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Israel seizes deputy Palestinian PM - Breaking News - World - Breaking News Israel seized Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Naser al-Shaer, a top official of the Hamas militant group, at his home in the occupied West Bank. Israel has more than two dozen Hamas lawmakers and several other cabinet ministers in custody since late June, after it launched an offensive in response to the kidnapping of a soldier in a cross-border raid from the Gaza Strip. Israel seized dozens of Hamas cabinet ministers and lawmakers after militants abducted Corporal Gilad Shalit on June 25. www.theage.com.au /news/World/Israel-seizes-deputy-Palestinian-PM/2006/08/19/1155408049521.html   (489 words)

Israel (05/06) Israel and the PLO subsequently signed the Gaza-Jericho Agreement on May 4, 1994, and the Agreement on Preparatory Transfer of Powers and Responsibilities on August 29, 1994, which began the process of transferring authority from Israel to the Palestinians. Israel’s tech market is very developed, and in spite of the pause in the industry’s growth, the high-tech sector is likely to be the major driver of the Israeli economy. Israel has diplomatic relations with nine non-Arab Muslim states and with 32 of the 43 Sub-Saharan states that are not members of the Arab League. www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3581.htm   (5923 words)

Ahmed Yassin Israel Terrorism Yasin was the leader and mentor of Hamas in the territories, and the authorizing and initiating authority for all Hamas terrorist attacks emanating from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Yassin, was arrested twice by Israel: While under arrest by the ISA in 1984, Yassin stated during interrogation that he founded an organization of religious activists, an organization with the goal of fighting non-religious factions in the territories, and carrying out "Jihad" operations against Israel. Israel, which blamed him for inspiring Hamas bombers and attackers who killed hundreds of Israelis, tried unsuccessfully to kill him in September by dropping a 550-pound bomb on a building where he was meeting with top Hamas leaders. www.israelnewsagency.com /israelahmedyassinterrorism120320.html   (2914 words)

Deputy Leader of Israel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) There are currently two Deputy leadership positions in the State of Israel. The post of Deputy Prime Minister is held by Likud Deputy Leader Ehud Olmert. Following Ariel Sharon's bringing the Israeli Labour Party into his coalition government however, the Knesset approved a second Deputy position, Vice Premier (Prime Minister and Premier in Israel refer to the same title), allowing the two parties to smoothly form the new government. deputy-leader-of-israel.area51.ipupdater.com   (100 words)

Eshkol, Levi (1895-1969) Eshkol had a deep interest in the defense of Erez Israel, was a member of the Jewish Legion from 1918 to 1920, and in 1921 was elected to the defense committee of the Histadrut. After serving as deputy minister of defense during the War of Independence, he was elected to the Knesset (parliament) in 1951, and in 1952 became minister of finance. During his ministry Israel's gross national product increased 10% annually, and he was largely responsible for the development of the crucial National Water Carrier. www.jafi.org.il /education/100/people/bios/eshkol.html   (418 words)

CNN.com - Israel threatens Hamas leader - Jan. 16, 2004 Israel is targeting and might kill Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin, Israel's deputy defense minister said Friday. Israel has assassinated a number of Hamas commanders -- but killing the Islamic movement's spritual leader, respected even by many Palestinians who do not support Hamas, would be a dramatic escalation and likely provoke revenge bombings. Israel insisted it forced a drop in attacks by arresting as many as 30 potential suicide bombers. www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/01/16/israel.yassin.ap   (1038 words)

