Tag: Israel

Monday, July 28th 2014 - 07:43 UTC
Brazilian Jewish community apologizes to President Rousseff's administration

Brazil’s Jewish community apologized to the administration of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff for statements by the spokesman of Israel’s foreign ministry after Brazil recalled its envoy over the Gaza conflict.
Monday, July 21st 2014 - 06:18 UTC
Gaza violence suits both Israeli leadership and Hamas

By Gwynne Dyer - Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, said something cryptic last Friday, shortly after the Israelis began their latest round of attacks on the Gaza Strip. Condemning Hamas’ conditions for accepting a ceasefire as “exaggerated and unnecessary,” he offered his condolences “ to the families of the martyrs in Gaza who are fuel to those who trade in war. I oppose these traders, on both sides.”
Monday, May 26th 2014 - 06:20 UTC
Israel and Palestine presidents accept Francis invitation to pray at the Vatican

Pope Francis inserted himself directly into the collapsed Middle East peace process on Sunday, issuing an invitation to host the Israeli and Palestinian presidents for a prayer summit meeting at his apartment in the Vatican.
Tuesday, April 29th 2014 - 06:20 UTC
Timerman in Israel to rebuild relations deteriorated because of Iran accord

Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman began a two-day visit to Israel on Monday that aims to strengthen the diplomatic ties weakened last year after the signature in Buenos Aires of the memorandum of understanding with Iran for the investigation of AMIA bombing.
Friday, January 3rd 2014 - 18:25 UTC
Israel has eliminated most of terrorists involved in deadly attacks on Jewish targets in Argentina

Israel has killed most of the terrorists who perpetrated deadly attacks on its embassy and a Jewish community center in Argentina in the 1990s, Israel's former Ambassador to Argentina Yitzhak Aviran told the Spanish-language Jewish news agency Agencia Judia de Noticias on Thursday.
Friday, September 13th 2013 - 20:40 UTC
Canada, Israel, Japan with the most educated status in the world, says OECD

With spiking tuition costs, insurmountable loan balances, and the unemployment rate for recent college graduates at double digit it’s clear that a university education doesn’t receive the best of praise, particularly in developed countries.
Friday, July 5th 2013 - 03:40 UTC
Argentina contributed to Israel nuclear bomb supplying ‘yellowcake” says Foreign Policy

Argentina may have sold Israel material necessary for making a nuclear bomb in the 1960s, Foreign Policy reported on Monday, citing newly declassified US archive documents. Israel has never clearly admitted to having a nuclear weapons program in the country, although it is has been estimated that the Jewish State has dozens of nuclear warheads.
Tuesday, June 11th 2013 - 21:57 UTC
Israel and Colombia sign far reaching free trade agreement

Israel and Colombia this week signed in Jerusalem a free trade treaty to increase trade and promote investments in the fields of technology. The treaty which was reached after fifteen years of intense negotiations now needs legislative approval which should be accomplished by early 2014 according to Israeli political sources.
Thursday, May 2nd 2013 - 07:23 UTC
Israel defense supplier to establish an aerospace research hub in south Brazil

Israeli defense giant Elbit Systems Ltd. plans to create a hub of aerospace research in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, company officials said.
Thursday, April 4th 2013 - 18:37 UTC
Falkland Islands’ oil industry associate begins offshore production from Israel’s major gas deposits

Houston based Noble Energy which also has interests in the Falkland Islands oil industry announced this week that the Tamar natural gas field offshore Israel has been successfully brought online with all five of the sub-sea wells now producing at stable rates totalling approximately 300 million cubic feet per day.