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DEBKAfile
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April 23, 2007, 7:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tens of thousands of bereaved families flocked Monday to graveyards up and down Israel. At one of the many state ceremonies, prime minister Ehud Olmert promised he would consider their grief in a potential release of Arab terrorist prisoners for kidnapped Israeli soldiers.
Defense minister Amir Peretz said: "We will never ...
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April 20, 2007, 1:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli prime minister was briefing the Knesset foreign affairs and security committee Wednesday. He criticized the Palestinians for submitting a list of prisoners to trade of Gileat Shalit knowing that Israel cannot possibly release them. His report was attacked from two ends of the opposition:
DEBKAfile
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April 18, 2007, 8:50 AM (GMT+02:00)
In the face of negative Arab responses, prime minister Ehud Olmert again proposed at the weekly cabinet session in Jerusalem Sunday, April 15, that Israel enter into talks with any available combination of Arab governments. That same morning, Dep. PM Shimon Peres said he objects to contacts with any of ...
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April 17, 2007, 9:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile reports: In a 50-minute interview over Arabic TV Al Jazeera channel, Sunday night, April 15, Beshara said he had been questioned twice on the following charges:
1. Transferring classified information to the enemy. He did not name the enemy but hinted at the Lebanese Hizballah. 2. Receipt of ... 
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April 17, 2007, 9:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
On Tuesday, April 17, the Shin Bet intelligence service reported Iranian intelligence had intensified its efforts to recruit Israelis as spies, targeting former Iranians applying for visas to visit their families. One young man had been snared and paid "expenses" for enlisting a friend in security and collecting information.
Two hours ...
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April 17, 2007, 12:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
According to official figures, 180,000 individuals, namely 70% percent of all survivors living in Israel, receive no state assistance or German stipends. Many migrated from the former Soviet Union in recent years. Official Israeli red tape and inattention to their needs and rights was widely condemned in all the ceremonies ...
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April 15, 2007, 1:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile: He thus questions the verbal initiatives led by prime minister Ehud Olmert and foreign minister Tzipi Livni for negotiations with Arab League members based on the Saudi "peace plan."
debkafile: In any case, these initiatives have nowhere to go. The Saudi and Egyptian foreign ministers ... 
DEBKAfile
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April 15, 2007, 9:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
MK Awad Abd al-Fatah, secretary-general of Beshara's faction, Balad, the Arab National Party, claimed in an interview to Quds Press that the Shin Bet is building a dossier against Beshara accusing him of spying for Syria and Hizballah in the 2006 Lebanon War.
Azmi Beshara has caused more harm to Jewish-Arab ...
DEBKAfile
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April 10, 2007, 8:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
The decision taken by prime minister Ehud Olmert in consultation with security chiefs leaves the door open for further negotiations but voices extreme disappointment with the demand to free arch-terrorists convicted for multiple murder.
DEBKAfile
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April 8, 2007, 1:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
The assailant was wounded in return fire. The Hebron shrine is sacred to both Jews and Muslims and is heavily guarded to prevent clashes.
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April 7, 2007, 10:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
Peretz affirms the building's purchase from its Palesitnian owners was legal and above board, but asserts that it should not have been occupied without his permission. The Israeli householders are expected to appeal against the defense minister before the high court of justice.
The building, located on the main road leading ...
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April 5, 2007, 1:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
In the operation Wednesday, April 4, one of the terrorists was killed, a second injured and captured, a third escaped.
DEBKAfile
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April 5, 2007, 12:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
In his briefing to the Israeli cabinet Sunday, April 1, Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, AMAN chief, reported that Iran, Syria, Hizballah and Hamas expect the United States to attack Iran in the summer and they are preparing to retaliate by going to war with Israel. In Yadlin's view, a proliferation ...
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April 4, 2007, 10:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran, which captured and freed the British sailors and marines, also has the authority to weigh in for the Israeli captives' release with its Lebanese proxy and the Hamas-led group of Popular Resistance Committees and al Qaeda Falastin in Gaza. It is in Iran's power to end the long agony ...
DEBKAfile
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April 1, 2007, 9:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, AMAN chief, briefed the Israeli cabinet Sunday, April 1, on Hizballah's war preparations to attack Israel should the United States initiate an attack on Iran. All three expect the Americans to start a war with Israel participating.
DEBKAfile
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March 31, 2007, 1:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
At his first appearance before the Knesset foreign affairs and security committee, Wednesday, March 28, Lt.-Gen Gaby Ashkenazi did not specify what solution he had in mind, but it was presumed to be military. The chief of staff declared: What happened in the Lebanon war will not happen to the ...
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March 31, 2007, 12:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
Three Palestinians were spotted setting up a launcher on the ruins of the Israeli location of Dugit in northern Gaza. All three were hit by Israeli fire. There were no Israeli casualties.
DEBKAfile
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March 28, 2007, 12:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
He said on landing that he now has a better understanding of Israel's security problems. Ban's program Monday started with talks with prime minister Ehud Olmert and a meeting with the families of the kidnapped Israeli soldiers: Gideon Shalit, seized nine months ago by Hamas-led raiders, and the two men ...
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March 27, 2007, 12:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
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DEBKAfile
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March 26, 2007, 12:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
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