Israel chapter, from Tracking Nuclear Proliferation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Israel is not a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has not acknowledged that it has nuclear weapons, but generally is regarded as a de facto nuclear-weapon state. Israel’s response, according to Israeli sources, was embodied in Foreign Minister Shimon Peres’ exchange with Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Mussa: Peres indicated that Israel would agree to a nuclear-weapon-free zone (NWFZ) in the Middle East two years after the conclusion of a comprehensive peace accord among all states in the region, including Iran. Reportedly, Israel has three platforms: the Popeye 1, with a range of 100 km carrying a payload of 360 kg; the Delilah, with a 400-km range and a 450-kg payload; and the Popeye 3, with a 350-km range and a 360-kg payload. www.ceip.org /Programs/npp/Israel.htm   (3830 words)

israelinsider: security: Hezbollah leader vows to begin launching missiles deeper into Israel Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah appeared in a taped speech on the group's Al-Manar TV, deriding U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's diplomatic push to end the crisis and saying the U.S. and Israel sought to impose a "new Middle East" without resistance to Israel. He said Israel had been planning to attack his forces in southern Lebanon by October but were forced to move early by the capture. Despite Israel's and Hezbollah's claims over the number of guerrillas killed, it was not possible to independently determine the number or sometimes to distinguish between civilians and fighters. web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Security/8948.htm   (1030 words)

Worldandnation: Israel widens its foothold in Lebanon A bomb dropped by an Israel warplane scored a direct hit on the post in the town of Khiyam, near the eastern sector of the border, said Milos Struger, spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon known as UNIFIL. Israel and the United States say their ultimate aim is to fundamentally reshape Lebanon to end Hezbollah's presence by the border, strengthen democracy in the country and ensure lasting peace with Israel. Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz said Israel would maintain a security zone in the south until either a multinational force "with enforcement capability" is deployed on the border or Hezbollah is pushed back in a cease-fire agreement that also cuts off the supply of its weapons. www.sptimes.com /2006/07/26/Worldandnation/Israel_widens_its_foo.shtml   (1065 words)

AP Wire | 10/20/2006 | Iranian leader threatens Israel's allies The exchange was among the harshest from either leader, and reflected tension ahead of the planned circulation next week of a U.N. draft resolution on Iran's nuclear program. Ahmadinejad, speaking to a crowd of hundreds of thousands in Tehran, threatened any country that supports Israel, and said the U.S. and its allies had "imposed a group of terrorists" on the region by their support of the Jewish state. Israel also accused the Iranian government of paying $50 million to Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal to block a deal that would have freed an Israeli soldier captured by Hamas-linked militants in June. www.thestate.com /mld/thestate/news/world/15805083.htm   (861 words)

[No title] Israel has no constitution; it is governed under the 1948 Declaration of Establishment as well as parliamentary and citizenship laws. The state of Israel is the culmination of nearly a century of activity in Zionism. Israel eventually yielded to strong pressure from the United States, the USSR, and the United Nations and removed its troops from Sinai in Nov., 1956, and from Gaza by Mar., 1957, as UN forces were sent to the Sinai and Gaza to keep peace between Egypt and Israel. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/world/countries/israel.html?nav=el   (3560 words)

Deputy leaders of Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The post of Vice Prime Minister (Hebrew: מ"מ ראש הממשלה) was held by Kadima Deputy Leader Ehud Olmert prior to the formal removal of Ariel Sharon due to incapacity. In the 30th Government of Israel, the post of Deputy Prime Minister (Hebrew: סגן ראש הממשלה) was held by Justice Minister Tommy Lapid, then by Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom. On October 30, 2006, Avigdor Liberman (Israel Beytenu Party leader) was appointed to the position, and as Minister of Strategic Affairs. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deputy_Leader_of_Israel   (430 words)

Worldandnation: Israel seizes Palestinian deputy prime minister RAMALLAH, West Bank - Israeli soldiers burst into the home of the Palestinian deputy prime minister before dawn Saturday and took him away for questioning, detaining the highest-ranking Hamas official in a seven-week-old crackdown against the ruling Islamic militant group. Palestinian officials condemned the arrest of Nasser Shaer, 45, a former university professor known as a pragmatist in Hamas, and accused Israel of undermining their efforts to form a broad government coalition. Israel launched its latest crackdown against Hamas, which controls the Palestinian legislature and Cabinet, shortly after Hamas-allied militants from the Gaza Strip captured an Israeli soldier in a cross-border raid June 25. www.sptimes.com /2006/08/21/Worldandnation/Israel_seizes_Palesti.shtml   (181 words)

