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MK Moshe Matalon (Yisrael Beiteinu) on Sunday called on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to intervene in the construction of a reinforced operating room at Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon, which has been held up due to opposition by United Torah Jewry to building the operating room on the site of several ancient graves. “The Hareidim must understand that at this time, the sanctity of life must trump the honor of the dead. We are not moving the graves for construction but for defense of the ... |
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Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau said Wednesday that Israel would not transfer water to the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority beyond its minimal commitment if the PA did not begin to properly treat waste in its territory. In a conference on Water Day held in Kfar Maccabiah, Minister Landau added that the foreign ministry, also in the hands of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, is also involved in the matter. He said that Israel was demanding that the PA use treated waste water for agricultural ... |
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MK Moshe Matalon, a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said that Arab members of Knesset were inciting Arabs in Jerusalem and elsewhere to riot. “The Arab members of Knesset are pushing and inciting the Arab public to riot in Jerusalem, in the tradition of Arab MKs who collaborated with Israel's enemies. These riots prove that the state must advance laws demanding loyalty oaths that Israel Beytenu has been demanding, and to determine ways ... |
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Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced that he will not meet with the President of Brazil Lula da Silva after the latter refused to lay a wreath on the grave of Theodore Herzl, the founder of modern day Zionism, but laid a wreath on the grave of the arch-terrorist Yassir Arafat. Lieberman did not come today to the celebratory meeting held in the Knesset in honor of the arrival of the Brazilian president and did not attend a three way meeting that was planned to be held with PM ... |
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Participating in the meeting were Beytenu MKs Leah Shemtov chairperson of the committee, Absorption Minister Sofa Landver, and Faina Kirschenbaum. The committee hosted veterans, who attended wearing their medals. The committee praiseThe Knesset Aliyah Committee on Monday saluted female veterans of World War II, in honor of International Women's Day, and as its opening commemoration of the 65th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany. d the veterans as representatives of over ... |
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Beytenu MK Hamed Amar, caucus chairman of the battle against road accidents in the Knesset, said following the fatal accident in the Negev, that the reason for an increase in fatalities is a weakening of the national Road Safety Authority. "Last night five people were killed in two accidents, and if that wasn't enough, today four more deaths were added to the list. I give my condolences to the families of the dead and wounded. This is certainly a black day for us all," ... |
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Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon met with Ukrainian Deputy Transportation Minister Alexander Davidov. The two signed a protocol, imporoving the air transport agreement between the two governments. According to the new protocol, an additional air freighter will begin operating on the Israel-Ukraine route and there will be no need to coordinate commercial activities between the two sides, so to encourage full competitiveness. ... |
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Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon addressed the Seventh Jerusalem Conference on Wednesday.He explained that the Jewish settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria is not, as is commonly stated, an "obstacle to peace." He reminded his audience that for years before there was even one Jew living in these areas, there were terrorist massacres against Jews - "and certainly no Arab thought of co-existence." The PLO was established in 1964, three years before Israel regained ... |
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