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Fast Forward Israeli, French Officials Express Shock Over Shooting Rampage
Israel and the French Jewish community expressed shock Monday over the attack on a Toulouse Jewish school that killed four and left one seriously wounded. A spokesman for Israel’s foreign ministry, Yigal Palmor, expressed outrage at the killings.”We are following with great shock reports coming from Toulouse and we trust the French authorities will solve…
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Fast Forward Four Killed at Jewish School in France
Four people were killed and another seriously wounded in a shooting at a Jewish high school in the southern French city of Toulouse, French media reported on Monday. According to reports, a man riding a motorcycle opened fire on the Ozar Hatorah school at around 8 a.m. when the children were preparing to enter the…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Lauded at Evangelical Christian Gathering
American Evangelical pastor John Hagee — who heads the largest pro-Israel lobby group in the United States — half jokingly compared Benjamin Netanyahu to the Messiah on Sunday night, as he waited for the delayed prime minister to arrive at a Jerusalem hotel to address the crowd. “There’s a saying in Judaism about the Messiah…
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Fast Forward Barak Sells Swank Pad for $7 Million
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has sold his luxury apartment in the Akirov Towers in Tel Aviv for 26.5 million shekels, or about $7 million. Barak was seeking 30 million shekels for the apartment. The apartment was first put up for sale in 2008, when he sought 40 million shekels. The five-room apartment sold by…
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Fast Forward Online Call for Peace Takes Off in Israel
An online call for peace initiated by an Israeli couple has managed to achieve the support of 1,000 Israelis and Iranians. And it all began with two posters. Ronny Edry and his wife Michal Tamir, together with “Pushpin Mehina”, a small preparatory school for graphic design students, uploaded posters to Facebook depicting images of themselves…
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Fast Forward Israeli Army Bars Documentary on West Bank
The IDF Spokesperson’s unit has recently forbidden the screening of an Israeli documentary film about the West Bank legal system before an Israeli Defense Forces unit. The creators of the film, which critically examines Israel’s legal system in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, contacted senior officials within the IDF court system in attempts to screen the…
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Fast Forward Nazi-Hunters Made Demjanjuk Infamous
John Demjanjuk, who died on Saturday morning at a nursing home in southern Germany, would have died in a nursing home in Ohio if it had not been for small, dogged groups of attorneys in the justice departments of Israel, the United States and Germany. These lawyers took away Demjanjuk’s last three decades, forcing the…
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Fast Forward Iran Has Not Yet Decided on Bomb: Report
Israel’s intelligence services agree with American intelligence assessments that there is not enough proof to determine whether Iran is building a nuclear bomb, according to a report published Sunday in the New York Times. The newspaper reported that senior American officials believe there is little disagreement between the Mossad and U.S. intelligence agencies over Iran’s…
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