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News Haifa’s Ambitious Spruce-Up Faces Hurdles
The Haifa municipality views July as a historic month: The National Planning and Building Council finally approved a plan to evacuate part of the cargo port in the lower city and transform it into a lively center of entertainment and shopping. This decision will transform Haifa into Barcelona – with the help of a NIS…
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Israel News South Africa-Israel Relations Freeze Over
This past week, South African-Israeli relations sunk to one of their lowest points since the “new” South Africa began in 1994. The only other incident that caused such a fuss was the 2010 Gaza flotilla debacle when Israeli Ambassador Dov Segev-Steinberg received a dressing-down from then-deputy minister of international relations, Sue van der Merwe, and…
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Fast Forward Century-Old Arab Inscriptions Unearthed
The last thing the two restoration artists expected was to find inscriptions in Arabic, almost 150 years old, on the walls of the small stone house in Tel Aviv’s German colony. Carefully removing the layers from the interior walls with sharp knives, the artists have been searching for inscriptions and drawings from the second half…
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Fast Forward Anne Frank Letter May Fetch $30K at Auction
A letter written by Anne Frank’s father appealing for help in getting his family out of Nazi-occupied Holland will be one of hundreds of items associated with the Frank family that will be put up for auction this fall. The Doyle New York auction house will be holding the sale on November 5. The archive…
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Fast Forward 400 Israelis Petition PIlots To Spurn Iran Attack
More than 400 Israelis, including Tel Aviv University law professors Menachem Mautner and Chaim Gans, have recently signed an online petition calling on Israel Defense Forces pilots to refuse to obey if ordered to bomb Iran. The petition calls a decision to launch a strike against Iran a “highly mistaken gamble” that would only delay…
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Fast Forward Bibi Set To Kill ‘No Occupation’ Report
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to bury the Levy Report, which recommends legalizing most unauthorized settlement outposts in the West Bank and making it easier for existing settlements to expand, a senior politician who spoke with the premier about the issue told Haaretz yesterday. Since the Levy Report was submitted, on June 21, Netanyahu…
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Fast Forward Israeli Diplomats Sent to Twitter 101
Israel’s Foreign Ministry updated online social media guidelines for representatives of the State of Israel worldwide, following a few recent unusual tweets and Facebook posts made by Israeli diplomats. The Foreign Ministry’s message to Israeli diplomats: Surfers on the web take everything you post as Israel’s official position. Earlier this week, Yoram Murad, head of…
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Fast Forward Iran Dismisses Israeli Threats
Iran’s defense minister is dismissing Israeli threats against his country as psychological warfare. The semi-official Mehr news agency on Tuesday quoted Gen. Ahmad Vahidi as saying Israeli leaders are resorting to “psychological war” against Iran. Israel has not ruled out a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. The West suspects Iran is aiming at producing…
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