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U.K. Haredi rabbi arrested as efforts to keep sex abuse scandal inside community fail

Rabbi Chaim Halpern among four arrested Wednesday in connection with investigations into sexual abuse and perverting the course of justice.

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The Eitan drone at an air base - Olivier Fitoussi
UNHRC drone-strike investigator: Israel would be wise to cooperate

British lawyer Ben Emmerson promises his report on the use of drone strikes will be fair and says it is in Israel's strategic interest to cooperate.

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Ultra-Orthodox men using computers
In an Internet age, Haredi sexual abusers can't hide

As the arrest of north London rabbi Chaim Halpern shows, the days of solving sexual abuse or other problems within the confines of the community, without the need for police or other professional intervention, are over.

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Viva Palestina AP Sept. 28, 2010.
British MP walks out of debate, saying 'I don't debate with Israelis'

British Member of Parliament George Galloway leaves the event saying he "[doesn't] recognize Israel, [doesn't] debate with Israelis." In separate incident, Israel's deputy ambassador to Britain Alon, Roth-Snir forced to leave by pro-Palestinian protesters.

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Chinese soldiers in a joint U.S.-China military drill - AP
Danger of cyber-warfare on the rise as armies chart new ground

Report finds that the Chinese Army has been conducting coordinated cyber-attacks on the United States.

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The tombstone of Ben Zygier stands at Chevra Kadisha Jewish Cemetery in Melbourne, Australia
Ten lingering questions on the Prisoner X affair

While there is little reason to disbelieve the Israeli report's conclusion of suicide, there is still a long list of questions hovering over the case. Here are the main ones.

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  • Even after report into Zygier's suicide, his motive remains a mystery
  • Zionist Federation of Australia slams claims that Israel programs serve as Mossad recruitment service
AWACS plane.
Israel supplies Turkey with military equipment for first time since Gaza flotilla

Facing pressure from Boeing and American administration officials, the Israeli government recently ended a freeze on advanced electronic warfare systems for the Turkish Air Force.

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Ben Zygier’s passport.
Mossad identity crises

The fog surrounding the affair of so-called Prisoner X may never dissipate, but one thing is already clear: Mossad procedures for devising identities for its agents need to be revised.

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  • Australia to conduct its own probe into Prisoner X affair
Pope Benedict XVI, right, talks with Yisrael Meir Lau the Chairman of Yad Vashem
What the rabbis should learn from the pope

It’s not right that as decrepitude sets in, despairing acolytes have to hide the dozing senile oracle from view.

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Ben Zygier.
First reporter to snoop around Zygier is 'surprised' at outcome

Jason Koutsoukis had first called Zygier in late 2009 following a tip-off he received from a source with intelligence connections in Australia.

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  • The 'Prisoner X' affair was a catastrophe for Israel, and must be investigated
  • Source: Israel offered Zygier's family millions in compensation
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Ben Zygier in IDF uniform
Australian authorities were investigating Ben Zygier for espionage months before his arrest in Israel

Australian intelligence officials were looking into suspicions that Zygier, known later as Prisoner X, was fraudulently using his Australian passport; upon being contacted by a reporter months before his arrest, Zygier adamantly denied the charges.

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  • Zygier was negotiating plea bargain before he died in jail, says his Israeli lawyer
  • Inside Yigal Amir and Prisoner X's prison cell, which was designed to prevent suicides
  • Israel's insensitivity to Australian Jewry
  • Report: Ben Zygier planned to expose Mossad's use of Australian passports
  • Jewish-Australian leadership remains silent on Ben Zygier, or 'Prisoner X'
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Dubai passports
Does the Mossad still use the passports of immigrants to Israel?

The widest publication so far of such use was in the wake of the Mabhouh assassination, but many other cases have been recorded.

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  • Australian TV report: Security prisoner who killed self in 2010 was Ben Zygier, a Mossad agent
Rabbi David Hartman
Rabbi David Hartman, Israel's avant-garde thinker

How is it that the man who articulated a groundbreaking 'Jewishness' was less recognized in Israel, where he lived for more than half his life, than abroad?

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Pope Benedict XVI places a note in the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem
The arch-conservative Pope Benedict XVI bore the sins of his predecessor

While Benedict is no stranger to criticism for a long list of real and imagined failings, nearly all of them originated with his popular predecessor, the media superstar John Paul II.

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U.S. drone base in Saudi deserts.
Secret American drone airbase in Saudi Arabia exposed

Exposure of base – believed to be used for strikes against Al-Qaida targets in Yemen and perhaps Iran – comes after news organizations, including The New York Times, held off on publication due to Obama administration requests on the basis of national security.

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Argentian Foreign Minister Timerman
Timerman's betrayal

The Argentine foreign minister is dodging questions about his country's cooperation with Iran and is guarding his government's populist interests.

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  • Argentina's Congress okays probe with Iran into 1994 Jewish center bombing
Cyber defense
Who protects the Israeli civilian home front from cyber attack?

While Pelephone may have ruled out such an attack, other computer security experts were of the opinion that a cyber attack was a real possibility.

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An Iranian technician holds a monkey which has been prepared for riding Iranian rocket into space.
After the monkey that didn't quite make it to space, the Iranian 'stealth bomber'

Iran continues to showcase its technological achievements in commemoration of 34 years to the Islamic Revolution, with the aim of presenting Iran as at the forefront of technology, despite its international isolation.

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Israel Air Force, F-15, fighter jet
IAF long-range capabilities mean more than just Iran in the crosshairs

Israel hasn't taken responsibility for attacks on distant targets, but foreign reports attribute at least four strikes in Syria and Sudan to Israel in recent years.

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Scientists in Iran surround a monkey ahead of a space launch.
Iran's space monkey is merely a PR stunt

Despite the claims by Iran that their recent rocket launch is a breakthrough in their space program, experts say nothing new has been achieved.

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A screengrab of The Algemeiner showing The Sunday Times cartoon
Four reasons why U.K. cartoon of Netanyahu isn't anti-Semitic in any way

Netanyahu's depiction is grossly offensive and unfair but that is only par for the course for any politician when cartoonist Scarfe is at his drawing-board.

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Fordow nuclear facility
Who spread reports of an 'explosion' at Iran's Fordow nuclear plant and why?

According to the report, the explosion in Fordow seriously damaged many of the centrifuges in the plant and trapped underground 240 employees who have yet to be rescued. But if this is true, why have the major news networks dismissed it?

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Four of six F-22 fighters over European skies
U.S. upgrades strike capabilities against Iran, stations 'stealth' fighters in Gulf

U.S. last Aril deployed six F-22 Raptors, its most advanced fighter currently in operational use and the only operational 'stealth' fighter in use around the world, on airbase in UAE. This temporary deployment has apparently become permanent.

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Yair Lapid, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Naftali Bennett
Israel’s next next prime minister

With these elections barely over, Israel’s leading politicians are already scrapping for position in the next round – which of them could end up at the very top of the heap?

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David Ward
British MP compares Jewish treatment of Palestinians to Nazis

David Ward, who has been summoned to the party's whip following his comments, says he did not intend to offend 'Jewish people on a whole' but will continue to criticize Israeli actions against Palestinians.

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