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		<title>$5 million reward for elusive Palestinian bomb-maker</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/11/25/5-million-reward-for-elusive-palestinian-bomb-maker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Associated Press
The U.S. State Department announced the Tuesday before Thanksgiving that it is offering a reward of up to $5 million for a Palestinian bomb-maker suspected of once targeting commercial airliners and of aiding the Iraq insurgency.
Abu Ibrahim, whose real name is Husayn Muhammed al-Umari, stands accused of a spate of bombings in the 1980s. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mordechai Limon, IDF Hero, Passes Away</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/05/17/mordechai-limon-idf-hero-passes-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 19:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Lev, www.IsraelNationalNews.com
Mordechai Limon, who was one of the pioneers and first commander of the Israel Navy, passed away over the Jewish Sabbath at age 85. Limon, who immigrated to Israel in 1932 from Poland, was at the nexus of two of the most important naval episodes in the course of Israel&#8217;s history: The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>elected officials disinvited to NY protest rally</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/09/18/elected-officials-disinvited-to-ny-protest-rally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ben Harris, www.jta.org
Sarah Palin is being disinvited from the Jewish-sponsored Iran rally, sources told JTA.
The move follows two days of controversy for organizers of Monday’s rally to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the United Nations.
The controversy erupted after JTA reported that Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, had accepted an invitation from the Conference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olmert Won&#8217;t Run, Will Resign in September</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/07/30/olmert-wont-run-will-resign-in-september/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hillel Fendel, www.IsraelNN.com 
At a suddenly-called press conference, the Prime Minister announced he will not participate in his party&#8217;s primaries. He said he would resign when a new party leader is chosen, &#8220;in order to enable the new leader to form a new government.&#8221;
Kadima&#8217;s primaries are to be held on September 17.
Olmert began his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advanced Israeli lasers battle primitive Palestinian bombs</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/07/29/advanced-israeli-lasers-battle-primitive-palestinian-bombs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.IsraelToday.co.il
Israel has already deployed several units of an advanced solid-based laser system with Israeli forces stationed near the Gaza Strip. The new laser is being used to detonate terrorist-planted bombs along the Gaza security fence without putting the lives of Israeli soldiers at risk. 
The laser is an eventual complementary system to the &#8220;Iron Dome&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government vows to introduce green cars by 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/07/24/government-vows-to-introduce-green-cars-by-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israeli government endorses plan to install world&#8217;s first electric car network in country by 2011 
Associated Press
Israel&#8217;s government endorsed the ambitious plan of a private entrepreneur to install the world&#8217;s first electric car network here by 2011, with half a million recharging stations to crisscross the tiny nation.
Supporters hailed the undertaking as a bold step [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hoopoe Israel&#8217;s National Bird</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/06/19/hoopoe-israels-national-bird/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Zafrir Rinat, www.Haaretz.com
The wait is over: after months of campaigning, the hoopoe has beat out nine other finalists to secure the title of Israel&#8217;s state bird.
The hoopoe (duhifat, in Hebrew) won 35 percent of the votes, beating out the warbler (ten percent) and the finch (9.8 percent).
The national bird selection process was sponsored by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel Tourism: New Record, New Maps</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/06/19/israel-tourism-new-record-new-maps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hana Levi Julian, www.IsraelNN.com
Close to 300,000 tourists streamed into Israel this past May, breaking all records, according to the Tourism Ministry. The number of visitors was 5 percen higher than the previous record, set in the year 2000.
The projected total tourism for 2008 will be almost 3,000,000 visitors to the Jewish State. 
Tourism Ministry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polish Holocaust Hero Dies At Age 98</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/05/12/polish-holocaust-hero-dies-at-age-98/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 00:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Monika Scislowska, Associated Press 
WARSAW, Poland &#8211; Irena Sendler — credited with saving some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazi Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, some of them in baskets — died today, May 12, 2008, her family said. She was 98. 
Sendler, among the first to be honored by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holocaust/Heroism Day Begins Sundown 4-30-08</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/04/30/holocaustheroism-day-begins-tonight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israeli youths embrace as a siren marking the annual Holocaust remembrance day sounds in Jerusalem. Photo: AP
Israelis stand outside their cars as a siren marking the annual Holocaust remembrance day sounds in Tel Aviv. Photo: AP
By Hillel Fendel, www.IsraelNN.com
Jews around the world, and particularly in Israel, will commemorate the six million Jews murdered in the [...]]]></description>
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