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  • Kerry Continues Israeli-Palestinian Peace Push

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is holding another round of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders aimed at getting the two sides to restart their stalled peace ...

  • US Israel raise hopes for Mideast peace restart

    JERUSALEM -; The United States and Israel are raising hopes for a restart of the Middle East peace process after more than four years of hardly any ...

  • France backs call to put Hezbollah on EU terror list

    Official say Paris is ready to support British initiative to blacklist armed wing of Hezbollah on EU's list of terrorist organizations; France has been cautious of such a move fearing it could destabilize ...

  • Peres to Sarkozy at breakfast Friends are friends

    Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who came to Israel primarily to receive an honorary doctorate from Netanya Academic College had a breakfast meeting on Thursday morning with President Shimon Peres, whom he knows well and with whom he had enjoyed previous meetings in Jerusalem and Paris over the past decade, spoken on the phone, and exchanged correspondence.If Sarkozy, instead of being ...

  • Formula 1 UEFA Maccabiah all on way to Jerusalem

    attractions forming the backdrop along the route. Some of the greatest professionals in the field will be arriving for the event including a team of drivers and technicians from Ferrari in Maranello, Italy.In addition to Formula One cars, Ferrari Challenge cars will also participate in demo drives, as well as drift cars with high horsepower V8 engines and other sports cars. The road show will ...

Movie Review

Strapless [DVD]

Strapless [DVD]

David Hare's Strapless is both cynical and poignant in its examination of the opening stages of romance. It is cynical because it suggests that some people are incapable of moving beyond that opening stage; it is poignant because it is often adept at invoking the wonderful euphoria of a blossoming relationship, especially between adults who have been there before. ...

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  • Kerry Returns to Israel in Peace Push

    US Secretary of State John Kerry headed back to Israel Thursday as he continues a push to reignite peace negotiations. Making his fourth trip to Israel since he began his tenure as the US chief diplomat in February, Kerry was due to arrive later Thursday and head straight into talks with top Israeli and Palestinian Authority leaders. The meetings come after a long day of diplomacy in ...

  • Israels Defensive Abilities Undiminished in Golan

    Israel's ability to deter attack on its positions in the Golan Heights remains undiminished despite an uptick in fire from the Syrian side of the ceasefire line, a defense official said on Wednesday. "The good news is that the continued stability of the Golan Heights (and) the deterrent power of the Israeli army have not been weakened," senior defense adviser Amos Gilad told ...

  • Shapir Engineering plans NIS 1b IPO

    Shapir Engineering Ltd. , one of Israel's largest contractors, is planning an IPO on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) to raise hundreds of millions of shekels at a company value of almost NIS 1 billion. The company is owned by four brothers: Israel, Harel, Gil, and Chen Shapiro. The brothers withdrew plans for an IPO of Shapir Engineering three years ago when a sister company, Shapir ...

  • Massive submerged structure stumps Israeli archaeologists

    The massive circular structure appears to be an archaeologists dream: a recently discovered antiquity that could reveal secrets of ancient life in the Middle East and is just waiting to be excavated. It's thousands of years old -- a conical, manmade behemoth weighing hundreds of tons, practically begging to be explored. The problem is -- it's at the bottom of the biblical Sea of ...

  • British Animosity Toward Israel Disguised Anti-Semitism

    A senior Israeli minister described the "animosity" shown towards the state by British media, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and academics, as "disguised anti-Semitism", in an interview published in Thursday's Daily Telegraph. Yuval Steinitz, Israel's intelligence and strategic affairs minister, said he was "concerned" by relations between the ...

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