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  • Major General Finn appointed to top UN role in Jerusalem Major General Finn appointed to top UN role in Jerusalem

    18 June 2013 150 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the appointment today of Major General Michel Finn, of Ireland, as head of Mission and Chief of Staff of the Jerusalem-based UN Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), the first such operation the world body set up almost 60 years ago. "Major General Finn succeeds Major General Juha Kilpia of Finland, who will ...

  • Cisco set to open new centre in Israel

    The US technology giant Cisco plans to open a new research and development center in Israel, the company's CEO John Chambers said during his meeting with Israel's Minister of Finance Yair Lapid. The new centre is expected to offer 100 jobs, to be added to about 2,000 employees already work at Cisco center in Israel, reported Xinhua. Chambers Tuesday said the new project, whose main focus is ...

  • Israel wants Iran to halt uranium enrichment

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that his country would not accept anything less than the total halt of Iranian uranium enrichment. "We cannot accept anything less than a total cessation of all enrichment of nuclear materials at all levels, removal of all enriched nuclear material and a closure of Iran's illicit nuclear facilities," reported Xinhua citing Netanyahu during ...

  • Israeli army refuses to let soldier read poems on radio

    A brigade in the Israeli Defence Forces has banned a soldier from reading out his own verses on the radio over fears that it might cast aspersions on the army's "manliness", a media report said. The Independent daily said that throughout history, soldiers on the battlefield "have been inspired to write some of the world's most memorable poetry". The unnamed soldier from the Nahal Infantry ...

  • Barbra Streisand criticizes womens discriminatory treatment in Israel

    Barbra Streisand has spoken about the Jewish religious practices that separate men and women. The 71-year-old actress took aim at cases of ultra-Orthodox Jews targeting women while speaking at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Monday. The star, who herself was born in a Jewish family, said that it was distressing that women in Israel were forced to sit at the back of the bus, CBS News ...

Movie Review

Sorority Boys

Sorority Boys is a dumb comedy that takes a silly ideathree guys, thrown out of their cherished fraternity house after being accused of stealing party funds, disguise themselves as girls and join a sororityand makes it utterly inane. Full of witless jokes, dealing in broad stereotypes and outrageously unbelievable scenarios, and saddled with a general air of misogyny and emotional sadism t ... ...

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  • Israels president Shimon Peres celebrates 90th birthday with star-studded party

    Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and Barbra Streisand join Israeli President Shimon Peres as he celebrates his 90th birthday and calls for peace in the Middle ...

  • Ban Israeli-Palestinian peace remains urgent priority

    New York, June 19 : With spiralling violence in Syria stoking tension in the Middle East, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday said "we must not lose sight of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," whose resolution was no less ...

  • Palestinians wanted in Josephs Tomb murder arrested

    The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) last month arrested three Palestinian security operatives who were allegedly involved in the shooting death of an Israeli man and the wounding of five others near Joseph's Tomb in Nablus two years ago.On April 24, 2011, Ben Yosef Livnat was killed near the site after he and a group of worshippers entered the site to ...

  • Pres. Peres Honors Bill Clinton w Presidential Medal

    Former President Bill Clinton was awarded Israel’s highest honor Wednesday morning. Presented by President Shimon Peres, Clinton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the fifth Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem. In opening his speech, Peres referred to "my dearest friend, President Bill Clinton – and when I call you my friend I know that I speak for the ...

  • IDF Nabs PA Police who Murdered Young Jew at Holy Site

    shot and murdered a young Jewish father as he returned from prayers at Kever Yosef (the tomb of the Biblical patriarch Joseph) in Samaria. Arab media ...

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