http://www.wikio.com/search=David Ben-Gurion Wikio - David Ben-Gurion http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=68462489 'I wish the team around him the strength to keep working at our boss' pace,' says Peres staffer as energetic octogenarian president marks birthday in desert region as part of campaign to promote growth there Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:03:59 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=68462489 2008-08-21T07:03:59Z http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=68290163 Forced to step down following Lavon Affair in mid-50's, the 89-year-old went on to number of high-profile positions in business sector Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:48:41 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=68290163 2008-08-19T18:48:41Z http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=67969364 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:21:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=67969364 noreply@blogger.com (Carl in Jerusalem) 2008-08-16T19:21:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=67892798 In the span of 12 dramatic hours, Hadassah doctors raced to war-torn Georgia, rescued a critically injured Israeli reporter and flew him back to Hadassah Medical Center’s intensive care unit at Ein Kerem, Jerusalem. While standing in the main city square in the town of Gori, Georgia, journalists from around the world were caught in [...] Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:28:08 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=67892798 2008-08-15T18:28:08Z http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=67909743 “The Day After,” a frank column by - of all people - Amin Howeidi, a former Egyptian minister of defence, in - of all places - al-Jazeera.com, warns the Palestinians that the hard part may come after achieving a state. Howeidi cites examples from the founding of Israel to demonstrate how the Palestinians will have to create true political leadership: “Theodor Herzl didn’t like the Balfour Declaration at first. In his memoirs, Herzl admitted that he was disappointed because the declaration spoke of a national homeland rather than a state. But the newborn state managed to grow and became a power to contend with. This happened because its inhabitants managed to turn the promise into reality.” Howedi also recalls David Ben-Gurion’s sinking of the Altalina, a ship loaded with paramilitary arms, as a defining moment in Israel’s history: “Dozens of Israelis died in the attack and hundreds of Irgun members were rounded up and thrown in prison. This action arguably saved Israel.” Not surpisingly, a lively discussion follows this piece. Read the article and follow up comments here » Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:26:40 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=67909743 2008-08-15T15:26:40Z http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=67732906 In the span of 12 dramatic hours, Hadassah doctors raced to war-torn Georgia, rescued a critically injured Israeli reporter and flew him back to Hadassah Medical Center's intensive care unit at Ein Kerem, Jerusalem. While standing in the main city square in the town of Gori, Georgia, journalists from around the world were caught in heavy fire. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=67732906 2008-08-14T11:00:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=67700344 P. David HornikFrontPageMagazine.com | 8/13/2008Information has come to light about an Israeli Arab who was arrested last month at Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport after a return flight from Germany. Khaled Kashkoush, 29, comes from the village of Qalansuwa in central Israel and had been studying medicine for some years in Göttingen, Germany. His arrest was initially reported in Spiegel Online International. Kashkoush has admitted during interrogation that while in Germany he was recruited by Hezbollah agents. In 2002 he made contact with Hisham Hassan, a Lebanese doctor who is also head of the German branch of the Orphaned Children Project Lebanon. That organization, in turn, raises funds for the Lebanese Martyr Institute—part of Hezbollah’s civilian network in Lebanon. The Martyr Institute, which supports the families of Hezbollah terrorists killed during operations, spreads Khomeinist ideology both in Lebanon and abroad, and raises funds for Hezbollah, works similarly to the Iranian Shahid Foundation. In 2007 the U.S. Treasury Department declared the Shahid Foundation illegal and the FBI raided and closed its U.S. branch, known as the Goodwill Charitable Organization, in Dearborn, Michigan. Kashkoush met every two weeks with Dr. Hassan and also helped him administer the Orphaned Children Project. After three years Dr. Hassan put Kashkoush in contact with a Lebanese called “Rami” who turned out to be the senior Hezbollah recruiter Muhammad Hashem, well known to Israeli security. Hashem gave Kashkoush a total of 13,000 euros. In return Kashkoush was supposed to provide information about Israeli nationals studying abroad who might be potential Hezbollah recruits, and to try and find work in an Israeli hospital so he could gather information about security personnel or soldiers being treated there. At one of their meetings Hashem also gave Kashkoush a map of the latter’s home village, Qalansuwa, that had been downloaded from Google Earth and asked him to locate buildings there. According to Spiegel Online International’s report, Kashkoush was aiming to get a job at Rambam Hospital in the Israeli city of Haifa before being nabbed at the airport. Kashkoush and his handler, Hashem, had apparently been in touch only via unregistered cellphone and email. The case is deeply troubling to Israeli security because it fits into a pattern where Hezbollah and other terror organizations have been using Israeli Arabs as a pool for recruits. Although in the cases of three terror attacks by Israeli Arabs in Jerusalem this year no clear links to organizations seem yet to have been found, also this year two Israeli Arabs have been indicted for passing information on strategic sites to Al Qaeda and six more have been arrested for allegedly setting up an Al Qaeda-affiliated network and plotting to shoot down President Bush’s helicopter while he was visiting Israel. Hezbollah, for its part, particularly exploits the fact that Israeli Arabs can easily be contacted and recruited while abroad, of which Kashkoush’s case is a classic instance. Israel, thus, gets the worst of all worlds: while frequently being slandered as an “apartheid state” it grants its Arab minority full freedoms that the global jihad movement, and a small but increasing number of Israeli Arabs themselves, exploit to Israel’s detriment. And making life still harder for Israel is the fact that in Europe particularly, Hezbollah can operate freely because it’s not defined as a terrorist organization. Given that Hezbollah is responsible, among countless other acts, for blowing up the U.S. embassy in Lebanon in 1983, the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires in 1992, the AMIA Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires in 1994, and in 2006 for killing and kidnapping Israeli soldiers on Israeli territory while firing thousands of rockets at Israeli civilians, the fact that Europe does not classify it as terrorist may seem astonishing. European countries claim to fear, though, that doing so would harm prospects for Middle East peace talks. European countries also, of course, have lucrative commercial ties with Hezbollah’s patron Iran. In other words, the Israeli security services have their work cut out for them. In the case of Khaled Kashkoush they appear to have succeeded. Since—as in other Western countries—they’re the main or even only thing that stands between normal life and catastrophe, one hopes they’ll keep working very hard. P. David Hornik is a freelance writer and translator living in Tel Aviv. He blogs at http://pdavidhornik.typepad.com/. He can be reached at pdavidh2001@yahoo.com. RSS 2.