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Fast Forward Israel Blows Up Gaza Terror Tunnel, Killing 7 Militants
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Defense Forces blew up a terrorist tunnel that stretched from Khan Younis in Gaza to Israel. The tunnel, which ended in Israel near the border with Gaza, is believed to have been dug after the 2014 Gaza war. At least seven Gazan Palestinians were killed and another 11 injured in…
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Fast Forward After Delay, Netanyahu Confirms Speaking Via Satellite To Jewish Federations
(JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address the Jewish Federations of North America’s annual General Assembly next month via satellite on November 14. Netanyahu will be interviewed live from Israel, as he was last year. He appeared in person at the 2013 and 2015 General Assemblies and by satellite in 2014 and last year. Reports…
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Fast Forward Germany National Railway Names Train After Anne Frank
(JTA) — Germany’s national railway has triggered a storm on social media for naming one of its superfast trains after the famous Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, who died in a Nazi camp. After asking customers to weigh in with suggestions, Deutsche Bahn named several of its new trains after famous Germans, among them Frank, whose…
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Fast Forward Dutch Ex-Premier Uses Holocaust Rhetoric To Describe Israeli Crackdown
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A leader of Dutch Jews criticized a former prime minister of the Netherlands for using a word that is widely associated with the Holocaust to describe arrests by Israel of Palestinians. Ex-premier Dries van Agt, a pro-Palestinian activist who in 2012 said Jews should have “gotten a piece of land in Germany”…
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Fast Forward Will Jewish Political Blogger Be Extradicted To Azerbaijan?
(JTA) – Israel reportedly blocked the extradition of one of its citizens from Belarus to Azerbaijan, where he is wanted for political crimes. Blogger Alexander Lapshin, who is a dual citizen of Russia and Israel, was arrested in the Belarusian capital Minsk Thursday, the Belarusian news website Telegraf reported. Authorities in Belarus, which is often referred…
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Fast Forward Israeli Embassy Wins Prize For ‘PeaceWithoutTerror’ Ad Campaign
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — An ad campaign focused on peace created by the Israeli Embassy in Argentina about the 1992 bombing attack on the facility won two communications prizes. The “PeaceWithoutTerror” campaign won two Eikon Prizes for Excellence in Institutional Communications, one for Social Marketing and one for Institutional Advertising. The ad campaign, which received extensive media attention in…
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Fast Forward Jeremy Corbyn Will Skip Balfour Declaration Commemoration
(JTA) — Britain’s Labour Party downgraded its representation at an event celebrating a milestone of Zionism, which Prime Minister Theresa May she would attend “with pride.” Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who is a strong supporter of the Palestinian cause and who last year said he regretted calling Hezbollah and Hamas his “friends” in a controversial…
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Fast Forward Shabbat Project Reaches More Than 1 Million In 97 Countries
(JTA) — More than one million people in 97 countries around the world participated in the 5th annual Shabbat Project. Some 1,416 cities around the world, up from 1,152 cities last year, held activities surrounding the 25 hours of Shabbat on Oct. 27 and Oct. 28. Some 586 of the participating cities were located in…
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