DEBKAfile Special Report October 27, 2012, 12:39 AM (GMT+02:00)
Salafist funeral at Sheikh Zuweid, Sinai
Egypt handed over to Israel Friday night, Oct. 27, the body of a 43-year old Israeli man found on a northern Sinai beach near Sheikh Zuweid. The body was taken to the Institute of Forensic Pathology to discover his identity when a gunshot wound was found to be the cause of death - not drowning as first believed. Last Wednesday,DEBKAfile reported Israeli, Egyptian and US Middle East counter-terror forces declared a high alert for attacks in Sinai around the feast of Eid al-Adha.
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Shifting political alliances in the wake of Netanyahu’s new bloc
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October 26, 2012, 6:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
President Peres and political hopeful Tzipi Livni
Israel’s political parties are on the move and eyeing new alliances in the wake of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s surprise announcement of a merger between his Likud and Avigdor Lieberman’s Israel Beitenu ahead of the general election in January. Netanyahu is eying the brand new Future party headed by ex-journalist Yair Lapid as a third prospective partner in his post-election cabinet. Labor under its new leader Shelly Yachimovich is resurgent and on the lookout for satellites. But the new Likud Beitunu list is still front-runner.
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