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BBC News
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Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to take a leave of absence or resign as he battles allegations of corruption.
Mr Barak said he would take his Labor Party out of Mr Olmert's governing coalition if he did not..
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CNN
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Israeli defense officials say they have identified an unlikely new threat to national security -- Facebook. A new list of rules announced Thursday aims to prevent soldiers and Defense Ministry employees from revealing classified information on social netw..
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BBC News
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The next UN investigator into Israel conduct in the occupied territories has stood by comments comparing Israeli actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis.
Speaking to the BBC, Professor Richard Falk said he believed that up to now Israel had been successf..
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BBC News
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An Israeli general wanted for alleged war crimes escaped arrest in the UK because British police feared an armed confrontation at Heathrow airport.
Documents seen by BBC News reveal how Major General Doron Almog managed to fly back to Israel when polic..
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SF Gate
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Seeking Arab nations' support for an American peace initiative, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert won his government's approval Monday to free 441 Palestinian prisoners and reaffirmed a pledge to tear down dozens of unauthorized Jewish settlement outpost..
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BBC News
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Israel's interior minister has called for reforming the law that grants Jews around the world Israeli citizenship.
Meir Sheetrit said citizenship should be earned by a strong commitment to Israel and not granted automatically.
He was addressing the..
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FOX News
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The Israeli Cabinet on Sunday approved the release of frozen tax funds to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, officials said, in a step to bolster the moderate Palestinian leader in his standoff against the Islamic terrorist group Hamas.
Prime Ministe..
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CNN
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that his country would be a "genuine partner" of a new Palestinian government and promised to consider releasing hundreds of millions of dollars in frozen tax funds.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud..
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CNN
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Israel's attorney general has determined that there is enough evidence to charge Israeli President Moshe Katsav with sex crimes, including rape, which stem from allegations from four of his former female employees, the justice ministry said Tuesday...
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Houston Chronicle
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert began a five-day trip to the United States on Sunday, armed with an agenda focusing on the Iranian nuclear threat and Israel's relations with the Palestinians...
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Reuters
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An Israeli general in charge of troops along the Lebanese border resigned on Sunday after being accused of failing to prevent the capture of two soldiers that triggered a month-long war with Hezbollah guerrillas...
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VOA News
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The United States Thursday reiterated its sorrow over the deaths of Palestinian civilians in Israeli artillery fire in Gaza. But the State Department ruled U.S. support for what it said is a one-sided draft resolution condemning Israel presented by Arab s..
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BBC News
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has denied taking bribes from a wealthy Jewish-American businessman, resisting calls for his resignation.
Mr Olmert admitted Moshe Talansky gave donations for past election campaigns, but insisted at a news conference..
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CNN
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The Mideast Quartet -- four international entities seeking peace between Israel and the Palestinians -- expressed deep concern Friday over Israeli settlement in the West Bank and Palestinian militants' rocket attacks on Israeli towns. But the Quartet also..
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BBC News
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Israeli leaders are warning of an imminent conflagration in Gaza after Palestinian militants aimed rockets at the southern city of Ashkelon.
The deputy defence minister said the stepped-up rocket fire would trigger what he called a "bigger holocaust" i..
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BBC News
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Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have begun talks in Jerusalem on what are seen as the most intractable issues in the peace process.
These include the status of Jerusalem, the borders of a Palestinian state, Jewish settlements in the West Bank, refu..
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BBC News
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US President George W Bush has arrived in Israel on a landmark visit to the region to try to advance peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians.
Mr Bush received a red carpet welcome at Tel Aviv airport, where he was greeted by the entire Israel..
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SF Gate
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Less than a year ago, Israeli soldiers pumped six bullets into Rabiya Hamed in a botched assassination attempt that left four others dead and more than 30 wounded.
Hamed has since signed a controversial amnesty pact with Israel along with 177 other mem..
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SF Gate
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Even though Palestinian and Israeli leaders agreed Tuesday to work toward a peace settlement by the end of next year, they will still have to confront an intractable issue - the right of Palestinian refugees to return home.
The 75,000 Palestinians who..
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USA Today
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Ehud Olmert on Monday became the first Israeli prime minister to visit a Palestinian town since the outbreak of fighting seven years ago, meeting under heavy guard with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jericho to talk about the creation of a Palesti..
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