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Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv dies at 102; ultraorthodox religious arbiter
Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, considered one of his generation's most influential religious arbiters, died Wednesday at Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Medical Center. He was 102 and had been in declining health. Elyashiv's rulings left a deep mark on many...Tags: West Bank, Israel, Government, Benjamin Netanyahu, Religion and Belief
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Yitzhak Shamir dies at 96; former Israeli prime minister
JERUSALEM — Yitzhak Shamir, the onetime underground Jewish fighter and long-serving Israeli prime minister whose unyielding belief in the right of Jews to all of the biblical Land of Israel often exasperated U.S. policymakers, has died. He was 96....Tags: Knesset, Shimon Peres, Gaza Crisis (2008), Parliament, Government
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Motorola Solutions CEO seems to thrive on being underrated, beating odds
Tribune staff reporterWhen Motorola Inc. first came courting Greg Brown, he wasn't interested. The year was 1998 and Brown, a division president at Ameritech in Chicago, was weighing an offer from Motorola against one from Micromuse, a publicly traded software company in...Tags: IBM, Safety of Citizens, Concerts, Business Enterprises, Government
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Bin Laden realized the truth: Terrorism doesn't work
Five weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden publicly commanded his foot-soldiers to ramp up the violence against American civilians. But five weeks before his death, he privately instructed his lieutenants to refrain from killing any civilians....
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Wednesday Morning Coffee: Pennsylvania governor, lawmakers report gifts, travel
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekGood Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Gov. Tom Corbett accepted tickets to NFL playoff games and the National Hockey League’s Winter Classic and top leaders in the General Assembly earned outside incomes at law firms in 2011, documents show.... -
The Palestinian Catch-22
Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinians face a Catch-22. As the Sun's editorial, "Mr. Abbas' mission" (Feb. 13) points out, a unity government between Mr. Abbas' Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza is a necessary precondition to...Tags: Gaza Crisis (2008), Government, Benjamin Netanyahu, National Government, Ellicott City
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Yaffa Yarkoni dies at 86; Israeli singer
Yaffa Yarkoni, a singer who entertained Israeli soldiers on the front lines for half a century and later reaped public censure for her outspoken criticism of the military's treatment of Palestinians, died Sundayof Alzheimer's disease in Tel Aviv. She...Tags: Tel Aviv (Israel), Memorial Day, Radio, Government, Benjamin Netanyahu
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Mar 27, 2012 | Los Angeles TimesMofaz takes leadership of Israel's Kadima party
World NowIsraeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni has lost the chairmanship of the centrist party Kadima to her rival, Shaul Mofaz, according to near-final results in Tuesday primaries....Jun 24, 2011 |Story| Aberdeen NewsTODAY IN HISTORY
1948: Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the western allies to organize the Berlin Airlift. 1968: ''Resurrection City,'' a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People's March on...Tags: Berlin (Germany), Lincoln (Placer, California), George W. Bush, California, Washington, DC
Aug 26, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles TimesPASSINGS: Christoph Schlingensief, Franz Schurmann
Christoph Schlingensief
Controversial German theater director
Christoph Schlingensief, 49, a controversial German theater director and performance artist, died of lung cancer Saturday. His death was announced by organizers of the Ruhr Triennale cultural...Tags: Music Theater, Health, San Francisco, Burkina Faso, Government
Aug 23, 2010 | Los Angeles TimesISRAEL: A cautionary tale of officers, gentlemen and snakes
Babylon & BeyondEvery so often, a legendary Israeli institution falls from grace. In 1995, the Shin Bet failed to protect Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin from assassination; in 1997, the Mossad loudly bungled an attempt to assassinate Khaled Meshaal in Jordan and more......Original site for Ariel Sharon topic gallery.
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Ariel Sharon Photos
Whitney and husband Bobby Brown meet Israeli Prime Mini...
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