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Utah man accused in Israel of smuggling artifacts

Last updated Monday, May 23, 2011 - 10:43am

SALT LAKE CITY -- A retired lecturer from Utah says he didn't know he was breaking the law when he was detained in Israel for bringing oil lamps and coins into the country with a tour he was leading of Christian sites.

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(Photo courtesy of Jeff Chadwick) Jeff Chadwick points out some historic spots in Israel

Archaeology: A spiritual dig for Farr West professor

Tom Christensen Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 9:46pm

NOTE: This is the first of several feature stories on members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and their various activities. A special section in advance of General Conference will be in Thursday's Standard-Examiner.

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A Palestinian boy looks at the damage at a smuggling tunnel following an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, on the border between Egypt and southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, March 24, 2011. Israeli aircraft struck militant targets in the Gaza Strip on Thursday in response to rocket and mortar fire, stoking concerns that a grave new round of hostilities will fill the vacuum left by an impasse in Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking.

Gaza militants rocket Israel, drawing reprisals

Amy Teibel, The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 1:02pm

JERUSALEM -- Israeli aircraft struck the Gaza Strip on Thursday in response to militant rocket and mortar attacks, stoking concerns that a grave new round of hostilities will fill the vacuum left by an impasse in Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking.

Two years of relative calm have been unraveling in recent weeks with acts of violence against Israelis -- including a deadly bombing in Jerusalem on Wednesday that killed a British tourist -- and Israeli reprisals against Gaza militants, which in one case killed four Palestinian civilians.

Militants operating near the Israeli border sent at least nine rockets and mortars -- including two rockets that reached the city of Ashdod -- flying at Israeli communities throughout the day, drawing an Israeli airstrike in retaliation. No injuries were reported on either side.

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Bomb rocks Jerusalem bus stop, 25 wounded

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 11:57am

JERUSALEM -- A bomb struck a crowded bus stop in central Jerusalem Wednesday, wounding some 25 people in what authorities said was the first major Palestinian militant attack in the city in several years.

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Palestinians: 4 killed, 13 wounded in Gaza Strip

The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 9:38am

JERUSALEM -- A Palestinian health official says an Israeli military strike killed four people and wounded 13 others in the Gaza Strip.

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7 Palestinians wounded in clash with Israeli army

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 7, 2011 - 11:55am

JERUSALEM -- Palestinians say Israeli soldiers intervening in a clash between West Bank residents and Jewish settlers have opened fire, wounding seven Palestinians.

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Israeli premier thanks pope for clearing Jews of the death of Jesus

McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Friday, March 4, 2011 - 6:22pm

JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday for statements in a forthcoming book exonerating the Jews of responsibility for the death of Jesus Christ.

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Israeli tanks strike Gaza after mortar attack

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 3:37pm

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israeli tank fire wounded 11 people, including at least six militants, in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday following an attack on an Israeli patrol, the military and Palestinian officials said. One of the wounded later died in a hospital.

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Man on donkey killed after firing at Israeli troops

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 10:44am

JERUSALEM -- A Palestinian man opened fire at an Israeli guard post in the West Bank on Thursday and soldiers returned fire, killing him, the military said.

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Palestinians: Israeli troops mistakenly kill man

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 7, 2011 - 10:38am

HEBRON, West Bank -- Israeli troops mistakenly shot and killed a 65-year-old Palestinian man Friday during a predawn raid to arrest a Hamas militant in the West Bank, Palestinian officials said.

Omar Kawasmeh lived on a different floor of the same building, according to security and rescue officials in the city of Hebron.

They spoke on condition of anonymity because no official announcement was made.

Associated Press television footage showed a bloodstained bed and shell casings in the man's bedroom.

In a statement, the Israeli military said it "regrets

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Israeli companies to help build Palestinian city

The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 28, 2010 - 11:08am

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- About 20 Israeli suppliers will help build the first modern Palestinian city in the West Bank but only after promising they will not use products or services from Israeli settlements, the project's developer said Tuesday.

The announcement angered the Jewish settlers, who accused the suppliers of caving in to an international boycott of settlement goods and businesses.

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Israel moves to counter Gaza militants' new weapon

Amy Teibel, The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - 10:43am

JERUSALEM -- Israel will deploy tanks equipped with a new defense system along the Gaza border after Palestinian militants for the first time used a sophisticated, tank-piercing missile believed to be the most advanced weapon in their arsenal.

Israeli defense officials said the laser-guided Kornet came from Iran, the top backer of Gaza's Hamas rulers. Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah guerrillas, also backed by Iran, used the Russian-made Kornets in their 2006 war against Israel, destroying or damaging several dozen Israeli tanks.

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Israel draws international rebuke over settlements

Karin Laub, The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 10:45am

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The European Union, the United Nations and the Arab League have rebuked Israel after its refusal to halt settlement construction forced Washington to drop efforts to relaunch Mideast peace talks.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday stuck to his position that he won't negotiate without a freeze of Jewish settlement building in the West Bank and east Jerusalem -- lands captured by Israel and sought by the Palestinians for their state. He spoke after meeting in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and intelligence chief Omar Suleiman.

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The remains of a bus where dozens of Israelis were killed in a fire is seen on the road near kibbutz Beit Oren, northern Israel, Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. Crews and equipment from around the world began arriving on Friday to help Israel's worst fire ever. The inferno, which also displaced thousands, is still raging through forests in northern Israel and on the outskirts of the country's third largest city, Haifa. (Dan Balilty/Associated Press)

Israel inferno, December 3, 2010

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 3, 2010 - 11:56am

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Israelis suspect arson in small fires

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 3, 2010 - 12:46pm

HAIFA, Israel -- Israeli officials say two small fires that broke out in the same general area where an inferno is raging appear to have been deliberately set but it's unclear if they're connected to the larger forest fire.

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