A Thai agricultural worker was killed on Thursday morning by a mortar shell that hit a greenhouse in a kibbutz neighboring the Gaza Strip. Speaking to reporters near the impact site, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said Israel would not allow the Goldstone Report, which accused both Israel and...
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“For us, the United States is a true friend. We have deep respect for its parliamentary and executive institutions, lead by President Obama. We want these relations and are interested in returning them to their regular, positive state.” During a meeting with 1,000 high school students in the city of...
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On Monday, Rabbi Ari Smaja of the Ramat Shlomo community met with the mukhtar (communal leader) of Shuafat, the adjacent Arab neighborhood. Said Israeli journalist Shmuel Ben-Atar, "There has never been a meeting like this...if the rabbis and sheiks ran the state – there would have been peace...
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Vice President Joseph Biden's visit to Israel last week was touted in advance as an effort by the Obama administration to reassure Israelis of its warm feelings for Israel. Things did not quite work out that way. The tongue-lashings administered to Israel by a host of administration officials, most...
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A total of 550 trucks containing 13,144 tons of humanitarian aid were transferred into the Gaza Strip from Israel via the various crossings over the past week, according to the Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories. Nine truckloads of carnations were exported from Gaza to Europe.
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The diplomatic storm brewing between Jerusalem and Washington – which had been labeled last week the worst crisis between Israel and the US since the 1970s – seems to have passed, causing minimal damage, after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued warm remarks regarding the “unshakable” bond between...
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called on Brazil to "join the ever-growing international front opposed to a nuclear-armed Iran" and stood firm on Israel's right to build in Jerusalem, during an address to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the Knesset on Monday. Recalling Lula's visit two months ago...
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"Brazil, for us, is a model of coexistence," President Shimon Peres told Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at an official reception at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on Monday. "I realized this during my visit there and would like to one day see a similar state of...
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced today in Jerusalem that Brazil has given its final approval for a free trade agreement between Israel and the Mercosur bloc. Mercosur (Mercadu Comun del Sur) is a common market established between four countries — Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay —...
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Brazilian President Luiz Ignacio (Lula) da Silva invited the president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to visit his country in order to strengthen scientific ties between the university and educational institutions in Brazil. The president extended the invitation at a warm and longer than planned meeting today (Monday) in...
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The Cabinet approved a national plan to create a center for excellence that will work to bring in outstanding researchers from abroad. According to an official statement, the government views the project to attract outstanding Israeli and Jewish scientists and technicians as “an important policy tool in raising the level...
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