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 | | 6% of Israeli Jews define themselves as haredim (ultra-orthodox religious); an additional 9% are "religious"; 34% consider themselves "traditionalists" (not strictly adhering to Jewish halacha) ; and 51% are "secular". | | | About 7,500 Israelis live in communities built in the Gaza Strip. | | | Israel's military consists of a unified Israel Defense Forces (IDF), known in Hebrew by the acronym Tzahal. |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/I/Israel.htm
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| | The Chronicle: 7/26/2002: Why We Should Not Boycott Israeli Academics |
| | Then one of the invited conference participants, himself an Israeli living in the United States, sent out an e-mail message saying that he would avoid the conference and urging others to do so too. | | | It is surely that movement which, however dark its prospects now seem, holds the greatest hope for a better future. | | | I am not unaware, of course, that in some circles such a position would immediately raise the question of anti-Semitism. |
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http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i46/46b01301.htm
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| | israelinsider: Israel's daily online news magazine |
| | It has been a hard year for those with faith in and love for this nation, and the future is rimmed with uncertainty and danger. | | | Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia says "Katrina was God's retribution for (US support of) the Gaza withdrawal," and no one has him committed? | | | Man convicted of attempting Israeli "9/11" in Israel under house arrest |
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| | Gush Shalom - Israeli Peace Bloc |
| | The "window of opportunity" of the Sharon-Peres governemnt seems to lead to the continuation of the sin in which Israel was born. | | | After him spoke Yonatan Pollak of the Anarchists. | | | Muslim sheiks led public prayers in front of the soldiers. |
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http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Israel shocked by image of soldiers forcing violinist to play at roadblock |
| | Israelis put great store in a belief that their army is "the most moral in the world" because it says it adheres to a code of "the purity of arms". | | | While the officer responsible for killing Iman al-Hams has been charged with relatively minor offences, and the soldiers who forced the violinist to play were ticked off for being "insensitive", the only troops who were swiftly punished for violating regulations last week were some who posed naked in the snow for a photograph. | | | Some soldiers told Israeli papers that their mothers had sought assurances that they did not do that kind of thing. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1361755,00.html
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| | Afterwards, I will present some aspects of the search for identity the Druze are facing. | | | Minorities in Israel: The Druze : Between success and the search for identity | | | The New Israelis: The Arabs of Israel (Part 2) |
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| | CNN.com - Israeli troops respond to attack that killed 4 - Feb. 17, 2003 |
| | In response, Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz on Sunday vowed to damage the Hamas infrastructure in Gaza. | | | Israeli military sources said one soldier was lightly wounded during the clash. | | | Late Sunday, Israeli soldiers destroyed the home of a Hamas commander for northern Gaza, an IDF spokeswoman said. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/02/16/mideast
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| | The Israeli Government's Official Website, by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| | For those amongst the British public who have forgotten how naturally beautiful Israel is, the following two presentations remind us that Israel is so much more than just a place where bombs go off (1 / 2 - better with sound). | | | Research Centres: BICOM / MEMRI / ICT / CSS / JCSS | | | By bringing Israeli artists - Jewish, Muslim and Christian to surrounding communities, we are able to celebrate Israeli culture, whilst encouraging cultural dialogue and fostering a profound and multifaceted understanding of contemporary Israeli society. |
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| | Alternatives : Israeli Democracy |
| | The fact that Haim Baran or Uri Avnery ask the question and answer no is particularly significant. | | | Violence is manifested not only in Israeli politics but also in everyday interactions at home and in the street. | | | This is admittedly no small thing at a time when the religious forces are pushing to install a quasi-theocracy in place of the “Jewish democratic state.” |
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http://www.alternatives.ca/article1750.html
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| | Ariga: Online for pleasure and peace since 1995 |
