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Fast Forward ‘Footnote’ Vies To Grab First Israeli Oscar
The team behind “Footnote,” the Israeli film that has been nominated for an Oscar award in the Best Foreign Language Film category, spent the weekend at a number of events hosted in Los Angeles in the run-up to the Oscars ceremony on Sunday. The film’s director, Joseph Cedar, who also directed “Beaufort”, which was nominated…
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Fast Forward Illegal Settlements Mounts Charm Offensive
A youngster with long sidelocks and a skullcap was showing a slide presentation. Two steps away stood his mother, a smiling American woman in her 30s wearing a broad skirt, her hair covered with a scarf. She was gesturing at the screen and speaking passionately. The woman, Aviela Deitch, repeatedly said that before them stood…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Unrest Hints of New Uprising
Stormy protests over the past few weeks throughout the West Bank and in East Jerusalem, which reached a climax yesterday, may not be a negligible and coincidental series of incidents. It seems that after years of lying dormant, things are starting to heat up again in the West Bank. Talat Ramieh was killed Friday in…
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Fast Forward Green Groups Say Road Will Kill Jerusalem Forest
Irrevocable damage would be caused to the Jerusalem Forest by a new road in the capital, say environmentalists. The National Roads Company planning Route 16, which would connect the city’s Route 1 entrance with Jerusalem’s southwest neighborhoods, insists it would relieve the heavy traffic to and from the city with minimal damage to the forest….
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Fast Forward Israel To Get New Shekels, Yet Again
The State of Israel is only 64 years old, but it has had three different currencies – the lira, which replaced the Eretz Israel lira; then the old shekel; and then in 1985, the new shekel. Now, 26 years after that last change, the Bank of Israel is considering changing the name of the country’s…
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Fast Forward Israel Presented No Position at Talks: Palestinians
The only document Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far presented to the Palestinians during the recent peace talks in Amman is a list of 21 topics for discussion in negotiations on a final-status agreement, Haaretz has learned. Dr. Mohammad Shtayeh, a senior member of the Palestinian delegation to the talks in Jordan and…
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Fast Forward Barak Slams Peres for Opposing Strike on Iran
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak strongly criticized President Shimon Peres on Thursday, after a Haaretz report revealed that Peres is expected to tell U.S. President Barack Obama that he does not believe Israel should attack Iran in the near future. The two presidents are due to meet in Washington, D.C., on Sunday March 4. “With…
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The Schmooze Author Nathan Shaham to Receive Israel Prize
Crossposted from Haaretz Nathan Shaham, 87, playwright and author of more than 55 books will receive this year’s Israel Prize for Hebrew Literature and Poetry. Shaham has already received the prestigious Shlonsky Award, the Bialik Award, and Acum Award for lifetime achievement. In addition to his literary career Shaham served in several public positions including…
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