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News Abbas Rounding Up Support for Statehood
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and French President Nicolas Sarkozy will meet in Paris in the coming days to discuss the Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN, a top Palestinian official told AFP on Tuesday. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said Abbas would depart for France after meeting with Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos on…
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Fast Forward Lulav Smuggling Abounds Ahead of Sukkot
Thousands of palm fronds have been smuggled from Egypt and have made their way to Israel and the United States, veteran palm frond traders said Monday, despite the Egyptian ban on their export ahead of the upcoming Sukkot holiday. One of the traders told Haaretz that the palm fronds, which are known as lulavs in…
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Fast Forward Jaffa Calm After Anti-Arab Vandals Strike Cemetery
Jaffa was quiet on Sunday following a tense weekend in which vandals spray-painted slogans such as “Death to Arabs” in two cemeteries – one Muslim and one Christian – and hurled a Molotov cocktail at a synagogue. Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino sought an urgent meeting with the leaders of Jaffa’s Muslim and Christian communities on…
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Fast Forward Bibi Slams Desecration of Non-Jewish Cemeteries
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday decried the desecration of graves in Christian and Muslim cemeteries in Jaffa during Yom Kippur, saying that Israel is “not willing to tolerate vandalism, especially not the kind that would offend religious sensibilities.” “Israel shows tolerance for religious sentiments and a desire for peaceful coexistence without violence, but will…
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News Settlers Attack Israeli Army Patrol
Dozens of Jewish settlers surrounded an IDF patrol vehicle on Wednesday evening near the Shilo settlement, setting up roadblocks and physically assaulting IDF soldiers. The incident began after rumors circulated that the Gal Yosef illegal outpost is about to be evacuated. At approximately 9 P.M. the settlers erected roadblocks and blocked the entrance to the…
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Fast Forward Foxman Warns Abbas Against Demonizing Israel
The Palestinian Authority must stop demonizing Israel in the international stage, the Anti-Defamation league said in an open letter to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday, urging the PA leader to return to the negotiations table. In an open letter released on Wednesday, ADL director Abraham H. Foxman criticized Abbas for his recent address in…
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Fast Forward Nobel Laureate Says Israel’s Science Cuts Hurt Education
Israeli scientists felt “humiliated” by government slashes to university research budgets, Dan Shechtman, who was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, told Israel Radio on Thursday. Shechtman, a professor at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, was awarded the prize on Wednesday for his discovery of patterns in atoms called quasicrystals, a chemical structure…
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Fast Forward Biden Denies Comment About Pollard’s Release
Vice President Joe Biden denied he said spy Jonathan Pollard would be released “over his dead body,” telling U.S. Jewish leaders on Wednesday, however, that the sentiment expressed in his rejection was his own. Referring to the convicted Israeli spy, Biden was quoted by the New York Times on Saturday as telling Florida rabbis that…
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