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After Mumbai attacks, Israel debates protection for Chabad Houses

Dec. 1, 2008
'There's not much we can actually do,' says an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman. 'Not only is it not governmental, it's not even Israeli.' It sounds like a counter-terrorism official's worst-case scenario: how to protect a global network of lightly guarded (at best) sites, all filled with...
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The bodies of six Jews killed in a terrorist attack on the Chabad Orthodox Jewish center in Mumbai were buried in Israel Tuesday.

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JERUSALEM, March 2 (UPI) -- The Israeli foreign ministry has started a public relations campaign aimed at boosting Israel's military image.

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NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Witnesses to a Friday morning attack on the Israeli Embassy in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania said several people were wounded by gunmen.
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Israel wants to draw Syria closer

JERUSALEM, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The Israeli Foreign Ministry hopes to develop a political relationship with Syria in 2008, Haaretz reports.

Israel recalls El Salvador ambassador

JERUSALEM, March 12 (UPI) -- The Israeli Foreign Ministry announced Monday it is recalling the country's diplomat to El Salvador after he was found naked and tied up on a city street.

Israel 'unfazed' by U.N. resolutions

JERUSALEM, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- United Nations resolutions supporting a Palestinian state "damage" the body's "capacity to be involved" in the Mideast crisis, an Israeli official says.

G8 to discuss Israel-Lebanon conflict

MOSCOW, July 14 (UPI) -- Russia's Foreign Ministry said Friday the Group of Eight industrialized nations will discuss the Israel-Lebanon conflict this weekend in St. Petersburg.

Israel orders end to Indian conversions

JERUSALEM, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The Israeli Foreign Ministry has ordered an end to conversion of a sect of Indian citizens to Judaism, saying it strained ties between the two countries.

Israel eases trade with Pakistan

TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Israel temporarily eased trade restrictions with Pakistan. The Israeli Foreign Ministry said that Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry, Trade and Labo

Israel won't evacuate Mauritania mission

TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Israel is not planning to evacuate its embassy in Nouakchott following Wednesday's coup that reportedly toppled the rule of President Moawiya Ould Tayeh.

Israel protests pope's sermon

TEL AVIV, Israel, July 25 (UPI) -- The Israeli Foreign Ministry Monday protested the pope's failure to mention Israel among the countries suffering from recent terrorist attacks.

China's Foreign Minister Li in Middle East

TEL AVIV, Israel, June 19 (UPI) -- China's Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing is due in Jerusalem Sunday for a three-day official visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

French diplomat killed in Haiti

PARIS, June 1 (UPI) -- France's honorary council to Haiti has been assassinated, the French Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday.

Israeli ambassador found shot in Ethiopia

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, March 30 (UPI) -- Israel's ambassador to Ethiopia was in critical condition in Addis Ababa Wednesday after being found in his hotel room with a bullet wound to the head.

Libya denies Israel contacts

TRIPOLI, Libya, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Libya denied Monday Israeli press reports its intelligence chief, Gen. Mousa Kousa, visited Israel last week.
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch