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1319 articles tagged "Israel"
DEBKAfile
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December 1, 2007, 12:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
No one at UN headquarters in New York remembers a case of a draft resolution being abruptly withdrawn hours before a UN Security Council session was scheduled to approve it. This is what happened to a US draft that would have endorsed President Bush's announcement three days earlier at the ...
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November 28, 2007, 11:31 AM (GMT+02:00)
Sunday, thousands of police and soldiers poured into Jerusalem after intelligence was received that a terrorist team from the West Bank was bound for a suicide bombing in the city. After several hours, the alert was lifted.
debkafile reports the IDF, police and Shin Bet meanwhile began scouring West ... 
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November 27, 2007, 1:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
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debkafile's military sources report the Iranian Navy is in the process of deploying two submarine fleets - mini-subs in Persian Gulf waters for attacks on US shipping and Gulf oil facilities, and the long-range Kilo class sub of Russian, Chinese ...
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November 25, 2007, 7:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert admitted that Wednesday night, Nov. 21, that Mahmoud Abbas and his fellow Palestinian leaders may be weak but they are the only ones willing to talk peace. debkafile reports: The Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state and insistence on ...
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November 25, 2007, 9:12 AM (GMT+02:00)
Dr. David Shamir (res. major), 45, was indicted by Tel Aviv district court Friday for approaching the Iranian foreign ministry in April 2007 and offering classified information to which he was exposed as a reservist. It included the Medical Corps' emergency plans, the deployment of medical teams and plans for ...
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November 23, 2007, 11:54 AM (GMT+02:00)
The most serious aspect of the affair was the willingness of an IDF officer - one serving as a psychiatrist with the rank of major in the Medical Corps - to spy for Israel's enemies. His offer was not taken up because he gave himself away as a stranger to ...
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November 16, 2007, 1:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
This contradicts public pledges to deny Iran the means to pose an "existential threat" to the Jewish state. Two senior Israeli sources close to the Olmert government's defense planning told the news agency that a secret memorandum was being prepared for "the day after" Iran owned atomic warheads. "There are ...
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November 10, 2007, 11:35 AM (GMT+02:00)
The inner cabinet met Wed. Nov. 7, to discuss the shortened timeline estimate for Iran to attain a nuclear weapons capacity, based on new intelligence information. IDF intelligence chief Brig. Yossi Baidatz told the Knesset foreign affairs and security committee Tuesday that Iran would have this capacity by late 2009. ...
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November 9, 2007, 9:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
In the last few weeks, the Palestinian Islamist Hamas has succeeded in tricking Israeli military intelligence into believing that the IDF forays behind the lines in Gaza had slowed down their Qassam missile offensive against Israeli towns and villages.
It was a ruse. debkafile's military sources disclose that ... 
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November 1, 2007, 11:21 AM (GMT+02:00)
There were no casualties in the targeted village of Mefalsim. An IDF unit quickly located and struck the mortar team. Near the southern Palestinian town of Dahaniya, an Israeli soldier was slightly wounded in another counter-terror operation.
Tuesday, Defense minister Ehud Barak reiterated: Every passing day brings a major IDF ... 
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October 30, 2007, 9:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
The presence of a "microscopic" growth was established by biopsy last week.
His physicians, Dr. Shlomo Segev and Prof. Koby Ramon, maintained at a special news conference Olmert called Monday, Oct. 29, that it is not life threatening in the short term. There will be no need for chemotherapy or ... 
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October 30, 2007, 9:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
This is the message prime minister Ehud Olmert carried urgently to French President Nicolas Sarkozy Monday and will deliver to British premier Gordon Brown Tuesday, according to debkafile's military and intelligence sources.
Last week, Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak presented this updated intelligence to American officials in Washington, ... 
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October 28, 2007, 10:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
Undisturbed since circa 800 B.C.E., the layer yielded fragments of bowls and shards decorated in the style of the First Temple Period, the base and handle of a small jug used to ladle oil, the rim of an oil storage jar and animal bone.
They may be the relics of ... 
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October 22, 2007, 2:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
Ehud Barak, on his first visit to Washington as Israel's defense minister, met Vice President Dick Cheney Wednesday night, Oct. 17, and is scheduled to call in at the White House Thursday to meet with National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley.
DEBKAfile
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October 22, 2007, 1:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
Olmert, deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai, chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi and air force chief Maj. Gen. Eliezer Shkedi, who also commands the Iranian war sector, were briefed Tuesday, Oct. 16, on the preparedness of Arrow missile defense batteries for a possible war contingency. debkafile's military ...
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October 18, 2007, 11:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
Sgt. Kubani of the Golani Brigade died in hospital Wednesday from wounds he sustained under Palestinian anti-tank fire. Earlier, the Israeli Air Force struck a group of armed Palestinians approaching the unit operating against terrorist targets close to the border in the southern Gaza Strip. A Hamas gunman was killed ...
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October 16, 2007, 10:58 AM (GMT+02:00)
Even if Hizballah has given Israel documents in the handwriting of the long-missing Israeli navigator Ron Arad, as claimed by a Lebanese newspaper, they still may not clear up the mystery of the fate which befell him after his capture 21 years ago.
Israeli intelligence has long concluded that, after Ron ... 
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October 11, 2007, 11:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
Dep. prime minister Haim Ramon proposed Monday, Oct. 8, ahead of the prime minister's address to the opening of the Knesset's winter session, that Israel reject the Palestinian principle of the "right of return" (of the 1948 refugees) and offer instead the yardstick of "compassion and mercy."
Last week Ramon floated ...
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October 10, 2007, 7:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
Earlier, debkafile exposed reports that the Winograd panel will not finger the prime minister in its final report on mishandling of Lebanon War were baseless.
The false reports were deliberately disseminated Monday, Oct. 8, the day before prime minister Ehud Olmert faced a fraud squad interrogation on his ... 
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October 10, 2007, 3:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
No one was hurt by the four-missile salvo, one of which exploded 90 meters from the town's western houses. Also attacked Sunday were Sderot and a number of kibbutzim bordering on Gaza by four Qassam missiles and 12 mortar shells, which damaged a house in Kerem Shalom.
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