Israel’s national broadcast authority has banned Eurovision contestant Moran Mazor from wearing a dress made by John Galliano.
Elder statesman Shimon Peres took office as Israel’s ninth president on Sunday at the age of 83, pledging to devote the full seven-year term to realising his lifelong dream of bringing peace to the Middle East, despite the limitations of the largely ceremonial post. He entered Parliament to military fanfares.
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/ 1 February 2006
Thousands of troops in riot gear and on horseback clashed with hundreds of stone-throwing Jewish settlers holed up behind barbed wire and on rooftops in the illegal West Bank settlement outpost of Amona on Wednesday, after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the demolition of nine homes at the site.
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/ 29 January 2006
Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday ruled out contacts with a Hamas-led Palestinian government until the Islamic group renounces violence. Olmert, addressing the weekly meeting of his Cabinet, said he has received widespread international support for the Israeli position toward Hamas.
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/ 10 November 2005
Fiery union leader Amir Peretz won a stunning victory over Shimon Peres in the leadership contest for Israel’s Labour Party, officials said on Thursday, dealing the party’s elder statesman the latest in a long line of defeats and promising to shake up the country’s political system.
Thousands of frightened Israeli tourists were rushing back home from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Friday, after car bombs ripped through two Egyptian beach resorts crowded with Israeli visitors. At least 19 people were killed and more than 120 wounded in the blasts at the Taba Hilton, a luxury hotel just south of the Israeli border, and at the Ras Shitan resort of beach huts.
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/ 11 February 2004
A moderate earthquake rattled a swath of the Middle East early on Wednesday, sending jitters throughout the region and causing minor damage to Israel’s Parliament. No injuries were immediately reported. High-rise buildings in Tel Aviv, shopping malls and schools throughout the country were evacuated.