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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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  • LIVE President Peres honors Clinton

    Former US president receives Presidential Medal of Freedom at opening session of the fifth Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem; Middle East envoy Blair says two-state solution has short window of ...

  • Voices of Jerusalem Ultimate felafel family

    felafel business in Jerusalem," says Yossi Vashady, owner of Shalom Felafel, a franchise with ten branches in total: eight in Jerusalem, one in Modiin and one in Mevasseret Zion. The stores are either Glatt Kosher Parev and specialize in felafel (recognizable by their green branding) or Kosher Rabbinate meat restaurants that also offer shwarma and meat on the grill. The store on Bezalel ...

  • Home is where the cookbook is

    After a colorful career as a trained nutritionist and setting up her own successful business offering culinary tours of Israel, Orly Ziv thought long and hard about what her next step would be. As a food lover, it only seemed natural to concentrate her expertise and write a cookbook sharing her vast knowledge of the local Israeli cuisine.Her first cookbook, the ...

  • Lapid Wants ‘Rebel’ Likud MK Out

    Finance Minister Yair Lapid has asked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to pull Likud MK Gila Gamliel from the Knesset’s Finance Committee following her scathing attack on Lapid from the Knesset ...

  • Exercise Eager Lion War Games Active in Jordanian Desert

    Military forces from Jordan and the U.S. are drilling together in the Jordanian desert with 17 other nations in Exercise Eager Lion 2013 -- the third such military drill to take place in Jordan. The 12-day war games, slated to end Thursday, was explained by a statement on the website of the U.S. Armed Forces Central Command as an opportunity to "promote cooperation and interoperability ...

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