admin | April 7, 2022
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid vowed that the coalition would "do everything" to hold itself together on Thursday in his first public comments on the political crisis caused by lawmaker Idit Siman quitting the coalition, ending its majority. Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman also voiced his commitment to the coalition's survival, saying that"the last thing we need is a fifth election cycle within three years." Lapid is set to take over from Prime Minister Naftali Bennett as premier next year, according to the coalition agreement between the two if this government survives. What Iran Learned From Ukraine: LISTEN to Former Israel Intel Chief In a Facebook post, promised that extremism would not be victorious, and that far-right lawmakers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich "will not take our country from us with force.
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admin | April 7, 2022
Speaking to reporters this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the future he sees for his country in unusual terms: as a big Israel. Gone, he said, are hopes for an absolutely liberal statereplaced by the likely reality of armed defense forces patrolling movie theaters and supermarkets
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admin | April 7, 2022
Israeli leaders reacted with shock and anger last week when it emerged that a Palestinian man who gunned down five people in Bnei Brak had entered Israel via a hole in the West Bank security barrier big enough to drive a car through.
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admin | April 7, 2022
A new humanitarian truce in effect between the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen and Saudi Arabia is unlikely to hold for the two months, it was declared. Already, the Houthis have accused the Saudis of committing dozens of violations as the Shiite militant organization likely prepares the ground for further missile and unmanned aerial vehicle attacks on Saudi cities, oil sites, airports and other strategic locations.
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admin | April 7, 2022
In the coastal Israeli city of Caesarea, demand for homes with a view of the Caesarea Golf Club, the only golf course in the country, has skyrocketed. Demand to play on the course itself, not so much. I cant remember a client coming and asking for a home on the golf course because he plays golf, said Meir Menahem, a real estate agent with Neot Shiran, which specializes in luxury properties.
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admin | April 7, 2022
Special forces from a number of nations are participating in the Orion 2022 exercise near Athens. Credit: Greek Reporter Special forces units from Greece, the US, and Israel were among others participating in the Orion 22 exercise that kicked off on Thursday near Athens. Personnel from the armed forces of Bulgaria, France, and Cyprus also participate in the drill
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admin | March 28, 2022
I am looking ata leaflet in Russiandistributed by the Judea and SamariaCouncil, the representative body for Israels West Bank settlements. It reads: "Dear friends arriving in Israel from Ukraine and the former Soviet Union! We are ready to host you in the towns and settlements of Judea and Samaria.
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admin | March 28, 2022
Within less than a week, six Israelis have been murdered in two terror attacks in the heart of cities: the first four on Tuesday during a car-ramming and knifing attack in Be'er Sheva, and the following two on Sunday after being gunned down by two terrorists in Hadera. Right on cue for the 20-year anniversary of Operation Defensive Shield, TV newscasts are once again carrying images reminiscent of those horrific days. Even the targets have remained the same the downtowns of Israeli cities inside the Green Line.
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admin | March 28, 2022
Roughly 400 security personnel, including police, soldiers and officials from Israels Civil Administration in the West Bank, took part in demolishing buildings in two settlement outposts last week. Altogether, 20 buildings were razed, after roughly two years in which the outposts had been left alone. One can only imagine how much money this operation cost, given the large number of people involved and the heavy machinery mobilized for the task
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admin | March 28, 2022
The rate of coronavirus infection contracted for the third day in a row following a spike in the virus' spread across Israel that coincided with Purim weekend, Health Ministry data from Sunday shows. The country's R number the average number of people each coronavirus carrier infects dropped to 1.35, the third consecutive day of decline following a month-long climb that alarmed health experts. Thenumberis calculated using data from the last10 days
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