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Former Israeli premier Ariel Sharon died in hospital near Tel Aviv Saturday after eight years in a coma, prompting a flood of tributes in Israel but contempt from Palestinians. He was 85. “He’s gone,” his son Gilad told reporters at the Sheba Medical…

Several thousand African asylum seekers who entered Israel illegally via Egypt staged a peaceful protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday, police said. The demonstrators denounced the refusal of the authorities to grant them refugee status, as well as holding…