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Fast Forward 63 Israeli Teens Sign Open Letter To Netanyahu: We Refuse To Serve IDF
(JTA) — Some 63 Israeli high school students signed a public letter declaring that they will refuse to be drafted into the Israel Defense Forces. The letter, published on Thursday in the Hebrew-language daily Yediot Acharonot, was addressed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Education Minister Naftali Bennett and IDF Chief of…
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Fast Forward Israel Got 3,633 New Immigrants From North America In 2017
(JTA) — With the arrival of a flight carrying 93 new immigrants, a total of 3,633 people from North America made aliyah in 2017, Nefesh B’Nefesh reported. The group flight that landed at Ben Gurion International Airport on Wednesday included 15 future lone soldiers and a soon-to-be bride, according to the organization which, in cooperation…
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Fast Forward Israeli Man From Belarus Convicted For Joining ISIS
(JTA) — An Israeli immigrant from Belarus who later converted to Islam was convicted for trying to join the Islamic State. Valentin Vladimir Mazalevsky, 40, a married father of five who lives in the Arab-Israeli town of Shibli in northern Israel, was arrested in February for trying to join the jihadists. He was convicted on…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Reparations At Risk After Lithuanian Court Voids Election Results
(JTA) — In an unusual move, a Lithuanian court voided the local Jewish community’s April internal elections, declaring that communal bosses have no legal authority to continue their rule. The Dec. 21 ruling by Vilnius District Court, which is the first of its kind in years in Europe, is the latest development in the fight…
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Fast Forward Bernie, Bibi Are The Most Admired Jewish Men Of 2017, Poll Finds
(JTA) — Sen. Bernie Sanders and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are among the men most admired by Americans this year, according to a new poll. A Gallup poll released Wednesday found that the Jewish Independent from Vermont and the Israeli leader placed seventh and ninth respectively in the list of most admired men, with…
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Fast Forward Online Campaign Raises Over $550,000 For Survivors Of Brooklyn Hanukkah Fire
(JTA) — A crowdfunding campaign created to aid the surviving family members of a Hanukkah house fire in Brooklyn has raised over $550,000 in eight days. Aliza Azan, 39, her sons Moshe, 11 and Yitzah, 7, and a daughter, Henrietta, 3, died in an early morning house fire on Dec. 18. Police are looking into whether…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Found Guilty Of Murdering Three Israelis At Shabbat Table
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian man was found guilty of murdering three members of an Israeli family as they sat around their Shabbat table in the West Bank settlement of Halamish. Omar al-Abed on Wednesday morning was found guilty of stabbing to death the three members of the Salomon family in July. The military prosecution…
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Fast Forward Jewish Prosecutor Alberto Nisman Was Murdered, Argentine Federal Judge Rules
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — A federal judge in Argentina said that AMIA Jewish center bombing prosecutor Alberto Nisman was murdered. It is the first time since Nisman’s death in January 2015 that the case has official been classified as murder. Others have said that Nisman committed suicide in the bathroom of his Buenos Aires apartment….
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