Ariel Sharon has called on religious leaders to make it easier to become a Jew to revive the immigration that provides a buffer to the burgeoning Arab population. The prime minister’s remarks follow a call by one of his own Cabinet for a ban on immigration by secular Jews.
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/ 26 December 2002
Israel and the United States are to launch a joint project to protect civil aviation from missile attacks, Israeli public radio reported on Wednesday.
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/ 25 December 2002
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Tuesday he had information that Iraq recently transferred weapons of mass destruction to Syria while Iraq expressed confidence it will come clear after UN inspections.
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/ 26 November 2002
Israel’s Labour Party hauled itself back into the peace camp this week by electing a dovish former army general to lead it in the 2003 general election. An exit poll gave Amram Mitzna, the mayor of the coastal city of Haifa, 57% of the vote.
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/ 12 November 2002
The race to decide who will be Israel’s next prime minister will be decided long before the average voter gets near a ballot box next February. The opinion polls consistently put Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Likud Party ahead.
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/ 1 November 2002
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was seeking the backing of the far right to keep him in power this week after the Labour Party walked out of his national unity government and lifted the constraints on one of the most hardline prime ministers in the country’s history.
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/ 28 October 2002
Israel signalled this week that in deference to Washington’s campaign against Iraq it will hold back from its usual tough response after Monday’s suicide bombing that killed 14 people. But it swiftly made life harder for Palestinians with a ban on drilling for water.
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/ 11 October 2002
The former head of Israel’s intelligence service held secret talks with a senior Palestinian official six weeks ago in an attempt to curb the violence of the past two years. Israeli and Palestinian officials confirmed that the meeting took place in Qatar, but each side saw it differently.
The bombers of Hamas struck at the heart of student life on Wednesday, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 70 in a lunchtime attack on a crowded university cafeteria. The Mount Scopus campus of Hebrew University had remained a rare preserve of co-existence.
Sixteen people were killed and dozens wounded early on Tuesday in a bomb attack on a rush-hour Israeli bus in southern Jerusalem.
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/ 13 January 2002
ISRAEL on Sunday took a further step away from a threatened military offensive on the Gaza Strip while welcoming a new peace call by three Arab leaders as a positive sign that could revive talks.
Israel and the Palestinians were set on Thursday to hold security talks to discuss a phased Israeli withdrawal from some occupied areas.
Palestinian gunmen shot and killed an Israeli motorist early on Thursday as Israel’s foreign minister warned that civilians would likely ”pay dearly” for the airstrike that killed a top Palestinian militant and 14 other people.
Israel said it was ready to make peace following US President George Bush’s Middle East policy speech on Monday, but only once the Palestinians stamp out ”terrorism” and start reforming their
leadership.
Mohammed Kashir’s intended objective yesterday was, by one definition in the shifting standards of the war for Palestine, a ”legitimate target”.
The latest Palestinian suicide bombing threatened on Tuesday to reignite the cycle of violence in the Middle East as Israel mulled its response to the attack which left at least 14 people dead and blew a hole in US hopes to revive the peace process.
Israeli armed forces seized more Palestinian areas on Thursday, after a second suicide bomb attack on Jerusalem in two days killed six Israelis including a five-year-old girl.
Israeli cabinet secretary Gideon Saar declined to rule out the army storming Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s office on Saturday as he made clear the Jewish state’s determination to capture some 20 security commanders holed up with him.
At least 10 people were killed and 45 injured on Thursday as a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up aboard a rush-hour bus in west Jerusalem.
Israeli troops entered Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank overnight and arrested more than 70 Palestinians, the military said on Thursday, one of the largest such sweeps in two years of fighting.
A Palestinian suicide bomber killed himself and an Israeli policeman on Wednesday at a bus stop in the northern Arab town of Umm el-Fahm, in the first kamikaze attack inside Israel in six weeks, police said.
Israel pushed into West Bank towns early on Wednesday and vowed to occupy territory until Palestinian attacks are halted.
When Khalil Tufakji was 16, he was shot in the arm by soldiers during a protest in Jerusalem against occupation. Israel was not the occupier then and the soldiers, like the protesters, were Arabs.
Israel on Wednesday expelled to the Gaza Strip the brother and sister of a slain West Bank militant after a landmark court ruling.
The Israeli military is digging trenches around Jenin and Nablus, two West bank cities that have been hotbeds of Palestinian militants, according to an army magazine published this week.
Some 200 hardcore Jewish settlers continued to defy the army after two days of clashes in the West Bank Monday, creating tensions within Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s national unity government.
The Israeli siege of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s West Bank base went into its second day on Tuesday with the number of suspected Palestinian militants arrested climbing to 31.
A top bomb-maker from the Islamic group Hamas accused of orchestrating the deaths of more than 100 Israelis was shot dead along with one of his lieutenants by elite Israeli troops.
Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian toddler in Gaza on Monday, hospital officials and witnesses said.
The Israeli army has seized documents suggesting the radical Islamic movement Hamas held talks in Cairo with Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement not to agree on curbing attacks on Israelis but to build its own links to Egypt, Israel media reports said Sunday.
Israeli police briefly detained the chief Muslim cleric in Jerusalem, Ikrema Sabri, and questioned him on Tuesday about a newspaper interview in which he was quoted as condoning suicide bombings, police said.
The Israeli army early on Tuesday entered the town of Jenin, hours after a suicide bomber killed two Israelis in an attack on a shopping mall in a Tel Aviv suburb.