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Fast Forward Palestinians Hurt in West Bank Clashes
Israeli forces on Friday used a dog against Palestinian protesters in the West Bank village of Kedum. The dog bit the arm of one of the demonstrators for several minutes. Demonstrators said that the dog’s military handler was unable to get the dog to release its jaws. The Palestinian, who was lightly hurt, was detained….
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News ‘Dislike’ This! Bibi’s Post Deleted by Army
When then IDF Spokesman Avi Benayahu told the Herzliya Conference that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ordered his unit to train soldiers to be “new media warriors,” he probably never imagined that a year later one of those keyboard warriors would brazenly block the prime minister on Facebook. Netanyahu has a number of Facebook pages:…
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Fast Forward Israelis Smuggle Viagra and Cell Phones: Report
Israelis’ favorite goods to smuggle last year were cell phones, Viagra and fake brand-name clothes, said the customs authorities at Ben-Gurion International Airport in their annual report. Customs caught people smuggling undeclared goods 10,082 times last year – up from 9,850 in 2010. Taxes on these goods totaled NIS 80 million. The most popular cell…
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Fast Forward Soldier Stabbed on Jerusalem Train
A 19-year-old Israeli soldier was stabbed Thursday while riding on the lightrail in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Ze’ev. The attacker, who stabbed the young woman moments before the train stopped at the station, fled the scene. The victim was evacuated to Shaare Zedek Medical Center by Magen David Adom rescue services. Initial reports indicate…
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Fast Forward Assad Emails Reveal Dictator’s Lavish Lifestyle
The British newspaper the Guardian on Wednesday published a cache of emails exchanged between Syrian President Bashar Assad, his wife Asma and their close circle, shedding light on the dictator’s life during the year since the violence uprising in Syria erupted. Assad is computer savvy; he uses an iPad, sending and receiving articles to and…
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Fast Forward Three Rockets Fired at Beer Sheva
Palestinian militants fired three Grad rockets toward the southern Israeli city of Beeer Sheva on Thursday morning, after the Israel Air Force launched several strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight. Early Thursday, a Gaza rocket landed near Netivot in southern Israel and shortly afterward, three Grad rockets were fired toward Be’er Sheva. Two of them…
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Fast Forward Harvard Students in West Bank Confrontation
Israel Border Police expelled a group of 55 students from Harvard University from a Palestinian village after a confrontation erupted along the separation fence near Jerusalem. According to Border Police, the confrontation occurred after a bus full of Harvard students who were touring the area began traveling along a route inside the village of Walaja…
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Fast Forward More Rockets Hit Israel Despite Truce
The Israel Air Forces’ Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepted a Grad-type rocket launched toward the southern city of Be’er Sheva on Wednesday, despite a truce reached between Israel and Gaza militants earlier this week, while a second projectile landed in an open field in the vicinity of the town of Ofakim. It was not the…
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