Mazal Mualem (Haaretz) and Haaretz Service

By Mazal Mualem (Haaretz) and Haaretz Service

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  Bibi to PA: Israel Boycott Is Self-Destructive

  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the Palestinian Authority on Monday to stop opposing economic peace with Israel. “Israel aspires to economic peace,” Netanyahu said at the start of a Likud faction meeting on Monday. “We have removed checkpoints, eased the lives of Palestinians and are working all the time to advance the Palestinian economy….

  By Mazal Mualem (Haaretz) and Haaretz Service May 24, 2010 | < 1 min read
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  Tel Aviv Gay Center, Scene of Deadly Shooting, Reopens

  A community center for gay and lesbian youths reopened on Monday, two days after it was the scene of a deadly shooting that left two dead and 15 wounded. Mike Hamel, the head of the Aguda, Israel’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) organization, said “for so many years this place was home for so…

  By Mazal Mualem (Haaretz) and Haaretz Service Aug 3, 2009 | < 1 min read
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  Land Privatization and ‘Mofaz Law’ Pass Knesset

  The Knesset passed a land reform bill Monday that allows for privatization of state-owned lands. The second and third readings of the bill passed by a vote of 61 MKs in favor and 45 MKs against. Kadima lawmakers criticized their Labor counterparts for supporting the bill after the second reading had passed. “The Labor party…

  By Mazal Mualem (Haaretz) and Haaretz Service Aug 3, 2009 | 2 min read