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Israeli Banks Eye Haredi Customers

Many, if not all, of Israel’s banks have exhausted their possibilities for local growth, analysts say. The future, they explain, lies to a large extent abroad and in expanded financial services.However, there appears to be potential in sectors where until a few years ago most banks weren’t active – especially the Ultra-Orthodox. In recent years, banks have learned that speaking ...

Israeli archaeologists discover rare 2,200-year-old gold coin

Archaeologists say they have uncovered the heaviest and most valuable gold coin ever found in Israel. The 2,200-year-old coin weighs an ounce (28 grams) and was found at the Tel Kedesh site near the Lebanon border on June 22, according to Wednesday’s statement from the antiquities authority. It said this coin is six times the weight of most others from ...

Israeli Arabs ‘inspired by global jihad’ charged with taxi driver murder

Israel Police said Monday that three Israeli Arabs inspired by global jihad have been indicted for the 2009 murder of a taxi driver from Nazareth. The announcement came after a gag order on details of the case was lifted.Read More: @ haaretz.comYou might also like:Netanyahu: Hamas responsible for rockets on Eilat; we will retaliateMontreal Court: Stop displaying religious objects in cabCyclist, ...

Israel’s recycled politicians

While Arab nations rise up to demand change, Israel seems inexplicably content with recycling the same disproven group of incompetent politicians.Unfortunately, the news didn’t overly shock me: Amir Peretz recently announced his intent to run for the Labor party premiership after the departure of Ehud Barak. The same man who proved himself an absolute failure as our defense minister during the Second ...

‘Israel won’t be our focus’

Some key Muslim states attending US President Barack Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit inWashington, which began Monday, do not intend to focus on Israel’s alleged nuclearcapabilities at the conference, despite Israeli concerns to the contrary.Read More: @ jpost.comTags: Israel, Israel focus, Israelis

Israel-US Jewish Knesset caucus inaugurated

In an effort to heighten both the knowledge and sensitivity of Israel’s members of Knesset about the American Jewish community, a new Israel-American Jewish Knesset Caucus was inaugurated on Wednesday.Focused on deepening the understanding and relevance of the relationship with the American Jewish community, the Caucus will raise awareness among MKs, Knesset committees and lobbies concerning agendas and priorities of ...

Israel, U.S. Jewish groups on alert fearing reprisal over bin Laden killing

World leaders warned of revenge attacks after Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. assault in Pakistan on Monday that brought to a dramatic end the long manhunt for the al Qaeda leader who had become the most powerful symbol of Islamist militancy.President Barack Obama declared the world was a safer and “better place” with bin Laden dead. But ...

Israel treasury suspends yeshiva inspections over ultra-Orthodox protests

The Finance Ministry suspended all inspection of state-funded yeshivas five months ago at the instruction of its auditor general.The inspection was halted following vehement protests by ultra-Orthodox ministers and Knesset members over an incident in which inspectors interrupted a lesson in a yeshiva in June, and has not been resumed since.The Finance Ministry confirmed no inspection was being conducted on ...

Israel transfers hundreds of Gaza flotilla activists to airport for deportation

Israel has begun deporting the first batch of foreign activists seized aboard a six-ship humanitarian aid flotilla seized in an Israel Navy raid en route to the Gaza Strip, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday, indicating that the rest of the activists will be escorted out of the country throughout the day. 325 foreign activists were transferred on Wednesday morning from ...

Israel to host youth Physics Olympiad

It may not be the World Cup or the Winter Olympics, but Israel is slated to host the annual Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO) – a prestigious international physics competition for high school students from Asia and thw Oceania regions.The Olympiad, which will open on May 1, will host 18 delegations and a total of some 134 participants. Some of the ...

Israel to build 5,000 new hotel rooms?

Some 5,000 new hotel rooms will be built in Israel within five years as part of a new plan to expand existing hotels, the Israel Hotel Association (IHA) said Tuesday.According to the IHA, the plan’s implementation will add 410,000 tourists a year and 12,500 jobs, as well as a profit of NIS 28 billion (about $8 billion) to the gross ...

Israel to Apple: iPad Imports Not Kosher

The TimesOnline asked recently whether “Apple’s Jesus Tablet” wil be able to deliver “a miracle.” The miracle, in this case, being the savior of the written-word industry. We won’t know the answer to that question for some time – and maybe even longer when talking about the iPad’s impact in the land that was home to Jesus.Due to a dispute ...