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Fast Forward Immigration to Israel Rose 16% in 2010
More than 19,000 new immigrants arrived in Israel in 2010, a 16 percent rise over last year. The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption announced the increase in aliyah, the second year in a row following 10 years of declining numbers, in a statement released Tuesday. Some 16,465 immigrants arrived in…
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Fast Forward Iranian Executed for Spying for Israel
Iran executed a man convicted of spying for Israel. Ali-Akbar Siadat was hanged at a prison in Tehran on Tuesday morning, according to the state Iranian news agency IRNA. He had been found guilty of passing information about the country’s military, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, to the Mossad, Israel’s security service. He was arrested…
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Fast Forward Kissinger Apologizes for 1973 ‘Gas Chambers’ Remark
Henry Kissinger apologized for comments made to President Richard Nixon in 1973, saying that it would not be an American concern if the Soviet Union sent its Jews to the gas chambers. The apology appeared in an Op-Ed in the Washington Post that appeared on its website Dec. 24 and but is dated Dec. 26….
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Fast Forward Seattle Transit Rejects ‘Israeli War Crimes’ Ads
Advertisements about “Israeli war crimes” slated to be carried by buses in downtown Seattle have been rejected. King County Executive Dow Constantine on Dec. 24 ordered the Metro Transit system to reject the ad as well as any other new noncommercial advertising. The Seattle Midwest Awareness Campaign paid $1,794 to place the advertisements on 12…
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Fast Forward Israel Will Boycott ‘Durban III’
Israel will boycott a meeting at the United Nations to mark the 10th anniversary of the Durban conference on racism. The U.N. General Assembly voted on Dec. 24 to hold a session in September on “Combating racism and follow-up of the Durban Programme of Action,” dubbed Durban III. The meeting will mark the decennial of…
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Fast Forward Federations To Give $2.4 Mil in Fire Aid to Israel
The Jewish Federations of North America said the federation system will distribute $2.4 million to help Israel recover from the Carmel Mountain fire. JFNA, the umbrella organization of the more than 150 Jewish federations in North America, made the announcement Monday. The fires last week killed 44 people, scorched more than 10,000 acres of forest…
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Fast Forward Seattle Buses To Carry ‘Israeli War Crimes’ Ads
Buses in downtown Seattle will carry advertisements about “Israeli war crimes” to mark the second year since the Gaza war. The Seattle Midwest Awareness Campaign has paid $1,794 to place the advertisements on 12 buses beginning Dec. 27, the day Israel entered Gaza to stop rocket attacks on its southern communities, according to Seattle’s King…
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Fast Forward In Knesset, Military Conversion Bill Passes Preliminary Reading
A bill that would validate conversions to Judaism through Israel’s military rabbinate passed a preliminary reading in the Knesset. The bill, sponsored by David Rotem of the Yisrael Beiteinu Party, would allow the conversions to be approved by the state without the signature of the chief rabbinate. It would protect Israeli soldiers who have converted…
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