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Fast Forward Barcelona Soccer Team Heads To Israel To Run Clinics, Promote Peace
Members of a Spanish soccer team will visit Israel and the West Bank to host skills clinics and games with Israeli and Palestinian children in order to promote peace. Football Club Barcelona announced that games will be played on Aug. 3 in the southern West Bank and the following day in Tel Aviv with teams…
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Fast Forward Women of the Wall Request Use of Kotel Torah Scroll or To Bring Their Own
Women of the Wall asked the rabbi of the Western Wall to allow the group to use one of the site’s Torah scrolls. In a letter sent Sunday, Women of the Wall made the request to Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz for their Rosh Chodesh prayer service, marking the start of the new Jewish month. The group…
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Fast Forward Israeli Cabinet Agrees to Release 104 Prisoners in Advance of Peace Talks
Israel’s Cabinet voted to release 104 Palestinian prisoners as part of the renewed peace process. Following late-night phone calls and several hours of debate, the Cabinet in a 13-7 vote backed the release of Palestinians jailed in Israel since before the 1993 Oslo Accords. Limor Livnat and Silvan Shalom of the ruling Likud Party abstained…
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Fast Forward Ron Dermer Unanimously Approved as Ambassador to U.S. by Israeli Cabinet
Israel’s Cabinet unanimously approved the appointment of Ron Dermer as Israeli ambassador to the United States. The appointment of Dermer, a former senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was approved Sunday during the regular weekly Cabinet meeting. Dermer, who immigrated to Israel from Florida 15 years ago, succeeds Michael Oren, a New Jersey native….
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Fast Forward 150 Dutch Teens Visit Nazi Transit Camp To Combat Recent Anti-Semitism
Some 150 teenagers from The Netherlands visited Westerbork, a transit camp for Holocaust victims, in an activity designed to combat recent expressions of anti-Semitism in the city’s schools. The youths from the eastern Netherlands city of Arnhem arrived at Kamp Westerbork on bicycles on July 25 carrying white roses provided to them by the organizers…
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Fast Forward Israel To Make ‘Very Serious Territorial Concessions’ if Jewish State is Recognized
Israel is prepared to make “very serious territorial concessions” if the Palestinian Authority recognizes Israel’s Jewish character, a senior Israeli minister told a British newspaper. In an interview published July 25 in The Daily Telegraph, Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s International Relations Minister, told The Daily Telegraph: ”We are ready for a two states for two people…
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Fast Forward San Diego Mayor To Attend Intensive Therapy After Calls for Resignation
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner announced he will undergo therapy amid calls for his resignation over allegations of sexual misconduct. In a brief statement to reporters Friday, Filner said he would be entering a treatment facility on Aug. 5 for two weeks of intensive therapy. “During this time period I will be in the clinic…
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Fast Forward Bulgaria Names Suspects in Bombing That Killed Israelis
Bulgaria released the names and photographs of two people it says carried out the Burgas bombing last July that killed five Israelis and their Bulgarian bus driver. The suspects were identified as Meliad Farah, a 32-year-old Australian also known as Hussein Hussein, and Hassan el-Hajj Hassan, a 25-year-old Canadian. Both are said to be associated…
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