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(mainly from Haaretz, Yedioth, Globes Jerusalem Post, Israel National News)
31-Okt 2006: U.S. training and arming Abbas guard to take on Hamas forces
PA sources say American training of Abbas' guard began last month; U.S. giving $2M for necessary facilities.
29-Okt 2006: Campaign Launched to Seek Justice For Jewish Refugees. Efforts by world Jewry to obtain redress and spread awareness about the eviction of more than half a million Jews from Arab and Muslim countries received a boost last week.
29-Okt 2006: More Calls to Invade Gaza. The leaders of the Movement for National Responsibility, comprising 100 former top army officers, say the only solution for the ongoing Kassam rocket attacks is for Israel to re-conquer Gaza.
29-Okt 2006: Egypt to increase presence along Gaza border to 5,000 troops in fear of IDF operation.
29-Okt 2006: The Defense Ministry is weighing a request by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to beef up his loyalist forces with Palestine Liberation Organization troops stationed in Jordan.
28-Oct 2006: UK paper: Israel used uranium bombs in Lebanon War The Independent: "elevated radiation signatures" found in craters from IDF bombs - Israel denies: Israel follows international law.
28-Oct 2006: Sheldon Adelson donates $25m to Yad Vashem. This is the largest contribution that the institute has received from one donor.
27-Oct 2006: Israel snubs EU delegation due to far-Right MP. Foreign Ministry says will not welcome delegation of EU parliamentarians due to inclusion of Marine Le Pen of France. FM spokesperson: Le Pen member of racist party that denies Holocaust.
27-Oct 2006: After 35 days at sea, a group of American evangelicals traveling on a creaky World War II-era cargo ship landed in Israel on a solidarity mission only to run aground in red tape, with long delays in unloading their cargo of clothes, toys, and medical supplies
26-Oct 2006: IBM considers investing in Israeli start-ups.
26-Oct 2006: The head of news at the state-owned South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has been accused of acting arbitrarily in unofficially blacklisting eight journalists and commentators. Among the banned journalists is Israel-based freelancer Paula Slier, a Jerusalem Post contributor, who has been barred from reporting because she is a Jew.
26-Oct 2006: ADL Praises Argentinean Prosecutors For Seeking Arrests Of Former Iranian Leaders in 1994 Bombing Case, including former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, for their suspected role in ordering the 1994 car bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people.
26-Oct 2006: Israel and U.S. to expand civil air defense cooperation.
26-Oct 2006: Minister warns of Labor rift Labor Minister Ophir Pines-Paz, who voted against party Chairman Peretz's deal with PM Olmert on Lieberman's entry to government, slams move and warns that Labor faction could split over inclusion of right-wing party.
25-Oct 2006: The ups and downs of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must not limit Israel-NATO cooperation," the alliance's Deputy Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Security Policy Dr. Patrick Hardouin told Israeli officials and NATO delegates on Tuesday.
24-Oct 2006: Palestinian gunmen freed a Spanish photographer working for the Associated Press news agency in Gaza on Tuesday, hours after they had kidnapped him, a senior Palestinian official said.
24-Oct 2006: Abbas orders 20,000 Fatah security men to deploy in Gaza who are loyal to Abbas rather than Hamas.
23-Oct 2006: Indonesia to buy 4 Israeli drones Muslim country to purchase unmanned planes through Filipino distributor. Deal comes as surprise to some because Indonesia has long supported Palestinian independence efforts, does not have diplomatic relations with Israel
23-Oct 2006: 'We'll resist Iranian threat'. After conveying firm messages to Tehran following Moscow visit, PM Olmert tells Kadima activists IDF already training to face new threats. 'Our soldiers will be trained to deal with any danger Israel is facing,' he says.
23-Okt 2006: 1. PA Daily: Jews Fan Flames of Evil, Provoke Wars, Control World. The official Palestinian Authority (PA) newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida published an anti-Semitic article last week that included many classic anti-Semitic libels along with some modern "updates.
21-Oct 2006: FBI probing AIPAC link to sensitive appointment.
21-Oct 2006: New Yorker to serve as Poland's first progressive rabbi since Holocaust.
21-Oct 2006: Israeli overflights of Lebanese air space are 'extremely dangerous' because French-led UN peacekeepers on the ground could see them as hostile acts and fire in self-defense, France's Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie warns.
20-Oct 2006: Egyptian police intercepts 200 crates of weapons en route to Gaza. Three Bedouin arrested early Friday, admit to trying to smuggle nearly 200 crates of automatic weapons, ammunition from Egypt into Gaza through
tunnel.
20-Oct 2006: Iran's Ahmadinejad says at Tehran pro-Palestinian rally, ‘Zionist regime, thank God, has lost all reason to exist; it was established in heart of Islamic territory for one purpose – to threaten region through constant attacks'.
19-Oct 2006: El Al firing 650 employees. Management: climbing fuel costs and shrinking tourism leave little choice.
19-Oct 2006: Appoints new chief of Northern Command.
19-Oct 2006: Deputy Secretary General of NATO Minuto-Rizz will arrive in Israel on Sunday (Oct 22) for a three-day visit, following the approval of a framework plan for special cooperation with Israel recently concluded at NATO Headquarters in Brussels.
19-Oct 2006: UN commends Israeli AIDS project. Israeli HIV/AIDS experts have until now been excluded from UN-affiliated events.
19-Oct 2006:19 Israel and Russia must work more closely together to shut down all trafficking routes used to transport humans around the world, especially those that bring thousands of individuals into Israel each year, said Rita Chaikin, coordinator of Isha L'Isha's Anti-Trafficking project and its hotline for trafficking victims. Israel has become a top 10 destination for trafficking.
