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Secret South African documents have revealed that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing official documentary evidence of Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons.Secret South African documents have revealed that Israel offered to sell nuclear... more
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Israeli President Shimon Peres has chosen hard-line Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu to form a new government.Israeli President Shimon Peres has chosen hard-line Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu to... more
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Tzipi Livni's centrist Kadima party has the upper hand on Netanyahu's right wing party so far. Livni is trying to negotiate a peace settlement to set up a Palestinian state but Netanyahu . Livni is seen as a new kind of corruption-free politician.Tzipi Livni's centrist Kadima party has the upper hand on Netanyahu's right... more
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Israeli President Shimon Peres is likely to ask Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to try to form a new coalition government, a Peres spokeswoman said on Monday, a day after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert resigned.
A statement issued by Peres's office said preparations were under way at the president's residence for a ceremony at 7:30 p.m. (1630 GMT) at which he would announce his choice.
"(Peres) is meeting with many factions today, and something might change, so I can't say for sure he will choose Tzipi Livni, but that's how it's looking," Peres spokeswoman Ayelet Frish told Army Radio.
Peres sounded out parliamentary faction leaders on their preferences for prime minister or whether they wanted an early election ahead of a national ballot due in 2010.
The political uncertainty has dimmed even further prospects of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, which the United States had hoped Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas could achieve this year.
Olmert, who could face criminal indictment in corruption probes, submitted his resignation to Peres on Sunday, but will remain in office until a new government is in place.
He was replaced as the head of the ruling Kadima party by Livni, who narrowly won an internal election on Wednesday.
If Peres gives her the nod, she will have 42 days to build a coalition and become Israel's first woman prime minister since Golda Meir in the 1970s. Failure would likely lead to a parliamentary election.
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Israel's president, Shimon Peres, has warned the prime minister that a military attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities could provoke a broader conflict.
Peres is the first senior politician to advise Ehud Olmert against such an attack at a time of growing tension when other leading figures are threatening airstrikes unless Tehran halts its nuclear programme.
The Israeli air force has rehearsed an operation to destroy sites connected with the project.
“The military way will not solve the problem,” said Peres, the 85-year-old founder of the Jewish state’s nuclear programme, in an interview with The Sunday Times.
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Shimon Peres' dream of a new Middle East...brings you this Valley of Peace Project -- creating a canal between Jordan and Israel could nourish the world! I believe;-)Shimon Peres' dream of a new Middle East...brings you this Valley of Peace... more
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The acclaimed American filmmaker David Lynch has brought his own distinctive style to the issue of Middle East peace in a meeting with the Israeli President, Shimon Peres.
Lynch, whos well-known for films such as Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and the Twin Peaks television series, told Peres he wanted to help bring peace to the region.
The filmmaker has been an advocate of transcendental meditation for more than three decades and he told the Israeli president that the practice could provide the Jewish state and the Middle East with better protection than armies.
Peres, a veteran of politics and conflict, welcomed Lynchs perspective and his visit, although he did appear bemused by the proposals.
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President Shimon Peres and Defense Minister Ehud Barak slammed the phenomenon of youths shirking their military service at the unveiling of a monument in northern Israel commemorating the 2,200 fallen soldiers from the kibbutz movement.
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