| | Dagan, a Sharon appointee, is known for his gung ho, activist approach, preferring daring do operations to the kind of quiet intelligence gathering that was the hallmark of his predecessor, Ephraim Halevy. | | | Several innocent Palestinians were killed due to the practice, which became prevalent as a method of trying to protect Israeli soldiers during the worst years of intifada, particularly in 2002 and 2003. | | | It was a report from Gaza that PA police had 'kidnapped' two Hamas men. |
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| | ICMIS Home Page: The International Coalition for Missing Israeli Soldiers |
| | In Israel's military tradition, significant risks have been taken even for the return of bodies. | | | Over the last seven years Israel has released thousands of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails -- the time has now come for all of Israel's captive sons to return home. | | | The International Coalition for Missing Israeli Soldiers (ICMIS) has worked tirelessly both in Israel and abroad, on behalf of the MIAs and their families. |
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| | israelinsider: Culture: Israeli athletes hope to return from Athens with gold |
| | There are also two new immigrants from Ethiopia, including 49-year-old marathon runner Haile Satayin, the oldest member of the Israeli delegation. | | | The Israeli media reported that Ze'evi has been sick lately, suffering from a high fever, but upon his arrival in Athens, Ze'evi told reporters that by the time competition begins, he will be in prime condition. | | | Maariv reports that the team has arrived in Athens ready to battle for a medal, in whatever color, as long as they can get past a number of minor mishaps that have disturbed their opening performances in other competitions. |
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| | Israeli Awards |
| | The aim of the HOLYLAND AWARD is to contact Israeli Ham stations from different "areas". | | | All other Israeli stations count for 1 point. | | | The country is divided geographically, by the Survey Department of Israel, into a grid system resulting in squares of 10 by 10 Kilometers. |
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| | ei: The Electronic Intifada |
| | A number of us at Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) contacted some of these filmmakers to urge them not to participate in that festival. | | | There were two main reasons for that: the first was that the film festival was sponsored by the Israeli government and held under the patronage of Limor Livnat a minister in Sharon's government and a member of the Likud party, well-known for her racist and Zionist positions and actions. | | | Israeli jetfighters, mainly F-16s, continue to air-strike many areas in the 'recently-evacuated' Gaza Strip, in which several Palestinians have been killed, dozens others wounded, severe damages inflicted to buildings and a great deal of panic caused to men, women and children. |
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| | RadioHazak |
| | Between April 25-28, youngsters and their parents will be able to gain some insight into what makes Reshef's cartoonist persona tick, when he displays some of his prized comics books - taken from his 7,000-plus collection - at the Childhood and Family Collections Festival at the Israeli Children's Museum in Holon. | | | From his first and last names, both of which could pass for non-Israeli sounding, to his choice of material, to his anarchistic sense of humor (supported by his life-long friend, comedian-filmmaker Uri Zohar, who later became a distinctly unfunny Orthodox rabbi), Arik offered us a vital connection to Euromerican culture. | | | Yehoram Gaon was the finest scion of a lyrical tradition spanning centuries of Jewish and then Israeli life in Jerusalem. |
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| | Judaism and Jewish Resources - Andrew Tannenbaum |
| | The Awareness Center is dedicated to addressing childhood sexual abuse in Jewish communities around the world. | | | Snunit (the Israeli English Teacher's Network) at Hebrew University in Jerusalem has an extensive doc describing use of Hebrew on the Internet. | | | Hebrew University has a list of Libraries in Israel on the Aleph Network. |
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http://shamash.org/trb/judaism.html
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| | Israeli Posters Center |
| | We will be very happy to give you the most pleasure in this field. | | | At this site you can see over 600 Israeli posters, which is a very small portion of our over 2500 extensive collection. | | | We have not yet met a customer who has not been impressed by our interesting and incredible selection of Israeli posters that we have. |
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| | RadioHazak |
| | And if you live in Israel, don't go away. | | | The two famous Israeli musicians each have a son ready to release their first album | | | Good selection doesn't do justice to her career |
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| | CBC News:Israeli military raid kills founder of Hamas |
| | GAZA - The founder and spiritual leader of the militant Palestinian group Hamas is dead after an Israeli missile attack in Gaza City. | | | Israeli troops killed seven more Palestinians Sunday, including local Hamas leader Basem Kadeeh and his wife. | | | Witnesses say Israeli helicopters fired three missiles at Sheik Ahmed Yassin near a mosque early Monday morning in the Gaza Strip, killing him and two bodyguards instantly. |
