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Israel's Security Cabinet designated 35 groups linked to al-Qaida and the Taliban as terrorists. They are the first of many new sanctions aimed at global terrorist groups that focus their attacks on countries other than Israel. The designations broaden existing sanctions in place against Palestinian-based Hamas and Lebanon-based Hezbollah and extend them to other groups associated with alleged terrorist groups and their supporters. The designations bring Israel more in line with U.S. and European sanctions regimes. The sanctions allow Israel to go directly after suspected al-Qaida and Taliban groups, foes of the international community, said Kenneth Rijock, a financial crime...