Andrew Tobin
By Andrew Tobin
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Fast Forward Trump White House Won’t Denounce Israel Move To ‘Legalize’ Illegal Settlements
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The United States refused to comment on Israel’s passage of a bill that retroactively legalizes settler homes built on private Palestinian land, saying the Trump administration was suspending judgement. The White House’s immediate response to the controversial “regulation law” Monday was to refer to its statement last week that said the expansion of…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Rabbinate ‘Blacklists’ Families It Deems Not Jewish
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Yael knew she would have to prove she was Jewish. But she never expected trying to get married would turn into a nearly yearlong investigation of her family. In the end Yael, who asked to go by a pseudonym to protect her privacy, was barred from marrying in Israel, along with her…
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Fast Forward Israeli Army Has a Smoking Problem: Study
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Nearly 40 percent of Israelis are smokers by the time they finish their compulsory army service, according to a new study. That is twice as high as the overall national rate and dramatically higher than among American soldiers, according to the study published Monday in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research….
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Fast Forward Israeli Think Tank Draws Plan for Unilateral Two-State Solution
(JTA) — Israel’s leading security think tank has published a plan to redraw the map of the West Bank in a bid to consolidate major settlements and prevent the spread of others. The plan, presented Monday to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin as part of the Institute for National Security Studies’ yearly strategic survey, calls for the…
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News It Ain’t Your Grandma’s Aliyah as Trendy Newcomers Pick Tel Aviv
(JTA) — Meet Daniel Rubin, in many ways the new face of aliyah. Originally from Los Angeles, Rubin, 27, moved to Israel a decade ago to study at a Jerusalem yeshiva. In the following years he served in the Israeli army and bounced back and forth between Israel and the U.S. for college and work….
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Fast Forward Did Joe Biden Urge Ukraine To Back UN Resolution on Israeli Settlements
JERUSALEM (JTA) — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden called Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to pressure him to support the United Nations Security Council resolution against Israeli settlements, a “highly placed” Israeli official told Tablet Magazine. “Did Biden put pressure on the Ukrainians? Categorically yes,” the source said, according to Tablet’s report Tuesday. “That Biden told them…
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Fast Forward Israel Bares 200,000 Documents in Yemeni Baby-Kidnapping Scandal
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel inaugurated an online database of some 200,000 pages of declassified documents about the long-controversial “Yemenite children affair” in a ceremony in this city. By making the documents public Wednesday, the state hopes to end the controversy, which has persisted in Israel for decades. Since the 1950, more than 1,000 Israelis families have alleged their…
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Fast Forward Mayor Nir Barkat Says Trump Era Will Be Good for Jerusalem
(JTA) — It’s been nearly 50 years since Israel captured eastern Jerusalem, including the Old City, from Jordan in the 1967 Six-Day War. For the past eight years, Nir Barkat has been this city’s mayor. On Sunday evening, six months ahead of the “united Jerusalem” jubilee, Barkat received an honorary doctorate from Yeshiva University at the…
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