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Fast Forward Asher Grunis Named Israel’s Top Judge
The Knesset’s Judicial Selection Committee approved Justice Asher Grunis as the new Supreme Court President on Friday, after the veteran judge stood at heart of a months-long political storm. Seven of the committee’s nine members supported the nomination, with MK David Rotem abstaining. The panel’s ninth member is Grunis himself, who did not vote. Grunis’…
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Fast Forward Report: Mossad Is Training Iranian Dissidents
Mossad officials are training Iranian dissident activists to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists, a NBC News report citing U.S. officials said on Thursday. The report noted, however, that Washington was not directly involved in the alleged attacks. The report by NBC News followed Iranian accusations that Israel and the U.S. had been orchestrating attacks against Iranian…
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Fast Forward Sperm Bank Wants Donations from IDF Vets
The Health Ministry has yet to issue updated regulations governing the collection or use of sperm donations in Israel, even though the state comptroller called for such rules in 2007. As a result, Israel’s 15 sperm banks, two of them privately run, are operating in a regulatory fog that can present ethical problems and increases…
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Fast Forward On Iran, How Much Light Between the U.S. and Israel?
Differences between Israel and the U.S. over Iran are currently focused on what Defense Minister Ehud Barak has coined the “zone of immunity” of Iran’s nuclear program, the New York Times reported on Thursday. The White House and the U.S. administration in general do not agree with Barak’s use of the term, referring to the…
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Fast Forward Santorum Takes Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado
Rick Santorum won unexpected victories Tuesday in three U.S. Republican Party nominating contests, reviving his challenge to frontrunner Mitt Romney. “Wow. Conservatism is alive and well in Missouri and Minnesota,” the staunchly conservative Santorum told supporters after he won both those two states. “I don’t stand here to claim to be the conservative alternative to…
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News Israel Foreign Minister Starts U.S. Visit
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman began a visit to the U.S. on Tuesday, meeting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry and Republican Senator John McCain. In his meeting with Clinton, Lieberman and the Secretary of State spoke about the deteriorating situation in Syria, developments in Egypt…
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Fast Forward ‘Price Tag’ Suspected of Defacing Jewish-Arab School
A Jewish-Arab bilingual school and a Christian monastery in Jerusalem were defaced with graffiti on Tuesday in suspected “price tag” attacks carried out by Jewish extremists. “Death to Arabs” and “Kahane was right” was scrawled in Hebrew on a wall outside the bilingual school. “Death to Christians” was written on the walls of the Greek…
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Fast Forward Syrian Leader’s Emails Leaked
Hundreds of emails from Syrian President Bashar Assad’s office were leaked on Monday after an attack by the hacker group Anonymous. One of the email files, which Haaretz has obtained, was a document preparing Assad for his December 2011 interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters. The target of the attack was the mail server of the…
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