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DEBKAfile
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November 29, 2008, 12:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
Defense minister Ehud Barak has appealed against the Jerusalem district court's ruling Wednesday, Nov. 26 that the state violated international treaties by evicting Noam Federman, his wife and children from their farm between Hebron and Kiryat Arba a month ago and banning him from entering the West Bank.
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November 28, 2008, 10:19 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak made light of the "odd missile or two fired by an inconsequential group" from Gaza as the price for continuing the informal truce with Hamas. He was rebutting demands for effective military action against Hamas at a briefing to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security ...
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November 24, 2008, 12:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
With 61 days to go for Israel's general election, at least two opinion polls position the right-of center opposition Likud ahead of its rivals with 32 Knesset seats (out of 120), tripling its present strength, whereas the ruling Kadima, led by foreign minister Tzipi Livni, would drop to 26, with ...
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November 15, 2008, 9:56 AM (GMT+02:00)
The high-tech entrepreneur carried 50% of the vote beating the ultra-religious Meir Porush by 9 points according to complete, unofficial results. Tel Aviv's Ron Huldai won a third term in office with 50.69%; his next rival Dov Kheinin carried 34% of the vote. Haifa also reelected its sitting mayor Yonah ...
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November 8, 2008, 8:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
Georgian tanks and infantry, aided by Israeli military advisers, captured the capital of breakaway South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, early Friday, Aug. 8, bringing the Georgian-Russian conflict over the province to a military climax.
debkafile's geopolitical experts note that on the surface level, the Russians are backing the separatists of ... 
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November 7, 2008, 10:08 AM (GMT+02:00)
Binyamin Netanyahu plans to contest the February 10, 2009 general election at the head of a remodeled Likud party and a star-studded leadership. He is angling for Benny Begin, Yair Shamir, Dan Meridor and Nathan Sharansky.
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November 6, 2008, 2:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
Binyamin Netanyahu introduced the returning son of legendary party founder the late PM Menahem Begin at a news conference in Tel Aviv Tuesday, Nov. 4. Saturday, Nov. 1, debkafile first revealed Benny Begin's decision to quit the civil service as a geologist and bid for a place on ...
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November 1, 2008, 4:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
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In the past few weeks, Hizballah at the behest of Iran and Syria has commandeered the 7,800-foot Mt. Sannine, a strategic asset capable of determining the outcome of the next war, as DEBKA-Net-Weekly 356 revealed. Radar-guided missile positions and an early ... 
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November 1, 2008, 4:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
The date was approved by a consensus of faction leaders in the Knesset Tuesday, Oct. 28 after president Shimon Peres announced that no lawmaker had proved capable of forming a viable government to complete the House's four-year term up until 2010. The Israeli parliament will dissolve itself next week.
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October 29, 2008, 2:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
In his briefing to the cabinet's Sunday session, the head of AMAN, Israeli military intelligence Brig. Amos Yadlin brought out some harsh security developments.
In readiness for another Lebanon war, he warned, Hizballah has acquired rockets ten times more powerful than the hardware leveled against northern Israel in the 2006 ...
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October 29, 2008, 12:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
The incident, just released for publication, occurred on Sept. 21, when Jamal Abu Douaba was helped by his confederates to steal across the Egyptian border south of the Gaza Strip to the southern Israeli Negev. He was on a mission to kidnap Israel soldiers by luring them to the border ...
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October 27, 2008, 11:42 AM (GMT+02:00)
The assailant stabbed a Police Border Guardsman who found him loitering around schools on Vardinon Street at the center of the southern Jerusalem suburb of Gilo. He then set upon 86-year old Avraham Ozri, a local resident, who died of his injuries later in hospital. A bystander wrestled the assailant ...
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October 26, 2008, 11:29 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile reports that Arab Internet sites, most of them Jordanian, claim that 10 days ago on Oct. 12, Meir Dagan, the head of Israel's external intelligence service, the Mossad, was targeted by assassins while visiting Amman. debkafile's sources have no knowledge of any visit by Meir ...
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October 25, 2008, 7:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
Reserve Major Mattan Assa, 24, from Yavne, and Private Ilan Carmi, 19, Herzliya, were killed Wednesday, Oct. 22, when their training plan crashed 30 minutes after takeoff from the IAF's Hatzerim base near Beersheba. The plane, a French-made Fouga Magister, remodeled and renamed Zukit by the IAF, was on a ...
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October 20, 2008, 9:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
Defense minister Ehud Barak has proposed in coalition talks with Kadima leader, foreign minister Tzipi Livni, that serious consideration be given to the 2002 Saudi plan which offered pan-Arab recognition of Israel in exchange for full Israeli withdrawal from all lands captured during the 1967 war: the West Bank, Gaza, ...
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October 17, 2008, 1:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
Jewish and Arab religious leaders of the northern Israeli town of Acre agreed to join hands to calm the outbreaks that roiled the northern Israeli town for four days. Also Monday, Oct. 13, Tawfiq Jemal, the Arab driver who triggered the Yom Kippur Eve riots was detained on suspicion of ...
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October 14, 2008, 9:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
The upward trend followed the announcement in Washington Monday, Oct. 13, that the
Bush administration is preparing to buy ownership shares in banks. The takeover, part of the $700 bn bailout plan, is intended to help revive the flow of credit. Europe's central banks unveiled similar rescue operations to shore up ...
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October 8, 2008, 10:29 AM (GMT+02:00)
The White House spokeswoman said Tuesday, Oct. 7, that the US president wants to discuss with the British, French, Italian and German leaders ways of coordinating action " getting them all on the same page" to bring about market stability. Some of the markets in Europe, Asia and Israel began ...
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October 7, 2008, 11:44 AM (GMT+02:00)
Caretaker prime minister Ehud Olmert will announce the transfer during his Moscow visit starting Monday, Oct. 6. His Kremlin talks are expected to focus on Russia's return to the Middle East as contributor to Iran's nuclear program and Syria's arms supplier. The picturesque site of Sergei's Courtyard in downtown Jerusalem ...
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October 4, 2008, 5:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
By extending the Mossad director, Meir Dagan's tenure for another year until the end of 2009, Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has put in place a vital constituent for a possible eleventh-hour unilateral strike at Iran's nuclear facilities.
In his six years on the job, the 61-year old external intelligence ... |
