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Fast Forward Knesset May Limit Foreign NGO Funding
A Knesset committee will vote on two bills imposing restrictions on foreign funding to nongovernmental organizations in Israel. The bills, which were discussed in June in the ministerial legislative committee and then frozen, are scheduled for a vote Sunday. They reportedly have the support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. One bill, introduced by Likud lawmaker…
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Fast Forward Peace Now Activist Gets Graffiti Death Threats
Threatening graffiti was spray-painted on the home of a Peace Now activist, one day after the group’s offices were evacuated due to a bomb threat. Monday night’s attack is the second time in recent weeks that the home of Hagit Ofran, the director of Peace Now’s Settlement Watch project, has been targeted. The threatening graffiti…
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Fast Forward Gilad Shalit Kept Journal in Captivity
Former captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit drew and kept a journal while being held by Hamas in Gaza. Shalit was required to leave behind his sketches and record of his captivity when he was released, Yediot Achronot reported. He also was given a radio and an exercise bicycle, Reuters reported, citing unnamed Israeli officials. He…
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Fast Forward Supreme Court Set To Hear Jerusalem Passport Case
The U.S. Supreme Court was scheduled to hear arguments in a case that would allow American citizens born in Jerusalem to have their birthplace listed as Israel on their passports. Arguments in the case of Zivotofsky v. Clinton were set to be heard Monday. The case involves 9-year-old Menachem Zivotofsky, whose American-Israeli parents, Ari and…
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Fast Forward New Gaza Flotilla Activists Fight Deportation
Pro-Palestinian activists from two Gaza-bound ships intercepted by Israel’s Navy remain in Israeli custody as they fight their deportation. The ships, one Canadian the other Irish, had a total of 27 passengers and reportedly carried a symbolic amount of medical supplies and letters of solidarity for Gazans. They were intercepted and taken to Israel’s Ashdod…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Vandals Hit Library and Synagogue
Swastikas were painted on two public libraries and a synagogue in Queens. The vandalism, which occurred on the night of Nov. 3, targeted the East Elmhurst Library, the Jackson Heights Library and Congregation Tifereth Israel in Corona. The swastikas were removed from the libraries and covered up at the synagogue by the next afternoon. Police…
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Fast Forward U.S. Official: Mistake to Cut Palestinian Aid
Cutting off assistance to the Palestinian Authority and to the Lebanese government would create a void that radical forces could fill, a top Obama administration official said. Andrew Shapiro, the assistant secretary for political military affairs at the State Department, said Friday that the Obama administration was “working with Capitol Hill” to prevent aid cuts…
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Fast Forward Giffords Hopes to Return to Congress
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) is determined to return to Congress. Giffords, who is recovering from being shot in the head in January, reveals in a book she co-writes with her husband, Mark Kelly, that she plans to keep her job, according to a report by the Associated Press, which got an advance copy. “I will…
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