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Mr. Davidi Perl, who heads the Gush Etzion Regional Council, which encompasses some 20 communities, expressed anger of the current dangerous situation that exists on roadways throughout his council and
Customs agents at the Nitzana Crossing to Gaza intercepted a shipment of 15 tons of sulfuric acid being smuggled into Gaza. The chemical officials explain is used to manufacture explosives.
A Jewish resident of the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of N’vei Yaakov was attacked by three Arabs and stabbed in his back in a shopping center. The victim arrived at the
U.S. Sen. John McCain wants the Department of Defense to explain how a 500-pound military bomb wound up in a scrap yard, where it partially exploded and killed an employee
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The Connecticut shoreline was briefly under a tsunami warning before the National Weather Service disclosed the alert had been sent by mistake during a routine monthly test. The Weather Service’s
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