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Fast Forward Tel Aviv Protest Leaders Planned Chaos: Police
Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino on Tuesday accused activists that participated in Saturday’s social protest that the violence and law infractions that occurred were premeditated. On Saturday, Israel’s social protest turned violent as thousands of Israelis clashed with police, blocked roads, and smashed bank windows. “What we saw was not a popular protest but a planned…
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Fast Forward Israelis Back New Social Justice Protests: Poll
A large majority of Israelis – 69 percent – supports the renewed social-justice protests, but Israelis are about evenly split over who was responsible for the violence that characterized Saturday night’s rally in Tel Aviv, according to a Haaretz-Dialog poll conducted on Monday. The proportion of respondents who said there has been no improvement in…
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Fast Forward Police Acted Improperly at Tel Aviv Protests
Police officers violated protocol during the arrest of social protest activists in Tel Aviv rally on Saturday night, the suspects’ legal representatives and police officials told Haaretz on Monday. On Sunday, Tel Aviv Magistrate’s court ordered the release of demonstrators who were arrested during a protest Saturday night, with Judge Tzachi Uziel rejecting and criticizing…
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Fast Forward Putin: Russia Wants To Resolve Iran Standoff
Israel and Russia will continue consultations geared at resolving the nuclear standoff with Iran through peaceful means, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a joint press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, adding that Israel-Russia relations are based on a “deep friendship.” Putin arrived in Israel earlier in the day, in what Israeli…
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Fast Forward Putin Arrives in Israel on Landmark Visit
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Israel on Monday morning on an official state visit. Putin heads a large entourage comprised of government ministers, advisers and journalists. The 300-person delegation arrived in four planes. Israeli officials are hoping to recruit Russia’s government to join their efforts against Iran’s nuclear program. They also want to encourage…
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv Writers Scrap Events To Protest Arrests
At least two events scheduled for Tel Aviv’s annual White Night cultural celebration have been canceled, due to participants’ anger over the police’s use of brutality during the social protests that took place over the weekend. A main literary event that was supposed to held during the cultural celebration on Thursday was called off by…
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Fast Forward West Africans Lose Appeal To Stay in Israel
The Jerusalem District Court on Sunday denied a petition by 132 migrants from the Ivory Coast to retain the group immunity from deportation they had enjoyed until last December. “The petitioners did not offer a factual basis for the claim that there was inherent danger to the life or freedom of an Ivory Coast national…
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Fast Forward Egypt’s Morsi May Have Hands Tied
The commotion was expected. As soon as Farouk Sultan, the chairman of Egypt’s election committee, began reading out loud on live television the number of votes received by Mohammed Morsi, the country’s first Islamist president (more than 13 million), the crowd stopped him with their loud shouts − some of them happy and some angry….
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