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Fast Forward Settlers Cannot Claim Stolen Farmland: Court
The Israeli Supreme Court set a precedent on Tuesday ruling that an Ottoman law, under which settlers could get custody of agricultural land by showing they had been farming it for a decade or longer, was not enough to grant ownership of the land. The case in question involved a petition against Michael Lessens, a…
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Fast Forward France Launches Largest Manhunt for Killer
Following Monday’s shooting attack at a Jewish school in Toulouse in which four people were killed, France is on its highest state of alert since 2003. Thousands of police and internal intelligence service investigators (DCRI) are engaged in an intense and widespread effort to identify the shooter and his collaborators. French media outlets are reporting…
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Fast Forward Prisoners Traded for Shalit Plot New Kidnap
Palestinian prisoners who were freed in the October deal to secure the release of captive soldier Gilad Shalit are plotting to abduct Israeli civilians or soldiers and smuggle them out of the West Bank, the recently retired head of the army’s Central Command told Haaretz. “We are identifying an increase in plots to carry out…
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Fast Forward Digital Einstein Archive To Be Expanded
A 1930 letter by Albert Einstein proposing that Jewish and Arab sages work together to find a solution to the Jewish-Arab conflict will now be available online, as part of a project to expand the digital version of the Einstein archives, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced yesterday. The online archive will now feature 2,500…
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Fast Forward Journalists Apologize for Claims Conference Portrayal
The two journalists behind a 2008 documentary that portrayed the Claims Conference as a corrupt organization issued an apology yesterday and committed to paying NIS 150,000 ($40,000) to a Holocaust nonprofit, ending a libel suit that had been filed against them. Orly Vilnai and Guy Meroz issued the apology to the Conference on Jewish Material…
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Fast Forward Suspected Neo-Nazi Link in School Shooting
French investigators suspect there may be a link between the attack on a Jewish school in here on Monday and two other attacks which occurred in the area a week earlier, saying French soldiers suspected of neo-Nazi activities may have carried out the attacks. Witnesses said Monday’s attack, in which four people were killed, was…
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Fast Forward France Shooting Brings Tensions to Fore
The deadly shooting incident at a Jewish school in Toulouse comes at a particularly sensitive time for everyone in France. Other than the harrowing sight of schoolchildren being shot on their way to school, it undermines the efforts of the French presidential candidates to sway the public attention away from ethnic tensions that have been…
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Fast Forward Bibi Calls France Shooting ‘Despicable’ Attack
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that the shooting at a Jewish high school in the southern French city of Toulouse is a “despicable murder,” and that he is certain that French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his government “will do everything in their power to find the murderer, and I promise that Israel…
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