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United Nations assembly
Malaysia seeks emergency UN session on Gaza flotilla deaths

Diplomatic sources say effort stems from a desire to embarrass Israel in response to what Arab states consider a lax UN response to the raid.

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Benjamin Netanyahu
PM seeks to avoid Likud showdown over settlement freeze

Officials argue PM fears embarrassment by right-wing groups who initiated freeze debate just before a U.S. visit.

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Tehran woman Khamenei
Zvi Bar'el / Ahmadinejad vs. Iran's morality police

The Iranian president has spurned his base in a bid to placate the reformists, but critics ask why he is even worried about the 'lost' movement.

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When we die as martyrs children's song
New hit song for Palestinian children: When we die as martyrs

'Birds of Paradise' produces song in which children welcome death to regain Palestine.

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Diplomacy & Defense

Ofek 7 Israeli spy satellite

Israel launches new Ofek 9 military spy satellite

Ofek 9, equipped with a high resolution camera, to join two previously launched active Israeli satellites.

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Lebanon to UN: Israel will suffer consequences if our ships are attacked

Israel warns it would use 'any means necessary' to stop Lebanon Gaza-bound flotilla from breaking blockade.

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IDF Chief: We can't let Gaza become an Iranian port

Iran announces sending aid ship to Gaza; Israel: Ships sent by Iran's ayatollahs have nothing to do with humanitarian aid.

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Lieberman: Kadima can join gov't only if they support populated land swap

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman says coalition will not compromise on plan to exchange populated territories with Palestinians, rather than giving up land for peace.

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Blogs

Yitzhak Rabin

A Special Place in Hell / Wanted: Two mad martyrs, to make a Mideast peace

The peace process takes no prisoners. No one makes peace and lives.

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Strenger than Fiction / Israel should consider a one-state solution

Israel would do well to become a truly liberal, secular state without ethnic dominance in which subgroups no longer impose their way of life on each other.

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A Special Place in Hell / What I wanted for Father's Day, and what I got

A glimpse of a future in which the bedrock denominators of humanity, our hopes for loved ones, apply regardless of blood, faith and history.

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MESS Report / Easing of Gaza blockade marks victory for flotilla activists

Enforcement of the siege has all but ended - part of the price Israel is paying to restore its international reputation after its disastrous flotilla raid.

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National

Micha Lindenstrauss

Anti-graft adviser attacks comptroller for 'culture of lying'

The state comptroller has become much less aggressive in tackling severe corruption, says the police investigator who was a top adviser in the war on corruption.

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Woman hurt as train collides with vehicle in central Israel

Train reportedly cut through parked van, approximately 800 meters south of Beit Yehoshua station.

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Court overturns prison sentences for mothers in school segregation row

Twenty-two ultra-Orthodox mothers of girls at school in settlement of Immanuel either exempted from prison or allowed to delay sentences until jailed husbands returned home.

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Business

Arad oil drill

Taking Stock / Drilling for answers

The people have questions about the gas finds. Your faithful author tries to answer them.

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Electricity supply in danger as IEC delays launch of 3 plants

Israel's electricity consumption shoots up in the summer, as Israelis turn on the air conditioning.

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Danny Dankner and Shari Arison parting ways

Businessman announced his resignation as CEO of Arison Investments, to focus on his defense.

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International

U.S. President Barack Obama meets with General Stanley  McChrystal, Commander of U.S. Forces in Afgh

U.S. general in Afghanistan may lose job over Obama remarks

General Stanley McChrystal summoned to Washington over comments in Rolling Stone magazine that that ridicule Obama administration.

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Turkey vows to press forward with Iran nuclear fuel swap

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says Turkey and Brazil will continue to push for a deal with Iran to swap part of its nuclear material despite new UN sanctions.

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Culture

Joseph Zaritsky

The Zaritsky method

Yeshayahu Yariv's upcoming exhibition at the Gordon Gallery reflects a way of looking at art based on a quizzical statement Joseph Zaritsky made to him three decades ago.

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A coup d'etat on content

On the Internet, content is no longer king. Instead, web surfers rely on aggregators and the like to determine where to point their mice.

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Stage Animal / What will we tell our sons?

Decades after its short run, Hanoch Levin's 'Queen of the Bathtub' was staged in Tel Aviv.

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Sports

Park Chu-Young of South Korea soccer

S. Korea advances on draw, as Argentina dashes Greek hopes

The only other time South Korea got beyond the group stage was when the team surged to the semifinals in 2002 on home soil as tournament co-host with Japan.

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Mundial Musings / Capello's English honeymoon is over

The man who recently held the keys to avoiding England's miserable fate in previous World Cups is now just a foreign scoundrel.

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Wimbledon / Youzhny rebuffs Dudi Sela's valiant comeback bid

Two-time French Open finalist Robin Soderling breezed into the second round with a rapid 6-2 6-2 6-3 demolition of American Robby Ginepri.

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