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TEL-AVIV, Israel, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Krav Maga is a self-defense and training program honed by the Israelis from years of conflict. Its moves have been used for fitness by celebrities such as Jennifer Lopez, in movies (The Bourne Ultimatum) and in video games (GTA, and recently Splinter Cell, to name a few). Krav Maga can be learned by anyone, quickly and easily. Around 2 years ago, partners Lee Rivnay and Amir Student took Krav Maga training online by launching KravMagaBootCamp.Com....
HAIFA, Israel, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Elbit Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ: ESLT) announced today that it was awarded a contract from the Israeli Ministry of Defence for the establishment of a mission planning center for the Israeli Air Force's (IAF) pilots of F-16C/D and F-16I fighter aircraft. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080408/300441 ) The center will be operated through a PFI (Private Financing Initiative) concept, and will include, among others, a...
New York's First Officially-Recognized Studio Teaching Self-Defense Secrets of the World's Deadliest Fighters Classes and Demo Also Available at Jewish Community Center NEW YORK, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Israeli Krav Maga Association (IKMA), the teaching organization founded by Krav Maga creator Imi Lichtenfeld, announced today the opening of the first studio in New York City dedicated to teaching the officially-sanctioned system of hand-to-hand combat of the Israeli armed forces. Once...
British actress Hellen Mirren will play an agent with the Israeli intelligence group, Mossad, for the movie "The Debt," director John Madden says. The "Shakespeare in Love" director said the 63-year-old star of "The Queen" was the ideal choice to play Rachel Singer, a former Mossad agent who lies for 30 years about the execution of a Nazi war criminal, The Independent reported Saturday. Madden described the lead "Debt" character as "a national celebrity and retired Mossad agent, a...
Text of report by Israeli Channel 2 TV on 10 September [Telephone remarks by IDF Spokesman Avi Bnayahu - live] [Anchor Yonit Levi] We have an update on the Air Force helicopter crash. Brigadier General Avi Bnayahu, the IDF spokesman, is on the line. Good evening. What can you tell us about it? [Bnayahu] Good evening, Yonit. I can sum up the details we have as of now. It was a Israel Air Force's [IAF] Cobra combat helicopter that had taken off in a training formation flight from an IAF base...
Excerpt from report by Israel radio on 16 July Hezbollah has announced that Israeli soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser are dead and transferred their coffins in front of television crews to representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross at the Lebanese side of the Rosh Haniqra border crossing. Israeli representatives will now receive the coffins and start the process of identifying the soldiers' corpses. [passage omitted] The confirmation of Regev and Goldwasser's...
By CAROLINE B. GLICK Last Wednesday's terror attack in Jerusalem was unique. Due to the fact that Husam Taysir Dwayat bulldozed his victims outside of Jerusalem Capitol Studios where many of the foreign television networks have their offices, his was one of only two attacks to have been caught live on camera. The only other attack which was filmed was the lynching of IDF reservists Yosef Avrahami and Vadim Novesche at a Palestinian police station in Ramallah on October 12, 2000....
Text of report by Indian news agency PTI New Delhi, 15 June: Linking left parties' opposition to "strategic alliance" with the US to the cause of Palestine, Communist Party of India - Marxist leader Prakash Karat Sunday [15 June] said India will have to be "disentangled" from a trilateral axis with America and Israel to help the Palestinian struggle. Slamming the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for "continuing to pursue strategic ties with Israel," Karat said the common minimum...
By Sternadori, Miglena Mantcheva The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the war on Iraq and the frequent ethnic conflicts around the world have spurred many news stories about Islam and religious fanaticism. Recently, a new sensation emerged: Muslim women who blow themselves up in suicide bombings were depicted as mysterious figures, sometimes veiled and sometimes in high heels. The Western world was disturbed. At least on the surface, Islamic terrorists had become more gender-liberated than the...
By Luke Baker JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced a low-level inquiry into the Lebanon war on Monday, rejecting a fuller, independent probe that could have led to high-level resignations in the government and military. In a prime-time speech, Olmert acknowledged shortcomings in the way the 34-day campaign against Hizbollah was pursued but said the decision to go to war was his alone and that an inquiry should look at the government's actions not the...