Arutz Sheva - Israel National News The PA deputy prime minister, a senior Hamas terrorist, was extracted from his Ramallah home in a joint IDF-Shabak (GSS) operation. In the 1980s, IDF sources said, Shaer was active in the Muslim Brotherhood and quickly became a leader in the Hamas student organization. Israel began to arrest Hamas leaders in the PA government following the June 24 kidnapping of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit by Hamas terrorists. www.israelnationalnews.com /news.php3?id=110375   (596 words)

Israel Releases Palestinian Deputy PM, Israel Releases Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister of Hamas After Month in Jail ... Israel and the West, labeling the violent Islamic movement a terror group, have cut off funding to the Palestinian government, plunging the Palestinian areas into a deep financial crisis. Though Israel said they were suspected of involvement in terrorism, it was widely assumed they were meant to be traded for the soldier, Cpl. Gilad Shalit. Meanwhile, Israel pushed on with its Gaza offensive, destroying the house of a weapons dealer in the southern town of Rafah, in an attack that killed a 14-year-old girl, Palestinian officials said. www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/09/27/ap/world/mainD8KDCD8G3.shtml   (929 words)

Israel may kill Arafat, deputy PM says | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited It also reinforced unusual questioning of the security strategy of the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, from within the country's political establishment, amid a growing belief that his insistence on a military solution to the conflict is costing Israeli lives. At the weekend, Shimon Peres, the former prime minister and present leader of the opposition Labour party, broke a long silence on criticising the government's security policies by warning Mr Sharon that the decision to "remove" Mr Arafat by exiling him, or any other method, would help the militant Islamist movement Hamas. Mr Olmert told Israel radio that the cabinet's decision to remove Mr Arafat could be viewed in the same manner as Mr Sharon's pledge to wipe out the leadership of Hamas. www.guardian.co.uk /israel/Story/0,2763,1042090,00.html   (570 words)

israelinsider: diplomacy: Israeli court frees Palestinian deputy prime minister Palestinian deputy prime minister Nasser Shaer was released by an Israeli court on Wednesday. Israel rounded up the Hamas leaders after Gaza militants linked to the violent group captured an Israeli soldier in a June 25 cross border raid. Israel also launched a widescale offensive in Gaza on June 28 that has killed more than 200 people, most of them militants. web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Diplomacy/9527.htm   (945 words)

USATODAY.com - Israel's acting leader wins backing from party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) JERUSALEM — Ehud Olmert, Israel's acting leader since Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke Jan. 4, got the nod to Monday lead his party's ticket in upcoming elections. Olmert's decision to stand in as leader of the Kadima Party he co-founded with Sharon gives him a strong chance to become the next prime minister. His platform: consolidating Israel's hold on the city, which both Israel and the Palestinians claim as their capital. www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-01-16-israel-olmert_x.htm   (644 words)

Israel's Future Leader? (Benjamin Netanyahu) by Norman Solomon By the time he moved up to deputy foreign minister in 1988, he was a star on U.S. networks. When Ahmadinejad declared in late October that "Israel must be wiped off the map," he did a big favor to the most militaristic of Israel's major politicians -- Benjamin Netanyahu -- who demanded that Prime Minster Sharon take forceful action against Iran. Netanyahu was referring to Israel's air attack on the Osirak reactor in June 1981 to prevent Iraq from developing nuclear weapons. www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Israel/Benjamin_Netanyahu.html   (954 words)

Israel seizes deputy Palestinian PM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Israel's aims to undermine the Palestinian political system and to put obstacles before the government and the people... Israel has more than two dozen Hamas lawmakers and several other cabinet ministers in custody since late June, after it launched an offensive in response to the kidnapping of a soldier in a cross-border raid from the Gaza Strip. Israel seized dozens of Hamas cabinet ministers and lawmakers after militants abducted Corporal Gilad Shalit on June 25. www.topix.net /content/reuters/2721027029142834059737717472620622265180   (737 words)

