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Food Israeli Hummus Joint Gives 50% Discount to Jews and Arabs Eating Together
Can a shared love of hummus bring Jews and Arabs together? An Israeli restaurant near the coastal city of Netanya is offering 50 percent discounts on hummus for tables with both Jews and Arabs. A manager of the Hummus Bar, located in Kfar Vitkin, told the Times of Israel that “several” tables of Jews and…
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Fast Forward Wounded 13-Year-Old Palestinian Attacker Arrested After Leaving Hospital
A 13-year-old Palestinian boy wounded after stabbing an Israeli boy of the same age was arrested by Israeli police after being released from a Jerusalem hospital. On Sunday night, Ahmed Mansra of eastern Jerusalem was handed over to a detention facility after a court ruled that he remain in custody for eight days, according to…
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Fast Forward Michael Kotzin, Chicago Federation Official, Dies
Michael Kotzin, a longtime top official at the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, has died. Kotzin, who died Sunday after suffering from a serious illness for several years, served the Chicago federation since 1988, most recently as the special consultant to the president and formerly as executive vice president from 1999 until 2011….
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Fast Forward Israel Minister Compares Mahmoud Abbas to Hitler
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ incitement against Israel is on the same level as Adolf Hitler’s anti-Jewish propaganda, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said. “The level and intensity of the incitement and the level of anti-Semitism is the same level as Hitler,” Steinitz said Sunday, speaking with reporters in Washington, where he was addressing the…
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Fast Forward 2,000 Rally in Rome in Solidarity With Israel
An estimated 2,000 people demonstrated in solidarity with Israel in front of the Israeli Embassy in Rome. Sunday’s rally, organized by the local Jewish community with the support of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities and other groups, included representatives from both wings of the political spectrum. “In the media there is a constant misinformation…
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Fast Forward Israel Erects Concrete Wall Between Jerusalem’s Arab and Jewish Neighborhoods
Israel began erecting a portable concrete security wall between Arab and Jewish neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem. The fence was erected Sunday between the Arab neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber and the Jewish neighborhood of East Talpiot because of Arab youths throwing rocks and firebombs. The concrete blocks resemble part of the West Bank security barrier. East…
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Fast Forward Soldier Killed, 11 Wounded in Beersheba Attack
An Israeli soldier was killed and at least 11 people were wounded, at least two seriously, in a shooting and stabbing terror attack at the Central Bus Station in Beersheba. Police said the Palestinian assailant stabbed a soldier and grabbed his M-16 rifle, then opened fire on the bus station. An Eritrean migrant, who according…
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Fast Forward Obama Launches Process To Relieve Iran Sanctions
President Barack Obama formally launched the Iran nuclear deal, ordering officials to prepare to relieve sanctions once Iran implements nuclear restrictions. In a memorandum sent Sunday to the secretaries of the state, treasury, commerce and energy departments, Obama said that the State Department had already launched some preparations. He ordered the secretaries to take “all…
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