December 25, 2007
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Israel’s deputy defence minister, Matan Vilnai, told Israel Radio that Marwan Barghouthi, a Palestinian uprising leader from Fatah who is seen as a possible successor to President Mahmoud Abbas, could be a candidate for release.
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The High Court on Sunday canceled an injunction it had issued last week preventing the Ministry of Interior from recognizing Archbishop Theopilus III as the Greek Orthodox Patriarch in place of his predecessor, Irineos I.
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Jerusalem sources said Monday that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has set up a committee to examine whether to lower a bar that currently excludes jailed Palestinians “with blood on their hands” from going free as part of a prisoner swap.
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The Housing Ministry’s proposed budget for 2008, announced Sunday, includes funding for the construction of 500 apartments in the Har Homa neighborhood in East Jerusalem as well as 240 apartments in the nearby settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim.
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