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Fast Forward Jerusalem Post Buys Maariv for $1.15 Million
A Jerusalem court approved the sale of the daily Hebrew newspaper Maariv to The Jerusalem Post. The $1.15 million sale to Jerusalem Post owner Eli Azur was approved Sunday by the Jerusalem District Court. The Jerusalem Post publishes a daily English-language newspaper. Israel’s Antitrust Authority still must approve the sale, Globes reported. Azur also bought…
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Fast Forward Western Wall Is Cleaned of Notes Before Passover Starts
The Western Wall was cleared of notes in advance of Passover. Workers used sticks Sunday to remove the hundreds of thousands of prayers and requests written on slips of paper that worshippers stuff into the cracks between the wall’s stones. The papers will be buried out of respect for their contents. The Western Wall also…
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Fast Forward Hezbollah Was Behind Burgas Bombing, Says Bulgarian Minister
Bulgaria’s Interior Minister said he is certain that the Hezbollah terrorist organization was behind the bombing of a tour bus in Burgas that killed five Israelis and their Bulgarian bus driver. “All traces lead there,” Tsvetlin Yovchev told journalists Monday, according to the Sofia News Agency. “What can we prove in court, is another matter….
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Fast Forward Avigdor Liberman Calls for New Elections as Peace Talks Fail
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman called for new national elections during a speech in New York, saying he preferred a poll to freeing more Palestinian prisoners. Liberman, who is scheduled to meet in Washington with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry later this week, made the call for new elections during an annual conference sponsored…
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Fast Forward Hacking Group Organizes ‘OpIsrael’ Day of Attack
A coordinated cyber attack on Israeli websites has so far been relatively ineffective. The international hacking group Anonymous and its followers had announced that Monday would be “Operation Israel,” or “OpIsrael,” a day of targeting Israeli websites in retaliation for Israel’s “assault on the people of Gaza.” “On April 7, 2014, we call upon our…
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Fast Forward Wesleyan Jewish Students Announce Support for Open Hillel
The Hillel-affiliated Wesleyan Jewish Community announced its “solidarity with, and support of, the Open Hillel movement.” The statement issued April 2 was signed by three current Jewish student leaders and nine former Jewish student leaders at Wesleyan University in Connecticuit. “At Wesleyan, values of inclusion are central to our identity both as Jews and as…
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Fast Forward Families of Israeli Terror Victims Call for Pollard Release
Family members of terror victims killed by Palestinian prisoners released in connection with the current Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations called on President Obama to free Jonathan Pollard. The letter, signed by 22 terror victim relatives, was delivered Sunday to U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro to be passed on to the U.S. president, according to the…
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Fast Forward Lev Tahor Members Ordered Deported to Israel
Three members of the haredi Orthodox sect Lev Tahor have been ordered deported to their native Israel. The three have been held in detention since April 2, when officials of the Canada Border Services Agency raided the Lev Tahor compound in Chatham, Ont., about three hours from Toronto, and arrested six sect members over suspected…
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