From the moment the United Nations passed the partition resolution the previous November 29, the Arabs, desperate to thwart its implementation, ruthlessly intensified their attacks on the Jewish population of Israel. Nearly 1,200 Jews, half of them civilians, were murdered by Arab marauders in the six months before statehood, and that instability – and fears for the survival of this remnant of Jewry that had survived the Holocaust – engendered a desire in many quarters to postpone statehood indefinitely.
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Blood ran though the streets of Beirut today as the Hezb'allah terrorist group stoked a mass protest and fierce clashes with assault rifles and rocket propelled grenades that paralyzed the city. The fighting is some of Lebanon's worst internal clashes since the country's 1975-1990 civil war. At least five people reportedly were killed and 12 more were wounded as the street...
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that the state of Israel is a "stinking corpse" that is destined to disappear, the French news agency AFP reported. "Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken," the official IRNA news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as having said.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, in a dramatic statement late Thursday night, said he has never taken a bribe or "a single agora" for himself, but that he would resign if the attorney-general decides to indict him as a result of a new police investigation. "I hope and believe that we will not get to this stage," he said.
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Israeli researchers have discovered a way to transmit medical images via a cellular phone, opening up the possibility of providing sophisticated diagnosis and treatment to millions of people who live a long distance from modern medical centers. Unlike existing systems, which are based on conventional, stand-alone medical imaging devices, Prof. Boris Rubinsky of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has come up with the idea of a new medical imaging system...
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As we celebrate 60th anniversary, Uri Orbach offers revised version of Prayer for State of Israel. Our Father in Heaven, Rock and Redeemer of Israel, bless the State of Israel, the first manifestation of the approach of our redemption. Shield it from its own ministers, leaders, advisors, contractors, merchants, celebrities, beggars, journalists, and bureaucrats, and bestow Your light and truth upon its statesmen, rabbis, judges, and intellectuals, and grace them with Your good counsel.
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