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Chernobyl Children to Arrive in Israel

JERUSALEM -- Early Thursday, a plane carrying 25 children from the Chernobyl area will touch down in Israel, where the children will begin their new lives. The airlift comes the same week as the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the worst nuclear disaster in modern history. The children, between the age of 6 and...

No More Sour Grapes: Israeli Wine Comes of Age

JERUSALEM -- During the traditional Seder meal, which marks the Passover holiday, Jews all over the world drink four cups of wine as they retell the story of the exodus from Egypt. In the U.S. -- and, of course, Jerusalem -- much of this wine will be kosher and from Israel. For many years, kosher wine from Israel was more...

Israel's Foreign Minister Told He Will Be Indicted for Fraud

JERUSALEM -- The Israeli attorney general today told Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman that, pending a hearing, he will be indicted for fraud, money laundering and witness-tampering, a move that could eventually bring the collapse of the government. Lieberman faces up to 10 years in jail if convicted. The draft...

Did Journalist Find 'THE Nails' Used to Crucify Jesus?

JERUSALEM -- Controversial journalist Simcha Jacobovici says he may have found the nails that were used to crucify Jesus more than 2,000 years ago. He chronicled his Indiana Jones-type search in a new documentary called "The Nails of the Cross," which was screened today at a news conference in Jerusalem and will be...

Hamas, Israel Negotiating Cease-Fire [VIDEO]

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05/28/12 KC man missing in Israel Source: NBC - Action News KHSB - Kansas City MO Every tourist location in Israel is being checked in hopes of finding 80 year old Herman Kuehn.
05/28/12 You Can't Hide the Sun: A Journey through Israel and... Source: Telegraph - London - UK What McCarthy does best is to weave the subsequent history around the interviews he conducts.
05/28/12 Opinion: A night that put Israel to shame Source: CNN.com Frida Ghitis is a world affairs columnist for The Miami Herald and World Politics Review.
05/28/12 Flame malware discovered attacking Middle Eastern... Source: Neowin.net Middle Eastern countries could be feeling the effects of malware attacks via a newly discovered program called Flame.
05/28/12 Attempts to revive language spoken in Jesus' time Source: The Alva Review-Courier - Alva OK JISH, Israel (AP) Two villages in the Holy Land's tiny Christian community are teaching Aramaic in an ambitious effort to revive the language that Jesus spoke, centuries after it all but disappeared from the Middle East. The new focus on the region's dominant language 2,000 years ago comes with a little help from modern technology: an Aramaic-speaking television channel from Sweden, of all places, where a vibrant immigrant community has kept the ancient tongue alive.

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