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Fast Forward N. Korean’s Death Could Spark Iran Rift
Now that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has died, the transfer of power to the third generation – Kim Jong Un, a grandchild of the country’s inflexible founder, Kim Il Sung – does not guarantee a thaw in relations between the two Koreas, or any reduction in the hostility between Pyongyang and Jerusalem. But…
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Fast Forward Egyptian Islamists Vow To Respect Israel Treaty
Egypt’s radical Salafi movement has announced for the first time that it intends to respect all treaties that Egypt has signed, including the peace deal with Israel. The Salafi Al-Nour party, which won 25-30 percent of the votes in the first round of Egypt’s parliamentary elections, said that they are also in favor of negotiating…
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Fast Forward Israeli College, Cornell Will Build N.Y. Tech Center
Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology will partner to build an applied sciences campus in New York City that officials hope will transform the metropolis into a center for entrepreneurship and technology innovation to rival California’s Silicon Valley. Mayor Michael Bloomberg was set to announce Monday that the schools’ proposal had been selected…
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Fast Forward Jewish Agency Sets Up Virtual Schools Network
The Jewish Agency for Israel (JAI) is set to launch a international virtual school network later this week, in an attempt to bolster ties between Jewish students around the world and Israel. At first, the prestigious project will be based out of the 200 existing school twinning pairs of formal and informal schools in Israel…
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Fast Forward Bibi Attends Ceremony for Carmel Fire Victims
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Interior Minister Eli Yishai both attended Monday a ceremony to unveil a new memorial for the victims of the Carmel blaze, which ravaged Israel’s north in December of 2010. At first, both Netanyahu and Yishai were not expected to arrive at the ceremony, following year-long tensions between the victims’ families…
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Fast Forward Islamists Win Combined 70% of Egypt Vote
The Muslim Brotherhood party secured 39 percent of the vote, while the Salafi Al Nour party won 31 percent of the vote in the second stage of Egypt’s landmark post-Mubarak elections, according to unofficial results published on the website of Egypt’s Al-Ahram newspaper on Sunday. The unofficial results for the second stage of elections for…
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Fast Forward Israel Plans More Housing on West Bank
The Housing Ministry published tenders on Sunday for 1,028 homes to be built in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem, part of a plan to build 6,000 housing units throughout Israel. According to a statement by the ministry, 500 homes will be built in Har Homa in south Jerusalem, on land occupied during the…
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Fast Forward Israel Set To Free 550 Prisoners in Shalit Swap
Israel was scheduled to release 550 prisoners Sunday, in the second stage of an exchange with Hamas in Gaza. In the first stage in mid-October, Israel released 477 Palestinian militants, many serving multiple life sentences, in return for Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held hostage by the Islamist movement ruling Gaza for more than five…
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