Layoff reports at Cephalon disputed by new owners
Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:31:59 -0800

Those reports unfortunately came from unsubstantiated sources in Israel . We are still working through the integration process. Ynetnews reported many of the posts are expected to go at Mepha, Cephalon's generics unit based in Switzerland. ...

Obama's Real Jewish Problem
Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:47:58 -0800

Progressives, pro-business voters may be more in play than expected, as GOP presses Israel issue. President Barack Obama may have a Jewish problem when he runs for a second term a year from now, but it's not the one most pundits identify and it has ...

Proof Israel is not racist: i LIVE
Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:18:10 -0800

The article describes an appeal made to President Zuma to protect Haneen Zoabi, an MP for Israel's Balad Party, from being stripped of her Israeli citizenship. Zoabi testified at the Russell Tribunal that Israel is racist and I am grateful to Majavu ...

Is Jerusalem in Israel ? Supreme Court takes up passport case
Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:03:04 -0800

Menachem was born at Shaare Zedek Hospital in western Jerusalem, but due to a controversial State Department policy, his US passport does not designate Israel as his place of birth -- despite a federal statute enacted in October 2002 that says ...

Possible Israeli Attack on Iran Could Steeply Raise Oil Prices
Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:41:02 -0800

While the global powers are speculating over the possibility of an Israeli military strike against Iran, many analysts are saying that such an endeavor would steeply raise the price of oil. As a preemptive attack by Israel on its own seems ...

Netanyahu leading the fight against Israel's peace activists
Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:44:48 -0800

Right-wing parties blame Israel human rights organizations for aiding what they call 'campaign to delegitimize Israel ', and have turned them into a scapegoat. The "price tag" graffiti sprayed on the home of Hagit Ofran of Peace Now on Tuesday is part ...

Index Ventures to invest part of new EU500m fund in Israel
Wed, 09 Nov 2011 05:18:52 -0800

The European fund has already invested in Israeli companies and partner Saul Klein has resided in Israel for the past two years. Global venture capital firm Index Ventures has raised a new EU500 million growth fund, only a quarter of which will be ...

Israel defense sector 'hit by cyberattack'
Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:09:25 -0800

TEL AVIV, Israel , Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Israel's military and intelligence services Web sites crashed for several hours last weekend in what appeared to be a cyberattack, an event that carried the potential of crippling the computer systems of the country's ...

White House on Obama-Sarkozy exchange: President committed to Israel
Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:49:30 -0800

They speak very regularly," Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said Wednesday, days after Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy were overheard ridiculing the Israeli leader during a private exchange at the G20 summit in Cannes. ...

Gender segregation on rise in Israel
Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:10:31 -0800

AP Posters depicting women have become rare in the streets of Israel's capital. In some areas women have been shunted onto separate sidewalks, and buses and health clinics have been gender-segregated. The military has considered reassigning some female ...

Notes from GA: Meet the Jewish-American- Israeli
Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:00:37 -0800

By gil shefler denver if there ever was a display of how strong ties are between Israel and the US it took place at the Jewish Federations of North America's General Assembly on Monday, where Israeli Ambassador to the US Dan Shapiro and US Ambassador ...

Israel signs education deal with Bavaria
Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:18:00 -0800

Jerusalem (AP) Israel and the German state of Bavaria have signed an education exchange agreement on the anniversary of an event that marked the start of the Nazi era of persecuting Jews. Wednesday's agreement comes 73 years after "Kristallnacht" ...

Israel in top 10 for New Seven Wonders of Nature campaign
Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:16:22 -0800

By Sharon Udasin Jerusalem Post The Dead Sea is among the top 10 finalists in the international New 7 Wonders of Nature campaign, which will conclude on Friday 11.11.11 at 11:11 Zurich time (13:11 Israel time), the contest organizers announced on ...

Other Israel Film Festival: 'Torn' and '77 Steps'
Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:19:50 -0800

By Dvora Meyers November 8, 2011 new york (JTA) -- The premise of Torn, a documentary premiering in the US this week at The Other Israel Film Festival in New York, sounds a bit like the classic rabbi and priest walk into a bar joke. ...

' Israel can live with Iranian nuclear bomb'
Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:21:50 -0800

Israel can live with an Iranian nuclear bomb, head of the Israeli Space Agency Professor Yitzhak Ben Yisrael said on Wednesday in an interview with Globes. Speaking a day after the release of an IAEA report detailing Iran's efforts at weapons ...

Bezeq Group Reports Third Quarter 2011 Financial Results
Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:56:25 -0800

Bezeq - The Israel Telecommunication Corp., Ltd. (tase:BEZQ), Israel's leading telecommunications provider, announced today its financial results for the third quarter of 2011, ended September 30, 2011. Details regarding the investor conference call ...

LIVE BLOG: The GA conference as it happens
Sun, 06 Nov 2011 09:54:41 -0800

12:10 AM: Firestone: There is a need for a new inclusive curriculum for talking about Israel . Beinart: There should be no program for the American Jewish community without Palestinian voices. 12:03 AM: Moving comment from student about how she feels ...

Gilad Shalit and the Rising Price of an Israeli Life
Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:01:10 -0800

By ronen bergman on the afternoon of June 27, 1976, Palestinian and German terrorists hijacked an Air France flight originating from Israel and directed it eventually to Entebbe Airport in Uganda, where most of the non-Israelis on board were ...

Shekel Drops to Month Low as Italy Risk Increases Safety Demand
Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:11:40 -0800

9 (Bloomberg) -- Israel's shekel weakened to the lowest level in almost a month as investors sought the relative safety of the dollar amid concern about Italy's ability to pay its debt after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi offered to quit. ...

Israel Denies Hackers Knocked Government Sites Offline
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:26:11 -0800

By ravi somaiya and robert mackey a video released on Friday in the name of the online activists who call themselves Anonymous threatened to attack Israeli Web sites in retaliation for the blockade of Gaza. Several Israeli government Web sites, ...