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What is expert advice worth on the stock market?

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - By Eli Malki - Nov. 12 (Special Report) - How seriously should you take their forecasts? Does an understanding of economics and the capital market give you tools to peer into the future? A paper by psychology professors Gustaf Torngren and Henry Montgomery of Stockholm University - "Worse Than Chance? Performance and Confidence among Professionals and Laypeople in the Stock Market" - demonstrates that Lao Tzu nailed it on the head.

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PM heads to Washington, under threat of Palestinian statehood declaration

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - By Barak Ravid, Natasha Mozgovaya - Nov. 08 (News) - Concerns are growing in Israel's government over the possibility of a unilateral Palestinian declaration of independence within the 1967 borders, a move which could potentially be recognized by the United Nations Security Council.

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Enough sweet talk - Haaretz - Israel News

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:02:48 -0700

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State won't prosecute officers filmed beating Palestinians

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - By Liel Kyzer - Oct. 21 (News) - Deputy State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan rejected an appeal against the decision not to investigate Border Police officers who documented themselves abusing Palestinians.

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Iran, world powers to hold more nuke talks this month

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - By Yossi Melman - Oct. 01 (News Report) - Iran and the six world powers have agreed to hold another round of talks on the Islamic Republic's contentious nuclear program before the end of October, Iranian state television reported on Thursday.

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Why is Israel suddenly praising Iran sanctions?

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - By Amos Harei - Sep. 29 (News Analysis) - Just before Iran and the international community begin talks on Iran's nuclear program, Israel is sending out messages of measured and cautions optimism. Israeli official are praising the proposed sanctions against Iran to journalists, explaining that a stiff cost could prompt the Iranians to rethink their actions, especially in light of the domestic troubles the regime of ayatollahs has faced over the past few months.

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Abbas: Netanyahu's new West Bank build 'unacceptable'

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - By Barak Ravid, Avi Issacharoff - Sep. 04 (News Report) - "What the Israeli government said [about the planned construction] is not useful," ... "It is unacceptable for us. We want a freeze on all settlement construction."

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Charges dropped against settler filmed shooting Palestinians

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - By Ofra Edelman - Jul. 14 (News Report) - The State Prosecution said Tuesday that it was dropping charges against a resident of Kiryat Arba who was caught on film shooting at two Palestinians in the West Bank last December. The prosecution said it made the decision not to try Ze'ev Braude because such a move could expose classified information that might harm the security of the state.

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'Obama proposed plan for peace deal within two years'

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - Jun. 09 (News Report) - United States President Barack Obama has presented to Egypt and Israel a plan for a two-state solution to be finalized within two years, the London-based A-Sharq al-Awsat reported on Tuesday.

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U.S. moves to ease tensions with Israel after Obama's Cairo speech

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - By Barak Ravid - Jun. 05 (Special Report) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly commended Obama's speech in a statement issued by his bureau. In private conversations, however, he expressed disappointment at what he saw as a soft stance on Iran's nuclear ambitions.

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Egypt's opposition begs U.S. for more democracy

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - By Zvi Bar'el - Jun. 03 (News Analysis) - The ideological change being offered by the new U.S. administration - the one in which the Bush administration's "marketing of democracy" is being abandoned - is worrying Egypt's intellectual elites. This week, Osama al-Ghazali Harb, the head of the Democratic Front Party that was established last year, wrote an open letter to Obama with suggestions for the address.

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Israel rebuffs U.S. call for total settlement freeze

Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - By Barak Ravid - May. 28 (News Report) - Israel will press ahead with housing construction in its West Bank settlements despite a surprisingly blunt demand from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that all such building stop, an Israeli official said Thursday.

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Netanyahu: If Israel doesn't take out Iranian threat, no one will

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - May. 26 (News Report) - Netanyahu added that he reached understandings Obama, among them that the most important goal for both countries is preventing Iran from attaining a nuclear military capability. Netanyahu told Likud members that Israel received a number of key pieces of defense aid from the Americans.

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Obama team readying for confrontation with Netanyahu

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - By Aluf Benn - Apr. 08 (News Report) - In recent weeks, American officials have briefed senior Democratic congressmen and prepared the ground for the possibility of disagreements with Israel over the peace process, according to information recently received. The administration's efforts are focused on President Barack Obama's Democratic Party, which now holds a majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.