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| | CNN.com - Israeli killed in border village attack - Jan. 13, 2003 |
| | Israeli soldiers and police killed the attackers in an exchange of gunfire near Afula in northern Israel. | | | • Israeli soldiers killed two gunmen and were searching for a third near Israel's border with Egypt, according to Palestinian sources in Gaza. | | | Israeli television said one Israeli soldier died in the incident. |
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| | Israeli Army Engaged in Fight Over Its Soul (washingtonpost.com) |
| | You see these people and you know the majority of them are innocent and you're taking away their rights. | | | With the Israel Defense Forces in the fourth year of battle with the Palestinians, the most dominant institution in Israeli society is also embroiled in a struggle over its own character, according to dozens of interviews with soldiers, officers, reservists and some of the nation's preeminent military analysts. | | | Noam said he has told his friends: "I'm not killing anyone for no reason. |
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| | CNN.com - Hamas leader killed in Israeli helicopter strike - May 30, 2004 |
| | Nassar was a former bodyguard for Hamas founder and spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was killed in an Israeli missile strike in March. | | | The dead were identified as Nassar, Mahmoud Sarsur, his assistant; and Mahdi Mahdi. | | | According to the Israel Defense Forces, the army force was conducting house searches in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Report: Blast kills 6 Israeli soldiers |
| | An Israeli soldier escorts a Palestinian man who was arrested in the Gaza Strip crossing between Israel and Gaza, Wednesday. | | | A Palestinian militant group said it reached agreement with Israel on the return of the remains. | | | Israel had no immediate comment on the deal but has said it would not negotiate with the militants and vowed to continue its operation until it recovers the bodies. |
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| | Most Arabs fled the region when the state of Israel was declared, but those who remain now make up almost one-fifth of the population of Israel. | | | In 1991, Israel was struck by Iraqi missiles during the Persian Gulf War. | | | But tens of thousands on the right protested that Sharon, an architect of the settlement movement, had become the agent of Gaza's dismantlement. |
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| | Lawrence of Cyberia |
| | EI's analysis notes that, "Israeli demographers have long predicted that in the next several years, Palestinians would once again become a majority in all of historic Palestine, with the risk that Israel would begin to be viewed as an apartheid state where an empowered minority rules over an effectively disenfranchised majority". | | | The Refuser Solidarity Network supports Israelis who refuse to perform military service which supports the Occupation: including reservists who will not serve in the Occupied Territories, and men and women conscripts who refuse to serve at all in the IDF because of their opposition to Occupation. | | | You can magnify the importance of the Israeli Jewish vote by allowing Israeli Jews to vote for an empowered national government regardless of where they live in Israel or the Occupied Territories, while limiting the Palestinian voice in choosing that government by allowing the vote only to Palestinians within Israel's 1967 borders. |
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| | Israeli officials OK freedom for hundreds of Palestinians |
| | The 17 militants were reportedly released from their house arrest on condition that they remain at the headquarters, abide by the cease-fire and restrict their contact to family members. | | | Arafat apparently hoped that the men's removal would help persuade Israeli forces to ease their siege of his battered headquarters and, perhaps, to pull out entirely from Ramallah. | | | The list will be closely scrutinized and, almost certainly, criticized by Palestinian officials, who regard anything short of a blanket release as inadequate, and by Israeli opponents of the peace plan, who say any such concessions could imperil Israeli lives despite a temporary cease- fire declared by Islamic militant groups. |
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| | IRIS: Information Regarding Israel's Security |
| | Israeli authorities had approved her request to let her move to Tulkarm in the West Bank so that she could marry her fiance. | | | Swedish Radio Islam Head: "The Muslims' War is with the Jews, not Zionists" | | | With the Israelis gone, locals say it has increasingly turned to racketeering and extortion. |
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| | ei: Israeli forces kills seven Palestinians and destroys 40 homes in Gaza |
| | Israeli forces kills seven Palestinians and destroys 40 homes in Gaza | | | PCHR learned that Abu 'Ouda was killed in an exchange of fire with Israeli troops, but those troops have continued to hold his body in a Palestinian ambulance, without allowing the ambulance to travel out of the town. | | | At approximately 05:30, Israeli troops opened fire at 4 members of the Fatah movement when they were walking on al-Wad road. |
