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Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz called, Thursday, for Israeli law to be applied in Judea and Samaria and to cut off relations with the Palestinian Authority (PA). Responding to reports about Hamas entering the Palestine Liberation Organization, the parent to the PA, the Likud lawmaker said, "Recently I heard that Hamas celebrated its 30th anniversary and that it was proud it had murdered 1,350 Jews. I have not heard of people who celebrate the murder of Jews since the period of the Nazis." During a ceremony in Karnei Shomron, in which he was given honory citizenship of the town and named...

Obama gets in a round of golf on Saturday By Jamie Klatell - 06/04/11 04:21 PM ET President Obama headed to the golf course at Andrews Air Force Base on Saturday for an afternoon game. Energy Department official David Katz, White House trip director Marvin Nicholson and staffer Michael Brush rounded out the president's foursome. Obama has a big golf outing coming in the near future. He and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) will play together, a spokesman for the Speaker confirmed on Friday. The two will hit the links on Saturday, June 18, in Washington D.C.

The business of memorializing our war dead done, President Obama headed out to the Fort Belvoir golf course today, finding his way onto the links for the ninth weekend in a row. Obama earlier today laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and met with families of those killed in battle. But he emerged from the day’s solemnity to go golfing for the 12th time this year and the 70th time of his presidency. The decision to golf on Memorial Day invites comparison with President George W. Bush, who gave up the game early in his presidency...

Obama Golfs for the Fifth Weekend in a Row The 2011 Obama golf season is off to a a roaring start, with the president headed out today for the fifth time in as many weeks. This is Obama’s 66th time golfing as president and his eighth time this year. After a Hawaii vacation session at the beginning of January, this year’s Obama golf season officially got underway with two chilly outings in March. Obama resumed play on April 3, and has hit the links every week since. While there are no official statistics being kept, it’s probably safe to say...

A round of golf for President Obama By Jamie Klatell - 04/23/11 02:42 PM ET Once the rain cleared in the Washington area Saturday, President Obama and three playing partners left the White House for a round of golf at Andrews Air Force Base. White House staffers Ben Finkenbinder and Marvin Nicholson and David Katz of the Energy Department are playing with the president.

Pres Obama playing a round of golf this afternoon at Joint Base Andrews.

The president’s afternoon: A round of golf By Jamie Klatell - 03/12/11 02:33 PM ET President Obama is spending this cool and cloudy Saturday afternoon playing a round of golf at Joint Base Andrews Naval Air Facility in Maryland. Obama’s playing partners for the day are Ben Finkenbinder, a White House press office staffer, Marvin Nicholson, the president's trip director, and David Katz, a Department of Energy staffer. This is the second consecutive Saturday golf outing for the foursome.

NOTE The following text is a quote: Two Sentenced for Transporting Stolen Goods to Support Hizballah PHILADELPHIA—Michael Katz, 58, of Plainsboro, NJ, and Alaa Allia Ahmed Mohamed, a/k/a “Alaa Ahmed Mohamed Abouelnagaa,” 44, of Brooklyn, NY, were sentenced today for conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods and trafficking in counterfeit goods, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Katz was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison; Mohamed was sentenced to 18 months in prison. The charges against the two were filed in conjunction with a case against four people, including Hassan Hodroj and Dib Hani Harb, who...

While downloading and installing (for my daughter) the free security suite offered by Cablevision to their subscribers, I noticed something which really annoyed me. In setting up the configuration I chose to have the warning for objectionable sites activated. After I completed the configuration on all the aspects of the security suite I decided to go to the FR and see what was going on to begin the day. After typing the name in the search and punching go, I immediately was blocked by a pop up informing me that Free Rep was not available as it was a "hate...

Speaking from the Knesset plenum on Tuesday, MK Yaakov Katz asked U.S. President Obama to remember that Israel’s electorate voted against a 2-state solution

National Union chairman Ya'acov "Ketzele" Katz sent a letter to White House chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel last week admonishing him not to forget his Jewish and Israeli origins. Katz claims that in a private meeting with the unnamed leader, Emanuel said, "In the next four years, there will be a peace agreement with the Palestinians on the basis of two states for two peoples, and it does not matter to us who is the prime minister."

