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Fast Forward 6-Year-Old Girl Arrested and Faces Deportation
Only two days after the school year ended, an Israel-born six-year-old girl was arrested along with her mother, a migrant worker from the Philippines, ahead of their deportation. This is the first time a child at such a young age, which is attending kindergarten and is a part of the education system, is arrested to…
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Fast Forward Bibi to Morsi: Keep Peace Treaty Alive
In a personal letter, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Mohammed Morsi, who was sworn in Saturday as Egypt’s president, to honor his country’s contractual obligations to Israel. A senior Israeli official said that in the letter Netanyahu congratulated Morsi on his election, offered to cooperate with the new government in Cairo and expressed his hope…
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Fast Forward Mossad Agent Who Nabbed Eichmann Dies
Former Mossad agent Yaakov Meidad, who took part in the abduction of the Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann, died Saturday at the age of 93. Meidad was living in Tel Aviv. Meidad was in charge of the logistic aspects of the assignment, carried out in Argentina in May 1960 under the command of the Mossad…
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Fast Forward Thousands Rally for ‘Israeli New Deal’
The leaders of last summer’s cost-of-living protest have joined forces with members of the business community and academia to put together a social justice covenant. The document features two basic principles: the elimination of inequality and poverty and gradual increases in the state budget “to get the wheels of development moving for all the country’s…
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Fast Forward Yad Vashem Softens Account of Pius XII’s Role
Yad Vashem is due to unveil a new wall text on Sunday describing the actions of Pope Pius XII during World War II, softening a previous message which stated that the head of the Catholic Church had not protested verbally or in writing to the murder of Jews by the Nazis. The initial wall text…
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Fast Forward Al Qaeda Plots London Terror Attack: Report
The al-Qaida branch in the Arabian Peninsula is believed to be planning a terror attack during the Olympic Games in London, scheduled to begin at the end of the month. According to a report in today’s Sunday Times, quoting intelligence services, the organization has recruited a Norwegian Muslim convert who was supposed to hijack a…
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Israel News Yitzhak Shamir, ‘True Zealot’ for Israel
Of all the Israelis that have led Israel since its inception in 1948, Yitzhak Shamir is the only one who was a true zealot. A modest and moderate man with infinite self-control, he was nonetheless a fanatic devotee of his vision of the Jewish people and the Greater Land of Israel. The end, in his…
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Fast Forward Yitzhak Shamir Dies at 96
Yizhak Shamir, the seventh prime minister of Israel, died Saturday at the age of 96. Shamir, who was born in 1915 in Ruzhany, served in Israel’s Shin Bet, and later on as Speaker of the Knesset as part of the Likud and Israel’s Foreign Minister before succeeding Menachem Begin as Prime Minister in 1983. In…
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