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Fast Forward Auschwitz Memorial Draws Record 1.72M Visitors in 2015
A record number of more than 1.72 million visitors came to the Auschwitz memorial in 2015. The new mark breaks the standard of 1.534 million visitors set last year, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland reported Monday. In 2015, Poland had the most visitors with 425,000. Rounding out the top five were the United…
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Fast Forward Israel Asks Palestinians for Help Capturing Tel Aviv Gunman
Israel reportedly has turned to the Palestinian Authority for help in capturing the Arab-Israeli gunman who allegedly shot up a bar in central Tel Aviv, killing two, and later killed a cab driver. Israeli officials, who suspect that Nashat Melhem, 31, of Arara, a village in Wadi Ara in northern Israel, has fled to the…
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Fast Forward Bomb Detonates Near Israeli Army Vehicles at Border with Lebanon
A bomb was detonated near two Israeli army vehicles patrolling near the border with Lebanon. No Israeli soldiers were hurt in the attack, for which Hezbollah reportedly has claimed responsibility. The Israel Defense Forces responded with what it called “targeted” shelling into Lebanon. The attack comes less than a month after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah…
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Fast Forward 3 Guests at Extremist ‘Wedding of Hate’ Questioned by Israel Police
Three more wedding guests have been arrested in connection with a video showing Jewish revelers celebrating the deaths of members of a Palestinian family in a firebombing. The three people, including one minor, reportedly were arrested Monday by Israel Police, three weeks after the wedding video was broadcast on Israel’s Channel 10. The minor reportedly…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Opens Door to Spying on Israel
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would “leave open the possibility of spying” on allies like Israel if he were president. On Sunday morning, Trump was asked on the CBS news show “Face the Nation”for his reaction to The Wall Street Journal story from late last month reporting that the National Security Agency spied…
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Fast Forward UN Palestinian Territory Investigator Resigns After Israel Denies Visa Request
(JTA) — The United Nations special investigator into Israel’s human rights abuses in Palestinian territories has resigned over Israel’s refusal to grant him a visa for travel into the West Bank. Makarim Wibisono of Indonesia announced his resignation to the United Nations in a letter on Monday, the Jerusalem Post reported. He had taken over…
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Fast Forward 2 Wounded in Jerusalem Stabbing
Two people were wounded in an attempted stabbing attack in Jerusalem. The stabber, identified by Israel Police as a 17-year-old resident of eastern Jerusalem who holds Israeli citizenship, was shot by police at the scene and evacuated to the hospital with a gunshot wound to his leg. The incident occurred on Monday afternoon. The attacker…
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Fast Forward Record Number Visit Anne Frank House
The Anne Frank House had a record number of visitors for the sixth consecutive year. Some 1,268,095 people in 2015 visited the Anne Frank House, located at the site in Amsterdam where the young diarist hid from the Nazis with her family. That is 40,633 more than the previous record of 1,227,462 in 2014. “We…
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