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October 15, 2009, 8:51 AM (GMT+02:00)
US and Israeli forces were already poised to launch their joint Juniper Cobra strategic missile defense exercise, which takes place every two years, to begin Monday Oct. 12, when at noon an Israeli military spokesman suddenly announced its postponement by one week. <br/>The announcement came three days after Turkey called ...</br/>
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October 11, 2009, 8:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
Western naval sources report that Israel's German-made Dolphin submarines have been heavily modified: its torpedo tubes enlarged to accommodate missiles, new electronics installed and its fuel capacity expanded to keep the vessel at sea for 50 days without refueling. Eight years after receiving the first three Dolphin subs from ...
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October 10, 2009, 10:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
Biochemist Professor Ada Yonath, born in Jerusalem in 1939, member of the Weizmann Institute of Science, was awarded the 2009 Nobel prize for chemistry, jointly with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK and Thomas A. Steitz, of Yale University, US "for studies of the structure of the ...
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October 8, 2009, 9:17 AM (GMT+02:00)
The video-tape of Sgt. Gilead Shalit handed Israel Friday Oct. 2 in a trade for 20 Palestinian female prisoners was given to his close family, who viewed his image for the first time since he was kidnapped in June, 2006, 1,200 days ago, aged 19. Running two minutes, 42 ...
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October 7, 2009, 11:01 AM (GMT+02:00)
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October 6, 2009, 9:50 AM (GMT+02:00)
Against Israel's release of 20 Palestinian women-prisoners, Hamas will hand over Friday, Oct. 2, a "sign-of'-life" video-tape of Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit who has spent more than three years in captivity. Both Jerusalem and Hamas spokesmen stressed that this was no more than a small step on a ...
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September 28, 2009, 6:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
In an impassioned speech to the UN General Assembly Thursday, Sept 24, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu said the United Nations' most important mission today is to prevent "the tyrants of Tehran" from acquiring nuclear weapons, because the marriage of religious fanaticism and weapons of mass destruction would endanger the world ...
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September 26, 2009, 3:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
Dozens of Israeli warplanes fly low over Gaza in show of muscle for Iran
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September 19, 2009, 2:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
The blood libels beloved of anti-Semites through the ages echoed clearly from the unsupported op-ed article freelance reporter Donald Bostrom ran in the Swedish Aftonbladet newspaper last week. <br/>All the same, <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s political sources say the diplomatic crisis which has since blown up between Israel and Sweden would ...</br/>
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September 14, 2009, 11:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli military has been ordered to investigate the cause of the F-16 crash in which Lt. Assaf Ramon, 20, promoted posthumously to captain, lost his life on a training flight in battle formation 80,000 ft. over the Hebron hills. The pilot of the second jet taking part in ...
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September 14, 2009, 8:43 AM (GMT+02:00)
The second Israeli cabinet-level discussion in the last few days on the Iranian threat - nuclear and regional - took place Monday, Sept. 7, in the inner cabinet, on the heels of a recent security cabinet meeting which surveyed Israel military and homeland security preparations for a missile attack from four sources ...
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September 10, 2009, 10:06 AM (GMT+02:00)
<span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span> confirms: Israeli PM Netanyahu DID NOT travel to Russia Monday as mistakenly reported <br/>
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September 3, 2009, 8:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Obama administration signalled a new mood of compromise on settlement construction just ahead of the key talks in New York between Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak and prime minister's adviser Yitzhak Molcho and US envoy George Mitchell Tuesday, June 30. <br/>While the Israeli delegation was still airborne ...</br/>
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August 14, 2009, 7:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
No Israeli soldier kidnapped, IDF finds after exhaustive search
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August 14, 2009, 12:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
Top Hamas delegation from Gaza on surprise visit to Cairo Saturday
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August 10, 2009, 10:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
Almost a week after Israeli prime minister held his first talks with US president Barack Obama at the White House, last Tuesday, May 18, some of the fog obscuring their content is finally beginning to clear.<br/>The White House was forced to rebut a major misapprehension, that the US president ...</br/>
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July 26, 2009, 9:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
<span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s military sources report a serious setback in Israel's defenses against Iranian ballistic missiles. Thursday, July 23, the newly upgraded Arrow II missile defense system, poised for its first long-range test at the US Pacific range off the central California coast, could not be launched because of ...
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July 24, 2009, 1:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
Opening the weekly cabinet session Sunday, July 19, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu sharply rejected the US State Department demand handed to Israeli ambassador Michael Oran to put a stop to construction work at the Shepherd's Hotel site in Jerusalem. The abandoned hotel is located between the Arab neighborhood ...
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July 24, 2009, 1:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
Southern Nevadans were warned last week that 62 warplanes would take off twice a day from Nellis Air Force Base, home of 414th Combat US Training Squadron northwest of Las Vegas in the latest 11-day Red Flag exercise. They would see (and hear) Israeli and US Air force fighter-bombers in ...
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July 19, 2009, 2:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
Hardly a day has passed in recent weeks without Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu appealing to Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) to join him in peace negotiations. Sunday, July 12, this appeal was particularly inappropriate, issued as it was at a ceremony marking the 105th anniversary of the ...
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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 •
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