January 22, 2008
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“When I visit my family in the West Bank, the situation just gets worse and worse. But these rappers gave me hope,” she said.
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Some 20% to 25% of the humanities and social sciences staff in Israel’s universities and colleges have “expressed extreme anti-Zionist positions,” according to Israel Academia Monitor.
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On Monday, the Israeli government will announce its support for a broad effort to promote the use of electric cars, embracing a joint venture between an American-Israeli entrepreneur and Renault and its partner, Nissan Motor Company.
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Olmert assured the Dutch FM that Israel will not allow for a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, but will also “not allow them to fire on Israeli cities and disru
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However, senior employees of the Israel Electric Company noted in an interview with Ynet that Israel supplies more than 70% of Gaza’s electrical needs, so the closure of the Gaza plant should not result in a major power shortage.
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Hamas’s losses are not necessarily Fatah’s gains; Gazans blame the Islamists for being unable to end the siege but they also blame Israel (for imposing it), the West (for supporting it), and Fatah (for acquiescing in it). Robert Malley
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Olmert assured Mubarak that Israel was aware of what it was doing and would not let the situation become critical.
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TECSAR joins several other Israeli satellites, both military and civilian, hovering in orbit; Israel launched its last satellite, Ofek-7, in June of 2007. Its predecessor, Ofek-6 failed to enter orbit and crashed into the ocean.
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“This is Palestinian spin. No one has stopped the supply of electricity to the Strip,” Zarfati told Ynet. He claimed that his employees worked day and night in a power plant in Ashkelon while putting themselves in danger of being hit by Qassam rockets fal
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“The Arab world, by the Arab peace initiative, has crossed the Rubicon from hostility towards Israel to peace with Israel and has extended the hand of peace to Israel, and we await the Israelis picking up our hand and joining us in what inevitably will be
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“We ask the Palestinian Authority to halt negotiations, and demand that
[Israel] lift the embargo on Gaza as a condition of returning to negotiations,” Palestinian lawmaker Mustafa Barghouti told reporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
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On the downside, 2006 saw 17,300 people leave the city for other places in Israel, as compared to 10,900 people who moved to the capital from elsewhere in the country. Net migration was minus 6,300.
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