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Israel's American football team plays 1st game

Last updated Friday, May 18, 2012 - 3:24pm

PETAH TIKVA, Israel -- There were no cheerleaders, tailgaters and not that many spectators. The gridiron was marked over a baseball diamond and the home side scored one touchdown while conceding seven.

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Israel legalizes West Bank settler outposts

Amy Teibel The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 11:56am

JERUSALEM -- Israel legalized three unsanctioned West Bank settler outposts and was trying to save another on Tuesday, infuriating the Palestinians as the chief American Mideast envoy was in the region laboring to revive peace efforts.

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Following a joint worship service and potluck luncheon April 29 at Elim Lutheran Church, 575 23rd St. in Ogden, Pastor Jill Minnich, of Ogden Japanese Christian Church, will present a travelogue of her trip to the Holy Land.

Lutheran, Japanese Christian churches to hold joint service

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, April 20, 2012 - 4:59pm

OGDEN -- Elim Lutheran Church and Ogden Japanese Christian Church are inviting the public to celebrate with them as they meet together for a special joint service April 29.

The service will begin at 10 a.m. at Elim Lutheran Church, 575 23rd St.

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Israeli shooter uses web to finance Olympic bid

Aaron Heller The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, April 1, 2012 - 7:30pm

HERZLIYA, Israel -- For more than seven hours a day, Sergey Richter stares through a sight and repeatedly fires bullets into bulls-eyes far in the distance. He's also been taking aim at a target far more difficult: raising enough money to compete in the Olympics.

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Israelis, Palestinians battle over football player

Dalia Nammari, Jeremy Last The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 19, 2012 - 7:05pm

SHFARAM, Israel -- Depending on whom you ask, Ali Khatib is either a superstar football player, a national traitor or both.

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An Airport Security officer talks to a tourist during a patrol at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. Thai police said Friday they are searching for two more suspects, including a possible explosives specialist, in a botched terror plot against Israeli diplomats that has been blamed on Iran. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand: Iranians planned to attack Israelis

Jocelyn Gecker, Thanyarat Doksone The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, February 17, 2012 - 11:14am

BANGKOK — Three Iranians detained after accidentally setting off explosives in Bangkok were planning to attack Israeli diplomats, Thailand’s top policeman said Thursday in the first confirmation by local officials that the group was plotting attacks in Thailand.

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A Thai Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) official examines a backpack that was left on the bomb site by a suspected bomber in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. Thai police say two explosions have occurred in a Bangkok neighborhood. But it was not immediately clear what caused the blasts or wether there were an fatalities. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Iranian blows off legs in Bangkok blast

Thanyarat Doksone, Todd Pitman The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 11:03am

BANGKOK -- An Iranian man carrying grenades blew off his own legs and wounded four civilians in a trio of blasts that shook a busy Bangkok neighborhood on Tuesday, Thai authorities said.

The explosions came a day after an Israeli diplomatic car was bombed in India -- an attack Israel blamed on Iran. Authorities say its unclear whether Tuesday's Bangkok explosions were linked to the New Delhi attack, but Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said, "we can't rule out any possibility."

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An injured person is carried from a burning car belonging to the Israeli Embassy following an explosion in New Delhi, India, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. The wife of an Israeli diplomat was injured in the explosion, the same day as an Israeli Embassy staffer in Georgia found a bomb underneath his car, which was dismantled before exploding, according to Indian and Israeli media reports. (AP Photo/Joji Thomas, Economic Times)

Bombers target Israeli diplomats

Josef Federman The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, February 13, 2012 - 10:34am

JERUSALEM -- Assailants attacked Israeli diplomatic targets in India and Georgia in near-simultaneous strikes on Monday, wounding two people in a car bombing in New Delhi, officials said. Israel's Foreign Ministry said an attempted car bombing in Georgia was thwarted when the device was discovered before it went off.

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This undated photo released by Iranian Fars News Agency, claims to show Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, who they say was killed in a bomb blast in Tehran, Iran, on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012, next to his son. Two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to the car of an Iranian university professor working at a key nuclear facility, killing him and his driver Wednesday, reports said. The slayings suggest a widening covert effort to set back Iran's atomic program. The blast killed Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, state TV reported. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency)

Another Iranian nuclear scientist killed; Israel blamed

Sheera Frenkel McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Friday, January 13, 2012 - 3:49pm

JERUSALEM -- An Iranian scientist working at a key nuclear facility in that country was killed Wednesday in Tehran, the latest act in what appears to be a widening covert effort to disrupt Iran's nuclear program.

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FILE - In this Dec. 31, 2007 file photo, a view of the excavation site known as the City of David, bottom, with the background of the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan near Jerusalem's Old City is seen. A hard-line Israeli group is launching plans for a new tourist center at the City of David, a politically sensitive archaeological dig in a largely Arab neighborhood outside Jerusalem's Old City, officials said Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File)

Tourist center planned at sensitive Jerusalem site

Matti Friedman The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 11:04am

JERUSALEM -- A hard-line Israeli group said Tuesday it was launching plans for a new tourist center at the site of a politically sensitive archaeological dig in a largely Arab neighborhood outside Jerusalem's Old City, drawing fire from Palestinian officials.

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Palestinians examine the damage at a mosque in the West Bank Village of Burqa near Ramallah, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. Vandals set fire to another mosque in the West Bank on Thursday and defaced it with Hebrew graffiti. Suspicion fell on Jewish extremists widely assumed to be behind stepped-up violence against Palestinians and the Israeli military. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Vandals torch second Palestinian mosque

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 11:23am

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Vandals set fire to a mosque in the West Bank on Thursday and defaced it with Hebrew graffiti a day after a similar arson attack on a Jerusalem mosque. Suspicion fell on Jewish extremists widely assumed to be behind stepped-up violence against Palestinians and the Israeli military.

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Palestinian hit in face by tear gas canister dies

Diaa Hadid The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, December 10, 2011 - 9:44am

JERUSALEM -- A Palestinian protester who was struck in the face by a tear gas canister fired by an Israeli soldier at close range died of his wounds Saturday, activists said, accusing the army of using disproportionate force.

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A Palestinian youth inspects the damage in a house following an Israeli air strike on a nearby Hamas training camp in Gaza City, early Friday, Dec. 9, 2011. Israeli aircraft fired missiles at militant facilities in the Gaza Strip early Friday, killing a Palestinian civilian and wounding more than 20 others, Gaza officials said, as a new round of violence in the area threatened to escalate into a wider confrontation. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Rockets hit Israel after fighting flares in Gaza

Matti Friedman The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 9, 2011 - 10:25am

JERUSALEM -- Palestinian militants fired three rockets into Israel on Friday, the Israeli military said, hours after an airstrike against a Hamas target in Gaza killed a Palestinian civilian.

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Palestinians gather around the wreckage of a car targeted in an airstrike in Gaza City, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. Two suspected Islamic militants were killed in an Israeli missile strike on their vehicle near a crowded public park in Gaza City on Thursday, a Palestinian health official said. Israel's military had no immediate comment. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Israeli strike kills 2 suspected militants in Gaza

Ibrahim Barzak The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 10:43am

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- An Israeli airstrike on a car near a crowded park in downtown Gaza City killed two militants on Thursday, the second missile strike this week after a period of relative calm along the Israel-Gaza border.

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Israeli airstrike kill 5 Gaza militants

Ian Deitch The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, October 29, 2011 - 8:03am

JERUSALEM -- Israeli aircraft killed 5 Palestinian militants from the Islamic Jihad group whom it says were responsible for recent rocket attacks on Israel, the military said Saturday.

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