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  • Israel to return settlements land to Palestinian owners

    The state of Israel has said it would return the lands of a settlement evacuated in 2005 back to its original Palestinian owners, an Israeli daily said Sunday. The announcement came after a petition was filed by the Palestinian land owners in the Supreme Court, Xinhua reported citing the Ha'aretz daily. Homesh, a 0.7 square km settlement, was established in 1980 on lands belonging to residents ...

  • Iran executes two spies working for CIA Mossad

    Two Iranian spies, allegedly working for America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Israel's Mossad were Sunday hanged in Iran, state-run IRIB TV reported. Mohammad Heidari, one of the executed men, had prepared information in a number of security issues and had given them to Mossad in several meetings outside the country, Xinhua cited the report as saying. Heidari received money in ...

  • Bennett reveals reform of religious services

    Minister for Religious Services Naftali Bennett, alongside deputy minister Eli Ben-Dahan, unveiled a series of reforms on Sunday for the provision of religious services in Israel, calling the measures proposed "revolutionary."Speaking at a press conference in Jerusalem, Bennett said that the objective was to improve the professionalism of religious services and make them more ...

  • Israeli cos provide translation services for Google apps

    Two Israeli companies are behind Google Inc.'s (Nasdaq: GOOG) new translation service for applications, which the company unveiled at its I/O developers conference in San Francisco last week. Google offers the service for Android app developers who want their apps translated in order to increase exposure around the world. App developers can purchase translations via Google's Play ...

  • Protesting Egyptian police block Israel border crossing

    CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police enraged by the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by Islamist gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula blocked a commercial border crossing ...

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The Rules of the Game (Le Règle du jeu) [DVD]

The Rules of the Game (Le Règle du jeu) [DVD]

Franois Truffaut called Jean Renoirs The Rules of the Game (Le Rgle du jeu) the credo of film lovers, the film of films. Indeed, having been ranked as one of the 10 greatest films ever made on Sight & Sounds influential International Critics Poll list since its inception in 1952, the intensity with which this film is now admired and revered is matched only by the vitriol and ... ...

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  • Jordan scuttles attempt to expel Israeli envoy

    expel Israel's ambassador ended when several members of parliament backed-down according to official sources. Despite the failure of the move to send Israeli Ambassador Daniel Nevo packing, the incident underscores the viability of opposition to normalization with the Jewish state.A strong majority of 86 out of 150 lawmakers had signed a memorandum calling for a parliamentary session to ...

  • Babies Narrowly Escape Rock Attack

    On Saturday night, one Israeli driver after another fell victim to an ambush near Wadi Harmiya, near Shilo in the Binyamin region. Beginning at 1 a.m., Palestinian Authority Arab attackers waiting near the road hurled a barrage of stones at passing cars with Israeli license plates. Among those targeted by the attackers was the Shlissel family from Ariel. Mother Ayelet was driving, while her ...

  • Netanyahu Israel Acting to Deny Hizbullah Syrian Arms

    Israel is acting to prevent Syrian weapons from reaching Lebanon's Hizbullah and will continue to do so, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on ...

  • Mobile carriers halve workforce

    The mobile telephony revolution which Israel has undergone in the past year has exceeded expectations. Prices have plummeted, and the veteran carriers are adapting to the new reality: the public is unwilling to pay more than NIS 100 a month for mobile telecommunications plans. This reality will result in the halving of the number of employees, and within a year or two, each carrier will probably ...

  • Half of wage-earners don’t meet tax threshold

    Ministry of Finance's State Revenues Administration reported today. It adds that 52.2% of salaried employees and 33.8% of the self-employed did not meet the threshold. The proportion of employees who did not meet the tax threshold rose to 52.3% in 2012. The income tax threshold for a man with 2.25 credit points is NIS 4,703 a month. The report reveals the widening salary gaps in Israel. In ...

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