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Fast Forward Bibi Won’t Extend Haredi Service Exemption
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Likud faction meeting Monday that the Tal Law, which allows ultra-Orthodox citizens to defer military service, will not be extended by the government but rather go to a vote in the Knesset. According to Netanyahu, the Knesset has approximately half a year to find a “just solution that will…
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Fast Forward Report: Adelson’s Company Investigated for Bribery
The casino company owned by American billionaire Sheldon Adelson, a close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has been under federal investigation for the last year for alleged bribery of foreign officials, ABC News is reporting. Adelson, the main donor to U.S. presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and the owner of the Israeli daily Israel Hayom,…
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News Panetta: Iran Could Produce Bomb Next Year
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Sunday that Iran is only one year away from producing a nuclear weapon. In an interview on the CBS show “60 Minutes,” Panetta said that “the consensus is that, if they decided to do it, it would probably take them about a year to be able to produce…
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Fast Forward Students Protest Haredi Exemption From Service
Hundreds of high-school students across the country are expected to boycott classes on Sunday in protest at the Tal Law, legislation that allows full-time Yeshiva students to defer their military service. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to let the Knesset decide the law’s future, after initially saying he would put an additional five-year extension to…
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Fast Forward Documentary on West Bank Wins at Sundance
An Israeli documentary film won the best foreign documentary category in the prestigious Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, hardly a week after an Israeli feature film was named as an Academy Award nominee. The film, The Law in These Parts (Shilton Ha Chok), was directed by Israeli Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, and is comprised of a series…
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Fast Forward Bibi: Prospects for Peace Talks ‘Not Good’
Peace prospects with the Palestinians are looking poor, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday after exploratory talks aimed at relaunching negotiations ended in deadlock. “As things stand now, according to what happened over the past few days – when the Palestinians refused even to discuss Israel’s security needs with us – the signs…
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Fast Forward Amid Raging Conflict, Hamas Flees Damascus
Hamas leaders, including chief of the politburo Khaled Meshal, left the organization’s longtime headquarters in Damascus, the New York Times reported on Friday, amid persisting tensions in Syria as the regime of Bashar Assad clashes with opposition forces. The report came ahead of a Meshal’s planned visit to Jordan, his first official trip to the…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Prepared To Declare Talks Dead
The executive committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) is expected to rule whether or not to continue the Jordan-mediated low-level peace talks with Israel in the next few days, Palestinian officials said on Saturday. On Thursday, the time frame that the Palestinians have allowed for talks with Israel in Amman under Jordanian auspices expired,…
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