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December 22, 2009, 7:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
Hesder rabbis defuse showdown, call on defense minister to negotiate
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December 21, 2009, 6:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
As Israel wrestled with a fateful decision on Iran's nuclear issue and war tensions building up around its borders, defense minister Ehud Barak went to war on the military-yeshiva "Hesder" contract, under which seminary students are conscripted - most volunteering for combat units - along with their studies. <br/>Raising the specter ...</br/>
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December 19, 2009, 10:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
The main conclusions of state comptroller Michah Lindenstrauss's report, published Thursday, Sept. 3, do not address intelligence and political realities and will therefore not affect the US decision never to release Jonathan Pollard from the life sentence without parole given him in 1985 for spying for Israel, or ease ...
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December 19, 2009, 10:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tuesday, Oct.13, Syrian defense minister Gen. Ali Habib made the triumphant announcement: We held our first joint land military exercise (with Turkey) last spring. And today we have agreed to do a more comprehensive, a bigger one. He spoke at a ceremony declaring a free trade zone between the ...
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December 18, 2009, 12:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
The first unmanned stealth craft on the seas, designated Protector SV or Death Shark, recently deployed in the Persian Gulf, is in high demand after its successful performance with the Singapore Navy. <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s military sources report that India and South Korea asked Israel's Rafael to build craft ...
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December 17, 2009, 9:23 AM (GMT+02:00)
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December 12, 2009, 11:17 AM (GMT+02:00)
After the hype evaporates from the Geneva encounter between the six powers and Iran and the raw emotions fade from the videotaped sight of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit, Israel is left to take stock of where it stands in relation to its enemies, Iran and the Hamas. The score ...
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December 10, 2009, 4:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
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December 5, 2009, 9:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli Air Force chief Maj. Gen. Ido Nehushtan told a Tel Aviv University audience Friday, Nov. 27: "The time for hard decisions is fast approaching," adding "The range of security threats to Israel is very complex and we must prepare for all exigencies." He was addressing a ceremony marking 30 ...
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November 30, 2009, 7:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu appears to be working to a five-month cycle in his first year in office: It took him five months to line up behind Washington on a two-state solution, one for Israelis and one for Palestinians, and another five months to announce Wednesday, Nov. 25, that ...
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November 25, 2009, 11:31 AM (GMT+02:00)
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November 24, 2009, 8:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
<span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span> reports high suspense in Jerusalem as Hamas representatives from Damascus and Gaza Strip head for Cairo Monday Nov. 23 to review the new list of jailed Palestinians Israel is offering as part of its trade for soldier Gilead Shalit. The new list substitutes 70 names for the hard-core ...
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November 14, 2009, 9:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
President Barack Obama and prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu talked for more than an hour and a half in the White House Tuesday, Nov. 9, all but fifteen minutes without advisers. There were no cameras and the usual post-meeting press briefings, joint communiques and interviews were cancelled. A curt White House ...
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November 10, 2009, 10:05 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Antigua-flagged arms ship <em>Francop</em> commandeered by the Israeli Navy early Wednesday, Nov. 4, near Cyprus, carried 300 containers, in 40 of which hundreds of tons of Iranian arms for Hizballah were hidden, said Israeli Navy commander Brig.-Gen Ronnie Ben-Yehuda in a news briefing Wednesday, Nov 3. Most of ...
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November 8, 2009, 8:46 AM (GMT+02:00)
Germany is the fifth foreign nation to acquire the Heron TP drone or other Israeli unmanned aerial vehicle technology for support missions against the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan, <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s military sources report. Today, these drones complement the US Air Force's dominant role in Afghanistan air ...
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October 27, 2009, 2:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel may file terror charges in international courts against Hamas leaders
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October 26, 2009, 11:18 AM (GMT+02:00)
Iran is making a huge effort to smuggle to the Palestinian Hamas Fajr-5 ground-to-ground rockets that bring Tel Aviv within range of the Gaza Strip. <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s military sources also disclose that Syria, Iran's second ally with an Israeli border, has decided to transfer one-third of its missile ...
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October 25, 2009, 9:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
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October 21, 2009, 5:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
The UN Human Right Council's endorsement Friday, Oct. 16, sent the anti-Israel Goldstone war crimes report to the UN Security Council. It was approved by a majority of 25 of the 47 HRC members with 6 voting against - the US, Holland, Italy, Ukraine, Hungary and Slovakia - with 11 abstentions ...
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October 20, 2009, 11:51 AM (GMT+02:00)
According to an unconfirmed report in the French Le Canard Enchaine of Wednesday, Oct. 14, Israel is preparing to bomb Iranian nuclear sites and pro-Iranian targets across the Middle East after December 2009. The prestigious satirical weekly reports that the IDF has notified special forces reservists abroad to get ready ...
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NATO says it is considering attaching an Israeli warship to the alliance's naval Mediterranean patrol despite Turkey's objections •
Syrian officials should face war crimes charges at the Hague, says UN human rights office spokesman •
Syrian TV reports 25 killed, 175 injured in explosions rocking Aleppo, Syria's second largest city, Friday near military intelligence and security buildings •
Syrian state TV ran horrific images of dead and injured •
DEBKAfile: The explosions were a warning to rouse Aleppo citizens to finally join the 11-month struggle against Assad •
Russia escalated row with West Friday accusing its governments of being "accomplices" in inflaming the Syrian crisis • Moscow holds opposition responsible for ending violence •
At least 60 killed in Homs as Assad forces backed by tank fire conduct house-to-house raids •
Tanks stand by for final push to subdue city Friday or Saturday after a week of shelling and hundreds of dead •
Opposition resistance is marred by splits •
Washington tries to convene anti-Assad groups for international effort outside the UN to deliver humanitarian aid to desperate populace of Homs •
Knesset panel endorses Justice Asher Grunis unapposed as new Supreme Court President after Dorit Bainisch retires this month •
Investigative judges in Cairo say US and Egyptian pro-democracy activists could face up to five years jail •
The case clouds Egyptian-US relations and threatens US aid •
Top Stories
- Successful US-Israel radar test for US missile shield
- Heavy US military airlift to the Persian Gulf
- First foreign troops in Syria revealed
- Some 20,000 troops in US-led coalition drill for Persian Gulf
- Obama still wants to hold Israel back from Iran
- Assad sends hit squads after top Lebanese officials
- Russia veto after Special Forces prepared for Syria
- Americans talk about an Israeli strike on Iran, prepare own offensive
- Iran's missiles can reach the US
- May tentative date for clash with Iran
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