(1) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(2) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
(3) He fashioned alliances with France in the 1950s, and planted the seeds for Israel’s embryonic electronics and aircraft industries.
(4) This is the first archaeological evidence of operative dentistry in ancient Israel, as well as the earliest date for this specific treatment in the world.
(5) Officials in Israel, using intermediaries in Europe, tried to reach out to Ayatollah Khamenei, via Khatami.
(6) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
(7) This is what President Carter did when he raised the spectre of terminating US military assistance if Israel did not immediately evacuate Lebanon in September 1977.
(8) It said: “We will be seeking to inform and encourage dialogue about Israel and the Palestinians in the wider cultural and creative community.
(9) Israel’s president has told his Mexican counterpart that he was “sorry for the hurt” over a tweet in which the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, appeared to praise Donald Trump’s plans to build a wall on the US-Mexican border.
(10) As long as Israel refuses to cease settlement activities and to the release of the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners in accordance with our agreements, they leave us no choice but to insist that we will not remain the only ones committed to the implementation of these agreements, while Israel continuously violates them,” Abbas said.
(11) Abe Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, a vigorous defender of Israel, called the speech “ill-advised”.
(12) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
(13) The announcement comes amid mounting frustration in the international community over Israel’s continued settlement activity, regarded by many countries as illegal.
(14) Other Hamas demands include the rebuilding of Gaza international airport, which Israel destroyed in 2001 , the release of prisoners and the reopening of the “safe passage” to the West Bank.
(15) Egged on by Israel, Trump has threatened to tear up Obama’s landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
(16) We studied the incidence and mortality of stroke in northern Israel to determine possible reasons for the differences previously found in mortality from this condition between the sex and ethnic groups in Israel as a whole.
(17) In an article for the Nation, Chomsky courts controversy by arguing that parallels drawn between campaigns against Israel and apartheid-era South Africa are misleading and that a misguided strategy could damage rather than help Israel's victims.
(18) Israel's control of a huge swath of the West Bank is costing the Palestinian economy $3.4bn (£2.1bn) a year, or 35% of its GDP, according to a report from the World Bank .
(19) The disease has been confined to sub-Saharan Africa, until it recently appeared in epizootic form in Egypt and in Israel.
(20) They are also deeply disappointed in the lack of pressure exerted on Israel by the US.
Shekel
Definition:
(n.) An ancient weight and coin used by the Jews and by other nations of the same stock.
(n.) A jocose term for money.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have already instructed to stop about 30m shekels (£6.3m) in funding to five UN bodies that are especially hostile to Israel ... and there is more to come,” he said, without giving any further details.
(2) Construction costs are expected to vastly exceed the 1.3bn-shekel (£224m) budget.
(3) What can a few shekels do at the end of the day?” Hanan asks.
(4) Then the Red Cross got in contact and said he was in an Israeli prison.” There, Mohammed received two salaries: the 400 shekels a month paid to prisoners by the Palestinian Authority, and another 400 from prison work.
(5) Olmert was found guilty in 2014 of two bribery charges – accepting 500,000 shekels (£90,000) from developers of a Jerusalem real estate project and 60,000 shekels in a separate land deal.
(6) Stanley Fischer, Israel's central bank governor (3 October) There is no doubt that without intervention the shekel would be much stronger.
(7) Chicken – this large one cost 60 shekels (£10.60) – is a once-a-week treat.
(8) The prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, said the decision by his rightwing cabinet to allocate the extra 70 million shekels was in response to concerns about the security of existing Israeli settlements.
(9) The family say they receive 1,500 shekels (£250), from the Hamas government, approximately every three months.
(10) Ruling in December on his appeal, the supreme court said it had not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Olmert had solicited the 500,000 shekels, and cut his jail term to 18 months.
(11) According to the central bureau of statistics, 41% of Israelis are in a constant state of overdraft with more than a third owing at least 10,000 shekels (£1,650), and most blaming the high cost of living.
(12) They never reach 10 shekels a day,” says Diab, who adds: “I don’t support Fatah or Hamas – they don’t do anything for the population … We just crave a normal life, like anyone outside of Gaza.
(13) Now the company has demanded payment of the bill, which has risen to 9m shekels including interest.
(14) A virgin automatically becomes the wife of her rapist, who is then required to pay the victim’s father 50 shekels for the loss of his property rights.
(15) Roi's monthly take-home pay of 5,500 shekels (£940) went on nursery fees for their two young daughters, she said.
(16) Five thousand years ago, a shekel was a unit of weight – usually barley.
(17) The ministerial committee for legislation passed two bills, one of which limits all funding for non-governmental organisations from foreign bodies, including the United Nations, to 20,000 shekels (£3,300) a year.
(18) The Israeli prime minister unveiled the proposal during a tour of the Jordan border area in Israel’s south, adding that the project – which would cost billions of shekels – would also be aimed at solving the problem of Hamas infiltration tunnels from Gaza, a recent source of renewed concern.
(19) You can’t pass the checkpoint with a shekel [coin] let alone a knife.
(20) The church, which attracts more than 1 million pilgrims each year, has been issued with a 9m shekel (£1.5m) water bill, backdated 15 years to when the supply was taken over by a new company, Hagihon.