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Letters: Not only is the US blockade of Cuba cruel and vindictive, it is also counter-productive
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Sinn Féin leader refused entry to Gaza Strip because of his support for Palestinians and plans to meet Hamas
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Writer-director Talya Lavie was inspired by her own time in the Israeli Defense Force and paints a picture of day-dreaming, gender politics and high heels
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Allies turned foes, economic fears and poll saying 60% of voters would prefer a PM other than him points to a volatile campaign
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Club Deportivo Palestino has become a focal point for tensions between Santiago’s sizeable Arab and Jewish communities
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Three people hospitalised after inhaling fumes from oil gushing out of a breached pipeline near Evrona reserve
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Israeli politicians vote on Wednesday on early steps to dissolve parliament, which will lead to elections two years before they were scheduled
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Israeli police say 16-year-old stabbed two people in a supermarket in the West Bank
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Vote is step towards officially dissolving Israel’s parliament and ushering in early elections next year
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Letters: Netayahu’s policies pose a clear threat to the Palestinians, who are the indigenous people of the land
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Prime minister says he wants early elections because ‘it is impossible to lead a state’ within current government
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Israel’s ambassador to France says proposed resolution is destructive for the peace effort
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Israel, Cyprus and Greece seek commission meeting to discuss massive pipeline project in politically sensitive waters
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Security forces overcome suspect after incident in Jewish settlements near Jerusalem
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Australian Parliamentary Friends of Palestine group says international recognition is the only way to end deadlock and bring peace to Middle East
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Gill Rosenberg reported to be among female fighters taken prisoner after former Israeli military pilot went to fight alongside Kurds
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Observer editorial: Middle East stability hangs on ending the impasse on the country’s intentions
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The reaction to the Michael Brown verdict, the death of Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes, the ongoing crisis on the Turkish-Syrian border - the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
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Editorial: With a bill to define the country as the nation-state of the Jewish people, a democracy stands on the brink of downgrading itself
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Reuven Rivlin: In a landmark speech, the president of Israel warns of the dangers of a proposed law that would place Jewishness before democracy
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Critics say ‘Jewish nation-state’ bill would diminish freedoms of minorities and give ammunition to enemies abroad
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Amir Benayoun releases ‘Ahmed Loves Israel’ in midst of concern over wave of racist incidents targeting Palestinians
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Opponents say proposed law would reserve ‘national rights’ for Jews and not for minorities that make up 20% of population
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Fadel Mohammed Halawa shot near Jabaliya refugee camp, says Palestinian ministry, in first killing since Gaza war ended
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The Jerusalem synagogue attack, the missing students in Mexico, the continuing crisis on the Turkish-Syrian border – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
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Israeli officials say Palestinians are suspected of planning to asassinate foreign minister on way to West Bank settlement
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Anshel Pfeffer: For decades, Arab and Jewish movements claimed they were secular. It is now clear this was a charade
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Iran leader releases Hossein Derakhshan, suspected of spying for Israel and given prison term of 19 years for ‘insulting Islam’
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Yiftah Curiel: Ahmed Yousef is kidding himself. Imagining away Hamas’s extremist ethos will not advance the cause of peace
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He’s notorious for directing the controversial opera Klinghoffer, but Peter Sellars has no regrets about the outrage it provoked. Will The Gospel According to the Other Mary, his modern Passion inspired by censorship, poverty and slave labour, cause a new storm?
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Fears spread that peace cannot prevail in aftermath of murder of four rabbis and a Druze policeman
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At prime minister's questions in the House of Commons, David Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband condemn Tuesday's terrorist attack in a Jerusalem synagogue
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Security is tight in Jerusalem on Wednesday after Tuesday's attack at a synagogue. Israel's prime minister pledges action
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Demolition of home of man shot dead after killing two people, including baby, follows separate attack on Jerusalem synagogue
Loose canon Binyamin Netanyahu’s nationality bill is at odds with the Hebrew Bible