Israel begins renovation near holy site
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With dozens of policemen looking on, an Israeli bulldozer began work Tuesday on an archaeological excavation next to the Holy Land's most explosive religious site, drawing Palestinian protests and condemnations from the Arab world.
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Germany's largest synagogue, featuring golden mosaic tiles and a star-spangled blue dome, reopened Friday after more than a year of renovations to restore its beauty following decades of neglect.
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The gesture marks a major step in Lebanon's effort to rebuild infrastructure and homes damaged in the 34-day war.
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Israel plans to rezone land within existing settlements to allow for the construction of another 533 housing units, most of them close to Jerusalem, Israeli officials said today.
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Jewish leaders are to join Polish dignitaries for the start of work on a museum in the former Warsaw Ghetto.
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Israeli bulldozers start clearing the ground for the southern section of the West Bank barrier.
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The ritual baths that Jewish women take to fulfill purity requirements are getting a makeover
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Israel says it will move a planned stretch of its controversial barrier in the West Bank closer to Israel.
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An archaeological excavation at Jerusalem's holiest site is provoking dangerous protests
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Israel is to re-route part of the West Bank barrier, bringing it closer to Israel's 1967 border with Palestinian territories.
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Israel resumed building one of the  most controversial parts of its West Bank barrier, deep in  occupied land, in a move Palestinians said Monday clouded new  President Mahmoud Abbas's efforts to revive peacemaking.
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JERUSALEM -- An Israeli archeologist said the site of a dig outside a disputed holy compound in Jerusalem might contain a Muslim prayer room, and the work drew renewed condemnation yesterday.
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A makeover of Sadr City reflects a broad effort by Iraqi leaders to focus on lucrative rebuilding efforts.
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Israel began work on the southern section of its controversial West Bank barrier near the city of Hebron on Sunday, five days after Palestinian suicide bombers from the city killed 16 Israelis.
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Israel will begin building another 533 housing units in the West Bank next year, an official said today, the latest indication that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is working to strengthen West Bank settlements while pushing ahead with a Gaza pullout plan.
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Israel has installed Internet cameras  near an archaeological excavation close to a Jerusalem shrine  that had sparked Muslim protests, in a bid to show the work  does not harm the holy site, officials said on Thursday.
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Bulldozers carried out preparatory clearing work on Sunday around the village of Beit Awwa near Hebron. The activity comes just five days after suicide bombings in the southern city of Beersheva, but officials