Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told CNN that he believes he can deliver a peace deal – but that the PA will have to make compromises, too.
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Israel: PM Netanyahu says he can deliver peace
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Israel remembers
By Marney Blom Life in Israel momentarily stood still on April 25, 2012 as air raid sirens once again sounded across the nation to commemorate fallen soldiers and victims of terror. It’s a somber annual event, and with over 22,000 fatalities since 1860 – the date when the Jewish people started moving back to their [...]
Israel: PM Netanyahu’s father passes away
Professor Ben-Zion Netanyahu, the father of the Israeli prime minister, passed away early Monday, April 30, 2012 at his home in Jerusalem. Prof. Netanyahu fought for the creation of the Jewish state by lobbying in the United States and went on to write an influential history of the Spanish Inquisition.
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Israel: Holy Land’s oldest known church discovered under Meggido prison
Plans are underway to relocate the Megiddo prison to give tourists access to a third century A.D. Christian prayer hall – likely the oldest church ever found in the Holy Land.
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Israel: Archaeologists in Jerusalem unearth late Bronze Age Egyptian seal
Archaeologists in the City of David find rare Egyptian artifact dating back to the 13th century B.C, the era when some scholars speculate the Exodus may have occurred.
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Israel: Ethiopian-born champion of higher education
Surviving a tough journey to Israel as a toddler, Pnina Gaday Agenyahu is now an eloquent world spokeswoman on behalf of Ethiopian Jews.
Israel: Hamas leader decries Egypt mufti’s Jerusalem trip
The visit by Egypt’s grand mufti to the Temple Mount Al Aksa mosque last Wednesday was a dangerous act of normalization with Israel, according to a Hamas leader.
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Israel: Security forces avert major terror attack in West Bank
Traffic police, border guard identify two suspicious 17-year-olds near Tapuah Junction and discover knives, gun and powerful explosives which may have been intended for terrorist attack at crowded hitchhikers post.
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Mideast: Israelis advised to leave Sinai amid terror threat
Counterterrorism bureau warns of immediate terror threat against Israelis vacationing in Egyptian peninsula.
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Israel: Arab singer captures Israeli hearts
Nissren Kader won first place on a TV show singing Israeli “Mizrahi” songs and managed to mesmerize Jews and Arabs alike.
Israel: Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day 2012
Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah in Hebrew) is a national day of commemoration in Israel, on which the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust are memorialized.
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Heed the sounds …
By Marney Blom Today it is Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day. From my 14th floor Jerusalem office window, I could hear the air-raid siren, see the cars stopping and the people standing at attention in memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Last night Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reminded the [...]
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Mideast: U.S. backs Israel on stopping ‘flytilla’
The United States on Monday defended Israel’s actions to stop the anti-Israel ‘flytilla’. Israel managed to halt the pre-publicized event in its tracks, without fanfare.
Mideast: Israel PM wants meeting With Palestinian Authority Chairman
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is expected to ask for direct talks with PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas when receiving his letter from PA prime minister Salam Fayyad.
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Israel: Police detain ‘flytilla’ activists at airport; hundreds more expected
Pro-Palestinian activists begin to trickle into Israel as hundreds of police officers dispersed to prevent disturbances; dozens of activists barred from boarding flights protest in Paris and Brussels.
