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DEBKAfile
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July 2, 2008, 12:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
A rampaging bulldozer driven by a Palestinian lifted and overturned a bus and rammed several vehicles on the crowded Jerusalem's Jaffa Street opposite the National broadcasting Center. The tractor drive was shot dead by policeman. Police and emergency teams at scene digging out victims.
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June 30, 2008, 10:01 AM (GMT+02:00)
The deal with a Sept. 25 deadline for a Kadima primary effectively forestalled the Likud-led opposition Knesset dissolution vote Wednesday, June 25 and its support by Labor members, which would have brought the government down, debkafile's political sources report.
The two ruling parties, Kadima and Labor, reached an ... 
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June 29, 2008, 9:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
Meir Dagan, whose term of office as head of Israel's external intelligence service, Mossad, Prime Minister Ehud Olmet extended June 22 by a year to the end of 2009, directed the intelligence-gathering effort for the attack on Syria's North Korean plutonium reactor Sept. 6, 2007. He may now be entrusted ...
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June 28, 2008, 9:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
Shin Bet director Yuval Diskin reported more smuggled arms from Sinai were reaching Gaza in the first 72 hours of the Israel-Hamas truce and Palestinian combat training had been stepped up. Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah had suffered a serious setback.
Justice minister Prof. Daniel Friedman called the Israel-Hamas truce deal "a ...
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June 28, 2008, 9:07 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report powerful explosions rocked Sderot Tuesday, June 24, for the first time in the six days since the Israel-Hamas truce went into effect last Thursday. One injured civilian and three shock victims were treated. They were claimed by the Iran-backed Jihad Islami, which vowed to ...
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June 28, 2008, 9:01 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Western military sources do not believe that if Israel does attack Iran's nuclear facilities, it will resort to the old-fashioned aerial blitz tactic employed in 1981 for bombing Iraq's Osirak reactor. They therefore challenge the US officials' conclusion that Israel's aerial exercise in conjunction with the Greek ...
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June 25, 2008, 9:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
The High Court in Jerusalem ruled Monday, June 23, in favor of the government, deciding not to intervene in its decision to accept a ceasefire with Hamas and reopening of the Gaza crossings without making the deal contingent on an exchange of prisoners. The crossings, closed Monday for the hearing, ...
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June 23, 2008, 11:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
US Pentagon sources report that more than 100 Air Force F-16 and F-15 fighters participated in the maneuver over the eastern Mediterranean and Greece in the first week of June. The maneuver included helicopters used for rescuing downed pilots and refueling tankers. They flew 1,440 km, roughly the distance between ...
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June 23, 2008, 11:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
Palestinian security sources said that at 9 am local time Sunday, June 22, the Israeli army reopened the Sufa and Nahal Oz crossings and let 90 trucks of basic food supplies go through to the Gaza population.
The Olmert government is under heavy fire from some of its own members, ...
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June 21, 2008, 9:48 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile military sources report that Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak has bowed to Hamas' insistence on assigning the negotiations for the release of Gilead Shalit, kidnapped two years ago, to "stage two" of the Egyptian-brokered truce accord. In other words, it has been left out of the deal. ...
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June 20, 2008, 6:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
Commenting on the truce deal shaping up between Israel and Hamas for the Gaza Strip, debkafile's military sources note that the Olmert government has given way to Hamas on its two key demands: the incorporation in the package of the Israeli soldier, Gilead Shalit, who was kidnapped two ...
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June 20, 2008, 6:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
Noam Shalit plans to sue the Olmert government for failing to include his son, Gilead Shalit, kidnapped by Hamas two years ago, in the Gaza ceasefire accord with Hamas mediated by Egypt. He accuses prime minister Ehud Olmert and other officials of breaking explicit pledges to the Shalit family.
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June 16, 2008, 12:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
The prime minister Ehud Olmert's decision, coupled with orders to the military to stand by for all eventualities, was endorsed by the security cabinet Wednesday, June 11, as Hamas continued to shoot mortars at Israel. Four shells injured three Israelis at the same Kibbutz Nir-Oz factory where Amnon Rosenberg was ...
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June 15, 2008, 10:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's embattled prime minister Ehud Olmert made a sudden U-turn Wednesday, June 11. He agreed to his Kadima party holding an early primary to elect a new leader. This was announced by Kadima MK Tzahi Hanegbi shortly after the security cabinet approved Olmert's decision to accept the Egyptian formula for ...
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June 15, 2008, 10:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
Last week, Deputy Prime minister Shaul Mofaz said Israeli strikes on Iran looked "unavoidable" given its progress in uranium enrichment and ineffectiveness of the alternatives. Israelis are in jitters over Iran's rapid progress towards nuclear armament and genuinely thirsty for a sign of clear action amid the shilly-shallying on major ...
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June 13, 2008, 12:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Tamir interceptor, which are designed to kill artillery shells and short-range rockets, undergoes its first test this week. Its object is to find out if its response time can be shortened against Palestinian Qassam missiles fired from Gaza or Hizballah's short-range rockets launched from Lebanon.
According to Western defense ...
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June 11, 2008, 10:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
A poll released Tuesday, June 10, by the Democracy Institute, Jerusalem, registered a steep decline in the average Israeli's faith in his ruling institutions. The military wins the highest marks - 71%; political parties the lowest - 15%.
Nearly 90% consider Israel to be polluted by corrupt government. Less than 50% ... 
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June 10, 2008, 9:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
Two White House spokesmen stressed Friday, June 6, that Washington was committed to solving the Iran issue by diplomacy. They were fielding a barrage of questions on Israeli transport minister Shaul Mofaz's statement that an attack on Iran's nuclear sites looks "unavoidable" if it continues uranium enrichment - given the ...
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June 9, 2008, 11:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
Two foreign farm workers were injured by the salvo fired Saturday, June 8, after four Qassams exploded Friday causing extensive damage.
On his arrival from a trip to the US, prime minister Ehud Olmert said Israel might have to carry out a major military action in Gaza to counter the cross-border ... 
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June 8, 2008, 5:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
The meeting between the Israeli prime minister and president George W. Bush lasted less than an hour; It was more a farewell between two leaders on their way out than a down-to-earth exchange. debkafile's Washington sources report Olmert was informed ahead of his visit that the White House ...
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