and Iraq, but we've never seen use of cluster munitions that was so extensive and dangerous to civilians," said.U.S. jury acquits two men of Hamas conspiracy Reuters via Yahoo! News - Feb 01 3:22 PM
A U.S. jury found two Palestinian-born men not guilty on Thursday of carrying out what prosecutors said was a 15-year conspiracy to illegally finance Hamas terrorist activities in Israel.Cluster-bomb report weighs on Israel AP via Yahoo! News - Jan 30 11:52 AM
Washington's conclusion that Israel likely misused U.S.-made cluster munitions by firing them at civilian areas in Lebanon has brought new pressure on Israel to review its wartime practices.Israel Ponders EU and NATO Membership About.com - Feb 01 3:25 AM
Israel's Minister of Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman is on a mission to get Israel to start thinking about perusing membership in the European Union and NATO. EU officials tell...A Junket to Israel The Weekly Standard via Yahoo! News - Jan 30 10:48 AM
For independent-minded journalists, there are better ways to see the world than media junkets. But--and my accounting department will back me up here--there aren't many better ways to pay for it. So two weeks ago, I set out for Israel on the dime of the American Israel Education Foundation, affiliated with the American Israel Political Affairs Committee.Israel Cyrus' Father Speaks Out On Eve Of Trial KDKA Pittsburgh - 2 hours, 55 minutes ago
Nearly four years after his 15-year-old son was fatally stabbed, a father is speaking about the agony that his family's experiencing as the suspect is finally set to go on trial.U.S. jury delivers mixed verdict in Hamas trial Reuters via Yahoo! News - Feb 01 12:54 PM
A U.S. jury on Thursday found two Palestinian-born men not guilty of the most serious charges facing them in what prosecutors said was a 15-year scheme to illegally finance Hamas terrorist activities in Israel.Israel resort determined to bounce back after bombing AFP via Yahoo! News - Jan 30 8:29 AM
Israel's glittering Red Sea resort of Eilat is determined to bounce back after its first suicide bombing this week shattered its reputation as a safe holiday destination.Africa Israel is to Africa and Israel as Apple is to fruit Haaretz Daily - Feb 01 4:31 PM
Lev Leviev seems almost euphoric. "The number of meetings and the number of people I have met here in the past two days, some with no prior arrangement, is amazing," says Leviev. "I would need six months just to spend half an hour with all the participants here whom I wanted to meet."U.S. looking at Israel's bomblet use The Columbus Dispatch - Jan 31 5:23 AM
JERUSALEM (AP) Israel is facing renewed pressure to review its wartime practices after Washington concluded that it likely misused U.S.-made cluster munitions by firing them at civilian areas in Lebanon.Human Rights Watch: U.S. should Cut Off Cluster Munition Sales to Israel and Compel Israel to Provide Strike Data Payvand Iran News - Jan 31 8:11 AM
Preliminary US government findings that Israel violated agreements with the United States by its use of cluster munitions in Lebanon last summer should lead to an immediate cutoff of all US cluster munitions sales to Israel, Human Rights Watch said today.New York mayor visits Jerusalem AFP via Yahoo! News - Feb 01 9:38 AM
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg visited Jerusalem to dedicate the cornerstone of a new centre for Israel's paramedic emergency service being built in his father's memory.US Questions Israel's Use of Cluster Bombs in a Rare Rebuke The Palestine Chronicle - Jan 31 1:00 PM
The Reagan administration imposed a six-year ban on cluster weapon sales to Israel in 1982, after a congressional investigation found misuse of the weapons during Israel's war that year with Lebnon.Israel allows minaret over Temple Mount WorldNetDaily - Feb 01 2:09 PM
JERUSALEM Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has given permission for Jordan to build a large minaret adjacent to a mosque on the Temple Mount to call Muslims to prayer at the holy site, WND has learned.Israel's Peretz says 2007 critical year on Iran Reuters via Yahoo! News - Jan 31 1:47 PM
Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz said on Wednesday this year would be "critical" for the international community in dealing with Iran's nuclear program.Bloomberg Dedicates Emergency Center in Israel 1010 WINS New York - Feb 01 10:36 AM
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday dedicated a $6.5 million state-of-the-art emergency rescue service in memory of his father. The new regional station of Magen David Adom will be named for William H. Bloomberg, who died in 1963 when his son was still in college.Israel escalates operations in W. Bank, killing three People's Daily - Feb 01 4:13 PM
The Israeli army escalated its ground military operations in several West Bank cities on Thursday, killing three Palestinians, security sources and witnesses said.Iranians visit Israel's Holocaust Web site Reuters via Yahoo! News - Jan 30 6:12 AM
Israel's central Holocaust memorial said on Tuesday over 2,000 people in Iran and thousands of other people, including Iranians, had visited its new Farsi Web site documenting the mass murder of 6 million Jews.Israel strikes Gaza after suicide attack AFP via Yahoo! News - Jan 30 5:43 AM
