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Mofaz takes leadership of Israel's Kadima party
World NowIsraeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni has lost the chairmanship of the centrist party Kadima to her rival, Shaul Mofaz, according to near-final results in Tuesday primaries.... -
Yaffa Yarkoni dies at 86; Israeli singer
Yaffa Yarkoni, a singer who entertained Israeli soldiers on the front lines for half a century and later reaped public censure for her outspoken criticism of the military's treatment of Palestinians, died Sundayof Alzheimer's disease in Tel Aviv. She...Tags: Politics, Israel, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Memorial Day, Alzheimer's Disease
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PASSINGS: Christoph Schlingensief, Franz Schurmann
Christoph Schlingensief
Controversial German theater director
Christoph Schlingensief, 49, a controversial German theater director and performance artist, died of lung cancer Saturday. His death was announced by organizers of the Ruhr Triennale cultural...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Western Africa, News Media, World War II (1939-1945), Diseases and Illnesses
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ISRAEL: A cautionary tale of officers, gentlemen and snakes
Babylon & BeyondEvery so often, a legendary Israeli institution falls from grace. In 1995, the Shin Bet failed to protect Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin from assassination; in 1997, the Mossad loudly bungled an attempt to assassinate Khaled Meshaal in Jordan and more...... -
MIDDLE EAST: While waiting for the peace talks to begin ...
Babylon & BeyondSince reopening with much fanfare last week, peace talks between Israel and Palestinians continue to generate the typical mood swings. Parades are promptly rained on, windows of opportunity pronounced open one minute are declared closing the next. The... -
Monster Mash: Larry Gagosian ready to debut Paris gallery; Ariel Sharon sculpture stirs controversy
Culture MonsterBig debut: Larry Gagosian's newest gallery space opens this week in Paris. (Agence France-Presse) Life-like: A large scale sculpture of Ariel Sharon in a hospital bed is stirring controversy in Israel. (The Independent) Back in the fold: New York's... -
MIDDLE EAST: Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal says pressure should be increased on Israel
Babylon & BeyondEnough with the pressure on the Palestinians to make concessions in peace talks, says Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal. It's time for Israel to feel the heat. "The pressure should now be redirected towards Israel," Mashaal said in an interview with...... -
ISRAEL: New chief named to take over Mossad from Meir Dagan
Babylon & BeyondMonday's announcement of the next chief of Israel's Mossad ended the mystery about who will succeed leadership of the country's spy agency. Tamir Pardo, known to the public until now only as "T" and to his neighbors as the guy...... -
Israel's right turn
Change is not in the air in Israel. The public mood is as unyielding as Jerusalem stone after a three-week war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip and a national election campaign that focused more on conflict management than on conflict resolution. Voters...Tags: Tzipi Livni, Mahmoud Abbas, Politics, Kadima, Israel
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Israel's crisis of leadership
Israel is in the throes of a grave crisis of leadership. General elections are scheduled for Feb. 10, and there is no widely respected or overwhelmingly popular leader in sight. Even with the existential threat of a nuclear Iran looming over the country,...Tags: Golda Meir, David Ben-Gurion, Israel, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Massacres
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Hamas is a Mideast reality
Now that the guns have fallen silent and the dust is settling over Gaza, it is time to revisit the received wisdom in Israel, the United States and some European quarters that Hamas is a monolithic, Al Qaeda-like terrorist organization bent on Israel's...Tags: Politics, Israel, Palestine, Al-Qaeda, Armed Forces
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The next leader of Israel?
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's decision to quit after his centrist Kadima party chooses a new leader in September could trigger early national elections. These are some of his possible successors: Tzipi Livni Foreign minister and chief negotiator...Tags: Tzipi Livni, Golda Meir, Politics, Kadima, Israel
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