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  • Israel concerned Russian arms will reach enemies Israel concerned Russian arms will reach enemies

    Israel has warned Russia about sending arms to Syria. Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has spoken on Channel Two television's Meet the Press to condemn shipments of arms from Russia that she said may be used against Israel. She said: "These are not just any weapons, they are tie-breakers, and that's why there is a responsibility with all world powers, certainly Russia, not to supply such ...

  • Israel to return settlements land to Palestinian owners

    The state of Israel has said it would return the lands of a settlement evacuated in 2005 back to its original Palestinian owners, an Israeli daily said Sunday. The announcement came after a petition was filed by the Palestinian land owners in the Supreme Court, Xinhua reported citing the Ha'aretz daily. Homesh, a 0.7 square km settlement, was established in 1980 on lands belonging to residents ...

  • Iran executes two spies working for CIA Mossad

    Two Iranian spies, allegedly working for America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Israel's Mossad were Sunday hanged in Iran, state-run IRIB TV reported. Mohammad Heidari, one of the executed men, had prepared information in a number of security issues and had given them to Mossad in several meetings outside the country, Xinhua cited the report as saying. Heidari received money in ...

  • Report Says Iran Hangs 2 Spies Working for Israel US

    DUBAI, UAE -- Iranian authorities executed two men on Sunday convicted of working for Israeli and U.S. spy agencies, Iran's Fars news agency reported. Mohammad Heidari, accused of passing security-related information and secrets to Israeli Mossad agents in exchange for money, and Kourosh Ahmadi, accused of gathering information for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, were hanged at ...

  • Bomb lab found at home of mentally-disturbed man

    Police found an explosives lab in the home of a Kiryat Tivon man who very well may be mentally disturbed, Coastal District police said Sunday. Eran Shaked, spokesman for Coastal District police, said that officers who came to the 29-year-old man's house late Saturday night found a large scale explosives workshop, including several explosive devices in various stages of readiness. They ...

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The Rules of the Game (Le Règle du jeu) [DVD]

The Rules of the Game (Le Règle du jeu) [DVD]

Franois Truffaut called Jean Renoirs The Rules of the Game (Le Rgle du jeu) the credo of film lovers, the film of films. Indeed, having been ranked as one of the 10 greatest films ever made on Sight & Sounds influential International Critics Poll list since its inception in 1952, the intensity with which this film is now admired and revered is matched only by the vitriol and ... ...

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  • Ashkelon man stabs younger brother to death

    An Ashkelon man stabbed his younger brother to death following an argument between the two men in the southern city on Sunday, Lachish subdistrict police reported.At 3:49 p.m., police dispatch received a call that a man was stabbed on the city's David Raziel street, and police who arrived at the scene managed to chase down and arrest the older brother.The younger brother, meanwhile, was ...

  • Cabinet pushes economic ties with China forward

    The cabinet, keen on capitalizing on the momentum created by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's recent visit to China, approved on Sunday the establishment of two governmental bodies aimed at pushing forward Israeli business and economic interests in China.Netanyahu said repeatedly during his trip to China two weeks ago that a different business model must be used with China since it ...

  • Most Israelis feel social protests can spur change

    Some 89 percent of the population believes the government has not provided an appropriate response to social problems in Israel and that social movements can lead to change, according to a survey released by the NGO Shatil, which aims at empowering citizens to lead social change in the country.The survey, which involved 482 men and women, also showed that only 11% of respondents believe that ...

  • Defective Shabbat Timer Causes Major Synagogue Blaze

    A defective Shabbat timer was apparently the cause of a major fire at a Chabad synagogue in the Givat Shaul neighborhood of Jerusalem over the weekend. The fire, which broke out on Shabbat afternoon, did extensive damage to the building, but no one was hurt. The fire consumed many of the synagogue's holy books, but the Torah scrolls remained safe, thanks to the steel safe they were stored ...

  • Berlin Anti-Semites Seek to Destroy Remembrance Project

    Anti-Semites in Berlin have been intimidating community and local officials who are behind a project to preserve the memory of Holocaust victims who lived in the city. The project entails the placing of the names residents on monuments on the sidewalks of streets where they lived before being deported by the Nazis to concentration camps. The project is several years old, and was undertaken with ...

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