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Breaking News Israeli Diplomat Strikes Back at Alice Walker’s Over Boycott Plea
Israel’s consular general in New York accused novelist Alice Walker of urging artists to scapegoat Israel, following the publication of an open letter by Walker imploring singer Alicia Keys to boycott Israel and cancel her concert there. In an open letter to Walker published Wednesday in the New York Post, Ido Aharoni defended Israel’s right…
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Breaking News Israel Fails To Get Google To Change ‘Palestine’ Homepage
A Google representative from the company’s global headquarters has discussed the decision to use “Palestine,” not “Palestinian Territories,” across the tech giant’s products. At the Knesset committee meeting Wednesday, the Israelis didn’t get very far in their attempts to change the American’s mind. Last month, Google changed the way it refers to the territories, and…
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Breaking News Naftali Bennett Says Two-State Solution Is Dead
The idea of establishing a Palestinian state alongside Israel has reached a “dead end,” Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said on Monday, as the double-talk from the government regarding the conflict with the Palestinians continued. “The attempt to establish a Palestinian state in our land has ended.” Bennett, a member of the government’s security cabinet, said…
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Breaking News More Than 130 Israeli Companies Make Global Tax-Haven List
Over 130 companies have an Israeli connection in the global list of more than 100,000 offshore companies that are used as tax shelters around the world. The list, published Friday by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, includes names of shareholders, managers and directors. The companies with an Israeli connection have either Israeli board members,…
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Breaking News Barbra Streisand Visits Western Wall After Landing in Israel With Puppy
Jewish-American singer Barbra Streisand landed in Israel ahead of her debut Israeli performances at the Bloomfield Stadium on June 20 and 22 in Jaffa as part of the Israeli Presidential Conference. Stepping off the airplane in the early evening, Streisand wore a white jacket, pants and hat, and cradled her pet coton de Tulear dog…
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Breaking News Vote on Civil Unions in Israel Delayed Indefinitely
A vote scheduled for today on civil unions in Israel has been put off indefinitely, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said on Sunday. The Ministerial Committee for Legislation had been slated to vote on a bill that would have allowed civil partnership in Israel, including by same-sex couples. The delay was at the behest of Prime…
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Breaking News Waze Workers Get $1.2M Each From Google Deal
The 100 employees of the Israeli navigation app developer Waze stand to receive a total of $120 million, as a result of Google’s acquisition of the company, making this the most lucrative exit ever for employees of an Israeli startup. The global search giant confirmed on Tuesday that it had agreed to purchase Waze for…
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Breaking News Birthright Women Marry Later, Tend To Wed Jews
New research shows that participants in Taglit-Birthright are inclined to marry later than their Jewish peers. Professor Leonard Saxe of Brandeis University, who presented the finding Wednesday at a conference in Jerusalem, said that this tendency to delay marriage was apparently linked to a desire to find a Jewish partner for life, which, in many…
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