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Fast Forward Israeli Wounded in India Attack Stabilized
The Israeli diplomat’s wife wounded in a car bomb attack in New Delhi is in stable condition following surgery to remove shrapnel. Tal Yehoshua-Koren, the wife of an Israeli Defense Ministry representative to India, reportedly woke for the first time on Tuesday, a day after the bombing. The bomb reportedly was attached to the car…
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Fast Forward Grandson of Survivors Picked To Challenge Chavez
Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, will challenge President Hugo Chavez in upcoming elections. Capriles, 39, governor of the Miranda state, won a primary Sunday with 61 percent of the vote to become the unity candidate against Chavez, who has been in office for 13 years. Some 3 million voters…
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Fast Forward Jewish Innovators Gather for South Africa Conference
A conference in South Africa brought together young Jewish innovators from across the country. More than 60 leading innovators from an array of business and social enterprises attended the first South African Young Jewish Innovators Gathering in Johannesburg on Feb. 11-12. Guy Lieberman, who attended a young entrepreneurs gathering last year in Jerusalem known as…
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Fast Forward Illegal Settlement Agrees to Relocation Deal
Residents of Migron say they have reached an agreement with the government on relocating the illegal West Bank outpost. The residents reportedly have agreed to have the community relocated to government land on a nearby hill. In return, they have requested that the current homes not be razed until their new homes are built and…
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Fast Forward Ahead of Election, Sarkozy Courts French Jews
Trailing in the polls and with elections just 10 weeks away, French President Nicolas Sarkozy went to one of his most reliable bases of support — French Jews — to drum up enthusiasm. On the morning of Feb. 8, Sarkozy met at Elysees Palace with released Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who holds dual French-Israeli citizenship….
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Fast Forward Suburban D.C. County Suspends Beit Shemesh ‘Sister-City’ Talks
A community in Maryland has suspended negotiations over a sister-city agreement with Beit Shemesh following violence in the Israeli city against women by Haredi residents. Montgomery County, which is home to a large Jewish population, was at the end of the process to ink the sister-city arrangement with the Jerusalem suburb when disturbances by Haredim…
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Fast Forward Hackers Threaten To Wipe Israel off Cyberspace
Hackers threatened to remove all traces of Israel from the Internet and accused it of crimes against humanity on the same day that it crashed the Central Intelligence Agency’s website. The hacker group Anonymous released a video on YouTube Feb. 10 on which it said that “For too long we have tolerated your crimes against…
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Fast Forward U.S. Against Trading Killers of Americans for Shalit
An Obama administration official said the United States urged Israel not to free Palestinian terrorists in the Gilad Shalit exchange deal who killed Americans. In a Jan. 30 letter to the Parents Forum, a group of American citizens and parents whose children were killed or wounded by Palestinian terrorists in Israel, U.S. Attorney General Eric…
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