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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.
The court decided to open the session to the public. Talansky ...
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May 11, 2008, 11:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
He had stepped out of his house in Kibbutz Kfar Azza to work in the garden when he took a direct hit from a mortar shell Friday night, May 9. A kibbutz veteran and reserve paratrooper, Jimmy Kedoshim is survived by a wife and three children. Palestinian attacks also injured ...
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May 10, 2008, 11:13 AM (GMT+02:00)
Two spectators and a paratrooper were seriously injured when he was swept off course by a gusting wind and landed at the edge of a crowd watching a free fall- aerobatic spectacle over Tel Aviv beach. Five more spectators suffered minor injuries.
Across the country, during the day, after a night ... 
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May 9, 2008, 12:53 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile'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minister and leader of the Kadima party see little hope of him surviving the political fallout from the new, as-yet unpublished police investigation against him.
Tuesday, May 6, is seen as marking the critical point in the inquiry, ...
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May 9, 2008, 12:12 AM (GMT+02:00)
Jerusalem district court allowed publication of the prosecution's request to hear a foreign witness's sworn testimony in the case against prime minister Ehud Olmert in a pre-trial proceeding. However, the court delayed its reply until after Independence Day, Thursday, May 8. The witness's departure before the hearing could seriously damage ...
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May 8, 2008, 10:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
A mysterious stranger from America laid fresh information before the Israeli police last week initiating Corruption Investigation No. 5 against Ehud Olmert. All five pre-date his two years as Israeli prime minister and none have so far produced an indictment. But this time, the Attorney General ordered the police to ...
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May 8, 2008, 9:07 AM (GMT+02:00)
Thursday night, May 8 the court gag order imposed on the police investigation against the prime minister was partially lifted. Olmert immediately denied the charge published against him of bribe-taking, admitted only accepting political campaign funds which never reached his pocket and said he would only resign if indicted.
The charge ...
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May 5, 2008, 10:47 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli transport minister Shaul Mofaz, speaking at Yale University Tuesday night, April 30, on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, warned Iran may attain command of enrichment technology before the end of this year. He said: "Israel will not stand for a nuclear-armed Iran. This time, the Jewish people ...
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May 4, 2008, 6:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile reports that prime minister Ehud Olmert was faced with pressing demands at the defense and foreign affairs cabinet session Wednesday, April 30, to explain why Israel is accepting the truce in negotiation with Hamas instead of getting down to the promised military campaign to eradicate its missile ...
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April 29, 2008, 11:20 AM (GMT+02:00)
Yossi Harel died in Tel Aviv aged 90. The story of the epic Exodus voyage with thousands of Holocaust survivors, turned back by the British from Palestinian shores, was first told in a book by Leon Uris and made into a Hollywood film starring Paul Newman as the Exodus captain.
From ... 
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April 29, 2008, 11:20 AM (GMT+02:00)
Maj. Gen. Eliezer Shkedy tells CBCNews 60 Minutes Bob Simon that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threats against Israel must be taken extremely seriously. In an interview to be aired Sunday, April 27, the general said: "I think it is a very serious threat to the state of Israel, but more than this, ...
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April 28, 2008, 8:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
Military authorities leading the campaign against Palestinian terror told debkafile Monday, April 28, that the removal of the permanent roadblock at Asariya a-Shemaliya north of the West Bank town of Nablus lays the entire area including central Israel open to terrorist attacks which that very roadblock had long ...
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April 28, 2008, 7:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile publishes here for the first time details of the Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' master plan for wrecking Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations. The project is called the "2008 Return"
Its highlights are disclosed here with debkafile's comments. The Palestinian leader has circulated guidelines for three million ...
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April 28, 2008, 10:39 AM (GMT+02:00)
Two security guards, Shimon Mizrahi, 53, from Bat Hefer and Ellie Wasserman, 51, from Alfei Menashe, were shot dead Friday morning, April 25, at the Nitsanei Oz industrial park on the junction between Highway 6 and the Netanya Road opposite the Palestinian town of Tulkarm. A large security force crossed ...
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April 25, 2008, 10:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
For the third time in 10 days, the Palestinian Hamas demonstrated Saturday, April 19, it was capable of breaking through the Gaza-Israeli border barrier. Two bomb jeeps and one armored personnel carriers were used to ram through to the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom goods crossing; a second APC ...
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April 23, 2008, 7:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
Half a dozen Hamas raiders cut through the Gaza border fence on April 9, attacked the Nahal Oz oil terminal in Israel and murdered two workers, Oleg Lipson and Lev Cherniak. IDF chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi decided April 21 to relieve Lt. Col Burns of his command ...
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April 23, 2008, 9:30 AM (GMT+02:00)
Early Friday, April 18, Israel's housing ministry invited tenders for the construction of 52 homes in Elkana and 48 at Ariel - both opposite central Israeli towns - to accommodate "natural growth." Later, the defense ministry announced permission for the Palestinian Authority to open 20 civilian police stations in the ...
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April 23, 2008, 9:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that the fierce battles on both sides of the Gaza-Israeli border barrier raging Wednesday, April 16, attest to further security deterioration on Israel's southwestern border. This was first demonstrated on April 9, when Palestinian gunmen cut through the barrier to reach the Nahal Oz ...
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April 16, 2008, 8:18 AM (GMT+02:00)
Former OC Central Command and ex-defense ministry Dir.-Gen Ret. Gen. Shraga Biran said Friday, April 11, that Israel's security problems will not be solved through defensive operations. In an unusually outspoken diatribe against current government policy by an apolitical military strategist, Biran warned that this defensive posture would lead inexorably ...
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April 13, 2008, 9:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
The proposal by senior Palestinian negotiator Yasser Abed Rabbo put forward Wed Feb. 20 to copy the Kosovo example if Israel continued to mark time in talks for a Palestinian state was quickly knocked down by his colleagues, but eyed with interest by Israel.
Tuesday, prime minister Ehud Olmert and ... |