Israel has launched its first air raid on the Gaza Strip in two months after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed three people in the Red Sea resort of Eilat, shaking a fragile truce. Israel and the occupied territories: Foreign Office amends travel advice Government News Network - Jan 31 9:08 AM
The Foreign Office today removed the advice against all travel within the area 2km south of Israel's border with Lebanon. However we continue to advise against all travel to the Sheba'a Farms and Ghajar because of on-going military operations.Ex-minister is convicted in Israel International Herald Tribune - Jan 31 1:48 PM
Sexual misconduct ruling adds to scandal surrounding the government and may prompt Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to shuffle his cabinet.Merrill Markoe: I am really really really sorry. Vote for me. HuffingtonPost - 1 hour, 9 minutes ago
Yesterday former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi made a public apology in the newspapers to his wife for flirting with other women. Today San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom publicly apologized for having an affair with his re-election campaign managers wife. The President of Israel is about to be indicted on a rape charge. I am holding my breath. Can his heartfelt message of deep regret ...Magal Receives a $6 million Order to Protect Military Bases in Israel SYS-CON Media - Jan 31 6:29 AM
Magal Security Systems, Ltd. (NASDAQ GM: MAGS; TASE: MAGS), today announced that it has received an approximately US$6 million order for a turnkey project to protect several military bases in Israel. As part of the project, Magal will implement its Taut Wire Intrusion Detection Systems and its FORTIS Integrated Command & Control system.Israel orders mini-missile system to stop rockets AlertNet - Feb 01 10:47 AM
Source: Reuters By Dan Williams JERUSALEM, Feb 1 (Reuters) - An Israeli arms firm got the government's green-light on Thursday to develop a system that would shoot down short-range rockets of the kind favoured by ... Israel: No Direct Peace Talks With Hamas India Daily - Jan 31 8:25 AM
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres has rejected a proposal made by Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani to conduct direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian National Authority government led by Hamas, Gulf News reported Jan. 31. Peres said recognition of Israel by Hamas is a necessary precondition to direct peace talks.Reese attack on Israel was slanderous The Kentucky Standard - Jan 31 4:35 AM
It s a good thing for Charlie Reese that countries can t sue individuals or Israel would take him to the cleaners. Reese s claim that Israel engineered the U.S. invasion of Iraq is slanderous.Chirac reversal on Iran nuke bombs CNN.com - Feb 01 5:58 AM
PARIS, France (AP) -- French President Jacques Chirac said in an interview with three newspapers that Iran's possession of a nuclear bomb would not be "very dangerous" and that if it used the weapon on Israel, Tehran would be immediately "razed," according to a newspaper report.Israel mixes rhetoric with realism Asia Times - Jan 31 3:06 AM
WASHINGTON - When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared last week that his country could not risk another "existential threat" such as the Nazi Holocaust, he was repeating what has become the dominant theme in Israel's campaign against Tehran - that it cannot tolerate an Iran with the technology that could be used to make nuclear weapons, because Iran is fanatically committed to the ...Olmert testifies to Lebanon war panel AP via Yahoo! News - Feb 01 4:13 AM
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert spent hours Thursday testifying before the commission investigating Israel's conduct during its much-criticized war in Lebanon over the summer.Cluster-Bomb Report Weighs on Israel ABC News - Jan 30 1:45 PM
New Pressure on Israel to Change Military Tactics After U.S. Report on Cluster Bomb UseIsrael's ex-justice minister is convicted Boston Globe - Feb 01 1:30 AM
JERUSALEM -- The kiss lasted a few seconds. The morality play it inspired lasted more than six months, riveting Israelis and their legal system on a single question: Did she or didn't she want it?Beth Israel Medical Center Expands Document Workflow Solutions From Streamline Health(R) RedNova - Feb 01 9:19 AM
CINCINNATI, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Streamline Health Solutions, Inc.Israel Examines Moving Separation Barrier The Daily Comet - Jan 31 2:03 AM
That route would leave thousands of Palestinians on the Israeli side of the fence. Palestinian officials immediately condemned the plan as an attempt by Israel to annex territory they claim for a future independent state.French leader retracts comments on Iran AP via Yahoo! News - Feb 01 3:42 AM
French President Jacques Chirac said in an interview with three publications that Iran's possession of a nuclear bomb would not be "very dangerous" and that if it used the weapon on Israel, Tehran would be immediately "razed."Olmert tells his side to Israeli war panel Denver Post - 2 hours, 33 minutes ago
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert testified for more than six hours Thursday before a commission investigating the performance of Israel's government and military during last summer's conflict in Lebanon.Israel wants Bibi back Jerusalem Newswire - Jan 31 5:53 AM
