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Fast Forward Israeli Elections Slated for September 4
Israel’s Cabinet agreed to hold early elections for the 19th Knesset on September 4. The Cabinet on Sunday morning authorized the Ministerial Committee on Legislation to submit a law for Knesset approval to hold elections on September 4. New elections did not need to occur before October 2013, the official end of the current Knesset’s…
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Fast Forward Gross Vows He’d Return To Cuba From Furlough
Alan Gross pledged to return to Cuba should the government release him to visit his ailing mother. “I would return to Cuba,” Gross told CNN in a home interview last Friday. “You know, you – you can quote me on that. I’m saying it live. I would return to Cuba if they let me visit…
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Fast Forward White House: Obama Nurtures ‘Arab Spring’
The Obama administration is invested in nurturing the “Arab Spring,” said Denis McDonough, the deputy national security adviser. “While the change in the Middle East is working against Iran, it is our belief that it can and will work for the United States,” McDonough told a Washington Institute for Near East Policy retreat. “A more…
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Fast Forward Hollande Beats Sarkozy in French Election
Polling projections and a partial vote count show Francois Hollande becoming the first Socialist president of France in nearly two decades. With half the votes counted nationwide, Hollande was leading the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, 50.8 percent to 49.2 percent. Sarkozy, the center-left candidate, was considered the favored candidate among French Jews. Polls showed Hollande finishing…
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Fast Forward Judges Grill State Over Settlement Policy
Israel’s Supreme Court held a hearing on the government’s request to delay the razing of the Ulpana neighborhood in the West Bank settlement of Beit El. The three-judge panel criticized the state’s request during Sunday’s hearing, calling it “unprecedented” to review a closed case. The high court had ruled in September that the five apartment…
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Fast Forward Gay Gathering Puts Focus on Israel
Israel is the featured theme of the Equality Forum, a major annual gay gathering in the eastern United States. The events in Philadelphia, from May 3-6, are featuring an array of Israeli gay performers and activists, as well as an address by Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the United States. The forum, which brings…
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Fast Forward Second Firebomb Attack Targets Africans
Two firebombs hit a residence in south Tel Aviv that is home to African asylum seekers. It is the second such incident in the last two weeks. No one we injured in Saturday night’s attack, which targeted a home in the Hatikvah neighborhood of south Tel Aviv, Haaretz reported. On April 27, firebombs were thrown…
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Fast Forward One Brother Guilty in Baltimore Shomrim Case
Eliyahu Werdesheim, one of two Baltimore brothers charged with beating an African-American teenager, was found guilty by a circuit court. Werdesheim, a former member of Israeli special forces, was found guilty on charges of false imprisonment and second-degree assault, while his brother Avi was cleared of all charges in the beating of Corey Ausby in…
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