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Was Olmert bribed? Talansky testifies
JTAMay 29, 2008
JERUSALEM After weeks of legal limbo and widespread speculation about his role in Prime Minister Ehud Olmerts latest corruption scandal, American Jewish businessman...
Will Israel return Golan Heights? Olmert gives mixed messages
JTAMay 29, 2008
JERUSALEM The skepticism that greeted Ehud Olmerts announcement that Israel and Syria are renewing peace talks underscores the domestic challenges the prime...
Amidst Bush’s visit to Israel, rocket attacks
JTAMay 23, 2008
JERUSALEM Fifteen people were wounded, including four seriously, by a Grad-model Katyusha rocket that scored a direct hit on a shopping center in Ashkelon on May 14...
Iowa copes with fall out from raid
Ben Harris, JTAMay 23, 2008
WATERLOO, Iowa In a makeshift courthouse at a cattle exhibition center here, Angela Noemi Lastor-Gomez appeared before a federal magistrate judge on charges that she...
Massive raid of largest kosher slaughterhouse
Ben Harris, JTAMay 15, 2008
NEW YORK In laying the legal groundwork for a massive raid of the countrys largest kosher slaughterhouse, federal authorities cited claims that illegal narcotics...
From Berlin to London to Paris, Europe-Israel ties are warming
JTAMay 09, 2008
PRAGUE When Israel asked for European troops, including Germans, to patrol the Israel-Lebanon border area following Israel’s 2006 war with Hezbollah, it was a...
Celebration — and criticism too
JTAMay 09, 2008
PRAGUE As governments, Jewish communities and Israeli embassies across Europe prepare to celebrate Israels 60th birthday, a cadre of Israel critics is making a push...
