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Saturday May 25, 2013
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Analysis: First they take parliament, then all of Egypt
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is feeling strong enough to campaign openly against the military • Its democratic victory in parliamentary elections, and its dominance of parliament, has given it the moral authority to rule.
 
The Associated Press | Ya'alon: Peace with Israel is in any Egyptian leader's interest
 
Prof. Alexander Bligh | War of perceptions
In light of recent leaks, Israel could be forced to take more and more extreme measures to overcome Iran’s preparedness for an attack.
Prof. Abraham Sion | The curse of the false peace
Eighteen years after Oslo, what has Israel gained, or lost, from peace agreements? Boycotts on Israeli products manufactured in the Palestinian territories, academic boycotts on Israel and, in general, the turning of Israel into a pariah state.
Dan Margalit | Between Iran and social justice
The government has shaken the world out of its complacency and put Iran front and center. But on the third anniversary of this government, other challenges loom too.
Israel: Palestinian Red Crescent workers in Hamas terror squad
Israel Security Agency arrests 13 Palestinians on suspicion of being behind a shooting attack on an IDF force in Ramallah on Jan. 20 • Kalashnikov used in the attack was given to the terrorists by an officer in the Palestinian intelligence service.
Report: Iran alleges Israel orchestrated Syria bombings
Iran’s Mehr news agency quotes Iran's intelligence minister as saying that he possesses information indicating that Israel was behind a series of explosions in Syria, so far blamed on “armed groups.”
Poll: 60 percent of Israelis favor military strike against Iran
Sixty-five percent of respondents in Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs poll say the price Israel would have to pay for living under the shadow of the Iranian nuclear bomb is higher than the price it would pay for attacking Iran’s nuclear capability.
Religious Jew attacked in Jerusalem; police suspect terror
Police hunt for Arab man, suspected of attacking 69-year-old victim with an ax near Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate • Victim taken to hospital, light wounds • Incident comes three weeks after Palestinian charged with stabbing a soldier on Jerusalem light rail.
PM: We need taxes to buy more Iron Dome batteries
After intervening to slightly reduce gas price hike, Benjamin Netanyahu cautions that lowering taxes can only be done to a certain extent, says taxes are necessary for defense, education, infrastructure and helping the needy.
If it looks like election season and talks like election season ...
Recent political developments have fueled speculation that PM Netanyahu might call early elections, despite repeated denials • Labor's Herzog: If it looks like elections – it is elections • Barak: The Left has no stability and lacks focus.
Barghouti placed in solitary confinement for incitement
Marwan Barghouti, serving multiple life sentences for leading terror in Second Intifada, calls on PA President Mahmoud Abbas to "stop marketing the illusion that there is a possibility of ending the occupation and achieving state through negotiations."
Florence Nightingale meets GI Jane: award for bravery under fire
Anastasia Bagdalov, 19, saved the life of a soldier hit in both legs during the Aug. 18, 2011, bus terror attack on the Israel-Egypt border • Bagdalov herself was wounded in the arms and legs by glass • “I did what I had to do,” she says.
All hands on deck! Prepare to set sail to ... just kidding!
Israel Navy Commander Vice Admiral Ram Rotberg orders three ships to prepare for 10-day training exercise in Italy • Following all-night preparations, soldiers are told there is no exercise, it was an April Fools' Day joke.
It's the economy, stupid ... Mofaz gives Kadima new focus
Newly elected Kadima Chairman Shaul Mofaz willing to relinquish chairmanship of Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in favor of the Economic Affairs Committee, in line with Kadima’s new social-economic platform.
Blackmail, extortion and threats: all in a day's work for haredi portal
Reporters at ultra-Orthodox web portal Behadrey Haredim suspected of extorting hush-money from subjects of their journalistic investigations • Police believe investigation could expose one of the worst scandals in the ultra-Orthodox community’s history.
In search of the artist as an old man
A matzah holder constructed by a 14-year-old boy during the Holocaust was recently donated to Yad Vashem • The museum is trying to track down the artist.