Tel Aviv defiant despite risk of missiles
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Sunbathers, swimmers and paddleball players filled Tel Aviv&#039;s beaches Monday, many saying they were determined to defy Hezbollah rocket attacks and support Israel&#039;s offensive in Lebanon.
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TEL AVIV A shaky political system here raised a huge question mark last week over Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s ability to pursue his only existing diplomatic plan - the initiative to evacuate the Gaza strip and to remove some of the Israeli settlements
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A senior Iranian military official said Sunday Israel and the United States would not dare attack Iran since it could strike back anywhere in Israel with its latest missiles, news agencies reported.
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Israeli security forces on Tuesday thwarted a Palestinian bombing attack set for Tel Aviv, police and Israeli media reported.
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Boaz Rafaeli had read the warning that Israeli security officials issued last month against travel to Egypt&#39;s Sinai Peninsula, and he didn&#39;t give it a second thought.
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Israel lodged a protest with the  United Nations over the latest Katyusha rocket fire into the  Jewish state from southern Lebanon and vowed Tuesday that it  would not let such attacks pass without a response.
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JERUSALEM  - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Tuesday he has been informed by President Vladimir Putin that Russia will go ahead with the sale of anti-aircraft missiles to Syria, despite Israel's misgivings. Sharon said he is unhappy about Russia's decision. Israel fears the missiles will be supplied to Islamic militant groups in Lebanon.
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TEL AVIV -- With diplomatic sanctions against Iran appearing unlikely and military options promising to be risky, Israel has begun debating the unthinkable: how it might live in a world in which its archenemy has a nuclear arsenal of its own.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert insisted on Monday that his coalition government was not at risk of unraveling over a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood.
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Israel&#39;s prime minister has vowed to press on with his disengagement plan, despite its receiving another rejection from his mutinous Likud party.
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Defense Minister Amir Peretz, asked about the possibility of war with Syria, said Wednesday that the military was preparing for any scenario but added that Israel must not give up on diplomacy with Damascus.
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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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Ariel Sharon yesterday insisted he would not be forced by &quot;threats and ultimatums&quot; into a referendum on his Gaza disengagement despite the prospect that he could lose two of his Cabinet ministers unless he agreed to it.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared Monday that Israel would not carry out disengagement under fire and promised that the army would respond with severity to continued attacks on Israeli communities in the Gaza Strip.
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JERUSALEM Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned on Sunday that Israel would retaliate against Palestinian rockets, even if they were fired from civilian areas, and an arms manufacturer said Israel had installed a radar system in a border town to warn of such
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Israel held firm Thursday to its policy of not admitting it possesses nuclear weapons, in the face of an acknowledgment from the incoming U.S. Defense Secretary that Israel has the bomb.
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JERUSALEM -- Embattled leaders Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat rebuffed demands from their backers yesterday, holding steadfast to positions posing great political risk: Sharon insisted he will press on with efforts to pull out of Gaza despite a stinging rebuke from his party, while Arafat refused to sign reform legislation.