Chaim Levinson (Haaretz)
By Chaim Levinson (Haaretz)
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Fast Forward Senior Israeli security official reveals state secrets as he runs, bikes
This article originally appeared in Haaretz and was reprinted here with permission. Sunday, December 12, Abu Dhabi. It’s 23 degrees Celsius, the relative humidity is 60 percent and an 18 kilometer per hour northwesterly wind is blowing. Not ideal weather for running, but nothing stops A. – a senior commander at the VIP security unit…
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Fast Forward Sara Netanyahu Tried To Physically Attack Bibi’s Top Aide
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife Sara tried to physically assault the director general of the Prime Minister’s Office in an altercation in January, forcing him to hold her off until another official separated them, sources in the office said. The director general, U.S.-born Eli Groner, denied that the scuffle took place. The sources said the…
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Fast Forward How Israel Police Allowed Gay Pride Stabber To Strike Again
The stabbing attack at Jerusalem’s gay pride parade on Thursday was the result of a failure by police intelligence. Jerusalem police admit that they knew Yishai Schlissel was released from prison in June after serving 10 years in Ma’asiyahu prison for a similar stabbing attack at the 2005 Jerusalem Gay Pride parade, where he wounded…
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Fast Forward Jewish Home Leader Admits Organizing Jerusalem Anti-Gay Parade With Donkeys and Goats
Bezalel Smotrich, who is ninth on Habayit Hayehudi’s Knesset list, in 2006 was involved in organizing the anti-gay Beast Parade in Jerusalem as an answer to the annual Pride Parade. As Channel 2 News reported Sunday night, the Beast Parade was designed to illustrate the acts of homosexuals. The Beast Parade was part of a…
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Fast Forward Israel Returns Just .7% of Seized ‘Military’ Land to Palestinians
Over the past 33 years Israel’s Civil Administration has allocated less than one percent of state land in the West Bank to Palestinians, compared to 39 percent to settlers, according to the agency’s own documents submitted to the High Court of Justice. The West Bank includes 1.3 million dunams (approximately 325,000 acres) of “state land,”…
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Fast Forward Israel Supreme Court Orders State To Dismantle Illegal Settlement
The Supreme Court issued an unprecedented ruling on Tuesday ordering the state to dismantle the largest illegal settlement outpost in the West Bank by March 2012. Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch harshly criticized the Israeli government for failing to dismantle the outpost of Megron, which is home to some 50 families, despite earlier promises it…
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Fast Forward Cynthia Nixon, Mandy Patinkin Among Artists Backing Boycott of West Bank Theater
More than 150 American actors, writers, directors and other artists signed a letter of support for the Israeli actors who declared they would not perform in the West Bank. The American signatories include Cynthia Nixon, who plays Miranda on “Sex and the City”; Mandy Patinkin, who played Inigo Montoya in “The Princess Bride”; and character…
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Fast Forward Among Settlers, Pre-State Revisionist Movements Enjoy a Renaissance
Dozens of people crowded into Tel Aviv’s Jabotinsky Museum last week to celebrate the 130th birthday of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, founder of the Revisionist Movement. The evening culminated with a ceremony in which prizes were awarded to high school and college students and academics for work in the spirit of Jabotinsky. In recent years, interest in…
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