Terrorism

Analysis: From our Foreign Editor

By Daniella Peled, November 27, 2008

This is far from the first mass terror attack in Mumbai, India's sprawling financial capital. Just two years ago, 200 people were killed in bomb attacks on the city's trains, blamed on a Pakistani and Indian Islamist groups.

But last night's atrocity was different.

This was an extremely well co-ordinated strike, featuring teams of gunmen attacking specific targets.

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Hostages released from Chabad House

November 27, 2008

Many of the Jewish hostages held by Islamic terrorists are understood to have been released from the Chabad House in Mumbai.

Israeli TV had reported that one of the hostages was forced at gunpoint to call the Israeli embassy in New Delhi with the captors' demand for the release of Islamic terrorists from Indian jails.

Full details are unclear. But among the hostages taken early on Thursday morning was rabbi Gabriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka.

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Alert system widened as Kassams continue

By Ben Lynfield, November 20, 2008

The port city of Ashdod, 24 km north of the Gaza border, was this week connected to the rocket alert system already in use in Ashkelon and Sderot. It is an acknowledgement that threats by Palestinian militants to bring it within range are being taken seriously.

The move comes as an escalation of fighting continued to shake the five- month-old ceasefire between Israel and Hamas along the Gaza border.

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Arrest over 1980 bombing

November 20, 2008

A sociology professor has been arrested by Canadian police in connection with the 1980 bombing of a Paris shul in which four people were killed and more than 20 wounded. University of Ottawa lecturer, Hassan Diab, 54, was arrested in Gatineau, Quebec. Two French judges had issued a warrant against him.

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Baroness Neville-Jones: Israel has lessons for UK on security

By Dana Gloger, September 16, 2008

Shadow security minister Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones has said that Israel "had shown the world" how to deal with terrorism while maintaining democracy.

The former head of the UK's joint intelligence committee, who is now the national security adviser to Conservative leader David Cameron, said Britain could learn from Israel on how to handle terrorist threats and said she believed co-operation between the two countries to be close.

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Romanians rule Israel ‘too risky’

August 28, 2008

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has complained to the Romanian government after a Bucharest court ruled that two Israeli-born children could not be repatriated due to the danger of terrorism.

Shimon Samuels, the centre's director for international relations, expressed "deep concern" over the case of Tel Aviv-born Ilan, 4, and Ella Rabban, aged 5. He noted that, "apparently, the court has decided that these two Israeli infants, who were removed to Romania by their mother, may not be repatriated ‘as Israel is a country that is the object of terrorism'".

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7/7 survivor gets the community talking

By Marcus Dysch, August 22, 2008

London area synagogues have been key backers of the WalkTalk community cohesion initiative launched by a woman who lost both legs in the 7/7 bombings.

Gill Hicks - who now has prosthetic legs - has spent the past month covering the 200 miles from Leeds to London with her husband Joe Kerr and a variety of supporters. Their aim has been to promote dialogue between people of different backgrounds while walking together, or during refreshment breaks.

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Crackdown call after bulldozer rampage

By Anshel Pfeffer, July 25, 2008

An Arab bulldozer driver has gone on the rampage in Jerusalem in the second incident in three weeks, bringing renewed calls for restrictions on the capital’s Palestinian civilians.

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Terrorism bill passed by Knesset

July 18, 2008

A bill that would allow the Interior Minister to revoke the citizenship of anyone convicted of offences relating to terrorism has been approved by a Knesset committee.A further bill ending state payments for the burials of terrorists was also approved by a separate committee.

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Palestinian brings terror to Jaffa Road

By Anshel Pfeffer, July 2, 2008

A six-month-old baby was saved by two passers-by on Wednesday moments after her mother was crushed to death as a Palestinian terrorist drove a bulldozer into Jerusalem traffic.

The mother, Bat Sheva Unterman, was one of three people murdered by 31-year-old construction worker Husam Dwiat in a bloody rampage.

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