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Fast Forward Man Who Refused To Give Wife Jewish Divorce Gets Harsher Prison Time
A man imprisoned for refusing to grant his wife a divorce was transferred to a facility with harsher conditions, after the head of the rabbinical court asked prison officials to do so, in order to induce him to agree to a divorce. In September, 2012, S.A., a young, married father of four, was sent to…
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Fast Forward Naftali Bennett Appeals to Diaspora for Support on Western Wall Prayer Plan
Minister of Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett made an attempt to reconcile Diaspora Jews and released a letter to World Jewry ahead of the new Jewish year explaining his plan to resolve the ongoing dispute over the rights of non-Orthodox Jews, including women, to pray at the Western Wall according to their customs. According…
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Fast Forward Uganda Agrees To Take African Immigrants Ousted From Israel
The East African nation that will take in tens of thousands African migrants living in Israel is Uganda, a gag order lifted on Thursday revealed. Uganda will either accept the migrants, or serve as a transit station to their own countries. Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar said that Hagai Hadas, the prime minister’s special envoy, had…
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Fast Forward ‘Absentee’ Palestinian Wins Back Jerusalem Property Just Yards Away
The state has reversed its previous decision to confiscate the Cliff Hotel in East Jerusalem from its owners, the State Prosecutor’s Office informed the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The state had invoked the Absentee Property Law to seize the property, located some 50 meters from the Palestinian Parliament in Abu Dis. The primary purpose of…
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Fast Forward Israel Readies New Push To Deport African Immigrants
Israel is preparing to start a large-scale campaign to pressure immigrants from Sudan and Eritrea to voluntarily leave the country after the September holidays, Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced on Wednesday. According to Sa’ar, the measure comes in the wake of a third country’s agreement to take in the immigrants or serve as a transit…
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Fast Forward Anti-Israel Hackers Hijack Google Palestine
Pro-Palestinian hackers on Monday successfully hijacked the Google Palestine domain (google.ps), redirecting Web users to a hacked version of the page that called for removing Israel from Google Maps and renaming it Palestine. Google officials said their servers were not hacked. Instead it appears the hackers managed to break into the domain name registry for…
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Fast Forward Deciphering a Mysterious Line in Dead Sea Scrolls
Modern Israelis ascribe several meanings of the Hebrew root taph-bet-ayin: “to demand,” “to investigate,” “to prosecute” and while about it, “to sue”. None of these meanings were useful in deciphering a mysterious line in the Dead Sea Scrolls. For decades scholars struggled with a phrase sporting the Hebrew word “tit’ba’e’ch”. Their efforts to interpret the…
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Fast Forward Israel’s GDP Spikes 5% in Second Quarter
The Israeli economy grew by a surprisingly brisk 5.1% in the second quarter of 2013, in parallel with a steep increase in consumer spending, according to Central Bureau of Statistics figures released on Sunday. The rapid pace of growth in the second quarter, April-June, boosted first-half expansion to 3.4% in annualized terms. That first-half pace…
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