Jeffrey Heller
By Jeffrey Heller
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Fast Forward Edgy Congregants Return to Jerusalem Synagogue on Day After Terror Attack
(Reuters) — On edge but faithful to their religious routine, worshippers returned on Wednesday to the Jerusalem synagogue where four rabbis and a policeman were killed in a Palestinian attack a day earlier. The bloodstains had been washed away. But four memorial candles burned as about a dozen men chanted their daily prayers and police newly…
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Fast Forward How Jewish Revenge Killers Decided To Kill Palestinian, ‘Finish Him Off’
(Reuters) — First they removed the baby seat to make room in the car, and then three Israelis searched for an Arab to kidnap and kill to avenge the deaths of three Jewish teenagers, according to a murder indictment released on Thursday. Mohammed Abu Khudair’s death stoked Palestinian street protests in Jerusalem and in Israeli…
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Fast Forward How Jewish Revenge Killers Decided To Kill Palestinian: ‘Finish Him Off’
(Reuters) — First they removed the baby seat to make room in the car, and then three Israelis searched for an Arab to kidnap and kill to avenge the deaths of three Jewish teenagers, according to a murder indictment released on Thursday. Mohammed Abu Khudair’s death stoked Palestinian street protests in Jerusalem and in Israeli…
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Fast Forward Israel Accuses Hamas of Kidnapping 3 Teens
Israel said on Sunday that Hamas militants had abducted three Israeli teenagers in the occupied West Bank, warning of “serious consequences” as it pressed on with a search and detained dozens of Palestinians. The two 16-year-olds and a third man aged 19, seminary students in a Jewish settlement bloc, disappeared on Thursday. “These teenagers were…
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Fast Forward Israel Punishes Palestinians With 3,000 New Settler Homes After Unity Deal
(Reuters) — Israel announced on Thursday plans to build some 3,000 more settler homes in occupied territory in response to the inauguration of a Palestinian unity government backed by Hamas Islamists opposed to the Jewish state’s existence. Housing Minister Uri Ariel said he had issued notices inviting bids to construct 1,500 housing units. Israeli officials…
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Fast Forward Anti-Christian Wave in Israel Worries Church as Pope Francis VIsit Nears
(Reuters) — The Roman Catholic Church in Jerusalem, preparing for a papal visit later this month, has expressed alarm over threats to Christians scrawled by suspected Jewish extremists on church property in the Holy Land. In an incident on Monday, “Death to Arabs and Christians and all those who hate Israel” was daubed in Hebrew…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Wants Spiffier Private Plane for Overseas Trip
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, complaining he has to rely on “some antenna they stick on a window”, says he lacks reliable and encrypted communications on the chartered aircraft that fly him on visits overseas. The disclosure, by the leader of a country with deep security concerns, appeared in a report on Sunday by a…
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