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Police seized some 7.3 kg. of Lebanese hashish in Israel's Upper Galilee area, amounting to the sum of NIS 378,000. At this stage, no suspects have been arrested, and the police refrained from ...

(JTA) — In the early 1960s, a Bulgarian-born scientist named Raphael Mechoulam was caught carrying five kilograms of, as he called it, “superb, smuggled Lebanese hashish” on a bus from Tel ...

Smuggling of everything from hashish to hand grenades proceeds under the benign eye of the customs inspector, and buying a judge’s opinion is sometimes as easy as buying a crate of Lebanese apples.

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese and Syrian defense officials reached an agreement late Monday for a ceasefire to halt two days of clashes along the border, Syria's state-run SANA news agency reported.