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News Source: Middle East Political News
| about 1 year ago
Israel is prepared to free five Lebanese prisoners and return the bodies of 10 Hezbollah fighters in exchange for the release of two of its soldiers captured in 2006, army radio said on Monday. The report came after Lebanese sources said progress had...
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News Source: Haaretz Daily Newspaper
| about 1 year ago
The report contains two interdependent elements, proposed by the Finance Ministry as a "package deal." One is restoring funding to the higher education system that had been cut, about 20 percent of its allocation, and the other is raising tuition...
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News Source: Middle East International News
| about 1 year ago
Israel is learning a Vietnam lesson the United States found out the hard way: winning firefights on the battlefields does not equate to winning the war. So the foreign ministry is ratcheting up its PR campaigns to try to secure diplomatic victories...
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News Source: Haaretz
| about 1 year ago
Carter was also quoted by The Times newspaper as saying that Israel has 150 nuclear weapons in its arsenal. He made the comments at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival in Wales. I n reference to Palestinians in Gaza, the former U.S. president said: "...
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News Source: Ynet News
| about 1 year ago
The survey's results were presented at the movement's recent conference at Kibbutz Shefayim. According to the survey, 50 percent of Israeli Jews don't keep kosher at all times, and 47 percent of secular families never light Shabbat candles. Twenty...
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News Source: Times of Oman
| about 1 year ago
Arabic TV does not do our country justice,†President Bush complained in early 2006, calling it a purveyor of “propaganda†that “just isn’t right, it isn’t fair, and it doesn’t give people the impression of...
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News Source: Palestine Chronicle
| about 1 year ago
Despite recent setbacks on the military front, the Israeli government is yet to awaken to the reality that Israel is simply not invincible. The wheel of history, which has seen the rise and fall of many great powers, won't grind to a halt.
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News Source: Palestine Chronicle
| about 1 year ago
I recently took part in a four-person panel discussion of solutions to the conflict that arose 60 years ago and still persists when Israel was established in Palestine, displacing more than half of the native Palestinian population. We were two Jews...
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News Source: Ynet News
| about 1 year ago
The investments could create as many as 35,000 jobs, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said at the end of the three-day conference, which drew more than 500 foreign investors, many from the Arab world, along with hundreds more from the Palestinian...
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News Source: Israel National News
| about 1 year ago
The seminars were held in Zikhron Ya'akov, and over 100 men and women participated. Years Ago Today in Israel The British published new immigration regulations that limited Jewish entry into Palestine. Years Ago Today in Israel The Zionist Executive,...