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Palestinian prisoner release on track after High Court ruling

Israel was set to free 26 Palestinian prisoners within hours to help underpin renewed peace talks, after its High Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal against their release by relatives of some of the Israelis they killed.

Palestinians escalate hunger-strike in Israel jails

Hundreds of Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli jails said on Friday they would shun vitamin supplements and prison clinics in an escalation of their mass protest against detention conditions.

Are Palestinians ‘partying’ in Israeli prisons?

In the wake of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit’s release after being held captive in Gaza by Hamas for five years, Israelis are grappling with the question of what to do if another Israeli soldier or civilian is kidnapped. Currently, one of the most popular ideas being bandied about is to exert counter-pressure by making life harder for Palestinian security prisoners in Israeli prisons now.

The plot to kill Hitler becomes a Tom Cruise thriller

The film reconstructs the July 20, 1944, assassination attempt on the Fuhrer\’s life, which, had it succeeded, would have spared the lives of untold thousands of soldiers and death-camp inmates

First Person: Rivky and Gabi were truly special people

Before I entered the Chabad house in Mumbai, I thought, \”What kind of people would leave a comfortable and secure life in a religious community to live in the middle of Mumbai; a dirty, difficult, crowded city?\” As I got to know Rivky and Gabi over the course of this past summer, I understood that G-d creates some truly special people willing to devote their lives to bettering the world.

Iran gets away with murder

In the summer of 1988, Iran put thousands of political prisoners to death after a desperate cease-fire agreement was reached to end the 1980-1988 war with Iraq.

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