Posts Tagged ‘ Middle East ’

Pending court approval, government could assume control over properties of people who moved to enemy states during the War of Independence, as well as structures that belong to people now residing in the territories. Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein recently informed the Supreme Court that the state plans to apply the law on abandoned properties to...
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In the wake of the tragic death of a kindergarten student two months ago, after she was left locked in a minivan for hours, an Indian school here is set to implement a high-tech solution that will enable the school and parents to monitor students’ entry into and exit from school buses. Called Automated Child...
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Shabbat Shalom D'varim ('words') Deut.1:1-3:22 Haftarah Isa. 1:1-1:27
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Missile interception system to start operating in coming weeks. Israel inched a step closer recently to deploying a missile defense system along the border with the Gaza Strip after the Iron Dome system successfully intercepted a number of missile barrages in tests. The tests were overseen by the Defense Ministry, the Israel Air Force and...
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It is a matter of trying to reach out and get the best of all worlds, if you will, and there is much to be gained by drawing in the contributions that are possible from the Muslim (nations)," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as the head of...
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In a sign of the improving ties between the United States and Israel, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen will pay a short visit to Israel Sunday on his way back to the US from meetings in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mullen will meet with Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi,...
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Why we should not forgive Helen Thomas. In the aftermath of the Helen Thomas fiasco, the bloggers and the pundits and the second-guessers are having a field day. Why are we harassing her, they ask, just because she happened to respond to a rabbinic interviewer on the lawn of the White House with the kind of...
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Internet giant Yahoo! and the Apple computer firm have apparently decided to pre-empt those pesky Israel-Palestinian Authority negotiations and divide the holy city of Jerusalem on their own. Yahoo! -- which runs the weather software application for the slick Apple iPhone -- last month removed Israel's capital city from its list of international locations...
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TEL AVIV — Israel has developed the advanced air refueling systems that could facilitate a strike on Iran. The officials also said the development overcame several years of refusals by Washington to supply the systems required for the 1,000 kilometer flight from Israel to Iran. Officials said the Israel Air Force has overseen the...
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The IDF sees the Bible as a guide in the deep and practical sense of the word,” I IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi said Wednesday in a meeting with participants in the International Bible Quiz for Youth. “It is no accident that the IDF swears in its soldiers with a weapon...
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