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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 ...

  • US pair made X-ray weapon to sicken Israel enemies

    Investigators said Mr Crawford approached Jewish organizations last year looking for funding and people to help him with technology that could be used to surreptitiously deliver damaging and even lethal doses of radiation against those he considered enemies of Israel. He and Mr Feight assembled the mobile device, which was to be controlled remotely, but it was inoperable and nobody was ...

  • Russian peacekeepers on Golan Heights to ensure security of Syria Israel

    ST PETERSBURG, June 20 (Itar-Tass) - Russian peacekeepers on the Golan Heights could be an excellent variant to ensure security in Syria and Israel where most Russian compatriots live there, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday. "The deployment of Russian peacekeepers on the Golan Heights will depend on the readiness of the Syrian government and Israel," the minister said. ...

  • The future of Syria

    No matter how grim the future looks for Syria, it is still our humanitarian duty and in our long-term national security interests to get ...

  • MKs pay solidarity visit to price tag-hit Abu Ghosh

    A delegation of lawmakers from Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid faction visited the Arab village of Abu Ghosh on Thursday morning to express their support for local residents after this week's headline-grabbing "price tag" ...

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You Can Count On Me [DVD]

You Can Count On Me [DVD]

Playwright and screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan's directorial debut, You Can Count On Me, is a bittersweet drama about the affectionate, but strained relationship between two siblings whose parents died in a car accident when they were children. No information is given on how they grew up, but 18 years later, the older sister, Sammy (Laura Linney), is a single mother who still lives in he ... ...

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  • The Jerusalem Press Club

    Israel is always in the news. Everyone has an opinion about this geographically tiny country, so small its name on maps has to be abbreviated, and even the abbreviation doesn't fit and has to float in the Mediterranean Sea. It is sometimes said that Israel could use some good public relations, to improve, or change, people's opinions about it.The new Jerusalem Press Club is not ...

  • PM to EU Chief Iranian Issue Not Spin It’s Spin of Centrifuges

    Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in Jerusalem that recent elections did not change the Iranian nuclear threat to the world. "The elections in Iran will be tested by whether Iran changes its policies and stops all enrichment, takes out the nuclear material and shuts down the illicit nuclear facility in Qom," Netanyahu said at ...

  • NeuroDerm reports good trial results for double Parkinsons treatment

    NeuroDerm , which has developed a method of administering drugs via the skin, has announced good results in a trial of its product that combines two treatments for Parkinson's disease administered dermally. This is the second product in the company's pipeline, and it is now completing the Phase IIa stage of trials, the initial efficacy stage. The product at the most advanced stage of ...

  • Israel has worlds ninth largest home prices rise

    Israel has one of the world's hottest property markets according to "Global Property Guide." In the year ending March 31 2013, "Global Property Guide" reports that average home prices in Israel rose 6.34%, the ninth largest rate of home price rises of any country surveyed. Half of the rise - 3.12% - was in the first quarter of 2013, the seventh largest rise of any ...

  • Shikun Binui wins Ashelim thermo-solar plant tender

    SKBN ) unit Shikun & Binui Renewable Energy Ltd, controlled by Shari Arison, together with a subsidiary of Spanish company Abengoa SA (BMAD: ABG) has been awarded the BOT concession to plan, finance, build, and operate the thermo-solar power plant at Ashelim in the western Negev. The plant will produce 121 MW of electricity. The price of the tender was set by the inter-ministerial tenders ...

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