19-Oct 2006: Energy cooperation a key part of the PM's Moscow visit
With 90% of Israel's oil coming from Russia, pipeline plan through Turkey would increase access.
19-Oct 2006:Dichter urges US pressure on Cairo over Gaza arms smuggling.
18-Oct 2006: Hamas leader Khaled Meshal speaking to supporters in Damascus on Thursday. He said Israel is a 'cancer' that must be uprooted.
18-Oct 2006: Senior Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade operative Arrested.
18-Oct 2006:Terror group escalates psych-war with Hebrew-language website.
18-Oct 2006: Finance Ministry Refuses El Al War Compensation.
18-Oct 2006: Moscow agrees to tighten arms exports supervision after Russian-made rockets ended up in service of Hezbollah.
18-Oct 2006: On the occasion of 15th anniversary of the renewal of diplomatic relations between Israel and Russia, the foreign ministers of the two states exchanged diplomatic notes, praising the scope and diversity of relations between the countries today.
17-Oct 2006: Bell's Yossi Matias to head Google's development center in Tel Aviv.
17-Oct 2006: Senior university personnel throughout Britain have been asked to spy on Muslim or Asian students who are suspected of being involved in terrorist activities, the British newspaper The Guardian reported Monday morning.
17-Oct 2006: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert travels to Moscow Tuesday for three days of talks amid a feeling in Jerusalem that Russia is not deaf to Israeli concerns if they are continuously and forcefully articulated.
17-Oct 2006:Israeli-American Nobel winner doubts Israel's long-term survival
By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent Professor Robert (Yisrael) Aumann, the Israeli-American scholar who won the Nobel Prize for economics last year, said this week that Israel may not be capable of continuing to exist in the longterm.
17-Oct 2006:The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is calling on Irish academics to oppose demands to boycott Israel. The union, which represents 1.3 million members across the US, sent a letter to four Irish teachers and academics unions, urging them to oppose the boycott which has been proposed by several Irish academics in recent weeks.
15-Oct 2006: Commanders who did not fully understand their orders, who were not present
with their troops during important battles and even failed to fulfill basic
missions, were only some of the grave failures found by an internal IDF
committee that probed Division 91's performance during the recent war in
Lebanon.
16-Oct 2006: Twenty years ago, on October 16th 1986, combat navigator Ron Arad was captured by the Shi'ite "Amal" organization after his plane crashed on Lebanese territory. Arad enlisted into the elite course of the Israel Air Force, which he completed with much success as a combat navigator in17/10/06 the Phantom plane. (IDF)
16-Oct 2006: VeriFone in talks on moving R&D, manufacturing to Israel
VeriFone's move would create 1,000 new jobs. Sources inform "Globes" that
VeriFone Holdings Inc. (NYSE:PAY), which acquired Lipman Electronics
Engineering Ltd. (Nasdaq:LPMA; TASE:LPMA) for $793 million, may move its
manufacturing and R&D activity to Israel, creating 1,000 jobs.
15-Oct 2006: Knesset winter session to open tomorrow
The Knesset is set to approve the 2007 budget proposal on its first reading.
The winter session of the 17th Knesset will open tomorrow with a festive
ceremony in the presence of Speaker Dalia Itzik, and Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert, but without the traditional opening speech by President Moshe Katzav, who may even be absent from the proceedings.
14-Oct 2006: Three people lightly hurt in Qassam strikes in Sderot area
One rocket hits house within city, a second in an open field; six Qassams fired Thursday on western Negev.
13-Oct 2006: Hamasnews: Hamas may send operatives to Iran Teheran to take in terrorists for training. Hamas representatives were in Teheran on Thursday discussing the possibility of training its operatives in Iran, Channel 2 reported.
Following PA elections earlier this year, Hamas reportedly asked Iran for guidance, instructions and financial assistance as it prepared to take over the Palestinian government.
11-Oct 2006: With this month’s observance of the Jewish New Year and the marking of 350 years of the re-entry of Jews into England, the Simon Wiesenthal Center is expressing extreme concern about in increase in antisemitic hate crimes in the U.K., which culminated in an incident on a London public bus where a 12-year-old Jewish girl, after being asked her religion, was beaten into unconsciousness by 7 youths. According to reports, no one on the bus, including the driver, came to her rescue.
11-Oct 2006: Israel unopposed to building of 5th Temple Mount minaret
Jordanian official tells Jerusalem Post plan is to build 42-meter-high minaret, first one on Mount in six hundred years.
11-Oct 2006: Likud MK and former Zionist dissident, activist and minister Natan Sharansky intends to announce in upcoming days that he has decided to resign from the Knesset and quit politics, sources close to Sharansky told The Jerusalem Post Tuesday. Prominent dissident and spokesman for Soviet Jewry in the 1970s, he applied for a visa to Israel but was refused. Sharansky was highly involved in Jewish refusenik activities. He was arrested in 1977 on charges of treason and spying for the United States, spent 16 months in prison in Moscow, and was later sent to a Siberian prison camp for nine years. Sharansky: From dissident to statesman
11-Oct 2006: Vice Premier Shimon Peres on Wednesday suggested Syrian President Bashar
Assad should come to Jerusalem if he was serious about peace negotiations with Israel.
8-Oct 2006: Syrian military preparing for war with Israel
4-Oct-2006 Cabinet Communique
3-Oct-2006 Cabinet for Strengthening Haifa and the North approves education plan
1-Oct-2006 IDF completes transfer of areas in southern Lebanon to UNIFIL
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