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Fast Forward Israel May Bar Arabs, Immigrants From Courts
Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman has signed on regulations that require plaintiffs to cite their Israeli ID numbers or foreign passport numbers on the documents they file. Although the ministry said the cases of individuals such as migrant workers, Palestinian residents of the territories and stateless individuals who have no passport will be referred to a…
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Fast Forward Scientists Work To Pinpoint Dead Sea Sinkholes
A team of scientists has developed a method of more precisely predicting the development sinkholes by the Dead Sea, which should make the area safer for visitors and people working there. Researchers say use of an Italian earth-observation satellite system known as Cosmo-Skymed has significantly improved their ability to predict when and where sinkholes will…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Forced To Scrap Diplomatic Event
A meeting in Ramallah between Palestinian leaders and ministers representing states of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) scheduled for Sunday, was cancelled, as Israel denied entry to some of the foreign diplomats that were set to participate. The meeting, which included an opening ceremony and speech from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and a tour near…
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Fast Forward Sinai Militants Try To Attack Israel
Armed militants from the Sinai peninsula attacked an Egyptian military outpost, and tried to infiltrate the border with Israel on Sunday, the IDF spokesman confirmed on Sunday. The spokesman said that at 8 P.M. on Sunday evening, GOC Southern Command Maj. Gen. Tal Russo, who was at the Amitai base in southern Israel, heard shooting…
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Music Romney Ad Vows Better Ties With Israel
Let’s be honest: based on past experience, the chances that Mitt Romney would move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem if he were president, or that he would even continue calling Jerusalem the capital of Israel, are slim. Yes, President Reagan did not bother to visit Israel, and President George Bush only did…
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Fast Forward Israel Hit by Dozens of Rockets From Gaza
Dozens of rockets and mortar shells exploded in the Eshkol Regional Council in southern Israel on Sunday evening. Residents of Kibbutz Kerem Shalom were told to stay in their homes, for rasons of safety. Palestinians sources in Gaza reported exchanges of fire in the area of Kerem Shalom, including shells fired from the Israeli side,…
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Fast Forward Deportation of Africans Kills School’s Hoops Dream
More than 30 pupils of Bialik-Rogozin High School were recently deported to South Sudan, among them five young women who played in the school’s basketball team. The five were the heart and soul of the team, which now consists of only seven players, and its future is uncertain. Rotem Ginosar, a social studies teacher who…
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Fast Forward Thousands March in New Israel Protests
Thousands of Israelis participated in two separate social protest rallies on Saturday, as one event represented a bid to unify the social protest movement and the movement for a universal IDF draft, with the other mostly comprised by social protest activists who disagreed with the unity attempt. On Thursday, social protest leaders and those of…
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