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/ 29 November 2007
Israeli police said on Thursday there was insufficient evidence to indict Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in a graft case, a major boost for the premier as he returned home from a United Sates peace conference. ”There is insufficient evidence to indict Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in the Bank Leumi case,” police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld said.
Veteran statesman Shimon Peres was elected president of Israel on Wednesday, finally winning his first vote for top office and crowning a record-breaking career spanning more than half a century. Peres’s victory was a triumph that laid to rest the ghosts of seven years past when he famously lost the same ballot.
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/ 22 February 2007
A reported Syrian troop build-up near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights has fuelled speculation in Israel about a future conflict, more than three decades after the two enemies last fought. Syrian armed forces appear to be moving closer to the armistice line as Damascus spearheads an unprecedented armaments drive, shrieked Israel’s <i>Haaretz</i> newspaper on Thursday.
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/ 11 February 2006
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s life is in danger, a hospital spokesperson said on Saturday, after doctors discovered a ”serious deterioration” in his digestive tract. ”A serious deterioration of his digestive tract was discovered after an examination and doctors decided to operate,” said Ron Krumer, spokesperson for the Haddasah hospital.
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/ 26 October 2005
At least four people were killed and dozens more wounded on Wednesday in a Palestinian bomb attack in a marketplace in northern Israel, the first inside the Jewish state since July. Responsibility for the attack in the town of Hadera was claimed by the Islamic Jihad movement.
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/ 11 November 2004
With the death of veteran Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has lost his closest enemy, whom he chased, hated and finally isolated for three years in Ramallah. For Sharon, Arafat never qualified as a sufficiently credible Palestinian partner with whom he could bring a peace agreement to fruition.
Israeli Premier Ariel Sharon was pondering his options on Monday after his Likud party routed his plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip, inflicting on the premier his most stinging setback since taking office. His crushing 20% defeat in Sunday’s internal referendum cast doubts over the future of his so-called "disengagement" plan.
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