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Fast Forward Italy’s Monti Jets in to Israel for Talks
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and a high-level delegation of government ministers and businesspeople flew to Israel for a bilateral summit with Israeli leaders. It is Monti’s second visit to Israel in just over six months. Thursday’s meeting is the third such Italy-Israel intergovernmental summit and its announced themes are growth, science and culture. A…
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Fast Forward Sudan Blames Israel for Arms Factory Attack
A Sudanese government minister threatened to strike Israel, and the country called on the United Nations Security Council to condemn Israel, over the bombing of a weapons factory in Khartoum. Sudan “reserves the right to strike back at Israel,” Sudanese Information Minister Ahmed Belal Osman said Wednesday, hours after the attack on the arms factory…
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Fast Forward Israel Gets $4B in U.S. Loan Guarantees
The United States extended nearly $4 billion in loan guarantees to Israel through 2016. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Israeli Treasury Director-General Doron Cohen signed the agreement on Wednesday in Washington. The U.S. first approved $9 billion in loan guarantees, which allow Israel to sell bonds internationally with the backing of the United States,…
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Fast Forward Activists Mount Protest at West Bank Supermarket
Some 100 Palestinians and international activists protesting in front of a supermarket in a West Bank settlement called for a boycott of settlement goods. Waving Palestinian flags, the protesters entered the Rami Levy supermarket in Shaar Binyamin, near Beit El, on Wednesday chanting “Out, out settlers” and carrying signs reading “boycott the occupation and its…
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Fast Forward Big Shake-Up at Kosher Food Giant
Empire Kosher Poultry Inc. fired its chief executive officer allegedly after the aborted acquisition of another kosher poultry firm. Greg Rosenbaum learned Oct. 10 that he was out at Empire, the leading supplier of kosher poultry in the United States, the Washington Jewish Week reported Wednesday. The company, based in Mifflintown, Pa., went from near…
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Fast Forward Dutch Prince Dedicates Jewish Quarter Center
The intended king of the Netherlands, Prince Willem-Alexander, officiated at the dedication of the new Jewish cultural quarter in Amsterdam. Several hundred people attended the dedication ceremony on Tuesday, the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the Dutch Jewish Historical Museum. The museum is one of seven Jewish institutions situated within the square kilometer that…
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Fast Forward Israeli Astronaut’s Name Dumped at Space Center
A space center that opened in the Arab-Israeli city of Taybeh was not named for the late Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon following opposition from city residents. The Taybeh Space Center was dedicated Tuesday. It was to be called the Ilan Ramon Space Center. Instead, under the name of the center it will be inscribed, “To…
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Fast Forward Terror Victims File $1B Suit Over Bank Transfers
The families of five of the students killed in the 2008 terrorist attack on the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem have filed a $1 billion lawsuit against the Bank of China for making money transfers to Hamas. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York State court accuses the bank of making several millions of dollars…
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