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Fast Forward Israeli School Faces Economic Discrimination Claims
Parents in Petah Tikva’s old inner city say they will refuse to enroll their children in a middle school that the city is setting aside for their children while opening a new one in a prosperous neighborhood, allegedly for the purpose of separating pupils by socioeconomic background. “The city council is behaving in the same…
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Fast Forward Israel Cannot Bar Fly-In Protesters: Lawyer
Israel’s Interior Ministry has no authority to refuse entry to activists taking part in Sunday’s pro-Palestinian fly-in protest, a lawyer who represented activists detained in last year’s protest claims. The fly-in protest, part of a campaign entitled “Welcome to Palestine,” is due to take place on Sunday with the arrival of thousands of international activists…
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Fast Forward Bibi Offers Abbas One-On-One Peace Talks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will offer a Palestinian delegation to upgrade Mideast peace negotiations to direct talks, to be led by Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a source in the Prime Minister’s Office said on Wednesday. On Sunday, Abbas told an unofficial Israeli delegation that the Palestinian Authority will renew its efforts to…
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Fast Forward Mideast Quartet Slams Violent Settlers
The Quartet for the Middle East is concerned over ongoing settler violence and incitement in the West Bank, a statement following ameeting of the group’s foreign ministers said on Wednesday, adding that negotiations, not settlement expansion, would solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The message was released following a Washington meeting, participated by United Nations Secretary General…
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Fast Forward Radio Station Reduces Women’s Air Time
The chairman of Israel’s Second Television and Radio Authority Tuesday rejected criticism of a vote by the authority’s council to reduce the number of hours that women are on the air on ultra-Orthodox radio station Kol Barama. According to the decision made two weeks ago, every week the station will have women on the air…
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Fast Forward Israel, Lebanon Navies Increase Cooperation
The Israel Navy has recently strengthened its cooperation with the Lebanese Navy in the Mediterranean, as it prepares for possible pro-Palestinian flotillas to Gaza on “Nakba Day” this month. According to Israel Navy officials, the indirect cooperation between the Israeli and Lebanese navies has increased. On Land Day last month, when hundreds of Palestinians took…
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Fast Forward Soldiers Suspected of Stealing Palestinian’s Gold Coins
Israeli Military Police is investigating allegations that soldiers stole pieces of gold worth tens of thousands of shekels from the home of a Palestinian man during a late-night raid in a West Bank village last week. The investigation began after the head of the household, Ata Shatwi, submitted a complaint to the Civil Administration. Shatwi…
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Fast Forward Israeli Writers Will Call on PEN To Rebuke Günter Grass
The Hebrew Writers Association in Israel on Monday denounced a controversial poem by Nobel Literature laureate Günter Grass in which he criticizes Israel for threatening to attack Iran. The writers association said it would ask International PEN, a worldwide body of writers, to “publicly distance itself from Grass’ remarks and to come out against all…
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