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Golda Meir proposed halting aliyah of disabled Polish Jews
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Lieberman: Fight against settlement freeze is 'legitimate'
Haaretz Service
Foreign Minister says efforts must remain within bounds of law after settlers step up protests.
Tags: Israel news, Lieberman settlements 
Golda Meir proposed halting aliyah of disabled Polish Jews
By Lily Galili, Haaretz Correspondent
Foreign Ministry document reveals that then-foreign minister raised the possibility in 1958.
Tags: Golda Meir, Israel news 
IDF officer wins NIS 300,000 suit over Gaza war crime allegation
Amos Harel
Investigative TV show alleged company commander involved in 'confirmed kill' of Palestinian teenage girl.
Tags: Gaza war, Israel News
Is hospital grub in Israel getting a little less grubby?
By Dan Even
Sight of mush and pale chicken may be thing of the past, after 'hotel standards' are introduced.
Tags: Israel hospitals, Israel food, Israel news
Amira Hass / Israel has made settlers of all its citizens
Amira Hass, Haaretz Correspondent
Would there be any settlers in the West Bank had the governments of Israel not lured them there?
Tags: Israel news, Israel settlement freeze 
Report: Barak employed unlicensed migrant worker
By Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz Correspondent
Senior Labor Party officials: Reports on Barak 'bring the end of the Labor party ever closer.'
Tags: Israel news, Ehud Barak, Nili Priel 
Trying to sell land nobody wants won't lower housing prices in Israel
By Ranit Nahum-Halevy, Haaretz Correspondent
Housing Ministry aggressively pursuing plans to build two new cities for the ultra-Orthodox community.
Tags: Israel Housing Ministry 
Government supports referendum on Golan pullout
Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondent
Knesset expected to approve amendment to referendum law spelling out guidelines on how referendum should be held.
Tags: Knesset, Golan referendum, Israel news
Justice Minister: Rabbinical courts should support, not replace civil courts
Yair Ettinger, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service
Yaakov Neeman clarifies his remark on Monday that Jewish law should be binding in the State of Israel.
Tags: Jewish law, Israel Halakha, Israel news
Police: 3 Haredi youths arrested on suspicion of stabbing Arab
Liel Kyzer, Haaretz Correspondent
East Jerusalem man seriously wounded in 2008; Police lift gag order, say motive was nationalistic.
Tags: Israel news, East Jerusalem stabbing 
Akiva Eldar / Israel may have frozen settlements, but does it want peace?
Akiva Eldar
For Netanyahu, the settlement crisis was the perfect tactic for diverting attention away from peace talks.
Tags: Israel Settlement Freeze, Israel News
More Israelis watched 'Big Brother' than film on the Shalits
By Gili Izikovich
'Big Brother' reality show scores more than double the ratings than a documentary on the Shalit family.
Tags: Big Brother, Gilad Shalit, Israel news
MKs pass controversial bill to set up biometric database
By Jonathan Lis
Bill may require Israelis to have chip installed in ID cards and passports with fingerprints, facial scans.
Tags: Israel News, Israel Biometric Database
Settler rabbis to tell Barak: Don't oust extremist yeshivas
By Anshel Pfeffer and Yair Ettinger
Meeting called to discuss protests against settlement evacuation by yeshiva students in the army.
Tags: Israel News, Kfir Brigade
Cash strapped British airline ending direct Tel Aviv-London route
By Zohar Blumenkrantz
Bmi will stop flying its Israel route as part of cost-cutting measures and will shift its passengers to Lufthansa.
Tags: Israel News
Haredi women outraged over men-only business convention
TheMarker
Poalei Agudat Israel Bank banned women from a convention for customers it's holding in Ramat Gan Tuesday.
Tags: Israel news, Haredi Women
Youth protesting settlement freeze block Jerusalem entrance
By Chaim Levinson, Mazal Mualem and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondents
Settler leader lightly hurt in clashes; activists plan first mass protests within Green Line.
Tags: Israel news, West Bank, settlement freeze
Israel Navy soldier dies in training accident at Ashdod Port
Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz Correspondent
Soldier pulled from water after comrades noted signs of distress over course of routine exercise.
Tags: Israel Navy, IDF, Israel news, IDF accidents
Israeli Arab suspected of posing as soldier and raping Haifa girl
Fadi Eyadat, Haaretz Correspondent
Police had trouble finding suspect who feigned identity on Internet, then arranged to meet him under victim's name.
Tags: Israeli Arab, IDF soldier, Israel news 
What makes this settlement freeze different from any other?
Amos Harel
The consequence of the freeze will be a potentially violent conflict between settlers and police.
