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Saudi Arabia Releases 'Zionist Spy' Bird of Prey

A bird suspected by some of being a spy for Israel's Mossad is being released by Saudi Arabia after officials learned the creature was merely part of a university research project. The bird, which was first identified as a vulture but is reportedly a bald eagle, was captured last week by a local hunter in a remote area of...

Haifa Fire: 5 Facts About the City Threatened by the Monster Blaze

(Dec. 3) -- The massive wildfire raging in northern Israel has already claimed the lives of 41 people, but for an international team of firefighters conscripted to fight the blaze, the objective is clear: protect Haifa. The fire, which is raging during the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah, threatens to engulf the country's...

Turkish 'James Bond' Takes On Israel and Mideast Strife

ISTANBUL (Nov. 21) -- A Turkish movie set to be released in January featuring a James Bond-like hero who avenges the attack on the Gaza flotilla is likely to further strain the rocky relations between Turkey and Israel, while dramatizing Turkey's increasing role as a "big brother" to the Muslim Middle East. "I didn't come...

Israeli Company Debuts Tilt-Rotor Drone

(Oct. 5) -- Israel, one of the world's leading makers of unmanned aircraft, unveiled today a new, small drone that can hover like a helicopter and fly like an airplane. Israel Aerospace Industries debuted its Panther unmanned aerial vehicle in Israel, touting its ability to take off without a runway and then fly for up to...

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak: Mosque-Burners Are 'Terrorists'

(Oct. 4) -- Play with fire and you're bound to get burned -- maybe even by your own countrymen. That's the lesson that arsonists -- allegedly disgruntled Jewish settlers -- learned today after torching a mosque and at least a dozen copies of the Koran in Beit Fajjar, a Muslim Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank....

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The Israelites (בני ישראל, Standard: ; Tiberian: ; ISO 259-3: ) were a Hebrew-speaking people of the Ancient Near East, who inhabited the Land of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic periods (15th to 6th centuries BCE), later evolving into Jews and Samaritans of the classic period, inhabiting Judea and Samaria respectively.

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