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'alt=rss Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:27:23 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=67700344 2008-08-14T06:27:23Z http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=67590874 There is something incongruous about the stretch of two "specialty beaches" just under the Hilton Hotel's tall bluff. The Hasidic beach, enclosed... Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:55:19 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=67590874 2008-08-13T05:55:19Z http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=67320009 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:09:14 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=67320009 2008-08-11T05:09:14Z http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=67224627 Following the Georgian War from the Tel Aviv beaches lends a different perspective. The $ 22 million in military exports from Israel to Georgia belie a much deeper security relationship. Numerous ex-IDF generals provide military advice to the Tblisi government while Israeli hardware – especially pilotless drone aircraft- has been shipped by the plane loads. But [...] Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:04:13 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=67224627 2008-08-09T17:04:13Z http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=67181345 Lily Galili; 8/8/08 For three years, the official documents of the Prime Minister’s Office have referred to Upper Nazareth as “code No. 20,” a designation for ethnically mixed cities. This definition is not meant to say that together, Nazareth and Upper Nazareth constitute a mixed city. Rather, it describes a situation whereby Upper Nazareth and its [...] Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:23:43 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=67181345 2008-08-08T03:23:43Z http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=66983698 Thursday, August 7, 2008 : Police investigations, commissions of inquiry examining the errors committed during the Lebanon war of 2006, repugnance at former President Moshe Katsav's alleged sex crimes, and now Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's announcement that, with charges of corruption swirling about him, he will resign in September. Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:41:24 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=66983698 2008-08-07T14:41:24Z http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=66924582 An undercover investigation of goings-on in El Al’s King David Lounge at Ben-Gurion International Airport revealed that employees were stealing from the business class passengers. The investigation led to the arrest of 15 suspects. Commander Yisrael Klein, who headed the investigation, reports that the suspects allegedly stole valuable food items, with some doing so for a [...] Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:49:33 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=66924582 2008-08-07T03:49:33Z http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=66634559 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:41:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=66634559 noreply@blogger.com (Sri Lanka Guardian) 2008-08-04T18:41:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=66543777 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:45:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=66543777 noreply@blogger.com (Carl in Jerusalem) 2008-08-04T04:45:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=66516331 The Amazing Innernut, continued: Found this at a website for the Saint Ignatius Jesuit High School in Cleveland. "1993 Fulbrighters wih Yasser Arafat in Tunis, Tunisia" I was going to just mention the recent brouhaha over the Fulbright scholars from Gaza, but in the process I came across the revelation that Hanan Ashrawi is "a personal friend" of Condoleeza Rice. I think I'm going to be sick. Senior officials in the U.S. State Department, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, have repeatedly complained to Israel recently over relatively minor Palestinian issues that it would have ignored until a few months... Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:07:32 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=66516331 2008-08-03T19:07:32Z http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=65999556 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:56:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=65999556 noreply@blogger.com (Carl in Jerusalem) 2008-07-30T04:56:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=65950059 Amira Dotan Kadima Date of birth 28 July 1947 Knesset(s) 17th (current) Party Kadima Particulars Date of Birth: 28/07/1947 Place of Birth: Tel Aviv, Israel Residence: Tel Aviv Family Status: Widowed Number of Children: 3 Education B.A. - Behavioral Sciences, Ben Gurion University, 1972. Military Service Rank: Brigadier General Contact Info Telephone: 02-6408430 Telephone 2: 02-6408431 Fax: 02-6408915 Email: adotan@knesset.gov.il Profession Mediation / Management Languages English, French Knesset Terms Knesset [...] Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:29:15 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=65950059 2008-07-29T14:29:15Z http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=65684590 Ethan Bronner reports Museum Offers Gray Gaza a View of Its Dazzling Past It may sound like the indulgence of a well-fed man fleeing the misery around him. But when Jawdat N. Khoudary opens the first museum of archaeology in Gaza this summer it will be a form of Palestinian patriotism, showing how this increasingly [...] Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:00:21 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=65684590 2008-07-27T15:00:21Z http://www.wikio.com/search/David+Ben-Gurion?rinfoid=65395719 Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs. 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