Patrick Anidjar
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/ 19 May 2006

Israeli foreign minister, Peres to meet Abbas

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni will on Sunday meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Egypt, the highest-level such contact since radical faction Hamas won a January election. "Mrs Livni and Mr Abbas will meet on Sunday [at a meeting] in which Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres will participate," foreign ministry spokesperson Mark Regev said.

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/ 5 December 2005

Five dead in Israeli mall suicide bombing

Five people were killed and dozens more wounded on Monday in a suicide bomb attack at a shopping mall close to the city of Tel Aviv, Israeli police and medical sources said. The blast, responsibility for which was claimed by Islamic Jihad, went off at around 11.30am at the entrance to the Hasharon shopping centre in the upmarket resort town of Netanya.

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/ 2 November 2005

Menace of assassination still looms in Israel

Ten years after a Jewish extremist murdered Yitzak Rabin, the threat of another political assassination still haunts Israel as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict gets bogged down in a fifth year. A survey published ahead of the 10th anniversary of Rabin’s death shows that one in three Israelis believes a new political assassination is likely.

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/ 19 October 2004

Israel fears violence, Sharon assassination

Israeli authorities are bracing themselves for a violent backlash to the planned pull-out from Gaza, as growing fears were voiced on Tuesday that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s life is in danger from extremists. ”I am afraid that someone will try to kill the prime minister,” Labour party leader Shimon Peres told the Maariv daily.