Thursday 8 April 2010

Top political figures face arrest in sensational Israeli real estate graft case 
DEBKAfile Special Report April 8, 2010, 10:28 AM (GMT+02:00) 
Tags:  Ehud Olmert   Jerusalem  
Jerusalem Holyland Towers


Israeli police want to question at least two prominent Israelis, some traveling overseas, on bribery and corruption charges in the Jerusalem Holyland real estate case, after arresting the lawyer Uri Messer, a longtime partner of Ehud Olmert, ex-prime minister and former Jerusalem mayor, Wednesday, April 7.  Notwithstanding the court gag order, the revelations spilling out about the lead characters involved bespeak financial corruption on an unprecedented scale whose ramifications intrude on national politics.




Obama's Middle East drive heads for a fall
DEBKAfile DEBKA-Net-Weekly
April 6, 2010, 6:44 PM (GMT+02:00) 

Tags:  Middle East peace   Obama 

The Middle East: No, he can't.


Behind the Jerusalemimpasse, US president Barack Obama is pushing the Middle Easthard into another sweeping territorial redesign as the cure-all for all its troubles. The unpublished details of Obama's super-plan are revealed in DEBKA-Net-Weekly's coming issue out next Friday - together with the reasons why Israelis, Palestinians and other Arab forces will reject it.

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Ashkenazi ends tenure as Israel's top soldier February. Galant leading candidate
DEBKAfile Special Report
April 6, 2010, 9:14 PM (GMT+02:00) 

Tags:  Gen. Ashkenazi   Gen. Galant 

Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi bows out in February


Defense minister Ehud Barak informed Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi Tuesday, April 6, that his four-year tenure as IDF chief of staff would not be extended when it runs out next February. Barak and prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu decided that Israel needed a tougher and more hawkish military leader with Iran racing for a nuclear bomb and threats from its allies.
Maj. Gen. Yoav Galant, OC Southern Command, is top candidate.

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