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Fast Forward Kerry to Netanyahu and Abbas: Condemn Violence, Restore Calm in Israel
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called for efforts to restore calm in Israel during telephone conversations with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Kerry over the weekend spoke with both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas about the current wave of violence throughout Israel, the State Department said in a statement….
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Fast Forward Arab-Israeli Lawmaker To Be Investigated Over Call for ‘Real Intifada’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed his attorney general to open a criminal investigation against an Arab-Israeli lawmaker who called for a “real intifada” against Israel. The statement by Hanin Zoabi of the Arab Joint List was printed in al-Risala, the official newspaper of Hamas, on Thursday. Netanyahu said Sunday during the weekly Cabinet…
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Fast Forward Aviator Leon Frankel, Who Fought in Israel’s Nascent Air Force, Dies
Aviator Leon Frankel, who fought for the United States in World War II and for the nascent state of Israel in 1948, has died. Frankel, whose exploits were featured in last year’s documentary film “Above and Beyond,” which describes the beginning of the Israel Air Force, died on Oct. 7 in Minnesota. A native of…
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Fast Forward Israel Strikes Hamas Targets in Gaza Following 2 Rocket Attacks
Israel’s Air Force bombed what it identified as two “Hamas weapon manufacturing facilities” in the northern Gaza Strip in response to a two rocket attacks from Gaza on Israel. A pregnant Palestinian woman and her 2-year-old daughter were killed in the early Sunday morning Israeli airstrike, the Palestinian Maan news agency reported. The Iron Dome…
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Fast Forward United Announces Direct Flights Between San Francisco and Tel Aviv
Less than two months after American Airlines canceled its Philadelphia-Tel Aviv route, rival carrier United Airlines is adding a San Francisco-Tel Aviv route. United will begin the direct San Francisco-Tel Aviv flight in April, the Israeli business daily Globes reported. The airline will offer three flights per week from San Francisco and three each week…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Woman Detonates Explosives in Car Near Jerusalem
A Palestinian woman detonated explosives in her car at a checkpoint near Jerusalem. The woman, 31, from Jericho, was seriously injured in the explosion at a checkpoint near the West Bank city of Maale Adumim on Sunday morning. She was taken to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem for treatment. An Israeli policeman also was…
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Fast Forward Connecticut Day School on Lockdown After Threat
A Jewish day school in West Hartford, Connecticut, underwent a “soft lockdown” after receiving a threatening phone message. The Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford responded Friday morning upon receiving an automated phone call similar to one received at approximately the same time at a public elementary school in Amherst, Massachusetts, the Hartford Courant…
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Fast Forward New York Mayor Bill de Blasio Plans Visit to Israel
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will visit Israel to speak about ways to combat anti-Semitism. De Blasio is to leave Thursday for Jerusalem, where he will be the keynote speaker at a conference of international mayors sponsored by the American Jewish Congress and other Jewish groups. De Blasio, who has been trying to…
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