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January 29th, 2010 | 14 Shevat 5770
Vol. 10, Iss. 52
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‘Better Place’ NETANYAHU: SETTLEMENT BLOCS Man Loaded with Electric Car WILL ALWAYS BE PART OF ISRAEL Weapons and Map of Military Base, Concept Gets a Busted in NJ Large Dose of New Funds
Shai Agassi, founder of Better Place, speaking at the Knesset. JEWISH VOICE STAFF Better Place, the closely watched start-up that hopes to create vast networks of charge spots to power electric cars, is set to receive a vote of conf idence on Monday, in the form of $350 million in new venture capital. lthough Better Place will most likely require billions more in financing, this investment is an important step for the company and its chief, Shai Agassi, Israeli-American software executive who founded the company in 2007. “Better Place is a huge experiment in how you sell and fuel vehicles, and these investors are becoming convinced this will make money,” said Rod Lache, an analyst at Deutsche Bank. “It is a f inancial validation. Now we need to see technical valida-
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu platted in Gush Etzion, Maaleh Adumim and Ariel, proclaimed that Israel will never leave settlement blocs.
BY COMBINED NEWS SERVICES
In three tree-planting ceremonies for the upcoming holiday of Tu B'Shvat - the New Year of the Trees Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said "major settlement blocs" will always be part of the State of Israel. his year, Tu B'Shvat falls on Shabbat so Israelis are planting trees the week before. Sunday's ceremonies took place in Ma'ale Adumim, a suburb of Jerusalem with a population of 37,000, and Kibbutz Kfar Etzion in Gush Etzion. Later in the week, the prime minister planted a tree in Ariel, a city in Samaria with a population of more than 20,000 residents and 10,000 university students. "Our message is clear: We are planting here, we will stay here, we will build here, this place will be an inseparable part of the State of Israel for eternity," Netanyahu said at Kibbutz Kfar Etzion. "This is an idea that is accepted by the
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majority of Israelis," he said. In Ma'ale Adumim, the prime minister said, "We will build here as part of greater Jerusalem." "I came here from Gush Etzion, which is Jerusalem's southern gate," Netanyahu said. "Now we're in Ma'ale Adumim, which is Jerusalem's eastern gate," he said. Shaul Goldstein, chairman of the Gush Etzion Regional Council, called the prime minister's remarks "a very clear statement to the world." "His statements were very powerful and meaningful - that we are going to stay here forever," Goldstein said. At Sunday morning's cabinet meeting, the prime minister encouraged ministers "to go and plant trees in various parts of our country." "I will leave this morning for Gush Etzion and Ma'ale Adumim to plant trees for Tu B'Shvat. We are in the week before Tu B'Shvat. I will also soon go to
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Authorities in the US state of New Jersey announced the arrest of a heavily armed man who stockpiled military-grade weapons in a motel room and possessed the map of a US military facility. BY AFP
Authorities in the US state of New Jersey announced the arrest of a heavily armed man who stockpiled military-grade weapons in a motel room and possessed the map of a US military facility. he man was wearing a bullet-proof vest and carrying a concealed assault rifle, as well as large quantities of ammunition, when he was arrested following a chase in Branchburg, New Jersey, the prosecutor's office said. The suspect, Lloyd Woodson, 43, was confronted by a police patrolman in the early hours of at a Quick Chek discount convenience store. He was "extremely nervous" and
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