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JPOST

Police on Tuesday were reeling from an embarrassing break-in targeting a police facility in the North overnight Monday, in which a number of weapons were stolen in recent days by unidentified thieves.

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(IsraelNN.com) Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was reported by Turkish television as saying Israel accepted a resumption of mediated talks between the Jewish state and Syria. The office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu issued a diplomatic denial of the report but added that Israel is “considering” the offer, which has been made several times.

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JPOST

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and EU foreign relations chief Catherine Ashton will be allowed to visit Gaza from Israel during upcoming visits here, the Foreign Ministry announced Monday – an exception to the government’s undeclared but de facto policy of not enabling such visits.

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Even as the US formally announced Monday that both Israel and the Palestinian Authority had agreed to indirect talks, the focus of the talks Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will hold Tuesday with US Vice President Joe Biden is expected to be the Iranian nuclear threat.

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YNET NEWS

WASHINGTON – Three of the world's largest oil suppliers have clandestinely cut their ties with Iran, the Financial Times reported Monday.

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(IsraelNN.com) Following an attack on Google by Chinese hackers last December, the tech giant alarmed Internet privacy watchdogs by reportedly seeking help from America’s shadowy National Security Agency. The close and undefined connection between Google and the NSA, better known for tapping phones than patching security holes for private companies, has raised the ire of Internet privacy activists.

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• The Iranians learned a great deal from the destruction of Iraq's Osirak reactor by the Israel Air Force in 1981. The Osirak reactor was the key element in the Iraqi nuclear program: a single target which, when it was destroyed, set that program back very substantially. The Iranians saw this and they dispersed their nuclear program. Much of it is deep underground. There is no single target which, if destroyed, would substantially set back the Iranian nuclear program

• When I came to Washington as Israel's ambassador in 1982, the atmosphere was one of hostility and there was talk of imposing sanctions against Israel as a reaction to its unilateral action against the Osirak reactor. Yet after a few years the view in Washington changed completely. It is difficult to envision the Americans undertaking Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf in 1991 if the Iraqi nuclear program had continued beyond 1981 and had not been so seriously set back by the Israeli action.

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(CNSNews.com) – Conflicting reports about the possible arrest of American al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Yahya Gadahn in Pakistan are focusing attention once again on the first person to be charged with treason against the United States in more than half a century.

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SJP leader Husam Zakharia

(IsraelNN.com) University of California at Berkeley was again the site of a clash involving pro-Israel and anti-Israel activists last Friday when Husam Zakharia, leader of the Students for Justice in Palestine, assaulted Jessica Felber of the pro-Israel Tikvah group with a shopping cart.

The incident occurred during competing events from the SJP-run “Israel Apartheid Week” and “Israel Peace and Diversity Week” organized by Tikvah. Felber was holding a sign that read “Israel Wants Peace” when Zakharia intentionally slammed her from behind with a shopping cart filled with toys donated for the welfare of Arab children in the Hamas-controlled Gaza region.

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WORLD TRIBUNE

LONDON — Iran is said to have been constructing a new rocket launch facility that could later accommodate an intercontinental ballistic missile carrying a nuclear warhead.

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