Send Hamas leaders 'to paradise': Israeli deputy PM Leaders of the Hamas militant movement should be assassinated and moderate Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is "irrelevant," Israel's deputy prime minister said Saturday. He also called for Israel to ignore international pressure efforts to resume peace negotiations with the Palestinians, and said his country should abandon earlier agreements under the Oslo accords and the "road map" to peace promoted by U.S. President George Bush. Lieberman was born in the former Soviet republic of Moldova and is popular among members of Israel's increasingly influential Russian Jewish community. www.cbc.ca /world/story/2006/11/18/israel-hamas.html?ref=rss   (1220 words)

Greater Israel -- What Does It Really Mean?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Sharansky, Israel's housing minister and deputy prime minister, is the former Soviet dissident and head of a right-wing Russian-immigrant party. His blind ambition aside, Sharansky has a responsibility to his compatriots and co-religionists in Israel because, as in the Balkans, the burden of history weighs heavily on the shoulders of the indigenous people of Palestine whose continuing misfortunes are unlikely to let them forget the architects of their plight. The homeland in the Land of Israel within the borders delineated in the Bible ("To your descendants, I shall give this land, from the River of Egypt to the great Euphrates River." Genesis 15:18) This is the land of the living, where the entire nation shall live in safety. www.alfredlilienthal.com /greaterisrael.htm   (10096 words)

Israel Resource Review -- 25th October, 2006 -- Newsletter about Israel,Palestinians,the Middle ... Ganor then pointed out the "third process, which I have to admit that many Israelis, including decision makers and security services in Israel underestimate, is the threat of global jihadists against Israel," posed by al-Qaeda and its affiliates. The activities of al-Qaeda and global jihadist movements are surrounding Israel, from Sinai, Amman, Jordan, some involvement in Lebanon, and ongoing and growing involvement in Gaza Strip. The Israel Resource Review is brought to you by the Israel Resource, a media firm based at the Bet Agron Press Center in Jerusalem, and the Gaza Media Center under the juristdiction of the Palestine Authority. israelbehindthenews.com /Archives/Oct-25-06.htm   (932 words)

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Shinui leader resigns in Israel Tommy Lapid has resigned as leader of Israel's Shinui Party, a day before members were poised to oust him. A Yugoslavia-born Holocaust survivor, the 73-year-old Mr Lapid emigrated to Israel in 1948. In 1999 Mr Lapid was elected leader of the Shinui, and he launched a fiery campaign against Israel's powerful religious parties. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/4647776.stm   (366 words)

Deputy Al-Qaida leader calls Abbas, Fatah 'secular traitors' - Haaretz - Israel News The deputy leader of Al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahri, on Saturday lashed out at Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah movement in a audio-taped holiday greeting addressed to the Palestinian people and Muslims in other countries. The deputy leader of Al-Qaida also accused moderate Arab leaders of being traitors for cooperating with the United States in the greeting marking the most important Islamic holiday. The No. 2 Al-Qaida leader denounced Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in an apparent reference to recent arrests and detentions of several members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. www.haaretz.com /hasen/spages/807416.html   (642 words)

USATODAY.com - Can Sharon's deputy champion Israel's middle?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) And yet, in Israel's political climate, that may not be enough. Olmert had served a combat infantry unit officer, and was a military correspondent for a journal of the Israel Defense Forces. Given that dispute, one of Olmert's first challenges may be declaring Israel's policy on those East Jerusalemites — people who get Israeli social services such as national health care but were given the right, under the Olso Peace Accords, to vote in Palestinian Authority elections. www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-01-08-israel-olmert_x.htm   (1311 words)

Israel frees Palestinian deputy PM: report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) An Israeli military court on Wednesday released the Palestinian deputy prime minister, who has been held for more than five weeks, said his lawyer. Military prosecutors have charged 21 of the detained lawmakers with belonging to a "terrorist group" and posing a security threat against Israel, said the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. There has been speculation that Israel and Hamas could agree to release some Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the Israeli soldier. www.cbc.ca /world/story/2006/09/27/israel-hamas.html?ref=rss   (1120 words)

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