Deal defuses Israeli boycott threat
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Media & professional: Israel circumvents potential damage of academic boycott by allowing scientists to join in EU research.
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RESIDENTS of a small Jewish settlement said yesterday they have struck a deal to move together to a village inside Israel, the first community to agree to be moved, giving a boost to the government&#39;s contentious Gaza pullout plan.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel is trying to halt a weapons deal under which Russia agreed to supply advanced antiaircraft missiles to Syria, fearing the missiles could fall into the hands of Lebanese guerrillas, Israeli officials said yesterday.
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel reached a deal with Shimon Peres yesterday to name the opposition leader his senior deputy, clearing a key obstacle to a unity government able to abandon the occupied Gaza Strip.
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Egypt and Israel signed an agreement on Tuesday that will boost employment and might act as an impetus for other Arab countries to make peace with Israel.
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THE price that Meir Rotenstein has paid for breaking ranks with his neighbours and cheering on Ariel Sharonâs plan to pull Israelis out of Gaza has been high.
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Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin  Netanyahu announced on Tuesday he was lifting his threat to  resign over Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's refusal to put a Gaza  pullout plan to a national referendum.
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Palestinians celebrated on Friday a coalition deal between Hamas and Fatah to end factional warfare, but Israel insisted the Islamist Hamas group must recognize the Jewish state and international reaction was cautious.
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JERUSALEM -- Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday took back his threat to withdraw from the governing Likud party, but a minority religious party quit Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's coalition, protesting the plan to remove Israeli settlers and troops from the Gaza Strip and a portion of the West Bank.
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Israel&#39;s parliament made a historic decision in backing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s plan to withdraw settlers from the Gaza Strip and four small West Bank settlements.
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JERUSALEM Aug. 19, 2004 - Embattled leaders Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat rebuffed demands from their backers Thursday, holding steadfast to positions posing great political risk: Sharon insisted he will
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Israelâs Gaza pullout plan, threatened by settler resistance, received a major boost when a small Jewish settlement agreed to move as a unit to a village inside Israel.
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Israel eased a blockade of Gaza imposed in retaliation for militant rocket attacks, allowing in some food and fuel Tuesday after the UN warned that international food aid to the impoverished territory may have to be suspended by the weekend
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Israel and the Palestinians lifted a  nearly two-year freeze in high-level diplomatic contacts  Wednesday and agreed to prepare for a first summit between  Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has reaffirmed his commitment to a Middle East peace initiative, despite comments from one of his senior advisers who effectively dismissed the plan.
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Israeli PM Ariel Sharon reportedly decides to lift a ban on diplomatic contact with the Palestinians.
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Israeli Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu lifts his threat to resign over the Gaza withdrawal plan.