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A senior advisor to Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon suggests that Lebanon's decision to upgrade its Palestinians' rights may be connected to Israeli PR efforts, including a recent op-ed by Ayalon in The Wall Street Journal.Yesterday, Lebanon's parliament decided to give greater rights of employment to its 400,000 Palestinians, overturning a rule that forbade them from most work opportunities for decades."Parliament approved a law amendment lifting former restrictions on ... |
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Public Security Minister Yitzchak Aharonovich will on Sunday present the Israeli delegation that is being sent to Haiti to help with that country's recovery. The delegation will be responsible for public order, and will work with local law enforcement in Haiti. In a statement, Aharonovich's office said that the delegation would hopefully do a great deal to help in the recovery of ... |
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Public Safety Minister Yitzchak Aharonovich said Thursday evening that "if the government does not find the right formula, the treasury will simply weaken the fight against crime and police officers will fold before crime organizations." He said he would dig in and hoped for better news in the morning regarding police and jailer salaries in the 2011-12 ... |
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DFM Ayalon met with American university presidents A delegation of university presidents arrived in Israel from the United States this week. They met with Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem. At the meeting, the university presidents told the deputy foreign minister that they mean to work towards promoting projects in academic institutions that will involve increased cooperation between Israel, the US and the Palestinians. ... |
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On Thursday, July 1, FM Lieberman attended the Latvian state ceremony commemorating the Holocaust, and said that in many instances today, anti-Semitism takes the form of an anti-Israeli stance. “The lesson,” he said, “is that the Jewish people must always be prepared to defend themselves.” Lieberman added that the best proof of the Nation of Israel's eternal nature is the existence of the State of Israel, which is the answer to those who wished to annihilate us. ... |
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Read Danny Ayalon's piece for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency! “Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal,” the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote nearly 200 years ago. Throughout history, Jews have numbered disproportionately among Nobel Prize laureates, acclaimed scientists, philosophers, economists and in many other important fields. These achievements are made all the more remarkable considering the ... |
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Chair of the Knesset Law Committee, MK David Rotem said Thursday that it was time for the Knesset to do something to prevent criminals from making plea bargains when they admit to serious crimes. “The leniency with which these plea bargains are offered for serious crimes is unacceptable. We may have to legislate on this issue.” Rotem was commenting on a plea deal being developed for two drivers who ran down a youth, and left him for dead at the ... |
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On Wednesday, 16th June, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon met with senior Italian officials to discuss the Iranian sanctions, the situation in the Middle East and bilateral relations. The Deputy Foreign Minister met with the President of the Italian Parliament Gianfranco Fini, Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Berttino Craxi and opposition leader Enrico Letta, amongst others.Ayalon discussed the recent events concerning the flotilla and the blockade of Gaza. The Italian officials ... |
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