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Yanir Yagna

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Israel Police.
Father of girl found dead in well in southern Israel placed under home arrest

Man suspected of being involved in the death of his 16-year-old daughter is released from police custody and placed on home confinement as police investigate the incident.

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Eilat Airport flooding
Eilat airport closes due to flooding

Flights in and out of Eilat were rerouted to Ovda Airport in the Negev after runways flooded; section of Highway 90 briefly closed.o excessive rain.

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  • After banner year at Ben-Gurion airport, local airline executives deliver mixed travel forecast for 2013
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Bedouin
When the Bedouin vote, they often vote Shas

Among the minority of Bedouin who voted, many supported Shas, even over Arab parties.

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Yesh Atid press conference
Mayors who ran for Knesset didn’t win over residents

In Israel's 2013 election, the power of mayors to affect the national vote seems to have declined considerably.

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  • Who will make up Israel's 19th Knesset?
Heading for the Ashdod refinery.
Two Ashdod refinery employees killed after inhaling poisonous gas

Workers were found dead after a Friday night shift; MK Dov Khenin calls for tightening of workplace safety standards for handling hazardous materials in response.

with Revital Hovel 0 comments
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman
Lieberman: Contrary to decline in polls, Likud-Beiteinu will win 40 seats

Former foreign minister says continued settlement construction 'is in Israel's national interest'; Livni: If the public gives me enough power I will be able to force Netanyahu into peace negotiations.

with Haaretz 6 comments
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  • Garbage time: The Likud-right-religious bloc ahead by a large margin
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Israel Police.
Bedouin stabbed to death in Israel's south, police suspect 17-year-old wife

Police say such case, where a wife suspected of murdering her husband, is not common in Bedouin community.

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Zvulun Kalfa
Lone kibbutz member in next Knesset likely to be from Habayit Hayehudi

Kibbutzniks are often identified with the left-wing and secular, but Zvulun Kalfa, number seven on the right-wing, national religious list, was one of the settlers evacuated from Gush Katif and is now community director of Dvir, a secular kibbutz in the Negev.

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The mobile homes site in Nitzan.
Israel begins charging evicted Gaza settlers for their mobile homes

Many angry residents, who have been living at a mobile home site since being evicted in the disengagement from Gaza in 2005, say they will not pay.

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Kitan workers protesting outside the factory yesterday.
Workers lock themselves in Dimona plant, decrying 'merciless owners'

Management, which aims to close the plant at the end of December, says it reached agreement with all 14 workers except the two demonstrating.

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Harediwork1
New Haredi initiative: Don't discuss politics and win NIS 500

In an effort to encourage Haredi students to keep concentrating on their studies, a reward is offered to yeshiva students who refrain from discussing the upcoming election.

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An ultra-Orthodox man looking at an Ashkelon archeological dig, December 24, 2012.
Haredi group fights Ashkelon construction to save graves

The multimillion-dollar complex will include the new city hall, an auditorium for the performing arts and a central plaza, as well as a high-rise office building, a 8,000-square-meter commercial center and 200 apartments.

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Bedouin residents stage protest in Be'er Sheva
Bedouin tribe leaves southern Israel home after 20-year battle

Families move to new village after losing struggle with regional council head Pini Badash.

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Israel Police.
Be'er Sheva man suspected of murdering wife and man he thought was her lover

After shooting the pair, the man called police and said, 'I shot my wife and who she is cheating on me with.'

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Paramedics outside the Shtalrid home on Friday.
Israel Police say doctor killed his terminally ill daughter, then himself

Police believe the father, a department head at Kaplan Hospital, Rehovot, performed euthanasia on his terminally ill daughter and then killed himself.

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Labor Party members file in to the Ramat Gan polling station to vote in the party primary election.
Labor members head to the polls as Yacimovich pushes for 'balanced list'

Party chairwoman calls on members to ignore 'blacklists' that dictate who not to vote for; voter turnout stands at 30.5 percent at 5 P.M.

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Security forces spreading out across Moshav Sde Avraham in the early morning hours yesterday, search
IDF soldiers kill suspected home intruder following stabbing incident in south

Army force rush to Moshav Sdei Avraham near Gaza Strip, fearing an overnight break-in by a Bedouin man was nationally motivated; army: Soldiers feared for their lives.

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Yohanan Danino- Tomer Appelbaum
Police chief wants reform as Lieberman case falters

We cannot indict a person today for an infraction committed a decade ago, says Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino.

with Ofra Edelman 1 comments
Farmer in a moshav near Gaza inspecting his crops.
As day breaks over a fragile Gaza truce, Israeli businesses are left in the dark

Business owners in the South know the state will compensate them for their losses, but fear the help they may get will be too little, and much too late.

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IDF reservists waiting near the Gaza border this week.
IDF soldier dies from wounds suffered in Gaza rocket attack

Reserve soldier Boris Yarmulnik, succumbed to his wounds Thursday, after suffering from a serious head injury in a rocket attack on Wednesday.

with Gili Cohen 19 comments
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Gaza-area farmers at work during a lull on Nov. 19, 2012.
Violating IDF order, Negev farmers till their land during Israel-Gaza conflict

GOC Southern Command forbids entrance to fields in Eshkol Regional Council, where most of Israel's potatoes are grown, but farmers continue entering fields to irrigate, spray and fertilize their crops.

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rahat
'The rockets don't distinguish between Jews and Arabs'

With no shelter or any protected space nearby, a Bedouin family in Rahat has nothing to do but look skyward when the sirens go off.

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Soldiers massing next to Gaza on Monday, Nov. 19, 2012.
LIVE BLOG: Day 6 of Israel-Gaza conflict 2012

Forum of nine senior Israeli ministers to convene to discuss future of Gaza operation; UN chief Ban Ki-moon arrives in Cairo to discuss cease-fire efforts; Hamas-run Health Ministry says number of Palestinians killed in Gaza reaches 100; IDF kills top Islamic Jihad leader.

with Haaretz, Avi Issacharoff, Barak Ravid, Gili Cohen and Natasha Mozgovaya 189 comments
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Smoke rises following an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis - AFP - November 14, 2012.
Schools closed in south, Home Front Command alerts mayors in center

People in communities of up to seven kilometers away from Gaza were told not to go to work today, except for those in vital positions; gatherings of more than 100 people prohibited.

with Jack Khoury and Gili Cohen 0 comments
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A rocket in the Eshkol Regional Council.
Four rockets fired from direction of Sinai strike southern Israel

One of the rockets explodes inside moshav in Eshkol Regional Council on Egypt border; the other three strike citron field.

with Gili Cohen 6 comments
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