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PM: New Mossad chief to be named in days

Candidates to replace Dagan after eight-year run include his deputy, Shin Bet Chief Diskin

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Americans want Israel-style airport security

While public debate over invasive airport security measures continues, new poll reveals US citizens favor air safety even at cost of their own privacy, but not when physical checks are involved

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Up to 20 years for ‘abusive rabbi’ followers

Four Hasidim, supporters of Elior Chen, sentenced to prison terms for serious child abuse, including severe burning, beating, binding, food deprivation

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Shoah survivor’s ashes go to Treblinka

Lucy Werber’s son fulfills her final wish to have her body cremated, her ashes taken to Poland and sprinkled at death camp that killed her entire family. ‘She never made it to Treblinka, but she probably felt that was where she needed to go,’ he says

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PA: Referendum law ‘disregard of int’l law’

Chief Palestinian negotiator Erekat says law approved by Knesset, which obligates government to seek public’s approval on any withdrawal from territories under full Israeli sovereignty, conveys negative message ‘as the end of the occupation cannot depend on any referendum’

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Chabad victims’ families sue Pakistan

Moishi Holtzberg’s grandfather says in lawsuit filed in New York that Pakistani intelligence cooperated with Kashmir-based terror organization that was behind 2008 Mumbai attacks. Meanwhile, Chabad House finds itself at center of legal battle

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Rabbi Elyashiv: ‘Law of pursuer’ for fraud

Leader of Lithuanian-haredi community says men arrested over Jerusalem Kollel fraud affair caused blasphemy, must be treated with utmost severity

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Foreign Ministry: Mall carts an embarrassment

Dozens of Israelis arrested every year in malls worldwide for working in sales illegally. As holiday season approaches, Foreign Ministry urges young Israelis, ‘Don’t break the law, we won’t be able to help’

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N. Korea artillery hits S. Korea

In biggest attack in years, dozens of artillery shells set buildings in island of Yeonpyeong on fire, prompt return of fire by South. At least four South Korean soldiers wounded in shelling; residents evacuated

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Holocaust-denying bishop faces expulsion

Society of ST. Pius X orders Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson, who previously said he didn’t believe Jews were gassed during WWII, to fire his lawyer over links to neo-Nazi movement

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