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March 31, 2009, 1:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
Duped again by a Hamas promise to negotiate a long-term truce, Israel reacted by stepping up its air attacks over the Gaza Strip from Friday, Feb. 13, to hold down a fresh upsurge of Palestinian violence. <br/>After spreading false reports that an 18-month truce and a deal for the release ...</br/>
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March 30, 2009, 9:47 AM (GMT+02:00)
Last September, two former Israeli prime ministers who failed to survive full term made common, cross-party cause for a pact which is now coming into its own, say <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s political analysts. <br/>Likud's Binyamin Netanyahu, 60, was defeated in 1999 by Labor's Ehud Barak, 65, defense minister ...</br/>
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March 28, 2009, 10:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
In a stormy session Tuesday night, March 24, Israel's Labor party voted to join the government headed by Likud leader, Binyamin Netanyahu. Seven Knesset members tried to torpedo the conference in a tempestuous revolt against Labor leader Ehud Barak's partnership accord with Netanyahu. Out of 1,191 members ...
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March 28, 2009, 11:35 AM (GMT+02:00)
Sheikh Ahmad al Fahd al Jabar al Sabah, head of Kuwait's national intelligence service, arrived in Ramallah Monday, March 23, from Jordan through the Allenby Bridge terminus as guest of Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas. He also scheduled appointments with senior Israeli intelligence officials. <br/>But he cut short his ...</br/>
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March 25, 2009, 7:29 AM (GMT+02:00)
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March 23, 2009, 11:31 AM (GMT+02:00)
Tapped as foreign minister in the future Netanyahu government, Avigdor Lieberman says relations between Israeli and Russia "must and can rise to a level of strategic partnership." In an unusual interview with the Russian Interfax news agency, the leader of the right-of-center Israel Beitenu said Wednesday, March 18: "However paradoxical ...
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March 21, 2009, 10:53 AM (GMT+02:00)
All too quickly Israel's three war leaders - prime minister Ehud Olmert, defense minister Ehud Barak and foreign minister Tzipi Livni - forgot the goals they set for the three-week military offensive launched against Hamas on Dec. 27, 2008: That Operation Cast Lead would not halt until security prevailed in southern ...
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March 20, 2009, 9:44 AM (GMT+02:00)
Outgoing prime minister Ehud Olmert stated in a dramatic address to the nation Tuesday night, March 17, that Israel's final offer to release many hundreds of convicted prisoners, including terrorists guilty of murdering many Israelis, had been spurned.<br/>That was it, he said; the list is final. Any more ...</br/>
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March 20, 2009, 9:42 AM (GMT+02:00)
Ehud Barak, defense minister in the outgoing administration and Labor leader, is close to a decision to take his party into Binyamin Netanyahu's coalition government, tempted by his latest offer, according to <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s political sources. <br/>Netanyahu will next week ask the president for more time for coalition ...</br/>
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March 19, 2009, 8:25 AM (GMT+02:00)
Their names were released Monday: David Rabbinovich, 50 from Rosh Ha'ayin and Yehezkiel Ramzarkar, 42 from Maale Ephraim.<br/>A large manhunt on both sides of the Israeli-Jordanian border failed to capture the gunmen who shot dead two Israeli policemen in an ambush of their van on Highway 90 near ...</br/>
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March 15, 2009, 7:48 AM (GMT+02:00)
Having failed to draw Kadima and Labor into a unity government, <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s political sources report that Israel's prime minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu is planning to settle for a provisional administration serving six months before calling another early election. <br/>Loth to rest his government's stability on right-wing and ...</br/>
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March 14, 2009, 5:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
Bank of Israel stimulus plan focuses on falling job market
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March 14, 2009, 5:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, head of Israeli military intelligence AMAN, confirmed at the weekly government session in Jerusalem Sunday, March 8, that Iran had crossed the technological threshold to a nuclear bomb capability and required only a strategic decision to go into production. <br/>Tehran TV disclosed Sunday that Iran had ...</br/>
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March 7, 2009, 10:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
Palestinian tractor driver shot while rampaging in central Jerusalem<br/>
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March 7, 2009, 7:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
<span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s political sources report that the Histadrut Trade Unions leader, Ofer Eini, who has emerged as supreme national fixer in the ongoing crises over business closures and layoffs, has thrown his support behind the outgoing defense minister Ehud Barak's bid to join Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud-led government ...
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March 7, 2009, 6:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
The man certain to form the next Israeli government after the general election of Feb. 10, Likud's Binyamin Netanyahu, started out with a handy lead of well over 30 Knesset seats (out of 120). But his campaign blunders are eroding this lead to below 30. The deserters are swinging ...
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March 3, 2009, 9:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
Preparing to end his term as prime minister, Ehud Olmert was informed Sunday, March 1 that state attorney Menahem Mazuz had decided to indict him on corruption charges in the Talansky case. Preparing to end his term as prime minister, Ehud Olmert was informed Sunday, March 1 that state attorney ...
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March 3, 2009, 9:19 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli air industries first unveiled its new Harop "loiter drone" for taking out ground-to-air missiles at the annual Aero-India 2009 air show which closed recently at Bangalore. <br/>The Iranian media were first to disclose that this sophisticated Israeli drone is capable of targeting the Russian radar-equipped S-300 anti-air missile ...</br/>
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March 2, 2009, 12:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli leaders insist that Israel's armed forces left Hamas seriously crippled - which is undeniable; but the second half of the proposition, especially when it is articulated by defense minister Ehud Barak, that Hamas had "lost its appetite to strike Israel targets for a very long time" - is over-optimistic, give ...
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March 1, 2009, 8:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
Olmert to stand trial in case of Talansky cash envelopes<br/>
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