IDF completes identification of Romania crash victims' bodies

Identification process made difficult by logistical problems involving transfer of bodies and their removal.

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Arab League meeting in Cairo
U.S. 'encouraged' by Arab support for direct Israeli-Palestinian talks

Arab League announces it would support Palestinian decision to enter direct talks; Hamas rejects Arab League endorsement.

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President Shimon Peres speaking in Hadera
Is Peres trying to convince Palestinians to refuse direct talks?

Source tells Israel Radio that the president sent former minister Ramon to meet Erekat this month as his emissary, with that message in tow.

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Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg
Book condoning murder has another rabbi in hot water

Head of yeshiva in West Bank settlement of Yitzhar detained by police over book permitting murder of non-Jews who threaten Israel.

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Rightists protest Gay pride parade in Jerusalem on Thursday.
Anti-gay protesters: Sick perverts - get out of Jerusalem

Eighth Jerusalem Gay Pride parade marches amid growing tensions with rightist protesters.

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Gaza children flying kites
Gaza children set new kite flying world record

7,202 children fly as many kites to enter Guinness Book of World Records as part of UN-run summer camp.

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Women of the Wall
Rabbi clashes with Israeli embassy in Washington over Western Wall arrest

Modern Orthodox rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld enraged by Israeli silence over arrest of woman whose crime was holding a Torah scroll.

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Diplomacy & Defense

Settlers evict Palestinians from their home in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem, December 1, 2009

Israeli family 'breaks into' Jerusalem home centered in ownership controvery

The group of Jews have documents proving they purchased the building and were the rightful owners, but Palestinians claim it is their own.

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Abbas resisting direct talks with Israel, despite Obama pressure

The Arab League was to set out its position on direct talks on Thursday at a meeting of foreign ministers from 10 key League members in Cairo.

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IAF helicopter pilot recounts pulling friends' bodies from wreckage of Romania crash

Pilot who participated in joint training mission and rescue efforts says that rescue efforts were necessary due to the need 'to bring our friends home.'

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IAF unit prepares to fly home with bodies of Romania crash victims

Experts complete identification process; Israeli and Romanian armies plan to hold a memorial ceremony this afternoon for the seven victims at the Romanian military base from which the helicopter took off.

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Blogs

Sigmund Freud

Strenger than Fiction / Psychoanalysis and Jewish thought - an evolving relationship

A look at a timely and welcome collection of essays by Jewish psychoanalysts exemplifying the whole range of Jewish denominations including ultra-Orthodoxy.

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MESS Report / Romania crash raises questions about IAF's ageing helicopter fleet

Decisions to replace helicopters, like the CH-53 that crashed in Romania on Monday, are complex, involve heavy costs and take a long time.

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Focus U.S.A / Whatever happens, Israel can always count on U.S. evangelicals

Thousands of Christian activists descended on Washington this week in a show of strength by America's pro-Israel Christians.

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National

Participants hold flags during the gay pride parade in Jerusalem July 29, 2010.

Jerusalem hosts subdued gay pride march

Thousands of Israelis marched in Jerusalem's longest gay pride parade despite opposition from anti-gay demonstrators.

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Multiple drowning incidents leave 2 people dead, two seriously injured

7-year-old boy drowns to death in Lake Kinneret; 62-year-old French man drowns to death while swimming at unguarded beach in Ashdod.

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'Israeli Arabs have no choice but to build illegally'

Study released by the Dirasat - Arab Center for Law and Policy highlights obstacles faced by Israeli Arabs wishing to build homes; about a quarter of Arab communities have neither a local nor privatized master plan.

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Business

Turkey resort

Exports to Turkey remain strong, at $100m a month

Israel exports to Turkey did not drop after the Gaza flotilla incident in May, the Israeli Credit Insurance Company reports; Israeli travel agents start offering tour packages to Antalya again.

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The half-full shot glass

Israeli drinkers are mourning the ban on nighttime retail alcohol sales, but for others it's cause for popping corks.

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Ministers vow: There will be cheap TV

Communications Minister Moshe Kalon says he will force cable providers HOT and Yes to offer customers low-cost plans with a limited package of channels.

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International

Syria's President Bashar Assad

Damascus: Syria-Saudi ties are none of U.S.'s business

Saudi King Abdullah visits Syria to hold talks with Assad ahead of joint trip t Lebanon; Syrian Foreign ministry says U.S. 'has no right to define our ties with other countries.'

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Iran, U.S. signal continued talks on nuclear swap deal

Iran last discussed sending some low-enriched uranium abroad in exchange for fuel for a Tehran reactor in October.

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Desmond Tutu backs U.S. food co-op boycott of Israeli products

South African Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu issues statement of support for boycott announced by food co-op in Rachel Corrie's hometown of Olympia, Washington.

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Culture

Sabbar Kashur

The lies that blur lines

The rape conviction of an Arab who posed as a Jew not only reeks of racism, it poses a danger to the distinction between sex and sexual violence. And: How can you measure Hollywood's testosterone level?

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The designer's soft spots

Ehud Joseph's clothing collections have been inspired by the summer camps of his childhood in Israel. More important than the garments themselves, he says, is the story behind them

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What's so funny?

'Arab Labor,' whose second season premiered this month, chooses cheap laughs over political reckoning

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Sports

Amar’e Stoudemire

Basketball / Stoudemire in Israel on 'heritage' trip

Stoudemire left the Phoenix Suns earlier this month to sign a $100-million, five-year deal with the Knicks.

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Hello, Mr. Nice Guy

Players discover Hapoel coach Eli Guttman may not be the ogre he's been made out to be.

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Soccer / Aktobefest

Kazakh side bursts Hapoel Tel Aviv's hopes for an easy third round.

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