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Fast Forward Iran Making ‘Surprising’ Progress to Bomb: Report
Defense Minister Ehud Barak confirmed on Thursday Haaretz’s report that President Barack Obama recently received a new National Intelligence Estimate report on the Iranian nuclear program, which shares Israel’s view that Iran has made significant progress toward military nuclear capability, and said that the report has raised the urgency of the issue. Speaking on Israel…
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Fast Forward Brazil Dedicates Star of David War Memorial
A Star of David stylized piece of sculpture was inaugurated by Brazil’s Defense Minister Celso Amorim at the Monument to the Brazilian soldiers of World War II in Flamengo Park in Rio de Janeiro. The sculpture was unveiled Aug. 5 with the help of the Jewish Confederation of Brazil and the Jewish Federation of Rio…
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Fast Forward Italians Probe Hitler Portrait on Wine Label
A public prosecutor in Italy has opened an inquiry after a vacationing Jewish-American couple complained about wine with a picture of Adolf Hitler on the label for sale in a shop near Verona. The Forward wrote about the Hitler and Mussolini wines in 2010. Verona prosecutor Mario Giulia Schinaia has opened an investigation into whether…
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News El Al Won’t Commit To Bargain Fares
An El Al spokesperson said the airline had not decided whether or not to honor round-trip tickets to Israel that were offered erroneously for prices as low as $330. On Wednesday afternoon, the airline issued the following statement via Twitter: “Thanks for your patience. Details/decisions re incorrect fares that were briefly sold on Monday are…
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Fast Forward Suspected Hungarian Nazi Cleared in Some Deaths
Suspected war criminal Laszlo Csatary of Hungary will not be charged with the murder of 300 Jews in 1941, prosecutors in Budapest said. Csatary’s alleged complicity in the murder of some 15,000 Jews in 1944 is still being investigated. Accusations that Csatary, 97, helped send the 300 to their deaths at the Kamyanets-Podilsky camp in…
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Fast Forward Guardian Retracts Tel Aviv Capital Claim
The Guardian newspaper retracted its claim that Tel Aviv is the capital of Israel after a watchdog group filed a lawsuit against Britain’s Press Complaints Commission. In May, The Guardian posted a photo with a caption that referred to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The caption was later corrected, saying that it “wrongly referred to the…
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Fast Forward Aly Raisman Backs Moment of Silence
Jewish-American gymnast Aly Raisman expressed her support for an Olympic moment of silence for the Israeli athletes killed at the Munich Olympics in 1972 during an interview following her gold medal win. “Having that floor music wasn’t intentional,” Raisman told reporters of her floor routine to the music of “Hava Nagila,” the New York Post…
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Fast Forward S. Africa Slams Israel for Blocking Summit
The South African government slammed Israel’s decision not to allow delegates from countries in the Non-Aligned Movement that do not have diplomatic relations with Israel to travel to Ramallah. The meeting of the Non-Aligned countries in Ramallah was cancelled Sunday, following Israel’s decision not to allow delegates from Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Cuba to enter….
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