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September 24, 2008, 9:30 AM (GMT+02:00)
President Shimon Peres entrusts new Kadima leader, foreign minister Tzipi Livni with forming a government Monday night, Sept. 22, at the end of 24 hours of consultations with party representatives in a race against time. He began the round Sunday night after Ehud Olmert tendered his resignation as prime minister ...
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September 22, 2008, 11:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
Palestinian terrorist with bomb killed on way to Yitzhar<br/>
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September 22, 2008, 1:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
Transport minister Shaul Mofaz's announcement of time out from politics and his public duties after he lost the Kadima leadership primary to foreign minister Tzipi Livni by a single percent has seriously divided the party. His supporters claim he was treated unfairly by the party and media, all of ...
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September 20, 2008, 1:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
Olmert in no hurry to quit<br/>
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September 20, 2008, 11:30 AM (GMT+02:00)
Foreign minister Tzipi Livni declared herself victor of the Kadima party's first leadership primary before dawn Thursday, Sept. 18, although her win was challenged by transport Shaul Mofaz, one percent behind her (43 to his 42 percent). All night, he demanded a partial recount in view of election irregularities ...
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September 18, 2008, 5:54 AM (GMT+02:00)
Foreign minister Tzipi Livni, 50, was awarded 47-48-49 percent of a scant 50 percent of Kadima's registered voters (34,000), compared with 37 percent won by her closest rival, transport minister Shaul Mofaz. <br/>Outgoing prime minister Ehud Olmert promised to hand over to the winner of the Kadima primary ...</br/>
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September 17, 2008, 10:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
Defense minister Ehud Barak of Labor and opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu of Likud are in advanced negotiations to rotate the premiership between them in order to cut the ground from under ruling Kadima which votes for a new chairman Wednesday, Sept. 17. The ultra-religious Shas is in on the plan ...
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September 13, 2008, 10:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
Two Israeli airmen killed in Air Force Cobra helicopter crash in N. Israel
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September 12, 2008, 6:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
Wall encircling Jerusalem 2,100 years ago uncovered on Mt. Zion<br/>
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September 12, 2008, 5:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
The raids were disclosed by UPI chief editor Arnaud de Borchgrave, who is also on the <em>Washington Times</em> staff, and picked up by the Iranian Fars news agency. The Russian raids of two Georgian airfields, which Tbilisi had allowed Israel to use for a potential strike against Iran's nuclear ...
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September 9, 2008, 12:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli police decided Sun. Sept. 7 that it has sufficient evidence to bring criminal charges against Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert on two cases of corruption pre-dating his present incumbency.<br/>Their recommendation was referred to Attorney General Menahem Maziz, who alone is competent to indict a prime minister and ...</br/>
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September 3, 2008, 10:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
Hamas is no longer under pressure to conclude a deal with Israel for the release of Gilead Shalit, 22, the kidnapped Israeli soldier spending a third birthday in Gazan captivity. <br/>Sunday, Aug. 31, a special ministerial committee will convene in Jerusalem to draw up a fresh list of jailed Palestinian ...</br/>
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August 31, 2008, 9:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
The geography of the accident Tuesday, Aug. 26, belied the reiterated claims of Israeli ministers and UN officials that Hizballah's rockets had been pushed back from the Lebanese-Israeli border, under the terms of the Resolution 1701 ceasefire which ended the 2006 Lebanon War. <br/>Jamal Amin Salah, 51, a Hizballah ...</br/>
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August 29, 2008, 5:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak wanted to hear about progress in Egypt's mediation for the release of the Israeli soldier kidnapped in 2006 by Hamas, when he met the president Hosni Mubarak Tuesday, Aug. 26. However, <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span> reports that Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak preferred first to lay ...
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August 9, 2008, 11:32 AM (GMT+02:00)
In 50 ceremonies up and down the country, some 8,500 members of Gaza's former 21 communities and many sympathizers from Israel and abroad marked the third anniversary of their forcible evacuation. More than 80 percent are still living in temporary accommodation, many still jobless. The Knesset has set ...
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August 8, 2008, 11:17 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Cairo effort to broker a ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas proves now to have been no more than a cover-up for the real game afoot: a move brokered by the Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade to mend the feud between Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah and the fundamentalist ...
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August 6, 2008, 2:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi commented Monday, Aug. 4: We know where Gilead Shalit is held and who is holding him."<br/><span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s military sources report that the general's incautious remark during a visit to new recruits at the armored corps basic training camp aroused widespread ...</br/>
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August 3, 2008, 5:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu takes issue with the manner of prime minister Ehud Olmert's decision to leave office, because it sidesteps the voter. <br/>Passing the premiership sideways to a successor, which Olmert's own Kadima will elect in a primary in two months, is a form of "artificial respiration ...</br/>
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August 2, 2008, 12:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
Shin Bet director Yuval Diskin reported to the cabinet meeting in Jerusalem Sunday, July 27, an increase of organized plans by terrorist groups to kidnap more Israeli soldiers. They are motivated by the Lebanese Hizballah's success in gaining the release of five imprisoned members in exchange for the remains ...
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July 28, 2008, 6:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli police, Shin Bet kill top Hamas bomb-maker in Hebron<br/>
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