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Fast Forward West Bank Palestinians Arrested for Attack That Killed Israeli Couple
Several Palestinian suspects were arrested in connection with the murder of an Israeli couple in the West Bank. The suspects were arrested in the Palestinian West Bank city of Nablus early Saturday morning during a joint operation of the Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet security service, the IDF said in a statement. Nablus…
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Fast Forward Polish City of Bialystok Allows High Rise on Jewish Cemetery Site
A meat production plant in Poland can build a high-rise apartment building on the grounds of a Jewish cemetery. The Bialystok City Council rejected a zoning plan on Monday that would have prevented the plant’s expansion proposal. The vote was 12-8 with one abstention. “In the center of Bialystok there were six cemeteries,” council member…
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Fast Forward Arab-Israeli MK: Jews Have No Connection to Temple Mount
An Arab Israeli Knesset member said Jews have no proven historical connection to the Temple Mount and no reason to visit it. In an interview Friday in a Hebrew-language publication, Joint Arab List MK Hanin Zoabi said, “The name is al-Aqsa, not the Temple Mount, and there is nothing there for Jews,” the Times of…
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Fast Forward Meet the Jewish Lawyer Defending a Synagogue Vandal
From murderers to sex offenders, some of the least desirable citizens of Maryland’s Montgomery County have walked through the doors of attorney Barry Helfand’s office. But it took a quiet teenager to make Helfand question his responsibility as a lawyer. Sitting in Helfand’s Rockville office this spring, 18-year-old Sebastian Espinoza-Carranza detailed how he, along with…
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Fast Forward French Larousse Dictionary Defines Promised Land as ‘Present-Day Palestine’
A French Jewish lobby group urged the publisher of the French language’s definitive dictionary to change its characterization of the Promised Land as “present-day Palestine.” The National Bureau for Vigilance against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA, on Thursday called on Editions Larousse, the publisher of the Larousse line of dictionaries and encyclopedias, to amend its “My First…
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Fast Forward Council of Europe Recommends Circumcision Ban Unless Performed by Trained Professional
Referencing a negative view of non-medical circumcision of boys, the Council of Europe recommended the custom be banned except when performed by “a person with the requisite training and skill.” The recommendation appeared in a resolution passed Wednesday by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which is a pan-European intergovernmental organization based in…
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Fast Forward U.S. Accuses Kuwait Airways of Discriminating Against Israeli Passenger
The U.S. government’s Department of Transportation accused Kuwait Airways of unlawfully discriminating against an Israeli passenger. The accusation last month was over the Kuwaiti airline’s refusal in 2013 to sell a ticket to Eldad Gatt, an Israeli citizen, who wanted to travel on an Israeli passport from New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport to London…
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Fast Forward Fatah Unit Claims Responsibility for Murder of Israeli Couple in West Bank
A unit within Fatah’s armed wing assumed responsibility for the murder of an Israeli couple near the West Bank settlement of Itamar. The , a group affiliated with Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, announced on Friday that its men on Thursday night opened fire on the car of Eitam and Na’ama Henkin, a couple in their…
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