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Fast Forward Police Dismantle Tent City Protest Structures
Israel Police on Wednesday began dismantling social protest encampment sites in Tel Aviv and Holon, less than two months after activists set up the tent cities to demonstrate against the high cost of living in the country. Holon municipality inspectors, accompanied by a large police force, arrived at the social protest encampment in the city’s…
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Fast Forward Abbas Says Talks Will Continue After Statehood Bid
Security coordination with Israel would continue even after the United Nations’ expected recognition of a Palestinian state later this month, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas promised on Monday. “We don’t want to isolate Israel but to live with it in peace and security,” Abbas said, adding that the PA had been pushing Arab states to…
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Fast Forward Security Breach Bares U.S. Efforts to Spy on Israel
A security breach which ended over a year ago with the jailing of an Israeli FBI employee has exposed U.S. attempts to spy on Israeli officials, a New York Times report said on Thursday. According to the report, Shamai K. Leibowitz, a self-described Israeli lawyer and left-wing activist, leaked documents of conversations recorded at the…
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Fast Forward Israelis in New York Stage Rally for Social Change
Some 100 Israelis and supporters gathered in Washington Square Park in New York City on Saturday to hold a rally in solidarity with the hundreds of thousands demonstrating for social change across the pond in their native land. As more than 450,000 people took to the streets across Israel on Saturday night, these New York-based…
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News Massive Demonstrations Draw 450,000 Across Israel
An estimated 450,000 Israelis were marching across the country as part of the ‘March of the Million,’ a rally which organizers hope will grow to be the biggest social protest in Israel’s history. According to initial estimates more than 300,000 people amassed in Tel Aviv’s Kikar Hamedina square, where the central event is currently taking…
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Fast Forward After Booting Israeli Envoy, Turkey Threatens More Action
A senior source in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office stated that Israel will endeavor to mend frayed ties with the Turkish government and people, but that it will not apologize for the deaths of 9 Turkish activists, who it says were only killed by IDF soldiers in self-defence. For a more detailed discussion of how…
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Fast Forward Israelis March From South to Netanyahu’s Home
Israel’ socio-economic issues pose the greatest threat to the safety of its citizens, not the threat of terrorist attacks, protesters said in a rally near the Prime Minister’s residence in Jerusalem on Friday. The rally was composed of about ten participants, all of whom marched to Jerusalem from the southern city of Be’er Sheva to…
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Fast Forward Barak Rules Out Defense Cuts To Fund Social Programs
Amid recent calls for the slashing of Israel’s security budget, Defense Minister Ehud Barak responded Thursday that “life itself precedes quality of life”, and that an investment in the country’s security is an “insurance policy”. In an interview with Haaretz, Barak stated that the Defense Ministry is already cutting its NIS 40 billion budget, but…
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