Tags: settlement freeze, Israel news, settlers
Discovery of world's oldest church may turn prison into tourist site
By Eli Ashkenazi
Mosaic floor found at prison features important inscriptions, including reference to Jesus from 3rd or 4th century C.E.
Tags: Israel archaeology, Megiddo prison 
Mayor tells 'ghost' Jerusalem residents: Rent out or sell up
By Nir Hasson
Barkat: 9,000 empty apartments cause growing damage to the city's economy and housing market.
Tags: Israel news, Jerusalem economy
Chief rabbi: Israeli conversion certificates valid for marriage
By Yair Ettinger
Yona Metzger's declaration comes after converts' complaints that local rabbis refuse to recongnize them as Jews.
Tags: ultra-Orthodox, conversion, Israel news
Israel ignoring 400 Palestinian house demolition appeals
By Chaim Levinson
The state's inaction on the Palestinians' petitions saved the homes from being demolished.
Tags: settlement freeze, Israel news, West Bank 
Lieberman could face fraud charges by next month
By Tomer Zarchin
Talks begin on whether to indict the FM on charges which include accepting bribes and laundering money.
Tags: Lieberman, Lieberman indictment, Israel news
Israeli Druze face deepening identity crisis
By Dan Tamir
Druze see themselves as Druze first and Arabs second, and identify with Israel before the Palestinians.
Tags: Israel minorities, Israel Druze, Israel news
Prosecutors: We're formulating position on Lieberman graft case
Tomer Zarchin, Haaretz Correspondent
Announcement made in response to a petition filed by Lieberman against probe, which he says has gone on for too long.
Tags: Israel news, Israel corruption 
Haaretz exclusive: Police-settler clashes caught on film
Chaim Levinson, Haaretz Correspondent
Footage shows rightists trying to stop inspectors from handing out orders to implement settlement freeze.
Tags: Israel news, settlement freeze 
Court: Israeli woman can use deceased man's sperm to get pregnant
Haaretz Service
22-year-old who died of cancer made a donation to a sperm bank before he started chemotherapy.
Tags: Israel news, Jewish sperm donation 
'The Freeze' is just another scene in Israel's masquerade
By Gideon Levy
Nothing will move so long as Tel Aviv, its inhabitants do not let their voice be heard on settlements' future.
Tags: Gideon Levi, Middle East peace, Israel News 
Netanyahu: Settlement freeze is not evacuation
Chaim Levinson and Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondents, and Haaretz Service
PM: Freeze hard, but necessary, proves Israel wants peace; report: Settlers suspected of torching Palestinian home.
Tags: settlers, settlement freeze, Israel news
Head of Israel-focused equity fund admits bribing New York State officials
By Sharon Shpurer and Ram Dagan, TheMarker Correspondents, and News Agencies
Elliott Broidy of Markstone Capital Partners handed out gifts worth $1m to win $250m investment from N.Y. State pension fund.
Tags: Israel news, Markstone, Elliott Broidy 
Comptroller: Israel ill-prepared for tackling climate change
Zafrir Rinat, Haaretz Correspondent
Ahead of UN summit, State Comptroller says no plan exists to deal with greenhouse gases.
Tags: Copenhagen climate change, Israel news 
Civil rights report details racism in Israel in all its many shades
By Dana Weiler-Polak
Association for Civil Rights in Israel: Israel has become a country where human rights are 'conditional.
Tags: civil rights Israel, Israel news 
The eight-day war: How to cope with Hanukkah calories
Limor Gilat
Biggest health culprit of the holiday is the jelly doughnut, which can contain 800 calories per serving.
Tags: Israel health, Israel News, Hanukkah
Cabinet approves appointment of Yehuda Weinstein as next AG
By Tomer Zarchin and Mazal Mualem
Weinstein to take up post at beginning of February, before which he will transfer pending business in his firm to other attorneys.
Tags: Attorney General, Israel News
Ministers to vote on bill regulating rights of refugees in Israel
By Dana Weiler-Polak
After 58 years the bill could ensure refugees eligibility to rights stemming from 1951 UN convention.
Tags: Israel News, Israel ministers vote 
Israel should give up Jerusalem as its capital
By Yossi Melman
Jerusalem's 'holiness' is preventing any chance of achieving a settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Tags: Israel news, settlments, Middle East peace 
Haifa man suspected of raping Canadian kibbutz volunteer
Eli Ashkenazi, Haaretz Correspondent
Suspect arrested after woman, 20, recognizes him at a nightclub, the same club where the alleged rape took place.
Tags: Israel news, Israel crime
Man allegedly tried to blackmail McDonald's for millions of shekels
Haaretz Service
34-year-old resident of Baka al-Garbiyeh claimed he had proof of severe health code violations.
Tags: Israel crime, Israel news, McDonald's
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