Members of a Hasidic Jewish movement may sue the Russian government in an effort to recover 18th-century religious writings and prayers seized by the Nazi and Soviet armies, the Associated Press reports.
Popularity: 4% [?]
December 6, 2006
Moscow has continuously denied four Israeli nationals convicted in Russia permission to serve their prison terms at home, unless Israel extradites Jewish Russian-born entrepreneur Leonid Nevzlin, once the second-in-command of Yukos and business partner of the jailed Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, leading Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth wrote Tuesday in a report headlined “Putin’s Israeli Hostagesâ€.
Popularity: 2% [?]
December 5, 2006The U.S. Secret Service is working with police in the former Soviet republic of Georgia to investigate an international counterfeiting operation that produces fake $100 bills that have been seized in the United States and Israel, the Washington Post is quoted by Reuters news agency.
Popularity: 1% [?]
November 28, 2006
Africa-Israel Group, owned by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev today announced that the Moscow Municipality Public Council approved the preliminary plan for its 330,000-sq.m. multipurpose project earlier this month.
Popularity: 2% [?]
November 27, 2006Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that he would soon visit Iran and Russia to discuss the situation in the Middle East, the Kuwaiti news agency KUNA reports.
Popularity: 5% [?]
A controversial Russian billionaire Arkady Gaydamak, who since immigrating has won popularity in Israel with major philanthropic projects, said in an interview published Sunday that he could run against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in the next elections.
Popularity: 2% [?]
November 20, 2006Russia’s Central Muslim Board Chairman Talgat Tajuddin has urged Palestinian and Israeli secular leaders and clergy to sign a 40-year peace deal, with Russian religious leaders posing as guarantors, Interfax news agency reports.
Popularity: 2% [?]
November 7, 2006A Russian tourist, who tried to take picture against backdrop of Azrieli Towers in Tel Aviv was pounced by security personnel, accused of spying, planning terror attack for Hezbollah. Security personnel searched Ekaterina Kopilov’s belongings, interrogated her, and squeezed every bit of desire to return for another vacation in Israel, Ynetnews.com website reports.
Popularity: 2% [?]
Russia urges Israel and Palestine for the quickest ceasefire, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s press office quoted by RIA Novosti said Sunday.
The Israeli troops have been conducting an operation in the Gaza Strip in the last few days to prevent Palestinian rocket fire on Israel. Dozens of people have been killed in the course of the operation.
Popularity: 1% [?]
Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s hardline new minister for strategic affairs, has said the Jewish state should use the same methods in Gaza that Russia had in Chechnya, the AFP news agency reports.
Israel should operate in the Gaza Strip “like Russia operates in Chechnya,†Lieberman, local media quoted the leader of the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party as saying during a meeting of Israel’s security cabinet. He spoke Wednesday after at least six Palestinians, including three militants, were killed and dozens injured in a major Israeli incursion in northern Gaza that the Jewish state said was aimed at stopping rocket fire.
Popularity: 1% [?]
November 2, 2006
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