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Fast Forward Talks on New Israel Draft Law Collapse
A meeting of a committee convened for the purpose of creating new IDF draft legislation, focusing on ultra-Orthodox recruits, broke down as an intense argument between Kadima MK Yohanan Plesner and Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon erupted on Wednesday. The two plan to submit the bill on Monday for a first reading in the plenum,…
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Fast Forward Ari Fleischer Accuses Obama of Bullying Israel
The former White House press secretary for the Bush administration has assailed President Obama for “pushing Israel around” and forcing the Jewish state to “make harmful, unwise concessions.” Addressing a group of dual Israeli-U.S. citizens Tuesday night at a get-out-the-vote event in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Ari Fleischer questioned Obama’s commitment to Israel….
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Fast Forward Israel Launches Campaign To Deter Immigrants
The border fence with Egypt, which was primarily intended to prevent the infiltration of unlawful labor migrants into Israel, is not scheduled to be completed before early 2013. Until then, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is interested in trying to deter African migrants through other means, namely a negative public relations campaign about the practicability of…
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Fast Forward Olmert Basks in Glow of Acquittal
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert spent the afternoon Tuesday, in his home in Motza near Jerusalem, receiving a stream of calls and flower bouquets congratulating him on his acquittals earlier that day. One of the more interesting of these congratulations was a phone call from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The Palestinian leader, who has been…
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Fast Forward Jews’ ‘Ethnic’ Category Scrapped for Testing
Jews should no longer be categorized by their ethnic origin when being tested for hereditary conditions, says the Health Ministry. The mixing of Jewish communities – mixed heritage – has rendered such categorization pointless, the ministry’s community genetics department says. Because of the proliferation of “mixed marriages” between Jewish communities, as well as technological advances,…
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Fast Forward Abbas Wants Sweeter Prisoner Deal for Talks
A Palestinian minister said on Monday evening that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected an offer by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to release security prisoners in exchange for the renewal of peace talks. Palestinian Authority Minister of Prisoner Affairs Issa Qaraqe confirmed a Haaretz report that Netanyahu made an offer to release initially 25 Palestinian…
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Fast Forward Bibi Faces Dilemma on ‘No Occupation’ Report
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his advisers knew very well why they were keeping a low profile on a new report about the legal status of the West Bank. In retrospect, it isn’t certain that Netanyahu would even have appointed the committee, which was convened under pressure from the Likud ministers who wanted something to…
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Fast Forward Bedouin Town Welcomes African Immigrants
Over the past two months the Bedouin town of Rahat has become a city of refuge for South Sudanese migrants, who are trying to avoid being located by Interior Ministry inspectors and deported to South Sudan. “Immigration police doesn’t come here; this is paradise for them,” said a Rahat resident of the new arrivals. Whoever…
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