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May 31, 2008, 11:16 AM (GMT+02:00)
Long Island financier Morris Talansky, the chief prosecution witness in case against prime minister Ehud Olmert described a long history of sums amounting to $150,000 handed to the suspect in cash or personal credit card when he refused to accept checks. <br/>The financier testified for seven hours in a ...</br/>
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May 28, 2008, 8:54 AM (GMT+02:00)
Outcry against Israeli lawmaker who says ceding territory is punishable by death<br/>
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May 22, 2008, 8:58 AM (GMT+02:00)
As this damaging revelation emerged in the High Court Monday, May 19, prime minister Ehud Olmert's office announced he would undergo a routine hospital test that night to monitor his prostrate cancer, which was disclosed last October as not life-threatening. The prime minister, 62, decided to postpone surgery at ...
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May 22, 2008, 8:30 AM (GMT+02:00)
Outgoing Air Force commander, Maj. Gen. Eliezer Shkedy said in a radio interview Saturday, May 17, that the peril comes from thousands of missile stocked by Syria, Hizballah, Hamas and possibly Iran. Israel has developed new defensive capabilities to reduce their impact.<br/>He revealed that during the 2006 Lebanon War ...</br/>
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May 20, 2008, 5:39 PM (GMT+02:00)
Senior minister speaks out against Olmert government restraint on Gaza attacks<br/>
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May 20, 2008, 4:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
<span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s military and Middle East sources report that Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak informed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak at their meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh Monday, May 19, that the kidnapped Israel soldier Gilead Shalit must be included in the ceasefire deal. However, Egyptian go-betweens headed by intelligence minister ...
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May 20, 2008, 11:19 AM (GMT+02:00)
New poll gives Olmert-Barak duo 21 percent rating for dealing with Gaza violence
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May 18, 2008, 2:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
Once again, after two previous successes, Hamas proved Saturday, April 19 it was capable of ramming through Israel's border defenses against the Gaza Strip. This time, Israeli troops acted expeditiously and boldly enough to prevent a major Palestinian breakthrough at the Kerem Shalom crossing and fatal casualties. Thirteen members ...
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May 17, 2008, 5:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
Jihad Islami and Popular Committees claimed the attack with Hamas' blessing. After examining the rocket shrapnel, police commander Uri Barlev confirmed it was a Grad (Katyhusha) military rocket made in Iran. <br/>Of the 100 people injured in Ashkelon's bustling mall, four people were seriously hurt including a mother and ...</br/>
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May 17, 2008, 9:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
Outgoing Israeli Air Force commander: Israel faces unparalleled threats
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May 16, 2008, 1:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
Some unusual aspects stand out in the German Chancellor Angela Merkel's four-day official visit to Israel starting Sunday, March 16. One is her arrival with seven of her top ministers, including foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and defense minister Franz Josef Jung. Both will hold bilateral talks with their Israeli ...
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May 14, 2008, 10:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
Gaza missile against Moshav Yesha kills Shuli Katz, 70, from Kibbutz Gvar-Am <br/>
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May 13, 2008, 10:03 AM (GMT+02:00)
<span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s Middle East sources report that the police investigations hanging over prime minister Olmert's head are beginning to undermine his government's ability to engage in Middle East diplomacy. Most political circles have begun the countdown to his political demise in the short term. <br/>Sunday night, Cairo ...</br/>
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May 12, 2008, 7:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Jerusalem district court Friday, May 9, approved the prosecution's application to allow the US financier Morris Talansky, 75, from Long Island, to testify in a pre-trial hearing to handing large sums of cash to prime minister Ehud Olmert. <br/>The court decided to open the session to the public ...</br/>
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May 11, 2008, 11:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
Jimmy Kedoshim, 48, killed by a mortar shell from Gaza<br/>
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May 10, 2008, 11:13 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's 60th anniversary holiday marred by accident
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May 9, 2008, 12:53 AM (GMT+02:00)
<span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s political sources report that circles closest to Ehud Olmert, prime minister and leader of the Kadima party see little hope of him surviving the political fallout from the new, as-yet unpublished police investigation against him.<br/>Tuesday, May 6, is seen as marking the critical point in the ...</br/>
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May 9, 2008, 12:12 AM (GMT+02:00)
Olmert case: Court delays decision on foreign witness's pre-trial testimony
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May 8, 2008, 10:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
Analysis: Where did the new corruption charge against Olmert spring from? And why now?<br/>
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May 8, 2008, 9:07 AM (GMT+02:00)
Ehud Olmert will not quit though suspected of taking bribes before he became prime minister<br/>
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