Mumbai :: India
| about 8 hours ago
On his way to board a flight to Israel with families accompanying the bodies of loved ones killed in the massacre at Mumbai's Chabad House, Rabbi Shneur Kupchick, the director of New Delhi's Chabad House, told The Jerusalem Post on Monday that his organization...
Tags: Chabad House, Mumbai, Israel Air Force, Israeli
Gaza :: Palestine
| about 15 hours ago
The Israeli navy confronted and turned back a Libyan ship carrying 3,000 tonnes of food and other supplies to the Gaza Strip on Monday. The action scuppered the first attempt by another government to break the blockade of the embattled Palestinian territory.
Tags: Gaza Strip, Egyptian-Gaza, Gaza City, Israeli, Palestinian Authority, Qatari, palestinian territory, gaza border
Hebron :: Palestine
| about 15 hours ago
West Bank (AFP) Hundreds of Jewish settlers staged a violent protest late Monday against plans by Israeli authorities to dislodge them from a disputed house in the West Bank town of Hebron, witnesses said. Groups of young settlers, backed by ultra-nationalists...
Tags: Hebron, West Bank, Israeli, wing activists, Nablus, disputed house, IDF, Palestinians
Beijing :: China
| about 16 hours ago
The body of 23-year-old Omri Kidron, an Israeli backpacker who went missing last June in a river in south-west China, was identified Monday, the Foreign Ministry said. Foreign Ministry spokesman for domestic media, Yossi Levy, told Ynet the ministry...
Tags: Omri Kidron, China, Israeli
Jerusalem :: Israel
| about 18 hours ago
An Israeli plan to release a batch of Palestinian prisoners as a "goodwill gesture" and "confidence-building measure" to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas , does not signal the end of detention of thousands of other prisoners, but it could bring the...
Tags: israel, obama, Israeli, Palestinian Authority, Fatah, Saeb Erekat, Barack Obama, Palestinians
Jerusalem :: Israel
| 1 day ago
IsraelNN.com) Foreign Minister Tzpi Livni, in an interview with Army Radio Monday morning, called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to immediately step down from office. This followed the call by Livni and other Kadima members of the Knesset last week for...
Tags: olmert, israel, call, Ehud Olmert, Mumbai, minister ehud, prime minister, Tzipi Livni, Israeli, Tzpi Livni
Jerusalem :: Israel
| 1 day ago
The notion that a Likud victory in February will inevitably lead to friction with Washington is being batted around with increasing frequency. Yet this nasty bit of Kadima election propaganda has no basis in fact. On the contrary, Binyamin Netanyahu's...
Tags: Israeli, Israel Divide, European Union Diplomats, West Bank, Salam Fayyad, Palestinian
Honiara :: Solomon Islands
| 1 day ago
EU funding for Pacific to triple for the next five years Posted at 17:28 on 30 November, 2008 UTC European Union development funding for the Pacific will increase for the next five years, in part due to the ’good performance’ of the region.
Tags: Solomon Islands Posted, Israeli, Pacific, honorary consulate
Jerusalem :: Israel
| 1 day ago
Gaza - Condemnation The international community is adopting silence on Israeli crimes in Gaza, a human rights activist said here on Monday. Ismail Patel, chairman of the "Friends of Al-Aqsa", said humanitarian crisis is getting worse at the moment in...
Tags: Israeli, Gaza, international community, civil society
Jerusalem :: Israel
| 1 day ago
IsraelNN.com) A ceremony took place in Mumbai Monday for the Israeli victims of the Chabad House terror attack. Approximately 100 Israelis, including government officials and back packers, participated in the ceremony for those who died.
Tags: Israeli, Israel Interested, Mumbai Chabad, Teitelboim, Gaza, Jerusalem Court, Gilad Shalit, terrorist fired, Hamas