Jeffrey Heller
By Jeffrey Heller
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Tweets Call for Veto of UN Settlement Resolution — at 3:28 am
Israel urged the United States on Thursday to veto a U.N. Security Council draft resolution calling for an immediate halt to settlement building on occupied land that Palestinians want for a state. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to Twitter in the dead of night in Israel to make the appeal, in a sign of concern…
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Fast Forward Israel Seeks To Quell Furor Over Knesset ‘Skirtgate’
Israel’s parliament speaker went on national radio on Thursday to try to quell anger over a ban on female staff wearing skirts deemed too short, a move that has caused a scandal in a legislature where informal dress has long been the fashion. The furore began about 10 days ago when Knesset security guards began…
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Fast Forward Golden ‘King Bibi’ Statue Toppled in Tel Aviv — You Got a Problem With That?
A gilded statue of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, dubbed “King Bibi” by its creator, stirred condemnation from Israel’s culture minister and was toppled by an onlooker after a brief public appearance on Tuesday. Sculptor Itay Zalait told reporters he had placed the four meter (13 foot) tall effigy of Netanyahu on a white pedestal in…
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Fast Forward Israel Supreme Court Pushes Back Against Law To Pack Bench With Right-Wing Judges
Israel’s Supreme Court president accused the country’s right-wing justice minister on Wednesday of bringing “a gun to the table” in a dispute over a proposed reform that could make the court more conservative. In a letter to Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, Chief Justice Miriam Naor accused her of failing to voice reservations about a bill…
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News Shimon Peres Won Plaudits and Nobel Prize — but Goal of Peace Eluded Him
Shimon Peres, who died on Wednesday at the age of 93, never realized his vision of a new Middle East built upon a 1993 interim peace deal he helped shape with the Palestinians. But Israel’s elder statesman won world acclaim and a Nobel prize as a symbol of hope in a region long plagued by…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Hopes To Keep His Dirty Laundry Secret — Literally
Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t want details of his dirty laundry aired in public – and he is suing his own office and Israel’s attorney general to try to prevent it. Legal documents published on Tuesday showed that the prime minister, citing a right to privacy, is asking a Jerusalem court to overturn a decision to release…
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Fast Forward Israel Army Rabbi Once Justified Rape of Non-Jewish Women
Israel’s military has nominated a new chief rabbi who seemed to imply in a past religious commentary that its soldiers are allowed to rape non-Jewish women in wartime. Rabbi Colonel Eyal Karim’s remarks 14 years ago stirred controversy at the time and remain on an Israeli religious website today, along with a link to a…
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Fast Forward 13-Year-Old Israeli Girl Stabbed To Death in Bedroom by Terrorist
A Palestinian fatally stabbed a 13-year-old girl inside her home in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, before guards shot him dead, the military and hospital officials said. A member of the response team that killed the assailant was also wounded in the incident, said an official from the Kiryat Arba…
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