The nation of Israel, reeling from the one-two punch of its famed IDF losing the battle against Hizb allah last July, and of political leader after political leader being accused of corruption and immoral conduct in recent months, is ready to sweep Likud Party leader and former prime minister, Binyamin Bibi Netanyahu, back into power.Stanford student group links Israel, apartheid J. the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California - Feb 01 12:56 PM
apartheid (aˇpartˇheid) n. A rigid policy in South Africa of discrimination against the nonwhite population. Apartheid, on Stanford s campus, now has another definition. A new student group claims Israeli policies and laws promote an apartheid state.Olmert testifies on last summer's Lebanon conflict Los Angeles Times - Feb 01 12:22 PM
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert testified for more than six hours today before a commission investigating the performance of Israel's government and military during last summer's conflict in Lebanon. Chirac Downplays Iranian Nuclear Threat NPR - Feb 01 3:00 PM
In remarks he said he thought were off the record, French President Jacques Chirac tells three papers that if Iran had a nuclear bomb it wouldn't be "very dangerous," adding that if Iran used such a weapon on Israel, Tehran would be "razed."Sex trial to determine Israel cabinet reshuffle: officials TODAYonline - Jan 31 1:20 AM
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert chats with Cabinet Secretary Israel Maimon (R) as he chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in the prime minister's Jerusalem offices.Immigration to Israel is Down Israel National News - Jan 31 6:49 AM
(IsraelNN.com) Immigration to Israel has taken a downward turn in recent years, the Minister for Absorption of Immigration, Zeev Boim, told the Knesset Wednesday.Orange Israel Passes 10% 3G Subscriber Mark Cellular-News.com - Jan 31 4:10 AM
Israel's Partner Communications, which trades under the Orange brandname, has reported revenues in 2006 of NIS 5.6 billion (US$1.3 billion), EBITDA of NIS1.8 billion (US$438 million) and net income of NIS682 million (US$161.5 million).Robert Guttman: Is America Ready For A Woman President? And, If So, Is Hillary Clinton Going To Be Our Choice? HuffingtonPost - Feb 01 2:50 PM
Latvia has a woman president. Germany has a woman as chancellor. Finland's president is a woman. Chile and Liberia also have women as presidents. Margaret Thatcher was prime minister of Great Britain and Golda Meir ran Israel as did Indira Gandhi in India and Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan. There are many other examples today and in the recent past except in the United States. Certainly we are ...Hizbullah's star wanes in one Lebanese town The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News - Feb 01 12:00 AM
Before last summer's devastating war between Israel and the militant Hizbullah organization it would have been difficult to find anyone in this Sunni Muslim village who did not support the group's Shiite guerrilla fighters.Bloomberg Dedicates Emergency Center In Israel WCBS-TV New York - Feb 01 8:03 AM
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday dedicated a $6.5 million state-of-the-art emergency rescue service in memory of his father. The new regional station of Magen David Adom will be named for William H. Bloomberg, who died in 1963 when his son was still in college. Bloomberg, 64, the billionaire founder of the Bloomberg L.P. financial information company, donated money for the redesign, ...Gilda s Club to open centres in Israel Canadian Jewish News - Jan 31 5:28 AM
Gilda s Club, an organization that provides drop-in centres and psychological, emotional and educational support for people fighting cancer and their families, is planning to expand to Israel.Israel stocks at record; Bank of Israel challenges banks on fees Market Watch - Jan 30 9:11 AM
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Israel stocks closed at a record high on Tuesday, lifted by gains for Israel Chemicals and Teva Pharmaceutical but held back by the banks, which face a challenge from the Bank of Israel over their lucrative fee schedules. Bloomberg Dedicates Emergency Center In Israel WNBC - Feb 01 7:24 AM
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday dedicated a $6.5 million state-of-the-art emergency rescue service in memory of his father.Israel May Have Misused Cluster Bombs, U.S. Says Washington Post - Jan 29 9:04 PM
The State Department notified Congress yesterday that Israel may have violated U.S. rules prohibiting the use of American-made cluster bombs in civilian areas during last summer's war in Lebanon. Israel's Philharmonic remains a steady source of pride International Herald Tribune - Jan 30 6:50 AM
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, celebrating its 70th anniversary, is one of the burnished centerpieces of Israeli cultural life, a distinguished institution that resonates powerfully with the Jewish diaspora whose sympathy and support remain so important to this small Jewish state.Israel welcomes first Muslim minister The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! Canada News - Feb 01 1:00 AM
Raleb Majadele marked a milestone for Muslim Israelis when he was sworn in Monday as a minister.Israel's Olmert looks to extend West Bank barrier Reuters via Yahoo! News - Jan 31 5:34 AM
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is investigating the possibility of extending a West Bank barrier to include two Jewish settlements that have been excluded from the project, his office said on Wednesday.