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| | CNN.com - Demonstrators call for Israeli pullout - May 11, 2002 |
| | of the faith that Israelis have in the Palestinians' leadership," but said those in Rabin Square still hoped for renewed negotiations. | | | The radical Islamic group Hamas claimed responsibility for the bombing. | | | Another Jerusalem daily, Maariv, quoted IDF commanders as saying they had learned lessons in the Israeli campaign in the Jenin refugee camp, where hard fighting by Palestinians left 23 Israeli soldiers dead. |
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| | Third Arab-Israeli War |
| | On April 7, 1967, a clash between Israel and Syria broke out along their border over cultivation rights (see Golan Heights and Water Wars for more on disputes between Israel and its neighbors since the 1948 war). | | | The Israelis claimed it was an accident: that they mistook Liberty for an Egyptian vessel connected with what they believed to be Egyptian shelling of Israeli positions at al-Arish going on at the time (the explosions ashore later turned out to be an ammunition dump blowing up). | | | Both claimed publicly that Israel knew Nasser was not planning to attack. |
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| | The Israeli Government's Official Website, by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| | This year, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between Israel and Germany, the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel Export Institute will be joining forces in the Israeli pavilion at the Book Fair. | | | This course, offered by the Jewish Agency e-Academy in conjunction with the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, provides participants with an understanding of Israel's perspective on some of the most complicated questions regarding the Middle East conflict. | | | The Frankfurt International Book Fair 2005 will take place between October 19 and 23. |
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| | Israeli shelling kills U.N. peacekeeper - World News - MSNBC.com |
| | BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israeli shelling killed a French U.N. peacekeeper on Sunday, shortly after a Hezbollah bomb attack claimed the life of an Israeli soldier in a day of violence near the border in southern Lebanon, Lebanese and U.N officials said. | | | The United Nations says the region is Syrian and that Syria and Israel should negotiate its fate. | | | Hezbollah, a Syrian- and Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim militant group, led the guerrilla war against the Israeli occupation of a border zone in south Lebanon. |
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| | BBC NEWS Europe Mystery over Iran judo 'protest' |
| | After the draw, he was quoted in Iran as saying that he had refused to face his Israeli rival in sympathy with the "oppressed" Palestinian people. | | | Miresmaeili, the world champion in the under-66kg division who carried Iran's flag at Friday's opening ceremony, had been drawn to face Israeli's Ehud Vaks in the first round. | | | But there is confusion over the affair, following the judo star's reported threat to walk out in protest when he was drawn against an Israeli opponent. |
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| | BIG CAMPAIGN - Boycott Israeli Goods |
| | We will organise supporters to boycott Israeli goods and services, to persuade businesses to stop trading with Israel and to campaign for an end to European Union and British government trade agreements with Israel. | | | It shows the Israelis that there is international opposition to the occupation; | | | The Palestinian people are experiencing their thirty fifth year of military occupation. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Israeli raids leave 4 Palestinians dead |
| | Early Tuesday, Israeli troops blew up two abandoned buildings on the edge of Gaza City that the military said had been used to fire missiles repeatedly at Israeli motorists. | | | The Israeli military said buildings destroyed in the strike housed "Islamic Jihad terrorists, involved in attacks against Israelis." | | | Palestinian security forces left their headquarters as well, fearing they would be targets. |
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| | Haaretz - English |
| | Educational Missions to Israel through the eyes of Israelis. | | | Senior Israeli Defense Force officer says prisoner releases are in Israel's interest | | | AJC head: Pakistan willing to accept Israeli, Jewish aid |
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| | George W. Bush - Terrorist in the White House - Main Page |
| | This site is about exposing the War For Israel that is costing many children's lives. | | | Support for the war in Iraq is waning and Israel needs more troops to carry on their reshaping of the middle east and the upcoming attack on Iran. | | | Not too much coverage of Israel turning the Palestine occupied areas into open air prisons and cutting the people that live there off from their farmlands. |