To avoid a potentially messy court fight, Gov. Jon Corzine has paid $362,500 to the brother-in-law of labor leader Carla Katz, his former girlfriend. Corzine completed the confidential deal with Rocco Riccio, a former state employee, in late September after Riccio threatened to sue the millionaire governor for allegedly reneging on a promise to find him a private-sector job, the governor confirmed. The payment marks the second time the governor has paid Katz or one of her relatives after publicly saying he had ended all financial ties to the labor leader he dated for two years. (snip) Riccio has said...

Aaron Katz, who for more than 50 years relentlessly and publicly sought the exoneration of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the central figures in the nation’s most controversial spying case, died on Sept. 28 in Venice, Fla. He was 92 and lived in North Port, Fla. The death was confirmed by his wife, Cynthia. Mr. Katz was director of the National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case for 42 years, repeatedly leading demonstrations outside the federal courthouse on Foley Square in Manhattan on the anniversary of the couple’s execution in Sing Sing’s electric chair on June 19, 1953. They had been...

Eighty-five thousand cheering fans. Pyrotechnics. A dramatic, temple-style backdrop. Such was the scene in Denver Thursday night as Barack Obama accepted his party’s presidential nomination with “great humility.” As his deep voice reverberated throughout the massive venue, thousands of eyes welled up with tears of hope and change. In the sea of faces and waving flags stood a woman by the name of Marilyn Katz. Like several of the other radicals who populate Obama’s sphere, she once advocated guerilla tactics against police officers and participated in violent riots. Unlike some of her more infamous counterparts like Bill Ayers and Bernadine...

High school English teacher Shirley Katz insists she needs to take her pistol with her to work because she fears her ex-husband could show up and try to harm her. She's also worried about a Columbine-style attack. But Katz's district has barred teachers from bringing guns to school, so she is challenging the ban as unlawful, since Oregon is among states that allow people with a permit to carry concealed weapons into public buildings. "This is primarily about my Second Amendment right and Oregon law and the simple fact that I know it is my right to carry that gun,"...

(Trenton) Governor Jon Corzine and his staff have turned over to a judge all written communications discussing state business with president of Communications Workers of American Local 1034, Carla Katz whom the Governor once dated, but this does not ensure the e-mails will ever be made public. A spokesman with the State Attorney General's office says the administration gave Superior Court Judge Paul Innes the communications with Katz. Innes will review the documents privately and decide whether to make them public. Last month the judge ordered that the documents be turned over after denying a request by Corzine's administration and...

New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine (D) paid the brother-in-law of his ex-girlfriend $15,000 to quit a Turnpike Authority job last January, the Newark Star Ledger reports. "At the time, reporters had been pressing Corzine's office for answers about [Rocco] Riccio's work record and how he got hired." These revelations add to the scrutiny over numerous gifts Corzine gave Carla Katz, president of the largest state workers union, since their break-up in 2004 -- which Corzine did not disclose when he ran for governor in 2005. Corzine contends the gifts are a personal matter, and says the total was less than...

Did Governor Jon Corzine and ex-girlfriend, union leader Carla Katz discuss te recently completed public employee contract away from the bargaining table and did that impact the final deal? Republican State Committee chairman Tom Wilson is suing to find out. The GOP wants Corzine to turn over e-mails he exchanged with Katz during the contract talks. Katz argues that the court should consider her rights as a private citizen and the rights of her union, Communications Workers of America Local 1034, as a private organization in deciding whether the e-mails will be made public. A hearing is set for today...

"Back door, backroom conversations, private correspondence using private e-mails designed to circumvent the (Open) Public Records Act makes us curious," says attorney Mark Sheridan. He's the lawyer planning to file a lawsuit on behalf of the Republican State Committee today asking a judge force Governor Jon Corzine and Carla Katz, president of Communications Workers of America Local 1034 to turn over private e-mails. Sheridan believes there is precedent for the suit. He cites the fact that, twice the Government Records Council has forced mayors to turn over personal e-mails dealing with official business, "Why should the Governor be subject to...

THE heat on embattled State Comptroller Alan Hevesi is bringing unwanted attention to his relationship with Queens City Councilwoman Melinda Katz, who has long been his political protégé. "It's an open secret in Queens political circles," one lawmaker told Page Six. "She kisses him on the lips in public, and he went to war with the county organization to get her elected." "It's common knowledge," said another politico. "I've seen them making out." One pol said he spotted them canoodling years ago one night at Terrace on the Park, the catering facility near La Guardia Airport. Although Katz is single,...