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The Likud Party chose hard-liners over more moderate candidates in a vote to elect the opposition party's Knesset list. Two of party leader Benjamin Netanyahu's favorites—moderates Benny Begin, a former Likud lawmaker, and Moshe Ya'alon, a former army chief—made the top 10 in the primary. More ... Israel's main goal is to achieve comprehensive peace in the Middle East, Shimon Peres told the country's Muslim and Druze leaders. More ... Israel's army believes that the southern city of Ashdod could soon be in the cross hairs of Gaza Strip terrorists. The Israel Defense Forces Home Front Command distributed pamphlets across the city, located just north of Ashkelon, a city that has been hit by Kassam and Katyusha rockets. More ... A rabbi, a priest and an imam prayed together for rain on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Rabbi Shlomo Didi of the Jordan Valley was joined by Ian Clark, priest of the Scottish Church, and Muhammad Dahamshe, the imam of Kfar Kana, Ha'aretz reported. Israel is suffering its fourth year of below-average rainfall. More ... A $10-million initiative urging Jews to immigrate to Israel's North was launched. Nefesh B'Nefesh, a nonprofit that provides incentives to Anglo-Jews to make aliyah, will work with the New Jersey-based Russell Berrie Foundation to help more than 1,000 Jews make the move over the next three years, the organizations announced. More ... KIBBUTZ SHFAIM, Israel—Asaf Negat, 29, made his way to Israel from Ethiopia as an 11-year-old boy, and worked hard to find his way in a new land and speaking a new lang uage. Eventually Negat graduated with a business degree from one of the country's top universities. More ... |
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