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According to the Israel Meteorological Institute there is still a possibility of very light rain in central and southern Israel on Thursday but it will get significantly cooler. On Friday the weather will get fair and slightly warmer, but still cooler than average for this time of the year. On Saturday it will be [...]

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Day Four of the Gaza War, and we’re heading into Day 5 with some mixed feelings and a lot of questions.
The shine of the first two days’ heavy aerial bombardment of Gaza is rapidly wearing off with targets running out and Hamas resurgent. The IAF is still attacking rocket crews and tunnels, but increasingly [...]

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UPDATE: Netanyahu joins Israel’s PR war effort, appearing on FOX News.
Just heard that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met today with opposition leader Likud MK Binyamin Netanyahu and updated him on the security situation, as is required by law. The Prime Minister’s Office also reports that Olmert asked Netanyahu to step up and help in [...]

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David Bouskila had a long and busy Friday night. The workload and
consultations started again very early on Saturday morning. So at about
11:30 a.m., when he finally found a few minutes to rest, he walked into his
bedroom and let his hefty body slump onto the mattress.
The second his head hit the pillow, IAF bombs hit their [...]

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Seems everyone is jumping on the ‘I got a crush on Obama’ video.

After a relatively unknown member of Knesset, Sagiv Asulin of the Likud got a pretty fan to do a spoof of the original Obama video. This one’s actually pretty good.

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UPDATE: So I was off by one day; I predicted Sunday but the IAF went in Saturday.
According to defense sources, the Israeli cabinet has given the IDF a green light to attack Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip following the end of the ceasefire last week. On Wednesday, Hamas and other Palestinian groups fired [...]

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“The road was very narrow, but for some reason our driver decided to overtake [the other bus]. People were cut to pieces,” Natalia Gavrilova, a Russian tourist who survived Tuesday’s horrible bus crash near Eilat, said from her hospital bed.
Three factors influence any driving situation: the road, the car and the driver. Newer roads and [...]

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