Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty met with President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem on Sunday to discuss clean water and energy technology and health sciences. They were joined by Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Sandra Pupatello, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Dr. Eric Hoskins, MPP Monte Kwinter, MPP Mike Colle and...
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Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman claimed in a classified document that the PA is expected to conduct a diplomatic struggle against Israel abroad, saying the Palestinians will seek to use the so-called proximity talks to increase American pressure on Israel so the freeze on settlement construction will continue well beyond...
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OPINION - Arguing against a complete settlement freeze in east Jerusalem, Yoram Peri, former adviser to late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, calls on the US to make a distinction between the Jewish neighborhoods built over the Green Line which would most likely remain under Israeli jurisdiction, and the Palestinian...
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Senior Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat lashed out at Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for citing the Bible in describing the Jewish people’s historic tie to Jerusalem. He accused Netanyahu of “ religion to incite hatred and fear.” In his Jerusalem Day address...
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Jerusalem Dispatch presents profiles of four prominent east Jerusalem residents who describe their childhood, their current ventures and efforts to foster peaceful coexistence in the capital.
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Work on the city's modern water infrastructure uncovered a section of Jerusalem's ancient aqueduct, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Tuesday. While the Gihon Corporation was working on the sewage infrastructure in the vicinity of the Sultan's Pool in the Jerusalem Walls National Park, a section of Jerusalem's ancient aqueduct...
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"When I was growing up in Jerusalem, it was a sleepy town, one closed to development. Since then, it has developed primarily northwards, southwards and westwards," PM Netanayahu told the Knesset during a special session devoted to Those Who Love Jerusalem and Study It. "It has grown and become...
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Twenty-three graves were smashed at the Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem yesterday, the latest of ongoing acts of vandalism there. Police forensics experts were summoned to the scene immediately when the damage was discovered last night. In recent months grave sites have been defaced several times at the Mount of...
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Jerusalem was voted one of the world's "Top 10 Culture and Sightseeing Destinations" in the TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice 2010 awards – the only city in the Middle East and Africa to earn such honors. TripAdvisor lists several sites in Jerusalem as "must-see" for travelers, including the Western Wall, the Temple...
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"We will never again allow Jerusalem to become a separated, bleak and divided city. We will continue to build and be built in Jerusalem," Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said at Ammunition Hill on Tuesday.
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Jerusalem Dispatch presents the full text of PM Netanyahu’s Jerusalem Day speech at Mercaz Harav Yeshiva on Tuesday. “For Zion’s sake, I will not be silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be still, until her righteousness emanates like bright light, and her salvation blazes like a torch” (Isaiah...
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