Word: negev
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What worries politicians is that the religious Zionists, many born and raised in the West Bank settlements, are assuming a greater role as officers and soldiers inside élite combat units. Lieut. Colonel Dotan Razili, a commander at the Officers' Training Academy in the Negev Desert, estimates that 30% of his cadets are religious Zionists, even though they make up only 9% of the Israeli population, according to census figures...
...Operating Committee of the Progressive Jewish Alliance. “We support LGBT rights and we also support a truly democratic state in Israel which includes rights for both Israelis and Palestinians,” she said. A two percent minority in Israel, Bedouins often inhabit villages in the Negev area that are not officially recognized by Israeli government, said El-Sana. He said that the absence of recognition causes many problems in local infrastructure, including lack of tap-water, electricity, health centers and education facilities, as well as the risk of house demolition by the state. At home...
...string of nasty surprises. The Israeli military went to war in Lebanon but failed to defeat Hizballah, shattering the notion that the Israeli Defense Forces could crush any Arab threat. His son Omri faces jail on corruption charges. Hamas runs the Palestinian government. His beloved Sycamore Ranch in the Negev is within striking distance of Palestinian rockets fired from Gaza. His friend and crony Moshe Katzav, the President of Israel, is under investigation for rape. Sharon would also learn that with Olmert's limp hand at the helm, the fortunes of his Kadima party are fast sinking; a poll last...
...plan to evacuate settlers from the Gaza Strip last year, an idea first proposed by Olmert in a newspaper interview in 2003. But despite Olmert's loyalty, friends say, he never felt accepted by the Israeli leader. Sharon excluded Olmert from high-level meetings at his ranch in the Negev desert; a close ally of Olmert's who asked not to be named says Olmert even talked of quitting the government. Olmert calls Sharon "a hero," but he has stopped paying visits to Sharon in the hospital. "I want to remember him the way he really...
...Israeli strikes, which allows them freedom of movement to meet with foreign envoys. And Haniya has to listen to scores of senior Hamas militants?including 11 freshly elected members of the Palestinian parliament?who are among the 1,800 held in Israel's high-security Ketziot prison in the Negev desert, and who communicate with the outside world through smuggled cell phones and notes carried out by lawyers and relatives. According to Israeli sources in the prison administration, the jailed Hamas chiefs have told Haniya they want revenge for the purges that senior Fatah officials carried out in 1996. Both...