Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Bambi Sheleg, Trailblazing Israeli Journalist, Dies at 58
— Bambi Sheleg, a trailblazing Israeli journalist who left a mark on Israeli society with investigative reports published in the magazine she founded and elsewhere, has died. Sheleg, a native of Chile, died Monday following a prolonged illness, the news site Srugim reported. She was 58. A leader of the settler movement and a founder of the…
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Fast Forward Baton Rouge Jews Help Louisiana Flood Victims
— Baton Rouge’s newly-opened Chabad House launched an emergency fundraising campaign for thousands of people affected by the massive floods that swept across Louisiana. At least five people perished and more than 20,000 people have been rescued in Louisiana amid floods that began Friday due to heavy rainfall. The deluge brought 6 to 10 inches of rainfall…
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Fast Forward France Slams Israel’s Razing of West Bank Structure It Funded
— France condemned Israel’s demolition of buildings constructed with French funding in a Palestinian village in the West Bank. The demolition of agricultural installations in Nebi Samuel last week was the third time this year that buildings funded by French humanitarian aid were demolished or confiscated by Israeli authorities, Reuters quoted a French foreign ministry spokesman…
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Fast Forward Iraqi Intellectuals Decry Destruction of Jewish Statesman’s Historic Home
— Iraqi intellectuals decried the demolition of a historical building that used to be the home of a Jewish finance minister as a “catastrophe” against historical preservation. The 19th-century villa of Yechezkel Sasson on A-Rashid Street in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad was bulldozed last Friday even though it was earmarked for preservation as a historical monument, the…
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Fast Forward ADL Slams Belgian Teacher Honored at Iran’s Holocaust Cartoon Contest
— The Anti-Defamation League condemned the actions of a former teacher at a prestigious Catholic school in Belgium, whose caricature comparing Israel and the Nazis won a prize in Iran’s cartoon contest mocking the Holocaust. “Malice or ignorance” were the teacher’s “only possible explanations for comparing Israel to the Nazis and entering an Iranian Holocaust cartoon contest,”…
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Fast Forward Jonathan Pollard Loses Bid to Have Post-Release Restrictions Lifted
— Jonathan Pollard, a former US Navy intelligence officer convicted of spying for Israel, lost a bid to overturn restrictive probation conditions imposed when he was released in November after 30 years in prison. US District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan on Thursday denied a challenge by Pollard to requirements imposed by the US Parole…
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Israel News Mazel Tov! Israeli Supermodel and Designer Bar Rafaeli Has Given Birth to a Baby Girl
— The Israeli model Bar Refaeli has given birth to a healthy baby girl. Refaeli, 31, gave birth to her first child on Thursday at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, which is also known as Ichilov hospital, Israeli media reported. The baby, weighing seven pounds, was named Liv. Refaeli is considered Israel’s leading female model and was featured…
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Fast Forward On Eve of Annual Conference, Britain’s Labour Party Drops Security Firm With Ties to Israel
— The Labour Party in Britain was left without security arrangements for its annual conference next month following its boycott of a longtime contractor with ties to Israel. Labour’s dropping of the British-Danish G4S security multinational firm follows a controversial vote last year by members of its National Executive Committee, leaving the party with no fixed…
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