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1. "King Bibi" Featured on Cover of Time Magazine
2. Jerusalem Day on Sunday 3. Netanyahu Says Broader Coalition Enhances Peace Prospects 4. Barak: Talks Will Allow Tehran to Deceive World 5. Iran to Hizbullah: Don't Strike Israel 6. Egypt's Abdul Fotouh: Israel Treaty Is Security "Threat" 7. Palestinians Celebrate End of Prisoners' Hunger Strike 8. IDF to Boost Intelligence Efforts on Jordanian Border 9. COGAT Coordinates Export of Clothing from Gaza to Foreign Markets 10. Christians, Jews to Unite against Islam   1. "King Bibi" Featured on Cover of Time Magazine -
Time Magazine devoted
its lead story to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is featured on
the cover of the renowned publication, under the heading "King Bibi." (Read More) 2. Jerusalem Day on Sunday
- On Sunday, May 20 (Iyar 28 on the
Hebrew calendar), Jewish people around the world will be celebrating
Jerusalem Day, but nowhere will it be more exuberant a celebration than
in Jerusalem.(Read More)  3. Netanyahu Says
Broader Coalition Enhances Peace Prospects - Israel's
new national unity government is creating an opportunity to advance the
peace process, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu wrote to Palestinian
Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas. (Read More) 4. Barak: Talks Will Allow Tehran to
Deceive World - WASHINGTON
- Defense Minister Ehud Barak expressed on Wednesday night [May 16] his
concern that negotiations between Iran and the Western powers will
result in agreements that will allow Tehran to deceive the world and
advance its nuclear program. (Read More) 5. Iran to Hizbullah: Don't Strike
Israel - Iran
scared of war against Israel? A senior Iranian official ordered
Hizbullah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah to refrain from striking
Israel, several media outlets in Iran reported Wednesday. Web sites
affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guards quoted the commander of
Iran's al-Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani, as warning Nasrallah not to
strike Israel during a phone
conversation. (Read More) 6. Egypt's Abdul
Fotouh: Israel Treaty Is Security "Threat" - Israel
is a "racist state" and Egypt's 1979 peace treaty with it is "a
national security threat" that must be "revised," declared Abdel Moneim
Aboul Fotouh, a front runner in the Egyptian presidential elections next
week. (Read More) 7. Palestinians Celebrate End of Prisoners' Hunger Strike - Palestinians
across the West Bank [Judea and Samaria] and Gaza Strip held
celebratory rallies Monday [May 14], as news of the deal struck between
the security prisoners and Israel became public. (Read More) 8. IDF to Boost
Intelligence Efforts on Jordanian Border - An
advanced observation system is set to be deployed along the border with
Jordan as defense officials fear growing infiltration attempts.
Officials are concerned that efforts to seal the Egyptian border will
motivate infiltrators to access Israel via Jordan. (Read More) 9. COGAT Coordinates Export of
Clothing from Gaza to Foreign Markets - Coordinator
of Government Activity in the Territories (COGAT) facilitated the
export of textile clothing from the Gaza Strip to England as part of the
implementation of Gaza export project and of other civilian policies. (Read More) 10. Christians,
Jews to Unite against Islam - Op-ed:
Will Jews, Christians finally join forces in battle against genocidal
Islamic hatred? The Coliseum, where thousands upon thousands of
"Judaeis" have been massacred by the Roman emperors, became, for one
night, an arena for alliance between Christians and Jews against
religious hatred. (Read More)
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