Since the beginning of the second Intifada the DFLP has carried out a number of shooting attacks against Israeli targets, such as the 25 August 2001 attack on a military base in Gaza that killed three Israeli soldiers and wounded seven others.

The situation is further complicated by the Israeli West Bank barrier, which has separated certain parts of the West Bank such that they have become contiguous with sovereign Israel.

The ceremony includes speeches by senior Israeli officials, an artistic presentation, a ritual march of flag-carrying soldiers forming elaborate structures ( such as a Menorah, a Magen David and the number which represents the age of the State of Israel ) and the lighting of twelve beacons ( one for each of the Tribes of Israel ).

Staffan de Misura, Personal Representative of the Secretary-General for Southern Lebanon stated that he was " deeply concerned that air violations by Israel across the Blue Line during altercations with Hezbollah are continuing to take place ", calling " upon the Israeli authorities to cease such violations and to fully respect the Blue Line ".

In the 1990s and 2000s, Israeli counter-terror units such as the YAMAM used the 33-round Glock 18 magazine with their Para Micro Uzi machine pistols.

Israel's official policy at the time was to refuse to negotiate with terrorists under any circumstances, as according to the Israeli government such negotiations would give an incentive to future attacks.

The Bavarian interior minister Bruno Merk, who headed the crisis centre jointly with Genscher and Munich's police chief Manfred Schreiber, denies that such an Israeli offer ever existed.

Reeve also writes that while Israeli officials have stated Operation Wrath of God was intended to exact vengeance for the families of the athletes killed in Munich, “ few relatives wanted such a violent reckoning with the Palestinians .” Reeve states the families were instead desperate to know the truth of the events surrounding the Munich massacre.

They accuse of moral equivalence those who describe acts of Palestinian terrorism, such as suicide bombing against civilians, on one hand, and the retaliatory acts of the Israeli Defense Forces, on the other, as equally reprehensible.

# Providing substantive and administrative support to human rights fact-finding and investigatory mechanisms, such as special rapporteurs, representatives and experts and working groups mandated by the Commission on Human Rights and / or the Economic and Social Council to deal with specific country situations or phenomena of human rights violations worldwide, as well as the General Assembly's Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories ;

Some Israeli pizza differs from pizza in other countries because of the very large portions of vegetable toppings such as mushrooms or onions, and some unusual toppings, like corn or labane, and middle-Eastern spices, such as za ' atar.

Pro-Palestinian groups said that the church maintained the opportunity to engage and potentially divest from companies that support the Israeli occupation, because such support would be considered inappropriate according to the customary MRTI process.

The Israeli Rabbinate has recently approved women acting as yoatzot, halakhic advisers on sensitive personal matters such as family purity.

Similar solutions are active protection systems, engaging closing projectiles such as the Russian Drozd and Arena, as well as the recent Israeli Trophy system.

However, Lebanese resistance groups such as Hezbollah use it to justify attacks against Israeli forces in that region, creating a potentially dangerous flashpoint along the Lebanon-Israeli border.

This was the first such Israeli attack deep inside Syrian territory since the 1973 war.

Tanks such as the Israeli Makmat on the M4 Sherman tank chassis have also mounted mortars.

In 2003, on notification by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, about 500 Christians, Muslims, Jews and other international and interfaith tourists joined the Unification Church Middle East Peace Initiative " to such a degree that the Old Gates were opened by the Israeli police near the Wailing Wall, and by the Muslim leadership at Al Aqsa, without incident ", as the official UN-report says.

According to Said Aburish, the government of Jordan and a number of Fatah commandos informed Arafat that large-scale Israeli military preparations for an attack on the town were underway, prompting fedayeen groups, such as George Habash's newly formed group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) and Nayef Hawatmeh's breakaway organization the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ), to withdraw their forces from the town.

The AGM-114 has been the munition of choice for airborne targeted killings that have included high-profile figures such as Ahmed Yassin ( Hamas leader ) in 2004 by the Israeli Air Force and ; Anwar al-Awlaki ( American-born Islamic cleric and Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader ) in Yemen in 2011,

During the beginning of the war he was the commander of the Harel Brigade, which fought on the road to Jerusalem from the coastal plain, including the Israeli " Burma Road ", as well as many battles in Jerusalem, such as securing the southern side of the city by recapturing kibbutz Ramat Rachel.

