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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 ...

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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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  • Report French military training Syrian rebels

    French military officials are training rebels fighting to bring down the Assad regime in the current Syrian conflict, according to a report by Army Radio.The army-run radio station reported that French officers stationed in Jordan and Turkey are currently training the rebels in warfare tactics and weapons usage. Army Radio quoted "experts with access to the information" in their ...

  • Samaria ‘Spies’ Accompanied to Jail with Song Dancing

    The "Samaria spy" affair came to an end Wednesday morning as the "spies" were sent to jail for three months. Akiva Hacohen and Effie Haykin were convicted by the IDF of having prevented home demolitions by reporting troop movements to activists. Their hometown of Yitzhar in Samaria (Shomron) sent them off with a farewell party. Residents of the town lined the road as the ...

  • Clinton Admits No Perfect Solutions in Israel-PA Conflict

    Former President Bill Clinton told participants at Israel’s Fifth annual Presidential Conference in Jerusalem on Wednesday, "There are no perfect solutions to the Israel-Palestine conflict." Speaking to the audience after receiving Israel’s highest honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, from President Shimon Peres, Clinton said the key to the situation is to ...

  • ‘Psychotic’ Synagogue Vandal Released to House Arrest

    A man who is accused of repeatedly vandalizing a synagogue in Bat Yam has been released to house arrest. His release follows the rejection of an appeal aimed at keeping him in police custody. During the appeal hearing, police warned that the suspect appears to be psychotic. Judge David Rosen ruled that if the suspect is suffering from psychosis or mental illness, that is not a sufficient ...

  • Peres birthday bash attracts high rating

    Last night's official celebration of the 90th birthday of President Shimon Peres (his actual birthday is not until August 2) attracted a very high television viewer rating: 63%. That is to say, two out of every three Israelis who switched on their television sets yesterday evening watched the broadcast. Four channels broadcast the opening event of the 2013 Presidential Conference, dedicated ...

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