Eurovision contest accepts Israeli song
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Eurovision Song Contest organizers said Wednesday they have approved this year's Israeli entry, despite earlier statements that it had an inappropriate message and might be banned.
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Sinful allies Israel has officially joined the online betting prohibitionist club, led by staunch ally the United States and the collaborationist French.â¦
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won a historic victory Tuesday when parliament voted to approve his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank &#151; the first time lawmakers have authorized the removal of Jewish settlements from lands the Palestinians claim for a state.
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'Push the Button' unlikely to top Iranian charts Israelis have "voted overwhelmingly" to send a song having a poke at Iran's nuclear ambitions to this year's Eurovision Song Contest, the BBC reports.â¦
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Israel&#39;s prime minister, Ariel Sharon, won another crucial, but not definitive, parliamentary vote on Wednesday as legislators approved a $900 million bill to compensate
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Israel&#39;s supreme court on Monday said that it could not stop Maccabi Tel Aviv&#39;s Champions League clash against Germany&#39;s Bayern Munich in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, the eve of the Jewish New Year holiday.
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the hope their pop idol would become the first Palestinian to win an Arab song contest. on Sunday as Ammar Hassan, 27, lost to a Libyan singer, Ayman al-A&#39;tar in the &quot;Super Star&quot; contest beamed from Lebanon.
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SALFIT, West Bank -- Worn down by four years of bloody conflict with Israel, Palestinians found a welcome diversion yesterday: Watching Ammar Hassan, one of their own, compete for the title of best singer in the Arab world.
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Israel&#39;s parliament backed compensation payments for Jewish settlers leaving the Gaza Strip in a vital vote Wednesday for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s plan to evacuate the occupied territory.
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JERUSALEM - Israel and the Palestinians yesterday agreed on how to hold next month&#39;s election to replace Yasser Arafat â-he latest evidence of progress toward peace in the post-Arafat era.
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Israel won their first Olympic gold  medal since the Jewish flag was raised at the Games 52 years  ago when windsurfer Gal Fridman sailed to victory on Wednesday.
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settlement, and the third after cornering him hours later in its greenhouse area. Israeli Army Radio carried live. Polls show most Israelis favour Sharon&#39;s drive to quit Gaza and part of the West Bank.
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Libyan singer Ayman al-Aathar wins the Middle East's pop contest, beating Palestinian Ammar Hassan.
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Israel&#39;s Cabinet approved compensation yesterday for settlers who will be uprooted by Ariel Sharon&#39;s program to withdraw from the Gaza Strip
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JERUSALEM : Israeli ministers approved a compensation package for settlers due to be uprooted from their homes as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon rejected calls to submit his Gaza pullout plan to a referendum.
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The Israeli national anthem sounded over an Olympic podium Wednesday for the first time in the Jewish state&#39;s 56-year history after a young man whose father named him for the sea took the gold medal in windsurfing.
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PETAH TIKA, Israel "Ladies and gentlemen," the voice over the portable speakers intoned, "please rise for the singing of 'Hatikva.' " About 75 people stood up from plank-board bleachers as Israel's national anthem filled the twilight. Only a few sang the Hebrew words, though, because only a few knew...