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Fast Forward Abbas Concedes Trump Shouted At Him During Meeting
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has appeared to confirm an Israeli report that U.S. President Donald Trump shouted at him during their meeting last month in Bethlehem. The London-based pan-Arab newspaper Al Araby, or The New Arab, which has editions in both Arabic and English, reported on Wednesday that Abbas acknowledged the…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Woman Is Shot And Wounded After Stabbing Israeli Soldier
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian woman was critically wounded by Israeli troops after she stabbed an Israeli soldier guarding the entrance to a West Bank settlement. The woman, reported to be in her 20s, on Thursday morning used a screwdriver with a white handle to stab the soldier guarding the entrance gate to the Mevo…
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Fast Forward 95-Year-Old Auschwitz Guard Dies While Appealing Conviction
(JTA) — A former Nazi SS guard who was sentenced to five years in prison by a German court for his role as an accessory in the murder of at least 170,000 people in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland has died. Reinhold Hanning’s lawyer told Reuters he found out about his client’s death on Tuesday, and did not…
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Fast Forward Mike Pence To Speak At Christian Pro-Israel Group’s Annual Summit
(JTA) — Vice President Mike Pence will address the annual summit of Christians United for Israel, the largest pro-Israel group in the country. Pence will speak at CUFI’s conference in Washington, D.C., which is taking place on July 17-18, the group announced Tuesday. Pastor John Hagee, who founded CUFI in 2006, praised the Trump administration in a…
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Fast Forward ‘Wonder Woman’ Faces Ban In Lebanon — Because Gal Gadot Is Israeli
(JTA), is an actress and model from Israel. A Lebanese security official told CBS News on Tuesday that the required committee of six Lebanese ministries has yet to take up the request. At least one advance screening of the film is scheduled for Wednesday in Beirut, according to CBS. Lebanon is officially at war with…
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Fast Forward Norway Pulls Funds From Palestinian Women’s Center Named For Terrorist
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel praised Norway after it withdrew funds it donated to a West Bank women’s center after learning it was named for a Palestinian terrorist: The center in the village of Burqa on the West Bank was named for Dalal Mughrabi, who led the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre which killed 37 civilians, many of…
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Fast Forward South African School Sorry For ‘Heil Hitler’ Jibes During Holocaust Play
(JTA) — The high school student who interrupted a South African Jewish school’s performance of a play about the Holocaust with chants of “Heil Hitler!” and other anti-Semitic taunts has expressed remorse. The principal of the Edenvale High School, Larry Harmer, also apologized for the incident during a meeting Monday with the South African Jewish Board…
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Fast Forward Eliezer Jaffe, Father Of Israeli Social Work, Dies At 83
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Eliezer Jaffe, considered a father of social work in Israel, has died at the age of 83. Jaffe, who died on Thursday, was a founder of Israel’s first academic school of social work, the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A professor of social work specializing in…
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