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By Eliyahu Freedman
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Fast Forward ‘Hamas did not murder your vision’: At memorial service for Vivian Silver, grief and a determination to pursue peace
“Vivian, my beloved, if you could hear, I would want you to know: Hamas did not murder your vision,” said her friend Ghadir Han in a eulogy
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Fast Forward 1 dead, 5 wounded in shooting attack at Jerusalem checkpoint with long security lines
“Anybody who wants to do harm can just go into that traffic jam,” a West Bank Jewish leader warned about the checkpoint the day before the attack
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News Urban Israelis are flocking to the Gaza border to tend farms that are suddenly without workers
Hamas' Oct. 7 attack has put the area's agricultural economy at risk as foreign workers have evacuated and farms have been damaged
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Fast Forward In the West Bank, spiking violence and an idle economy spur fears of a broadening conflict
The spike in West Bank violence has led to differing and at times contradictory responses from Israeli officials
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Fast Forward ‘We were broken to see what we saw’: US rabbis visit Israel during wartime
The three-day solidarity mission brought the group through the ravaged communities of southern Israel and a volunteer center in Jerusalem
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Fast Forward Netanyahu rejects calls for ceasefire and resignation as he calls war against Hamas ‘battle of civilization against barbarians’
The Israeli leader also blamed the war’s mounting death toll on Hamas, the terror group that governs the Gaza Strip
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News At a Dead Sea hotel, refugees from Kibbutz Be’eri count their dead and grieve
A conference room in the hotel is divided by black curtains into several separate shiva areas for families. More are being held outside on the hotel lawn
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News A torched bicycle shop, an arrested singer: Arab-Israelis face precarious landscape during Gaza war
A poll found that 80% of Arab-Israelis opposed Hamas’ attack, while just 5% supported it
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