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Fast Forward Israel to Rethink UNESCO Cooperation
Israel rejects the decision of the General Assembly of UNESCO to grant the Palestinians full membership of the organization, the Foreign Ministry said Monday, and warned that Israel will now reconsider its future cooperation with the body. UNESCO is the first UN agency the Palestinians have sought to join as a full member since Palestinian…
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Fast Forward More Rockets Hit Israel From Gaza
Israel was hit with another volley of rockets launched by Gaza militants, despite reports that Egypt was working to secure a truce between Israel and the Islamic Jihad that would halt all rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip effective Sunday night. Earlier Sunday, Channels 10 and 2 cited an unnamed Egyptian official who claimed Cairo…
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Fast Forward Israel Raises Taxes on the Rich
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet approved the taxation portion of the Trajtenberg report on Sunday, levying heavier taxes on both corporations and the extremely wealthy. Earlier this month, the cabinet approved in principle the report by the Trajtenberg Committee for socioeconomic change, the result of a social protest movement which swept Israel all summer. The…
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Fast Forward Israel Slams Abbas in Letter to U.N.
Israel sent a letter to the United Nations slamming Palestinian President Mahmous Abbas for failing to condemn Wednesday’s rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. “With the roar of rockets echoing from the Gaza Strip, silence from the Palestinian Authority is unacceptable,” Israeli Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor said in the letter, which was sent…
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Fast Forward Social Justice Protests Returning to Tel Aviv
Almost two months after staging a huge end-of-summer demonstration in Tel Aviv, the social protesters will be returning to the streets Saturday night. Protest leaders are hoping they can once again draw tens of thousands of people to the main demonstration, in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square. Smaller events will take place simultaneously in Kiryat Shmona,…
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Fast Forward Israeli Prof Charged Over Facebook Status
Deputy State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan instructed the police to open a criminal investigation against Dr. Ayal Nir, a lecturer at Ben- Gurion University in Be’er Sheva, over a status on his Facebook page in which he called on the world to “break the necks of right-wing activists.” Nir faces possible charges of incitement of violence….
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Fast Forward Grapel To Bibi: Prison Was Hard but Fair
Ilan Grapel, an American-Israeli citizen jailed in Cairo on suspicion of espionage for over four months, met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel on Thursday after he was released. Grapel told the prime minister that he underwent difficult times in prison, but was treated fairly. Grapel was freed in exchange for 25 Egyptian prisoners,…
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Fast Forward U.S. Warns Israel on New Settlement Plan
The United States urged Israel to halt a plan that would approve new construction in a contentious Jerusalem neighborhood, saying that such a move would harm U.S. efforts to thwart the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations. The Jerusalem District Planning Committee announced late last month that it would approve the construction of…
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