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Security Cabinet Directs IDF To Take Strong Action Against Terror

Security Cabinet Directs IDF To Take Strong Action Against Terror

Security Cabinet Directs IDF To Take Strong Action Against Terror

  Israel’s prime minister convened his Security Cabinet late Thursday to plot a response to a new burst of Gaza terror, ordering the IDF to take unspecified “strong action” as the military reinforced units along the border ahead of a possible escalation.

Fighting showed few signs of slowing. Late on Thursday, the IDF flattened a…

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Cabinet Holds Emergency Session, Netanyahu to Address Nation

Cabinet Holds Emergency Session, Netanyahu to Address Nation

Cabinet Holds Emergency Session, Netanyahu to Address Nation Written by TPS on April 30, 2018

  Prime Minister Netanyahu will address the nation Monday night following an emergency session of the Security Cabinet to discuss recent developments in Syria.

Netanyahu’s office said in a statement that the premier will present “dramatic” information about Iran’s nuclear program.

As the Knesset…

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Police Dismantle Temple Mount Metal Detectors, Cameras

Police Dismantle Temple Mount Metal Detectors, Cameras

Police Dismantle Temple Mount Metal Detectors, Cameras Written by TPS on July 25, 2017

Israel Police dismantled metal detectors and security cameras at the entrances to the Temple Mount compound overnight between Monday and Tuesday less than two weeks after they had been placed there in the wake of the July 14 murder of two policeman adjacent to the site.

After a meeting that ran late into…

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Finance Minister Yair Lapid warned Tuesday that Israel was eroding its international support, as criticism abroad mounted of its biggest grab of Palestinian land since the 1980s. Lapid complained the security cabinet had not been consulted about Sunday's announcement of the confiscation of 400 hectares (988 acres) of land in the occupied West Bank to pave the way for further settlement building. "The announcement, which wasn't brought to the security cabinet, regarding 900 acres of land for building in Gush Etzion (between Jerusalem and Hebron) harms the State of Israel," Lapid told an economic conference in Tel Aviv. Source: AFP

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Israeli media say the country's Security Cabinet has unanimously rejected a U.S. proposal for a temporary pause in Israel-Hamas fighting. Source: Associated Press

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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli media say the country's Security Cabinet has unanimously rejected a U.S. proposal for a temporary pause in Israel-Hamas fighting. Source: Associated Press

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JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli defense official says the Security Cabinet is meeting to discuss international cease-fire efforts, but also the option of expanding its eight-day-old ground operation in Gaza. Source: Associated Press

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Israel's security cabinet on Tuesday accepted an Egyptian ceasefire proposal, a government spokesman said, after a week of the deadliest violence in and around Gaza in years. "The cabinet has decided to accept the Egyptian initiative for a ceasefire starting 9am today," Ofir Gendelman, spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Twitter. Ministers in the security cabinet had begun meeting early on Tuesday to consider the Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire to start immediately from 0600 GMT. Army radio noted that there had been no parallel acceptance of the initiative by Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement that controls the Gaza Strip. Source: AFP