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Fast Forward Ehud Olmert Gets 8 Months for Taking Bribes
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to eight months in prison for accepting cash-filled envelopes from an American-Jewish businessman. The sentence, announced Monday in the Jerusalem District Court, includes an additional eight months probation and a $26,000 fine and could be added to the six-year sentence Olmert is already facing for his role…
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Fast Forward Gaza Economy Could Quadruple Without Blockade and Wars
Gaza’s economy, stifled by the highest unemployment rate in the world, blockades, poor governance and a series of military conflicts, is headed towards a “collapse,” a new report by the World Bank says. “The report estimates that Gaza’s GDP would have been about four times higher than it currently is if it weren’t for the…
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Fast Forward Lady Gaga Scoops ADL Anti-Hate Prize
Pop star Lady Gaga accepted an award from the Anti-Defamation League on behalf of her Born This Way Foundation. On Thursday, the ADL announced that Gaga had received its Making a Difference award for “work championing positive social change.” “The Foundation shares ADL’s mission of combating bullying among young people,” an ADL press release said….
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Fast Forward Dutch Restaurant Erases Israel From Placemat Map
Dutch restaurant owners cited their gastronomical focus in explaining why they had replaced Israel with Palestine in a map of the Middle East they had printed. The owners of Le Souq, a restaurant based in Rotterdam that specializes in food from the Middle East, offered the explanation after a local politician criticized their removal of…
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Fast Forward Israel University President honored by Queen Elizabeth
Carmi, the president of Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, is to be named commander of the Order of the British Empire because of her involvement in furthering scientific collaboration between Israel and the United Kingdom, The Jewish Chronicle of London reported. Carmi is a founder of the U.K.-Israel Science Council and its…
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Fast Forward Switzerland Defends Funding for Breaking the Silence
Swiss government officials defended their decision to fund an exhibition by Breaking the Silence, an Israeli group that exposes alleged Israeli war crimes. Breaking the Silence is scheduled to put on the exhibition next month at Zurich’s Kulturhaus Helferei with funding from the Swiss federal government and the municipality, Swiss officials confirmed this week to…
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Fast Forward Rabbis Warned Over Bias Against Ethiopians
Israel’s newly-appointed Religious Services Minister said he would void the marriage authority of municipal rabbinates if they are found to be discriminating against Ethiopian Jews. David Azoulay of the Orthodox Shas party spoke interview Thursday with Army Radio, following the station’s report about alleged delays by the rabbinate of Petach Tikva near Tel Aviv in…
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Fast Forward Extremists Hope To Convert Ruined Church Into Illegal Settlement
An Israeli settler who claims to have purchased an abandoned church near Hebron is planning to turn it into a Jewish settlement, according to a report. Right-wing activist Aryeh King bought the church near the Aroub refugee camp between Hebron and Jerusalem three years ago, and in recent weeks began refurbishing it ahead of establishing…
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