Police: Extremist Jews throw stones at woman putting up posters in tense Israeli city
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say a group of ultra-Orthodox extremists have attacked a woman who was putting up posters in a troubled town near Jerusalem.
January 24, 2012
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Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Islamic Cooperation Condemns Israeli Arrest of Officials
CAIRO, January 24, 2012 (WAFA) – The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, strongly condemned the Israeli arrest of the two Hamas officials from the Red Cross office in East Jerusalem, said an OIC press release on Tuesday.
January 24, 2012
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Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Israel Demolishes House near Jerusalem
JERUSALEM, January 24, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli bulldozers Tuesday demolished a Palestinian-owned house in Anata, a town northeast of Jerusalem, under the pretext that it was build without a permit, said the house owner.
January 24, 2012
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2 Palestinian Legislators Are Arrested in East Jerusalem Protest
JERUSALEM — Israel arrested two Palestinian legislators affiliated with Hamas as they staged a protest in the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross in East Jerusalem on Monday, an act criticized by the Palestinian leadership as a blow to the first direct meetings between the Israeli and Palestinian sides in more than a year now under way in Jordan.
January 24, 2012
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Israel holds Hamas Jerusalem MPs
Israel arrests two senior Hamas MPs who had been sheltering since 2010 in the compound of the international Red Cross in East Jerusalem.
January 23, 2012
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Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Israel Raids Red Cross Office, Arrests Hamas Officials
JERUSALEM , January 23, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli special forces Monday raided the International Red Cross office in East Jerusalem and arrested two Hamas officials, including one Palestinian parliament member, sources at Red Cross said.
January 23, 2012
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Muslim Cleric Probed for Incitement Against Jews
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel’s attorney general to open an investigation into Jerusalem’s top Muslim cleric, who called for killing Jews.
January 22, 2012
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Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Israeli Authorities Seize Land near Bethlehem
BETHLEHEM, January 19, 2012 (WAFA) – The Israeli authorities Thursday seized 76 dunums of land from al-Khas village, east of Bethlehem, to be allocated for the West Jerusalem municipality under the pretext that this land is considered absentee property, according to local sources.
January 19, 2012
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VIDEO: Protest against discrimination of Ethiopian Jews
Thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets of Jerusalem, in protest against what they say is discrimination against Jews of Ethiopian origin.
January 19, 2012
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Massive Jerusalem Highway Project Approved
The main highway into Jerusalem will receive a major expansion in the coming years, after the High Court rejected petitions against the plan by nearby residents, green lighting one of the largest infrastructure projects in Israel in recent years.
January 19, 2012
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EU report urges action on Israel
EU diplomats in Jerusalem call for laws to ensure financial transactions by member states do not support Jewish settlements.
January 18, 2012
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Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Clashes Between Residents and Police Erupt in Silwan
JERUSALEM, January 18, 2012 (WAFA) – Clashes broke out in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan Wednesday after Israeli police provoked Palestinian residents, reported Wadi Hilweh Information Center.
January 18, 2012
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Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – EU: Israeli Policies in East Jerusalem Illegal
BRUSSLES, January 18, 2012 (WAFA) – An internal European Union report prepared by the EU delegates in Jerusalem and Ramallah denounced as “illegal” Israeli policy and plans to change the character of East Jerusalem, according to reports published Wednesday.
January 18, 2012
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Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Newspapers Review: France, EU Reports Dominate Dailies
RAMALLAH, January 18, 2012 (WAFA) – The three Palestinian Arabic dailies Wednesday focused on the French report on Israel’s discriminatory water policies and a report by the European Union condemning Israeli actions to annex East Jerusalem.
January 18, 2012
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Entertainment / Lifestyle
JERUSALEM : Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews scuffled on Sunday with Israeli police in Jerusalem and in the nearby city of Beit Shemesh, following the arrest of various community leaders.
January 16, 2012
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews Protest in Jerusalem, Clash with Police
JERUSALEM : Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews scuffled on Sunday with Israeli police in Jerusalem and in the nearby city of Beit Shemesh, following the arrest of various community leaders.
January 16, 2012
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Hundreds protest Haredim arrests in Israel
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January 15, 2012
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Israel accused of crowding out Palestinians
A twenty per cent rise in settlement construction across the West Bank and East Jerusalem over the past year has taken land critical to the creation of a Palestinian state.
January 15, 2012
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Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Israel Accelerates Work to Judaize the Old City of Jerusalem
JERUSALEM, January 15, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli bulldozers Sunday increased its work speed to establish Talmudic gardens between Damascus Gate and Herod’s Gate (Bab el-Amoud and Bab al-Sahira in Arabic, respectively), two of the most famous gates of the Old City of Jerusalem, aiming to judaize the city and change its historical and cultural character, according to WAFA correspondent.
January 15, 2012
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Israel's politics of exclusion in Jerusalem
While the history of the world is moving decisively towards a culture of inclusion, diversity and pluralism, Israeli politics seems to challenge history by moving in the opposite direction of exclusion and unilateral self-righteous monopoly of geography, demography, history, archaeology and culture, especially in Jerusalem where Israelis are desperately trying to establish a “Jewish” capital for …
January 14, 2012
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The changing face of Judaism in the U.S., Israel
Harvey E. Goldberg is emeritus professor and Sarah Allen Shaine Chair in Sociology and Anthropology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
January 12, 2012
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700yr Indian address in Jerusalem gets lift
Krishna also visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Museum in Jerusalem. He stopped by the cemetery for Indian soldiers, which contains graves of 79 Indian servicemen of World War I.
January 12, 2012
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Palestinian leaders outraged over West Bank construction data
A report released by Israel’s Peace Now group also says building last year on East Jerusalem land seized during the 1967 Middle East War was at the highest level in a decade. Palestinian leaders voiced outrage Tuesday over a new report that Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank rose 20% last year
January 11, 2012
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Women Banned from Speaking at Gynecology Conference in Israel
Due to ongoing pressure from ultra-Orthodox Jewish leaders, women in Jerusalem have been excluded from a major conference in Israel that focuses on gynecology advances, reports The Globe and Mail.
January 11, 2012
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Israel Braces for Refugees After Syrian Collapse
Israel’s military chief said on Tuesday that Jerusalem was preparing for a potential influx of refugees into the Golan Heights from Syria.
January 10, 2012
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