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Fast Forward Jewish Values Dipped After Visits to Death Camp: Study
The Israel Defense Forces has been “stunned” by the findings of a new study which says an officers’ visitation program to Nazi death camps, meant to reinforce Jewish and national values, has had the opposite effect on up to 20 percent of the soldiers. The program, called Witnesses in Uniform, was founded in the 1990s…
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Fast Forward Top U.S. General Visits Israel Amid Iran Tension
The Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, visited the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv on Friday and met with Israeli officials, including Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz. “I’m really pleased to be here,” General Dempsey said at the start of his meeting with…
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Fast Forward 70 Years Since Nazi ‘Final Solution’ Meeting
Over 70 parliamentarians from across Europe will gather in Brussels on Friday to mark the anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, a pivotal moment in Holocaust history. Seventy years after a group of Nazi officials gathered at a lakeside villa on the Wannsee near Berlin to deliberate on the “final solution,” the statesmen will issue a…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Chooses AIPAC Over Africa Trip
After the Prime Minister’s Office loudly trumpeted that Benjamin Netanyahu would embark at the end of February on an historic visit to Kenya and Uganda, it seems that this endeavor has been buried with barely a whimper. According to a top government official, the Prime Minister’s Office has informed the foreign ministry that Netanyahu cannot…
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Fast Forward Six Hurt During West Bank Outpost Demolition
Violent clashes broke out early Thursday morning as security forces attempted to dismantle the illegal Yisa Bracha outpost near the West Bank settlement of Mitzpeh Jericho. A civil destruction crew, accompanied by officers from the Border Police and the Special Police Unit, arrived on the scene early Thursday to raze six houses. Over the course…
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Fast Forward Massive Jerusalem Highway Project Approved
The main highway into Jerusalem will receive a major expansion in the coming years, after the High Court rejected petitions against the plan by nearby residents, green lighting one of the largest infrastructure projects in Israel in recent years. Approval of plans for the segment of Route 1 leading into the capital, to include bridges,…
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Fast Forward Israel Hopes To Mute Call to Prayer
Israel’s Civil Administration in the West Bank is looking into ways to use technology to mute the sound volume of electronically amplified muezzin calls in mosques. Settlement leaders frequently complain about the noise of the muezzins, whose electronically amplified calls to prayer can easily be heard in nearby Jewish settlements, including at night when people…
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Fast Forward 5,000 Ethiopians Protest Racism in Israel
Some 5,000 people were demonstrating in Jerusalem on Wednesday in protest of the racism against Ethiopian immigrants in Israel. The protesters blocked a major road in Jerusalem and marched in front of the Knesset while holding signs that read, “Blacks and Whites – We’re all Equal”, “Social Justice,” “Our Blood is Only Good for Wars.”…
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