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Ashdod (Israel)

Type: City

Name: Ashdod (Israel)

Country: Israel

Latitude: 31.799999

Longitude: 34.639999

population: 202,681

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

DP World Ltd

Come together

It’s a sad fact that he who shouts loudest gets heard first. And in ports that can mean that the commercially-facing operations department pulls the strings, sometimes at the expense of the passed over maintenance department.This, says the TT Club, is ... [Published Port Strategy - May 17 2013]

Entities: Ashdod (Israel), Mohammed Sharaf, DP World Ltd, Key Performance Indicator

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Guarding the coastal gate

Israel Navy’s Arena Command Post female controllers monitor all sea traffic and watch for hostile ships.THE MAIN mission of the controllers is to single out hostile boats. Photo: IDF SpokesmanThe IDF’s female controllers sat in the large, darkened Arena ... [Published Jerusalem Post - May 16 2013]

Entities: Marine Vessel, Command Post, Hostile, Dabur, Ashdod (Israel)

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 2 reports

Regulator to declare Haifa, Ashdod ports an oligopoly

Antitrust Authority head Prof. David Gilo sent letters inviting Haifa Port and Ashdod Port to a hearing ahead of declaring them an oligopoly in unloading and loading containers.16 May 13 19:52, Amiram BarkatIsrael Antitrust Authority head Prof. David ... [Published Globes - May 16 2013]

Entities: Ashdod (Israel), Haifa (Israel), Ports

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Leon Panetta

Obama administration to ask for more Iron Dome funds

The Iron Dome defense system firing missiles to intercept incoming rockets from Gaza in the port town of Ashdod, Nov. 15, 2012. Ron KampeasJTA | 0 commentsWASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to ask Congress to fund additions to Israel’s Iron ... [Published Cleveland Jewish news - May 15 2013]

Entities: Iron Dome, Obama Administration, missile, Leon Panetta

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu promised thousands of rental homes - result: 90

In July 2011, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, "We will build thousands of rent-controlled apartments." In practice, only 90 rent-controlled apartments have been marketed, and none have been built.13 May 13 13:03, Moshe LichtmanIn the two years ... [Published Globes - May 13 2013]

Entities: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Rishon Lezion, Rent Control, Ashdod (Israel)

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 1 reports

Bank of Israel

Government Assessor: Apartment prices up 5 percent in first quarter

The average price of a four-room apartment in Tel Aviv has risen 11 percent in the past 12 months, according to the Government Assessor's survey for the first quarter of 2012. Nationwide, the average price of a four-room apartment was 5 percent higher ... [Published Individual.com - May 12 2013]

Entities: Tel Aviv, Bat Yam (Israel), Ministry of Housing, Ashdod (Israel), Bank of Israel

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 5 reports

Israelis protest austerity measures

TEL AVIV, Israel, May 12 (UPI) --Protests took place Saturday night in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem Haifa, Modiin, Rishon Lezion and Ashdod, Israeli media reported.Demonstrators accused Lapid of betraying the middle-class, the sector that voted him into power, ... [Published UPI - May 12 2013]

Entities: protest, Tel Aviv, Israel

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Gas bonanza ushers golden era for refiners

Natural gas flow from Israel's new giant offshore field giving country's two refineries new lease of life, as they no longer require more expensive fuel oil to power their energy-intensive facilitiesReuters05.11.13, 08:48 / Israel BusinessNatural gas ... [Published Ynet News - May 11 2013]

Entities: Israel, Refinery, Natural Gas

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Everything You Need to Know about the World’s Holiest City

Israel’s capital, Jerusalem, is also its largest city. Its surface area comes to about 31 thousand acres, and in 2011 it had 804,400 residents, 499,400 Jews (62%), 281,000 Muslim (35%), 14,700 Christian (about 2%), 9,000 without religious classification ... [Published Jewish Press - May 07 2013]

Entities: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ashdod (Israel)

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Photos: Soviet Jews in the Red Army

, Soviet Jewish World War Two veteran Boris Ginsburg poses for a portrait at his house in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod. Ginsburg, born in Belorussia, was kept by a German garrison in the Lenin ghetto since 1941 until its destruction by partisan ... [Published Yahoo! News - May 06 2013]

Entities: Red Army, World War II, Ashdod (Israel), Israel, Demobilization

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Officially sanctioned idleness reflects the rot at Israel's ports

Pilots who direct ships into docks are paid handsomely to be on call at home - another sign that the ports urgently need reform. A week ago, cement imports ceased after ships arriving at Ashdod had to wait more than a week and a half. At one point, at ... [Published Haaretz - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Ports, Israel, Ashdod (Israel)

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

Israel’s population tops 8 million

, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported on April 14. That represents a nearly 10-fold increase since the founding of the state in 1948, when it stood at only 806,000.According to the new data, the Jewish population is about 6,042,000 (75.3 percent ... [Published Jewish News Weekly - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Israel, Tel Aviv, Central Bureau of Statistics, Ashdod (Israel), Haifa (Israel)

Quotes

"Even if they gave a million shekels to each worker, the right to strike, or the right to unionise, or the right to protest is holy" he said. "It is above all the money in the world."

FEATURE-Seaport battle looms as Israel plans new competition [Published CNBC - May 16 2013]

"The Department of Defense has been in conversations with the Government of Israel about U S support for the acquisition of additional Iron Dome systems and intends to request an appropriate level of funding from Congress to support such acquisitions based on Israeli requirements and production capacity" U S Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in a statement Tuesday

Obama administration to ask for more Iron Dome funds [Published Cleveland Jewish news - May 15 2013]

Dr Asaf Tsoer, ecologist at Southern District Nature and Park Authority of Israel, said: "We need to understand that this train passes through one of our biggest nature reserves in an area that we are protecting and fighting to protect for a very long time. It goes near the natural equators which can only be found in Israel and in Sinai, and they pass through a lot of archaeological sites."

Israel's railway plan set to boost China's trade in Middle East, Europe [Published Channel NewsAsia - May 15 2013]

McKinney said it's "incredibly black: populated mostly by Ethiopians who also had a dream." They traveled to Israel for it. Instead, they were denied and imprisoned

Israeli Lobby Power in America [Published Mathaba.net - May 15 2013]

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