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Fast Forward Under Pressure, British Jews Cancel Abbas Meeting
Jewish community leaders in Britain canceled a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during his visit to London last week after Israel pressured them to do so, according to two senior Israeli officials. The officials said representatives from the Prime Minister’s Office and the Israeli Embassy in London had pushed for the meeting to…
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Fast Forward Defying Bibi, Migron Settlers Refuse To Evacuate
The ongoing controversy about the evacuation of the Migron outpost hit a new high Sunday, as settlers angrily rejected a compromise proposal offered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu asked the Migron settlers to voluntarily evacuate the outpost and receive in return support to establish a community on nearby state land. The settlers rejected the…
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Fast Forward Settlers Angrily Refuse To Leave Illegal Outpost
The ongoing controversy about the evacuation of the Migron outpost hit a new high Sunday, as settlers angrily rejected a compromise proposal offered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu asked the Migron settlers to voluntarily evacuate the outpost and receive in return support to establish a community on nearby state land. The settlers rejected the…
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Fast Forward Bibi: Settlers Should Allow Outpost Demolition
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the demolition of the illegal West Bank outpost should go ahead peacefully, and with the agreement of residents, before the deadline of March 31 set by a High Court of Justice ruling. Speaking at his weekly Sunday cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said, “The High Court ordered that Migron…
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Food Iraqi Overnight Stew Perfect for Shabbat
In her modest, shack-like home in southern Israel, my great aunt Toya served some of the best food I’ve ever tasted. After my Iraqi grandmother, Rachel, passed away, her cousin Toya (Victoria) Levy took it upon herself to fill void in our hearts and in our bellies. One of her duties was to prepare tbeet…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Marks 70 Years Since ‘Final Solution’
The Israeli government has the “right, duty and capability” to prevent the elimination of the Jewish people and the Jewish state, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday’s weekly cabinet meeting. During the meeting, the cabinet marked the 70th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference on the Nazi “Final Solution” for the Jewish people. Netanyahu said that…
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Fast Forward General: U.S. and Israel ‘Share’ Understanding
U.S. Chief of Staff General Martin Dempsey said on Friday night that that Israel and the U.S. have a shared understanding of security concerns in the Middle East region. In a statement released at the end of his first visit to Israel, where he arrived on Thursday, Dempsey said his conversations with President Shimon Peres,…
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Fast Forward Newsletter Blurs Face of Itamar Murder Victim
A religious-Zionist Jewish studies center this week published a photograph of the members of the Fogel family who were murdered last March in the settlement of Itamar, but blurred the face of the mother for modesty reasons. The photograph was part of an advertisement published in Machon Meir’s weekly bulletin “In love and faith”, which…
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