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West Bank Jewish Heritage site Tel Shiloh will be renovated with NIS 5 million in government funds and another NIS 10 million from private donations. The Ministerial Committee for National Heritage sites approved the funding as part of a package of NIS...
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The EFM title is being handled by Paris-based Cité Films. Directed by Lorraine Levy, the film stars Emmanuelle Devos, Pascal Elbé, Jules Sitruck and Mehdi Dehbi. Written by Natalie Saugeon, Levy and Noam Fitoussi, it tells the story of an Israeli teen...
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A Palestinian woman stands outside her lingerie shop, decorated for Valentine's Day, in the West Bank city of Nablus, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. View Photo »
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We are studying the order and will respond to it in coordination with the Palestinian Monetary Authority
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The right to housing is further denied in the occupied Palestinian territory, according to the expert, who noted that in East Jerusalem and the areas of the West Bank under Israeli military control, policies adopted by Israel restrict Palestinians from...
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He said the car was not parked close to the embassy at the time. He said this was the first attempted attack on an employee of the Israeli Embassy. In other developments, Israeli settlers from an unauthorized West Bank outpost said Monday that they...
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Croatia's President Ivo Josipovic, left, speaks as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, listens, during a joint press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. Josipovic is on a three-day official visit to the Israel and the... View Photo »
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The Palestinians have no interest in entering peace talks. I’m ready to travel now to Ramallah [in the West Bank] to start peace talks with Abu Mazen, without preconditions
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JERUSALEM: Israeli settlers from an unauthorized West Bank outpost said Monday they have accepted an offer from the government to stay put for two more years, despite Israeli Supreme Court orders to evacuate them next month. The Migron settlement, built...
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But Khader Adnan is dying to live. The 33-year-old Palestinian baker, husband, father, and graduate student has refused food since December 18, a day after he was arrested in a nighttime raid on his family home by Israeli occupation forces in the West...
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The West Bank (Hebrew: הגדה המערבית, Hagadah Hamaaravit, Arabic: الضفة الغربية, aḍ-Ḍiffä l-Ġarbīyä), is a landlocked Israeli administered territory on the west bank of the Jordan River in the Middle East. It was occupied by Israel after the conclusion of the Six-Day War of (1967). Full Article
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