According to the Israeli Human Rights activists, Jewish settlements in the Ramallah area, such as Beit El and Psagot, prevented the expansion of the city and cut it off from the surrounding villages.

In fact this situation has only been historically realized temporarily such as in the Israeli kibbutz or the very early Soviets before the adoption of state capitalism and entrenchment of the communist party as a New Class, or in isolated or preliminary form such as in the final phase of the Second Spanish Republic, or various experimental utopian communities ; although in embryonic form.

* 1978 – Boris Avrukh, Israeli chess grandmaster

In addition to King Hussein, Turkish President Süleyman Demirel, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, US President Bill Clinton, and Russian President Boris Yeltsin were present at the summit.

Israeli grandmaster Boris Gelfand is the current Chess World Cup holder.

Ruslan Ponomariov got one more second place by tie-break that year in the Khanty-Mansiysk World Cup, where he reached the final against Israeli Boris Gelfand.

Chairman Harvey Pitt and Mary Schapiro ; London Mayor Boris Johnson ; Israel's Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz ; Israeli President Shimon Peres ; and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar.

Claims of human rights abuses, and state sponsored terrorism have caused some consternation, but on a more practical level the country's history of not allowing entry to citizens of Israel has been of some concern, as three Israeli players ( Boris Gelfand, Emil Sutovsky and Ilia Smirin ) had either qualified for the championships or were high on the list of reserves ( in the event of qualifiers choosing not to play ).

Several prominent figures have criticized FIDE over this matter, with both Grandmaster Boris Gulko, a Jew with joint American and Israeli citizenship, and Beatriz Marinello, president of the United States Chess Federation writing open letters to FIDE criticizing their handling of the issue.

This assurance was never put to the test, however: none of the qualified players took part in the championship and Boris Gulko, who has joint American and Israeli citizenship, withdrew from the event after initially indicating he played ( fellow Americans Alexander Shabalov and Alexander Onischuk also withdrew in sympathy with the concerns of Gulko and others ).

Boris Alterman ( born May 4, 1970, in Kharkiv, Ukraine ) is an Israeli chess Grandmaster, FIDE Senior Trainer ( 2010 ), advisor of the Junior chess program.

* Boris Gelfand, Israeli chess Grandmaster

Boris Shusteff invokes it in a conservative opposition to Israeli withdrawal from occupied settlements.

At the same time, a team of Jewish teenagers from New York City traveled to Israel to face Boris Mindel's Metula team, and later invited the Israeli juniors to tour the Northeastern United States and Canada with them, giving the Israeli juniors their first exposure to North American competition.

* Boris Yoffe ( born 1968 ), Russian-born Israeli composer

Boris Abramovich Gelfand (; ; born 24 June 1968 ) is a Belarusian-born Israeli chess Grandmaster.

In 2011, Goldberg was announced as one of four great Israeli poets who would appear on Israel's currency ( together with Rachel Bluwstein, Shaul Tchernichovsky, and Natan Alterman ).

* Nathan Alterman ( 1910 – 70 ), Israeli poet, journalist, and translator

An example is Shir Hamitpachat, (" Song of the Kerchief ") a Polish song by Jerzy Petersburski ( Niebieska chusteczka, Sinij Platochek, синий платочек ) with Hebrew lyrics by the Israeli poet and lyricist Natan Alterman.

Israeli poet Natan Alterman

The well-known Israeli poet Nathan Alterman wrote a poem about Benjamin of Tudela, which was set to music by Naomi Shemer and was often heard on the Israeli radio.

Ran Alterman ( born 1980-04-27 ) is an Israeli triathlete who-in association with his identical twin brother Dan-dominates the arena of Israeli triathlons.

The lyrics are by the modern Israeli poet and lyricist Natan Alterman, to a traditional tune.

Nathan Alterman (, August 14, 1910, Warsaw – March 28, 1970, Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli poet, playwright, journalist, and translator who – though never holding any elected office – was highly influential in Socialist Zionist politics, both before and after the establishment of the State of Israel.