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BRIEF: Municipal rates to be doubled on empty apartments
Globes, Tel Aviv, IsraelMinister of the Interior Gideon Saar today told the cabinet that he has signed regulations to double arnona (local property tax) on empty apartments, and that he has sent the regulations to Minister of Finance Yair Lapid to complete the regulatory...Tags: Rentals, Tel Aviv (Israel), Israel
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Globes, Tel Aviv, Israel, Stella Korin-Lieber column
Globes, Tel Aviv, IsraelYair Lapid presents: the no-choice budget. Not what he intended. Not what he planned. But that's what there is. There has to be a budget, there have to be cuts, and they have to pass on time. If not, the government falls, and the government doesn't want...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Benjamin Netanyahu, Budgets and Budgeting, Israel
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Status quo
Meet Omer Olivier. Mr. Olivier is an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has been living in Israel for the last seventeen years without official status. Although he has filed a request to be recognized as a refugee, his lack of...Tags: Civil Rights, Human Rights, Politics, Benjamin Netanyahu, General Practitioners
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Obama speechwriter shapes policy with his pen
WASHINGTON -- One of Ben Rhodes’ first tasks when he followed Barack Obama to the White House in 2009 was to help craft the presidential speech, delivered in Cairo, that urged a restart of Mideast peace talks, called America’s alliance with...
Tags: Jerusalem (Israel), Social Media, U.S. Embassy, Politics, Barack Obama
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With Obama visit looming, new Israeli government sworn in
JERUSALEM -- Nearly two months after general elections were held, Israel's new government was sworn in Monday amid sharp criticism from opposition parties. After a grueling six weeks of negotiations that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likened to...
Tags: Labour Party (UK), Judaism, Politics, Benjamin Netanyahu, Barack Obama
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Deciding what God demands can be hazardous choice
I told you so! Five years ago in this column I wrote: Religion may be hazardous to your health! Now I'll do one better: Religion is hazardous to your health! Let's consider the three Abrahamic religions: Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. ...Tags: Separation of Church and State, Jesus Christ, Politics, Judaism, Islam
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Obama trip to Israel still on
WASHINGTON -- President Obama will travel to Israel and the West Bank this month regardless of whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been able to form his new government, an aide to the president said Friday. The White House had previously left...
Tags: Jerusalem (Israel), Trips and Vacations, Politics, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu
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Palestinians at funeral protest death of prisoner
SAIR, West Bank — As Israel looked for ways to contain growing Palestinian anger over the death of a West Bank detainee in its custody, thousands of mourners gathered Monday for the funeral of the man Palestinian officials say succumbed to torture...
Tags: Civil Rights, Judaism, Politics, Israel, Government
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Israel's Netanyahu brings longtime rival Livni into coalition
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced an agreement Tuesday night to bring his onetime political foe Tzipi Livni, head of the centrist Movement Party, into his pending coalition government. Livni, a former foreign minister...
Tags: Tzipi Livni, Politics, Benjamin Netanyahu, Elections, Israel
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Women take heart from visit to Israel
Pikesville resident Debra Attman is well known as a local philanthropist, providing the driving energy behind several events, including the Chocolate Affair, the annual event benefiting Health Care for the Homeless. But it was her work with The...
Tags: Judaism, Trips and Vacations, Travel, Immigration, Israel
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Scrabble at the Bain Center
Activity Pals For single seniors. Get together with others to attend events, shop, go sightseeing, dine out and more. 301-596-6385. The Bain Center 5470 Ruth Keeton Way, Columbia. 410-313-7213. •Acting Up! Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. A theater...Tags: Clubs and Associations, Wii, Medicare, Politics, Jams and Jellies
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Netanyahu's choices
As President Barack Obama begins his second term, he faces a series of Middle East challenges far more daunting than when he began his presidency in 2009. These problems include: •what to do about the Arab-Israeli conflict, with peace talks between...
Tags: Jerusalem (Israel), Judaism, Politics, Barack Obama, Culture
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