Jack Khoury (Haaretz)
By Jack Khoury (Haaretz)
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Fast Forward Border Violence Cools, as Israel Refrains From Response to Rocket Attacks
The latest round of Israel-Gaza violence, which included a direct hit on an Israeli school bus, intense Palestinian rocket and mortar fire, and IDF strikes that left 19 Hamas militants and two civilians dead over the weekend, appears to have come to a close, defense officials said on Sunday. The Israel Defense Forces refrained from…
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Fast Forward Shalit’s Parents Meet With Bibi, But Given ‘No News’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sarah met on Friday with Noam and Aviva Shalit, the parents of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, at the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem. Upon coming out of the hour-long meeting, Noam Shalit said the prime minister did not offer any new or dramatic information regarding his son’s…
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Fast Forward Hamas Says the Longer Israel Waits, the Higher the Price for Shalit
Hamas political bureau leader Khaled Meshal warned Israel Monday that the longer it waits to accept a deal for the release of abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, the greater his group’s demands will grow. “I told the Zionist leadership who reneged on the prisoner swap and surrendered to American demands that our demands…
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Fast Forward Most Arab-Israeli Villages in Northern Israel Lack Access to Bomb Shelters
Some 70% of Israeli-Arab villages in northern Israel have no access to safe rooms or bomb shelters, and 25% do not have emergency sirens, according to a report released Tuesday by the Israeli-Arab rights group “Mubadarah.” The report also found that 80% of Israeli-Arab villages are not prepared to handle a crisis situation, including an…
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