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The government approved Tuesday the establishment of an urban police force which will begin operations on an experimental basis in 15 local authorities across Israel in the next two years. The urban police activity will focus on the eradication of crime and violence as well as offences which relate to residents' quality of life and personal safety. Its inspectors will be granted various new authorities including the ability to detain suspects for three hours, ban entry into certain ... |
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In a meeting between Minister of Tourism Stas Misezhnikov and Cypriot Commerce Minister Antonis Paschalides, it was decided that the two states would create a common committee that will examine the market and come up with innovative ways to improve the two states’ tourism sectors. At the meeting Stas Misezhnikov said that tourism was a vast contributor to both countries’ economies, while he referred to the historic relations between Cyprus and Israel, as well as ... |
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Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch said Tuesday that he considered the arrests of Amir Makhoul and Omar Said to be a very serious matter. Makhoul and Said, who both hold Israeli citizenship, were arrested this week on charges of espionage on behalf of Hezbollah. Makhoul is the brother of a former Arab Knesset Member of the Hadash party and heads the Israel-based Arab organization Ittijah."Most of the investigation was carried out in the dark and cannot be detailed, but the ... |
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At a meeting of the Knesset Economics Committee, MK David Rotem called for Israel to stop all sales to the Palestinian Authority. The PA, he said, cannot decide what Israeli goods it wished to purchase and which it did not. The committee was discussing the PA's boycott of goods from Judea and Samaria.“We should take pre-emptive action, telling the PA that they can buy either everything, or nothing,” Rotem ... |
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David (Dudu) Rotem has removed the legal obstacles in the way of Holocaust survivors receiving subsidized medicine. As chair of the Knesset Law Committee, Dudu called an ad-hoc meeting to address the issue – while he was in the USA meeting with American Jewish leaders. Less than a month ago, the Knesset passed a law granting medication subsidies for Holocaust survivors. The government was going to pass on to the health insurance companies the names of ... |
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The Joint Committee for promoting Israel-Belarus tourism is scheduled to meet Tuesday afternoon for the first time since last July's signing of a tourism agreement between the two countries. In addition to talking to Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov and his staff about ways to promote the industry, Belarus counterpart Sport and Tourism Minister Oleg Kachan and a delegation which arrived in Israel Sunday, will conduct meetings with representatives of the Sport, Tourism and Foreign ... |
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A landslide victory has made Israel Beytenu representative, Tali Peloskov mayor of the Negev town. When Tali first arrived in Arad from Moldova in 1991, she started off as a chambermaid. But, even then, she knew that her new homeland would offer her opportunities to realize her talents and desire to contribute to building up the Jewish State. Tali is not sanguine about the challenges facing Arad, including high unemployment and crime. The newly elected mayor calls on all ... |
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Add Tel Shiloh to National Heritage List, national infrastructure minister urges. The two West Bank outposts Haresha and Givat Hayovel should be legalized and not demolished, said National Infrastructures Minister Uzi Landau as he toured the Binyamin region on Tuesday.“There is only one solution – the signature of Defense Minister to legalize these places,” said Landau.He also called on the government to include the West Bank archeological site of Tel Shiloh, where the ... |
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