Israelis force down Lufthansa jet
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Israeli jets force a flight to Tel Aviv to land in Cyprus after a bomb alert  German officials did not consider serious.
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Israeli fighter jets forced a passenger plane bound for Tel Aviv to land in Cyprus yesterday in the sixth such bomb scare to hit flights over Europe in the past week.
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Israel began on Thursday to lift a   blockade of Lebanon imposed when it went to war with Hizbollah   guerrillas eight weeks ago and a Lebanese airliner landed at   Beirut's patched-up airport to mark the moment.
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A Lufthansa flight en route to Israel landed at Larnaca airport in Cyprus after receiving a bomb alert that subsequent investigations said were not serious.
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Israel shuts down a Palestinian pirate radio station that had been disrupting airport communications.
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Israel killed two Hamas militants in an air strike on the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, medical workers said, as the Jewish state kept up pressure on the Islamist group to end cross-border rocket attacks.
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Israeli warplanes violated Lebanese air space Monday, 24 hours after Hezbollah said it flew its first reconnaissance plane over northern Israel.
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Israeli police say they have broken up a gang of neo-Nazis who attacked foreigners, gay people and religious Jews.
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Israel's national airline is to stop flying to Turkey and Cyprus from the beginning of March.
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Israel's labor unions ended a paralyzing two-day general strike on Wednesday that grounded international air traffic, shut financial markets and halted public services in a dispute over unpaid wages.
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The militant Hezbollah organization Monday released footage of a reconnaissance drone it had sent into Israeli airspace a day earlier, a flight which the United Nations said violated the UN-drawn border between Lebanon and Israel.
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Israel intensified its attacks against Lebanon on Thursday, blasting Beirut&#039;s airport and two Lebanese army air bases near the Syrian border, and imposing a naval blockade. More than 50 people have died in violence following the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah militants.
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An Israeli El Al flight carrying 450 passengers briefly went into a dive over London earlier this year, plunging 2,800 feet after a glitch in its electronic landing system, authorities disclosed Wednesday.
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The penetration of an unmanned spy plane into northern Israel on Sunday has seriously worried the IDF command, which is bracing for a flare-up on the border as disengagement approaches.
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American tourist Michael Frantel had decided it was time to leave less than 24 hours after starting his vacation in Lebanon. But as he stood at the check-in desk at Beirut&#039;s airport, Israeli airstrikes smashed the runways outside.
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The Israeli Air Force scrambled several jets last week, fearing possible attacks from Palestinians upset by Yasser Arafat&#39;s condition.
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The flight over Israel of an unmanned Hezbollah spy plane has deeply embarrassed the Jewish Air Force, which has prided itself for decades on having total control of the region&#39;s skies.