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Fast Forward Second Jailed Jewish Extremist Launches Hunger Strike
Eight days after alleged Jewish terrorist Meir Ettinger launched a hunger strike to protest his administrative detention, a second detainee reportedly has started his own strike. Eviatar Slonim, a dual citizen of Australia and Israel who was arrested in August, joined Ettinger in the hunger strike, according to the Times of Israel. Slonim has been…
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Israel News Cyber Attack on Israel’s Power Grid Rattles Officials
The Israel Electric Corp. is dealing with “one of the largest cyber attacks that we have experienced,” the country’s energy minister said. “We are handling the situation and I hope that soon, this very serious event will be over,” Yuval Steinitz, the minister of infrastructure, energy and water, said Tuesday at the CyberTech 2016 security…
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Fast Forward Shimon Peres Released From Hospital After Second Stay in 2 Weeks
JERUSALEM — Former Israeli President Shimon Peres was released from the hospital for the second time in less than two weeks after returning with chest pains and an irregular heartbeat. Peres was released Tuesday from Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer two days after being readmitted with a slight heart arrhythmia, his spokesman said in…
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Food Ecuador Gets First Kosher Restaurant
A kosher fast-food restaurant believed to be the only one of its kind in Ecuador opened in its largest city to serve the tiny Jewish community and more. “We Jews did not have a place to eat. So I have persuaded the local Jewish community leaders” to open the restaurant, Israeli businessman Ofir Belaishe told…
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Fast Forward Israeli Woman, 23, Dead After Palestinian Stab Attack at Market
One of the women seriously injured in a stabbing attack at a West Bank supermarket has died. Shlomit Krigman, 23, died of her injuries early on Tuesday morning. Krigman, who grew up in Shadmot Mehola located in the Beit She’an Valley, had been in the Beit Horon settlement, located between Jerusalem and Modiin, on Monday…
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Fast Forward Hillary Clinton Makes Her Power to Persuade Israel a Selling Point
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton made her ability to talk Israel’s leadership down from military action a centerpiece of her foreign policy credentials. Clinton, appearing Monday evening at a town hall-style event at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, was asked to outline her foreign policy philosophy. Two of the examples she cited were from…
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Fast Forward Swiss Socialists Sorry for Anti-Semitic Caricature
An organization belonging to the Swiss socialist party apologized for posting online a caricature which critics said was reminiscent of Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda. JUSO, the youth division of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland – the country’s second largest party – on Saturday released a statement saying it was a “mistake” to publish the caricature…
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Fast Forward 200 Brazilian Academics Join Anti-Israel Boycott
RIO DE JANIERO — A group of 200 Brazilian left-wing university professors and researchers signed an online letter supporting an academic boycott of Israel. “The professors and researchers who sign below, reaffirming their commitment to social justice and against all forms of racism, including anti-Semitism, declare their support for the campaign for an academic boycott…
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