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  • Hizbollah sends hundreds of fighters to Qusayr as Syrias violence spreads

    HERMEL // On a country road in Lebanon's north-east, traffic is heavy. Ambulances screech by, sirens blaring, and cars packed with mourners follow coffins as Hizbollah brings wounded fighters home from Syria, and its dead. With the bodies from the battle over the border at Qusayr, comes the violence, as civil conflict between Syria's Iranian-backed ruler and Sunni rebels spreads ...

  • Israeli Military Road Graders Cross into Gaza Strip

    Gaza, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Israeli soldiers driving road graders crossed the Gaza strip demarcation line at Khan Younis, said Palestinian witnesses. The heavy engineering vehicles advanced several hundred meters and their crew began firing, witnesses told the Maan news agency. In recent weeks, Israeli armored vehicles had approached but not crossed the border, site of a sea-ground and air ...

  • BIU awards honorary doctorate to Holocaust survivor

    Bar Ilan University awarded an honorary doctorate this week to Hungarian Holocaust survivor Susanne Czuker, who escaped Auschwitz at a young age and endured several difficult attempts to escape the Holocaust, in recognition of her "profound commitment to Jewish education continuity and heritage, and her devotion to the State of Israel. " The university also dedicated the lobby and ...

  • Abbas says Israel must act before returning to table

    PA president in Ramallah reiterates demand for full cessation of settlement construction, release of Palestinian prisoners before returning to negotiating table with Israel in meeting with US Secretary of ...

  • Five Cars vandalized in latest price tag attack

    Police said five vehicles parked on one of the main streets in the neighborhood of Gilo, in southwestern East Jerusalem, were vandalized in a "price tag" attack early Thursday morning, allegedly by Jewish extremists.Price-tag attacks are defined as acts of violence and vandalism against Palestinians and Israeli security forces by radical Israeli settlers to exact a "price" ...

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Scenes From a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap) [DVD]

Scenes From a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap) [DVD]

From the very beginning, you can tell something is wrong, just under the surface. When Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson), who have been married for 10 years, sit down for a magazine interview about their perfect marriage, there is an underlying sense o ... ...

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  • Kerry samples Palestinian sweets shawarma

    RAMALLAH, West Bank) - US Secretary of State John Kerry stepped off the diplomatic track on Thursday and onto a West Bank street where he sampled a shawarma sandwich and a pistachio-sprinkled Palestinian sweet.In a rare gesture for a US secretary of state - but a staple of US political campaigns - Kerry dropped by the Samer Restaurant in the Palestinian city of Ramallah to enjoy typical ...

  • Technion Scientists Develop an Advanced Biological Computer

    Technion scientists developed and constructed a molecular transducer, which is an advanced computing machine. This molecular computer was built entirely of biomolecules, such as DNA and enzymes that can manipulate genetic codes. This unprecedented device can compute iteratively, namely, it uses the output as a new input for subsequent computations. Furthermore, it produces outputs in the form of ...

  • Yisrael Beytenu Enlist Arabs Too

    The Yisrael Beytenu faction, headed by MK Avigdor Lieberman, is unhappy with the recommendations of the Perry Committee on equal IDF service for all. The faction wants the Committee to address the matter of Arab enlistment, and demands that the necessary budget for enforcing Arab enlistment this be included in the bill that the government is set to ...

  • Israel Corp. mulling closure of Better Place

    ILCO ), Better Place's main investor, on the electric car venture's future, and whether or not it will continue will depend upon its ability to continue raising cash. In that regard, Idan Ofer, who controls Israel Corp., recently approached potential investors. Better Place said in response to the report, "In the past few months Better Place has continued its many efforts to ...

  • Terror Engulfs Syria as Hezbollah Helps Assad Regain Military Foothold

    With reports making headlines that the Syrian forces on the ground are making some progress and making gains with the support of Hezbollah forces, the United States of America today said an active military support to the Assad regime simply exacerbates the sectarian tensions and it perpetuates the regime's campaign of terror against its own people. According to US Secretary of State John ...

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