Israeli FM praises French fight against anti-Semitism
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Israeli Foreign Minister Sylvan Shalom said here Wednesday that he was confident French authorities are making every effort to fight against anti-Semitism.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called for more dramatic measures to be taken against Iran and declined to rule out a military attack against Tehran in an interview with Germany's Spiegel magazine.Comment
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France's Education Ministry is distributing DVDs with excerpts of the classic Holocaust film "Shoah" to its 5,500 lycees this week, in another step Paris is taking to fight growing anti-Semitism.
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France's foreign minister says he "understands" two Israeli soldiers kidnapped in Lebanon last year are alive.
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France's foreign minister hailed Tuesday's resumed deployment of a much-awaited European Union peacekeeping force in Chad, where a rebellion had halted the troop movement.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (11/17/2004) - French media reported on Wednesday that Israelis assisted the Ivory Coast army in its attacks on French military bases in the African nation in which nine French peacekeepers and one US aid worker were killed.
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Guasch-Vidal was part of a maiden delegation of 19 Bnei Anusim that arrived in Israel about 10 days ago to show solidarity with the country.
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Israel&#39;s Opposition Labour Party leader Shimon Peres has responded positively to an invitation by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to form a unity government.
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Israel's foreign minister denounces  anti-Semitism during a visit to a burnt-out Jewish community centre in Paris.
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The growing involvement of American Jewish groups in nascent pro-Israel lobbying efforts in France is fueling concerns of a possible backlash among some French Jewish leaders and Israeli officials.
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(InfoWorld) - The stars of the French blogging firmament attending a social media conference on the edge of Paris were outshone on Tuesday by Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who stopped by for a surprise visit. A last-minute addition to the program, Peres spoke in English for 45 minutes, touching on themes including economic development, philanthropy, transparency, and democracy, but hardly spoke about IT. Conference host and blogger LoÃ¯c Le Meur said that Peres invited himself to the event. The Israeli politician was apparently already in Paris, and had encountered Le Meur before, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Le Meur said. French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is also expected to pay a visit to the conference, Le Web 3, on Tuesday afternoon. On Monday morning, Le Meur said everyone at the event had invited themselves. Le Web 3 was promoted purely by word of mouth, he said, and he had not sent invitations to any of the 1,000 people who signed up for the conference, 55 percent of them from outside France. However, Le Meur changed tack on Monday afternoon, as he wrote later in his blog. Profiting from the prestige that Peres' visit brought to the conference, Le Meur invited three presidential candidates to attend: Sarkozy, of the ruling right-wing Union for a Popular Movement (UMP); SÃ©golÃ¨ne Royal of the Socialist Party, and FranÃ§ois Bayrou of the centrist Union for French Democracy (UDF). That Sarkozy was the first to reply and accept Le Meur's invitation is little surprise. Le Meur interviewed Sarkozy in a video for his blog last year, and then announced his intention to vote for Sarkozy in a Sept. 10 blog entry. Both blog postings were widely reported in the mainstream press at the time. It was Bayrou that turned up at the event first though, drawn as he put it by the potential audience of 60 million readers. The real reach of French blogs is harder to determine. Studies have reported that the country may have as many as 20 million bloggers. However, there are only 10 million Internet subscribers in France, according to government statistics. Only 1.2 million, or around 2 percent of the 62.5 million blogs tracked by search engine Technorati Inc. are French, the company's chief executive officer David Sifry said at the conference. That figure may be under-reported, Sifry said, as some of the major French blog hosters do not automatically transmit notice of updates to Technorati. Sifry spoke of the positive feedback mechanisms inherent in the blogging community: Technorati statistics show that the more often bloggers write, the more their blogs are linked to, and so the higher their profile becomes, encouraging them to write more. The company indexes blogs by their content and the tags, or keywords, that their authors attribute to them. On Tuesday morning, "leweb3" was the second most-popular search term on the site.
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Britain's higher education minister went to Israel Sunday to express his solidarity with the country's academics amid efforts by a British professors' union to shun Israeli colleagues in a protest against occupation of Palestinian territory.
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By looking after Yasser Arafat in his last days and sending his body home with full honours, France reinforced its image as a major Palestinian ally and attempted to position itself as a key player should the ...
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Israel praises the Palestinian Authority for deploying its forces to stop rocket attacks in Gaza.
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PARIS - In one of the worst recent anti-Semitic attacks in France, arsonists destroyed a Jewish center in Paris after daubing it with racist graffiti and swastikas, provoking condemnation by the entire political class Sunday and touching off a manhunt
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Jewish groups are applauding a move by the French government to revoke the license of a controversial Hizballah-run television station, just weeks after authorizing broadcasts through it satellite network.
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JERUSALEM - Israel will not interfere in the selection of an eventual successor to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who is currently undergoing medical tests in France for a mystery illness, Israeli President Moshe Katzav said in comments broadcast on