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Fast Forward Netanyahu Blasts Israeli Media for Downplaying Journalist’s ‘Incitement’ Against Him
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized his nation’s media for downplaying a journalist’s “incitement” against him in a post on his Facebook page. Netanyahu’s comments on social media followed his filing of a police complaint against Gilad Halpern, an editor of the English-language edition of Ynet, who uploaded a photoshopped image of Netanyahu in an…
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Fast Forward Rightist Party That Made Auschwitz Joke Wins Polish Parliament
A Polish rightist party that stirred controversy with xenophobic remarks about Muslims and Jews by some of its representatives won the parliamentary election in Poland. The Law and Justice party emerged as Poland’s largest with 39 percent of the vote, according to results published Monday. Jan Gross, a Polish-born American Jewish historian and sociologist, told…
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Fast Forward Abbas Relative Has Heart Surgery in Tel Aviv Hospital
The brother-in-law of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had heart surgery at a Tel Aviv hospital. The surgery for the brother of Abbas’ wife at the private Assuta Medical Center last week was deemed successful, Israeli media reported. The patient reportedly was recovering and was being guarded by security officers. Abbas’ wife underwent surgery at…
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Fast Forward Morgan Freeman Visits Western Wall
American actor Morgan Freeman . Freeman, who played God in the movie “Bruce Almighty,” is in Israel to film episodes of the new National Geographic series “The Story of God,” which is scheduled to air next year. Freeman is the executive producer. He visited the Western Wall on Sunday, where he met with Rabbi Shmuel…
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Fast Forward Unexploded WWII Bomb Closes Berlin Jewish Museum
Berlin’s Jewish Museum was closed for a day after the discovery of an unexploded bomb from World War II. Some 11,000 people also were evacuated from their homes near the museum as specialists worked Sunday to defuse the 550-pound American bomb, the German daily Tagesspiegel reported. The efforts were completed at 9 p.m. The bomb…
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Fast Forward President Rivlin: Rabin Assassin Will Not Go Free on My Watch
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said that Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin will not be freed from jail on his watch. “As long as I am president of Israel, his murderer will not be freed,” Rivlin said of Yigal Amir, a right-wing nationalist who has been jailed since he murdered the prime minister 20 years ago at a…
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Fast Forward Tens of Thousands of Israelis Remain Without Power After Heavy Storm
Tens of thousands of Israelis remained without power a day after a severe storm passed through the country and caused the death of a construction worker. Most of the homes without power on Monday, a day after the lashing rain and strong winds blew through the country, are in central Israel, where traffic and street…
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Fast Forward Ben Carson Claims Rabbis Back his Holocaust Imagery in Gun Control Debate
Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson defended his use of Holocaust imagery in the gun control debate, saying even some rabbis backed his assertions. Appearing Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Carson reiterated his claim that gun control in Germany that began in the late 1930s was a factor enabling the Nazis to perpetrate genocide against…
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