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Fast Forward Three Israel Universities Make Top 100 List
Three Israeli universities have ranked in the top 100 universities worldwide in a prestigious annual ranking of the world’s universities. It is the first time that three Israeli universities are listed among the Top 100 by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Hebrew University was ranked 53rd, up four places from…
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Fast Forward Paul Ryan Meets With Sheldon Adelson
Paul Ryan met with Sheldon Adelson, a major giver to Republicans in the effort to defeat President Obama, just days after being tapped by presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney as his running mate. Ryan, a Wisconsin congressman, met Tuesday with Adelson and other major Republican donors at the casino magnate’s Venetian hotel in Las Vegas….
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Fast Forward Extremists Confront Rabin’s Granddaughter
Extreme right-wing activists clashed with the granddaughter of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at the end of an event marking the 20th anniversary of the second Rabin government. Baruch Marzel and Itamar Ben-Gvir confronted Noa Rotman, the former Noa Ben-Artzi, in the parking lot of the Rabin Center in Jerusalem, where the former government…
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Fast Forward Hungary’s Far Right Complain Over Nazi Hunter
The vice president of Hungary’s ultranationalist Jobbik Party filed a complaint with police against Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff for making “false statements.” Novak Elod said he filed the complaint in connection with allegations that Zuroff made against war criminal Lazslo Csatary that were dismissed recently by Budapest prosecutors. Knowingly making false accusations can lead to…
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Fast Forward Demjanjuk’s Estate Files New Citizenship Appeal
The estate of convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk again has asked an appeals court to help posthumously restore his U.S. citizenship. In a filing Monday, Demjanjuk’s estate asked the full 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati to take up the case. In June, a three-judge panel of the court ruled that Demjanjuk’s…
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Fast Forward Panetta: No Israel Decision on Iran Yet
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told a Pentagon briefing that he does not believe Israel has made a final decision on whether to attack Iran’s nuclear program. “I don’t believe they made a decision as to whether or not they will go in and attack Iran at this time,” Panetta said Tuesday at a joint briefing…
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Fast Forward Israel Envoy Calls S. Africa Stand ‘Boycott’
Israel’s envoy to South Africa said a government minister’s statement that South Africans would be “discouraged” from visiting Israel represents a boycott of his country. “The cat is out of the bag,” said Dov Segev-Steinberg, Israel’s ambassador to South Africa. Taken together with the government proposal that goods emanating from the West Bank be labeled…
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Fast Forward Hungarian Nazi Evades Australia Extradiction
An Australian federal court has ruled not to extradite suspected war criminal Charles Zentai to his native Hungary. Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff told JTA that the ruling not to extradite the alleged war criminal to Hungary is “a permanent stain on Australia’s record.” An Australian government spokesperson said on Wednesday that Zentai, who is accused…
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