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| | Jewish Shopping Mall, the choice of smart Jewish shoppers |
| | Welcome to the greatest collection of Israeli posters in the world which feature the life, culture & history of the Jewish people and other topics such as: Israeli, diaspora, independence, soldiers, peace, Jerusalem, tradition, education, nature, Micrography, Chassidim and Maps. | | | Studio Shofar is now happy to offer a growing selection of judaica and Jewish gifts MADE IN ISRAEL, with many new Israeli items being added this year. | | | Your online shop for Israeli and army T-shirts, sweat shirts, Israeli caps, dead sea cosmetics products,Israel flags and small souvenirs from the Holy land - Israel. |
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| | Israeli Officers to Brief CIA on Terror Cell Trained in Iraq |
| | The Israeli officials probably had information about Salman Pak, a facility south of Baghdad that features, among others, a mock-up Boeing 707 used to train terrorist hijackers, Vallely said. | | | Paul Vallely, a terrorism expert who recently returned from a fact-finding trip to Israel, said the visit by the Israeli delegation was not routine. | | | A delegation of senior officers of the Israeli Defense Forces is briefing the CIA on a Palestinian terror cell discovered in Israel that had trained at military camps in Iraq, a leading Israeli newspaper reported. |
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| | Online NewsHour: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict PBS |
| | Hundreds of Israeli nationalists and protesters faced their own army as troops began distributing eviction notices as part of the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. | | | Two experts assess the next steps for the narrow strip of land that is home to some 1.4 million people. | | | The Israeli withdrawal from 21 Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements continued as soldiers started forcibly removing fellow Israelis. |
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| | Support the Israeli Economy - OU.ORG |
| | Buying Israeli stocks shows our faith in the Israeli economic system. | | | You may also post an RFP for Israel's review. | | | Little Israel sells the highest quality toys, games and children's clothing made only by Israeli companies. |
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| | In Israel, he turned to a study of Israeli folk music, working closely with Bracha Zafira, the noted folklorist, especially in Sephardic material. | | | In reality, there is a concert music tradition which is definitely Israeli in character and, unfortunately, largely unknown. | | | Began collecting Jewish and Israeli "Folk' songs and interpreting them in a Eastern European fashion, but from all of this an 'Israeli' music was beginning to emerge. |
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| | ISRAELI DANCES.COM |
| | to its ancient and modern Israeli folk dance traditions. | | | Read about Israeli Dances dot com and the people who contribute to it | | | Any Israeli dance ever created (over 4500 dances |
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| | Amnon Israeli - Judaica Ceramic art |
| | The pieces give the feeling of the special Israeli atmosphere which encompasses the influence of nature together with the ancient and new. | | | He has taught at the Bezalel Academy and today he works as a designer and teaches in his private studio. | | | Amnon Israeli is one of many artists whose works can be |
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| | WhatReallyHappened.com: ISRAELI SPYINGArchives |
| | FBI Espionage Probe Goes Beyond Israeli Allegations, Sources Say | | | Allying with enemies of Israel risks God’s wrath | | | Why Do Israelis Keep Posing as Arab Terrorists? |
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| | DEBKAfile, Political Analysis, Espionage, Terrorism Security |
| | In his first comment, the 75-year old mathematician said the prize belonged to Israel and the Hebrew University, which have become a world power in game-theory analysis. | | | The Israeli general ran into a blank wall when he tried to persuade the Russian to withhold the missile from the Assad regime. | | | Altogether, 117 members of three Hamas networks responsible for five Israeli murders in four years have been rounded up in the West Bank towns of Ramallah, Kafr Shewoich north of Hebron and Dahariya southwest of Hebron. |
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| | iGuide - A New and Improved Site |
| | After almost four years of faithful service to the Israeli public, and to other people interested in Israel, the two sites, "Israeli Internet Guide" and Nadav Har'El's "The (almost) Complete Guide to the Israeli Internet" have merged to create iGuide - Your Guide to the Israel Internet. | | | But iGuide will remain an impartial guide to the Israeli Internet, with no editorial preference given to Netvision, advertisers, any commercial entity or to any other agenda. | | | It includes a classified directory of sites with over 400 classifications, a complete listing of all domain names in the Israeli internet, and of course a sophisticated search engine to search these entries - now over 7500! |
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