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Fast Forward U.N. Chief Tells Bibi To Stop Building Settlements
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday in Jerusalem and urged Israel to halt settlement construction in the West Bank. “Settlements do not help the peace process,” Ban Ki-moon said. “I told the prime minister that he should refrain from future construction. I believe that Israel can have a major…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Romps to Win in Likud Party Primary
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won the Likud party’s primary. With 85 percent of the votes tallied early Wednesday the PM beat his rival Moshe Feiglin 75 percent to 24 percent. The results followed a tense day of voting on Tuesday, characterized by a much lower voter turnout than Netanyahu had hoped or expected, prompting the…
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Fast Forward U.S. Olympian To Represent Israel in London Games
Jillian Schwartz has been inundated with telephone calls over the past two days. Everyone, it seems, wants to congratulate the 23-year-old pole-vaulter on qualifying for a place at the London Games. While this won’t be Schwartz’s first Olympics — she represented the United States in Athens in 2004 — it will be the first one…
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Fast Forward U.N. Chief Calls on Israel To Make ‘Goodwill’ Gesture
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon kicked off a series of meetings Wednesday with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, beginning in Jerusalem with President Shimon Peres. Ban told Peres that Israel must make some confidence-building gestures toward the Palestinians, in order to carry on with the direct talks between the sides in Jordan. According to senior Israeli…
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Fast Forward Prisoner Freed in Shalit Swap Arrested Again
The Israel Defense Forces arrested Mamun Ismyail Salame Stut, a Palestinian man who was released from Israeli prison in October as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal. Stut’s arrest makes him the first released prisoner to be recaptured since the prisoner swap. According to an IDF spokesperson, Stut was arrested for being a…
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Fast Forward Low Turnout in Netanyahu Party Primary
Turnout for the Likud party’s primary elections was unusually low on Tuesday. By mid-afternoon, only 14 percent of eligible voters had cast their ballot to elect a new party leader and central committee. Approximately 4,500 people had voted by early afternoon. Many of the polling stations themselves had opened later than 10 A.M., as planned,…
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Fast Forward Officials: Right-Wing Groups Help IDF Monitor Media
The government and military have unofficially outsourced some of their intelligence work to private organizations that monitor anti-Israel incitement in the Palestinian media and are associated with right-wing politics, according to several high-ranking government and military sources. The situation — which the sources said stemmed from a lack of resources, shifting priorities and years of…
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Fast Forward Medical Marijuana a Success in Israel
More than two-thirds of cancer patients who were prescribed medical marijuana to combat pain are reportedly satisfied with the treatment, according to a comprehensive study conducted for the first time in Israel. The study – conducted recently at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, in conjunction with the Israel Cancer Association – involved 264 cancer patients…
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