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Fast Forward Iron Dome Intercepts Rocket Headed to Beer Sheva
The Israel Air Forces’ Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepted a Grad-type rocket launched toward the southern city of Beer Sheva on Wednesday, despite a truce reached between Israel and Gaza militants earlier this week. It was not the first time since the Egypt-mediated ceasefire that rockets were fired at Israel’s south, a Grad-type Katyusha rocket…
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Fast Forward Collector Acquitted in Fake James Tomb Case
A Jerusalem Court acquitted an antiquities collector on most counts of forgery on Wednesday, eleven years after the case was first opened. Oded Golan, along with four others, was originally indicted for selling forged antiquities, including the Jehoash inscription, a shoebox-sized tablet inscribed with Biblical-style Hebrew instructions on caring for the Jewish Temple, and an…
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Fast Forward At Jerusalem Eatery, ‘Kosher’ Means Fewer Waitresses
A Haredi-owned Jerusalem restaurant will be restricting the working hours of waitresses in order to receive the strict mehadrin kashrut certificate. The veteran eatery, Heimische Essen, in Rehavia, will cease employing waitresses on Thursday nights, a favorite time for yeshiva boys to patronize the eatery. Waitresses at the restaurant, which serves Eastern European specialties to…
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Fast Forward Futuristic Bridge Could Link Gaza, West Bank
French Jewish architect Marc Mimram has an idea that borders on the utopian: to build a huge, multistoried bridge stretching 37 kilometers in order to physically connect the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the two areas under Palestinian Authority rule. The plan, made public for the first time in the pages of Haaretz, is…
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Fast Forward February Set Record for Holy Land Tourism
A record number of tourists entered Israel last month, a bit of good news amid concerns that the tensions in the south might stem the flow of visitors over the busy Passover season. Some 232,000 foreign tourists visited last month — 6% more than in February 2011 and 4% more than in February 2010, the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Legislator Banned From U.S. Women’s Conference
Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin announced Monday he is banning a delegation of MKs from attending a women’s conference in Washington this month because the United States has denied entry to MK Michael Ben Ari (National Union) MKs Zahava Gal-On (Meretz), Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) and Einat Wilf (Atzmaut) were scheduled to take part in a four-day…
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Fast Forward Rockets From Gaza Hit Closer to Tel Aviv
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired more than 40 rockets at Israel on Monday, as the heavy cross-border barrage continued into its fourth day. Two of the rockets fired Monday exploded near Gedera, just 40 kilometers south of Tel Aviv, and another struck inside the southern city of Ashdod. A woman and one other…
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Fast Forward Heavy Rocket Barrage Hits Southern Israel
Gaza militants fired a fresh barrage of rockets on Monday morning toward the southern Israeli cities of Ashdod and Be’er Sheva, after an overnight IDF strike in Gaza that killed two Islamic Jihad militants and one Palestinian child, and wounded 38 Palestinians, including several children. Most of the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome…
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