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			<title><![CDATA[Ultra-Orthodox protest military draft in Israel]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-16 13:21:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[JERUSALEM -- Thousands of young ultra-Orthodox men protested Thursday night against a government proposal to, for the first time, draft them into the military. 

More than 20,000 protesters gathered at an Israel Defense Forces recruiting office in an...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[2 killings shatter relative calm between Israelis, Palestinians]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-30 08:43:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[JERUSALEM -- Tensions rose Tuesday between Israelis and Palestinians after two separate killings -- one by each side -- shattered what had been a period of relative calm in recent months. 

At a northern West Bank hitchhiking stop, an Israeli settler...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Israel's claim about Syria chemical weapons highlights 'red line']]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-23 17:51:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[JERUSALEM &mdash; Israel's accusation that Syria used chemical weapons against rebels raises the prospect that Damascus crossed what President Obama has termed a "red line," but appears unlikely to overcome deep resistance of the U.S. and its allies to...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Israel accuses Syria of using chemical weapons against rebels]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-23 08:21:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[JERUSALEM &ndash; Israel on Tuesday accused Syrian President Bashar Assad&rsquo;s regime of using chemical weapons against rebels, heightening pressure on the international community to react and exposing a potential new rift with the United States over...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Israel sees no criminal liability in Gaza family bombing]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-14 11:04:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[JERUSALEM - An Israeli investigation into the worst civilian tragedy of last November&rsquo;s Gaza Strip offensive &ndash; an attack that killed 10 members of a single family and two neighbors &ndash; concluded that soldiers bombed the home by mistake and...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Gaza cease-fire unraveling amid renewed air attacks]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-02 21:14:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[JERUSALEM -- A 4-month-old cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip appeared to be collapsing early Wednesday after militants fired projectiles into southern Israel and the Israel Defense Forces responded with airstrikes against two...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Balancing needs of women, ultra-Orthodox men in Israel's military]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-29 18:40:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[TEL AVIV &mdash; Israel's highest-ranking female soldier says efforts to draft male ultra-Orthodox students into the Israel Defense Forces should not come at the expense of women's advancement in the army. 

Last year, the nation's Supreme Court...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Australia investigating mysterious 2010 death in Israeli prison]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-02-13 09:51:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[JERUSALEM -- Government officials in Australia vowed Wednesday to investigate the secret detention and mysterious death of a Jewish Australian immigrant who was found hanged to death in a high-security Israeli prison cell in 2010. 

Australian Foreign...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lollapalooza's expansion to Israel is on hold]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-01-21 15:24:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Lollapalooza, the former touring festival that re-established itself as a destination event after landing in Chicago in 2005, has been aggressive in recent years in expanding its brand internationally. Lollapalooza has already ventured into South...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Israel moves forward with controversial West Bank development]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-12-05 07:24:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[JERUSALEM &ndash; Israel took another step Wednesday toward developing a highly sensitive plot of West Bank land, submitting construction plans for nearly 3,400 units of new Jewish housing on the outskirts of Jerusalem. 

The project, known as E-1, has...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak to quit politics]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-11-26 04:37:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[JERUSALEM - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, one of the nation&rsquo;s most influential and divisive leaders, said Monday he would not run for a Knesset seat in the upcoming election, ending a political and military career that spanned more than three...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Four dead in Gaza Strip fighting]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-11-10 12:03:51</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[JERUSALEM - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, one of the nation&rsquo;s most influential and divisive leaders, said Monday he would not run for a Knesset seat in the upcoming election, ending a political and military career that spanned more than three...]]></description>
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