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Fast Forward Will Uber Come to Israel? Political Row Erupts Over Car Service
Israel’s transportation minister wants to prevent alternative taxi company Uber from entering the Israeli market, even as he faces opposition from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz said Monday at a Knesset Finance Committee meeting that if Israel changes regulations that currently block Uber from legally operating in Israel, the government will owe…
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Fast Forward Mort Zuckerman Launches $100M U.S.-Israel Science Scholars Program
Media tycoon Mortimer Zuckerman is launching a $100 million program promoting scientific collaboration between the United States and Israel. The Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program, announced Monday at a New York event that featured Gov. Andrew Cuomo and with several Nobel laureates on hand, promises to provide over $100 million in scholarships and related educational activities…
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Fast Forward New Sickening Details on Nazi Medical Experiments Revealed
Newly discovered testimony provides brutal new details about Nazi medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners, including reportedly locking one man inside a glass cage with thousands of mosquitoes in order to infect him with malaria. An archivist recently stumbled upon an undated, three-page deposition submitted by a Jewish survivor of several concentration camps while cataloging…
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Fast Forward Bibi To Ramp Up Security for Settlements After Mom of 6 Slay
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is demanding the army create a “detailed and encompassing program” to protect West Bank settlements from terrorist attacks. Netanyahu’s order, which the Times of Israel reported on Monday, came in response to three terror attacks occurring inside settlements within eight days. Earlier Monday, two women were wounded, one critically,…
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The Schmooze Ben & Jerry’s Founder Creates Bernie Sanders Ice Cream Flavor
A co-founder of the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company has created a new flavor inspired by presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Ben Cohen, who founded the Vermont-based company with Jerry Greenfield in 1978, introduced “Bernie’s Yearning” Monday on his Facebook page. “Nothing is so unstoppable as a flavor whose time has finally come,” Cohen wrote….
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Fast Forward ‘America Needs a Strong and Secure Israel,’ Hillary Clinton Says in Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said the partnership between the United States and Israel must strengthen amid a surge in global extremist terrorism. Speaking Monday before a crowd of 150 at the Jewish Federation of Des Moines, Clinton also insisted that amiable relations between the two countries “has to be understood…
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Fast Forward Hunger-Striking Palestinian Journalist Reportedly Near Death
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian journalist who has been on a hunger strike in an Israeli jail for two months is near death, his attorney said. Muhammad al-Qiq is unconscious, on the verge of organ failure and could die at any minute, his attorney from the Palestinian Authority told the Palestinian Maan news agency. Al-Qiq, 33,…
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Fast Forward Nespresso Sues Israeli Rival Over Ad With George Clooney Look-Alike
JERUSALEM — Nespresso is suing an Israeli coffee competitor for using a look-alike of pitchman George Clooney in its commercials. Nestle, the parent company of Nespresso, has called on the Espresso Club to pull the advertisement and pay $50,000, according to reports. The lawsuit originally was filed in Tel Aviv Magistrate Court two years ago…
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