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Fast Forward Hamas Steps Up Activities in West Bank
Hamas has been making concerted efforts in recent months to renew its activities in the West Bank, Israeli security officials note. According to the officials, over the past few weeks, the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security service have intercepted relatively large amounts of funds that Hamas activists abroad have tried to smuggle into…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Slams Deal for Palestinian Unity
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized on Monday the agreement reached between Hamas and Fatah, according to which Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will head a unity caretaker cabinet. “Hamas is a terrorist organization that wants to destroy Israel and is supported by Iran,” Netanyahu said at a Likud meeting. “Israel had made great efforts to advance…
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Fast Forward Adelson Could Shift Support to Romney
Jewish-American casino magnate Sheldon Adelson may shift his support from Newt Gingrich to Mitt Romney in the race for the White House, according to a report in The New York Times. Adelson, the world’s 16th wealthiest person, and his wife Miriam donated $10 million last month to Winning our Future, the pro-Gingrich super PAC. Much…
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Fast Forward Abbas To Lead Unity Cabinet
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will head a Fatah-Hamas unity caretaker cabinet, Abbas and Hamas chief Khaled Meshal said in a joint announcement on Monday, in a move that could pave for a long-sought-after reconciliation between the rival factions. “We are serious, both Fatah and Hamas, in healing the wounds and ending the chapter of division…
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Fast Forward Bill Would Help Those Who Quit Haredi Lifestyle
A new bill advanced by Meretz MK Zehava Gal-On aims to provide financial aid to youths leaving the religious world, similar to that given to new immigrants upon their arrival in Israel. Three years ago, Tel Aviv resident Eli Bitaan, 21, abandoned the prestigious Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak and left the religious world. These…
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Fast Forward Israel Insists It’s Not Intervening in Syria
Israel has not and is not interfering in the political crisis in Syria, Vice Prime Minister and Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon said on Sunday, adding that he did not think radical Islam would take over the country in case Syrian President Bashar Assad is ousted. Ya’alon’s comments came as Russia and China vetoed on…
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Fast Forward Ban Ki-Moon Worried About Peace Deadlock
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is worried by the collapse of the Middle East peace talks brokered by Jordan and by the Palestinians’ drive for UN recognition. In an interview with Haaretz, Ban said he is concerned by possible damage to various UN institutions if the Palestinian Authority presses ahead with its membership requests to them….
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Fast Forward As Tu B’Shvat Nears, Environmentalists Feud
On the eve of Tu Bishvat, two of the country’s leading ecological groups are feuding over the character of open spaces in northern Israel. The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI ) wants to see natural woodlands maintained, while the Jewish National Fund (JNF ) would like to expand the region’s forests….
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