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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 ...

  • ADL blasts Alice Walker over shocking new book

    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker "has taken her extreme and hostile views to a shocking new level" in her latest book on intertwined personal, spiritual, and political destinies, according a review of the book by the Anti-Defamation League ...

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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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  • Bennett Price Tag biggest threat to settlements

    "Price Tag" attacks are immoral and un-Jewish, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett told the Knesset Wednesday.Bennett and Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich responded to an urgent parliamentary question from MK Hana Sweid (Hadash) following ...

  • Jewish Teens Detained for Bowing on Temple Mount

    Four Jewish teenagers were detained Wednesday after visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The arresting officer accused them of having bowed down, in violation ...

  • Quartets Tony Blair Nuclear Iran Worse Than Military Option

    Quartet envoy Tony Blair told Presidential Conference participants Wednesday that facing the prospect of a military confrontation with Tehran is a better option than having to grapple with a nuclear Iran. The former British prime minister said in his address to the conference participants in the fifth annual gathering in Jerusalem, "We should be determined to overcome the threat from ...

  • Machsom Watch Shares IDF Weakness with the Enemy

    The far-left watchdog group Machsom Watch has been exposing IDF activity and publicizing weak points in security, Israelis living in Samaria (Shomron) have accused. The Samaria Residents’ Council has filed a police complaint against the group. Machsom Watch sends activists to watch IDF soldiers at checkpoints in Judea and Samaria. The group has been accused ...

  • Waze president We only have 51 million users

    "I'm carrying on working with Waze. We only have 51 million users. There are a billion cars in the world so we have a long way to go. I think that with the help of Google we can succeed in capturing a 30% share of the global navigation ...

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