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JERUSALEM—As Israel's new government reviews its foreign policy options, Benjamin Netanyahu is coming under increasing pressure from Israel's main ally and biggest trading partner to stay on course for a two-state solution with the Palestinians. More ... Israel is "coping relatively well" with the current economic crisis, the Bank of Israel governor said. Stanley Fisher presented the Bank of Israel's Annual Report for 2008 to President Shimon Peres. "The report shows that we are coping relatively well with the economic crisis," Fisher told Peres. More ... Saudi Arabia awarded a top medical prize to an American Jewish oncologist. Ronald Levy, who heads the oncology division at the Stanford University Medical School, won the 2009 King Faisal International Prize for medicine. "Professor Levy has been recognized for his pioneering studies in Cancer Immunotherapy," says the prize's Web site. More ... Mahmoud Abbas said he would not recognize Israel as a Jewish state. "A Jewish state, what is that supposed to mean?" the Palestinian Authority president asked in a speech in Ramallah. "You can call yourselves as you like, but I don't accept it and I say so publicly. More ... Israel's population rose to 7,411,000. The population rose from 7,282,000 last Independence Day, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported. Israel's population stood at 806,000 at its founding. Israel's Jewish population stands at 5,593,000, or 75.5 percent of the population, and the Arab population is at 1,498,000, or 20.2 percent of the population. More ... Ehud Barak and Avigdor Lieberman have publicly split over Israeli peace negotiations with Syria. Lieberman, Israel's foreign minister, said on Israel Radio that he would be willing to negotiate with Syria as long as there are no preconditions. More ... The swine flu will not take any new names in Israel despite the unease of a health official from a fervently religious party. Deputy health minister Yakov Litzman, a member of United Torah Judaism, said that the name "swine flu" should not be used as it contains the name of the unkosher animal. More ... Turkey and Syria began a joint military exercise that Israel's defense minister called "disturbing." During the threeday drill, the Syrian and Turkish armies crossed the countries' shared border for exercises. "Today we see a Syrian-Turkish drill, which is certainly a disturbing development," Ehud Barak said. More ... |
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