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March 1, 2009, 11:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
Netanyahu's three candidates for defense<br/>
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March 1, 2009, 11:43 AM (GMT+02:00)
After Labor and Kadima leader Ehud Barak and Tzipi Livni refused to join his wall-t-wall national government, Israel's designated prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has launched negotiations for a centrist government coalition supported by a parliamentary majority of 65 members of the right-of-center and religious parties. Three or four ministers ...
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February 25, 2009, 10:14 AM (GMT+02:00)
Binyamin Netanyahu chose Kadima's Tzipi Livni, followed by Labor's Ehud Barak, for kicking off his negotiations with party leaders for the formation of a broad government coalition after he was designated for the task by president Shimon Peres Friday, Feb. 20. <br/>Both turned him down at their first ...</br/>
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February 22, 2009, 7:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
A special cabinet session Wednesday, Feb. 18, unanimously endorsed prime minister Ehud Olmert's demand that Gilead Shalit's freedom be a pre-condition for any truce arrangements for Gaza and its crossings. Egypt has been brokering a Gaza truce since Israel's three-week military campaign ended in the Gaza Strip ...
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February 22, 2009, 7:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
As he began consultations for the formation of Israel's post-election cabinet Wednesday, Feb. 18, President Shimon Peres made an extraordinary statement. Addressing the Presidents Conference, hee admitted for the first time that Israel's unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip in 2005 was a mistake "which will not be ...
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February 21, 2009, 9:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
New tennis ball-sized camera with 360-degrees range for Israeli infantry
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February 19, 2009, 10:03 AM (GMT+02:00)
US president Barack Obama has bought Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu's program for attacking the Palestinian issue by first building a strong West Bank economy, <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s Washington sources report. For its execution, Washington is in favor of Netanyahu forming a unity government in partnership with Kadima's Tzipi ...
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February 17, 2009, 2:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
<span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s political sources report that in preliminary talks Wednesday, Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu offered Kadima's Tzipi Livni the pick of 10 top portfolios for joining a government led by him. He has refused to consider rotating the premiership between them. <br/>Although according to final results the Feb ...</br/>
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February 15, 2009, 9:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
Nearly 100 percent of counted votes from Israel's general election Tuesday, Feb. 10, awards Tzipi Livni's Kadima 28 Knesset seats (out of 120) - only one place ahead of the 27 polled by Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud. He heads a right-of-center bloc of 64 seats to the 56 polled ...
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February 10, 2009, 9:25 AM (GMT+02:00)
Foreign minister and aspiring prime minister Tzipi Livni used an apparent paradox to bury the two-state solution. In a speech she gave to high school pupils Thursday, Dec. 11, she said: "The place for Israeli Arabs to exercise their national aspirations is a future Palestinian state - not Israel, which is ...
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February 8, 2009, 11:40 AM (GMT+02:00)
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February 5, 2009, 9:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
"To all the warmongers among you I say I am not minister of war but minister of defense." <br/>This emotional statement was delivered by Ehud Barak Monday, Nov. 24, to his many critics at a briefing session of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee. He went on to lambast ...</br/>
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January 24, 2009, 8:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli voter will want to know the name of the defense, finance and foreign ministers in Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu's shadow cabinet well before general election date of Feb. 10, 2009. He - and she - are desperate for a fresh, credible team capable of addressing its deep concerns about ...
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January 20, 2009, 11:34 AM (GMT+02:00)
Gas well struck opposite Haifa coast Israel's biggest energy find<br/>
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January 5, 2009, 12:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
The most up-to-date intelligence predictions of US nuclear experts is that by the end of 2009, Iran will have stocked enough weapons-grade fuel to build three nuclear bombs. <br/>The first will be ready for assembly by the time Barack Obama is sworn in as US president on January 20, 2009 ...</br/>
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January 2, 2009, 2:39 PM (GMT+02:00)
<span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s military sources assess the next stage of Israel's Gaza campaign as being a ground incursion of the Gaza Strip, to follow up the air bombardment of Hamas compounds Saturday, Dec. 27. Hamas estimates that in four minutes, dozens of Israeli bombers and helicopters flattened 30 "high ...
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December 28, 2008, 10:57 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli bombers hit Hamas' film center in southern Gaza Saturday night, Dec. 27, after massive air raids destroyed Hamas compounds across the enclave leaving 225 killed, 330 injured and thousands of shock victims. The operation followed a week in which Hamas fired 200 missiles at Israeli civilian targets. <br/>The Israeli ...</br/>
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December 27, 2008, 2:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
The fifty or so missiles and rockets Hamas sent crashing into Israel Wednesday, Dec. 24, along with dozens of mortar rounds, represent no more than a quarter of its capabilities, <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s military sources report.<br/>IDF officers calculate that the fundamentalist Palestinian group can shoot 200 missiles a day ...</br/>
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December 26, 2008, 8:39 PM (GMT+02:00)
For the first time in 9 years of Palestinian warfare, anti-air gun fire was directed from the ground against Israeli aircraft, <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s military sources report. The guns opened up Sunday night, Dec. 21, against Apache helicopters still over Nahal Oz, before they crossed into Gaza air space to ...
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December 24, 2008, 10:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
After several hours of debate, the senior ministers decided to let the defense authorities determine the timing and form of Israel's response to the heaviest Palestinian blitz it has ever sustained and to coordinate this response with Egypt.<br/>Hamas owned up to the massive blitz of 70 missile and ...</br/>
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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 •
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