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Palestinian youth orchestra disbanded over concert for Holocaust survivors - Haaretz - Israel News

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - By Associated Press - Apr. 01 (News Report) - Palestinian authorities disbanded a youth orchestra from a West Bank refugee camp after it played for a group of Holocaust survivors in Israel, a local official said on Sunday.

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IDF ends Gaza probe, says misconduct claims are 'rumors'

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - By Anshel Pfeffer, Amos Harel, - Mar. 30 (News Report) - The Israeli human rights groups B'Tselem, Yesh Din, Physicians for Human Rights and others issued a statement Monday saying "the speedy closing of the investigation immediately raises suspicions that [it] was merely the army's attempt to wipe its hands of all blame for illegal activity..." The groups said the allegations should be investigated by a non-partisan body.

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Israel Promises Internal Probe After Soldiers Describe Civilian Killings, Lax Rules of Engagement in Gaza Attack

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzales, Amira Hass - Mar. 20 (News Report) - he Israeli Military Advocate General has for the first time called for criminal inquiries into the conduct of Israeli troops in Gaza. The request came in response to soldiers’ testimonies that described loose rules of engagement, troops firing on unarmed civilians, and troops intentionally vandalizing property during the three-week assault on Gaza.

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Zero tolerance now

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - By Lara Friedman, Hagit Ofran - Mar. 04 (Opinion) - If President Barack Obama is serious about making progress toward Israeli-Palestinian peace and about setting America's relationship with the Arab and Muslim worlds on a new and better course, he cannot allow settlements to hijack the agenda.

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Kurtzer: Netanyahu-Lieberman is 'bad combination' for U.S.

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - By Natasha Mozgovaya - Feb. 19 (News Report) - "There will be an image problem for an American administration to support a government that includes a politician who was defined as racist," Kurtzer said during an appearance at Georgetown University. "But the Israeli system doesn't respond well to perceptions of outside parties," he said.

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UN: Hamas seized food and blankets from needy Gazans - Haaretz - Israel News

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - By Associated Press, Haaretz Service - Feb. 04 (News Report) - Hamas police in Gaza broke into a warehouse full of United Nations humanitarian supplies and seized thousands of blankets and food packages, a United Nations spokesman said Wednesday, a rare public clash between the international agency that feeds much of the territory and the militant group that rules it.

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Egypt prevents Al Jazeera journalists from entering Gaza

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - By Yoav Stern - Feb. 04 (News Report) - Egypt on Tuesday prevented two senior Al Jazeera journalists from entering the Gaza Strip through Rafah border, the London-based Arab newspaper Al Quds Al Arabi reported on Wednesday. The two, Ahmad Mansour and Ghassan Bin Jido, said that the Egyptian authorities did not provide an explanation for their decision, and that employees of other media outlets were allowed to cross into the besieged territory without delay.

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Life in Gaza is not 'back to normal'

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - By Amira Hass - Feb. 01 (Investigative Report) - In Gaza today, as students are returning to school and cars are again driving along the roads, the commonplace "life is slowly going back to normal" is more hollow and false than ever.

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For first time, U.S. professors call for academic and cultural boycott of Israel

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - By Raphael Ahren - Jan. 30 (News Report) - the formation of the United States movement marks the first time that a national academic boycott movement has come out of America. Israeli professors are not sure yet how big of an impact the one-week-old movement will have, but started discussing the significance of and possible counteractions against the campaign.

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The war as warm-up act for Obama

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - By Gershom Gorenberg - Jan. 18 (Opinion) - We don't know if the Olmert-Livni-Barak triumvirate deliberately picked that window of opportunity. If so, it already looks like another of the war's mistakes - perhaps the only welcome miscalculation. For instead of preventing American involvement, their decision to go to war on the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration may well force him to intervene in the Israeli-Palestinian arena and push for a diplomatic solution.

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Go your own way

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - By Yossi Sarid - Jan. 16 (Opinion) - You, Barack Hussein Obama, are our last chance, and if that too fades - and evil is determined against us, all hope is lost. We are the prisoner who is stuck in a cell; without the help of others, we will never succeed in extricating ourselves from the bonds of our natural fear and the historical accounting. And there are no "others" except for America, for which no substitute has been found, even in its time of weakness.

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