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Fast Forward Terrorists Planting Bomb on Israeli-Syria Border Killed in Strike
Four terrorists attempting to plant a bomb along Israel’s border with Syria were killed in an Israeli airstrike. The terrorists were killed Sunday evening as they laid the explosives in the Golan Heights. The men, who were in Israeli territory but did not breach the border fence, had been identified by an Israel Defense Forces…
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Fast Forward Nepal Earthquake Aftershocks Delay IDF Emergency Aid Mission
An Israel Defense Forces emergency aid mission to Nepal was delayed after a runway in the capital city of Kathmandu was damaged by aftershocks. Two jumbo jets containing a search-and-rescue team and a fully equipped field hospital were scheduled to take off on Monday morning after being delayed 12 hours in order to monitor changing…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Man Arrested Over Jerusalem Car Attack That Injured Four Police Officers
A Palestinian man from eastern Jerusalem has been arrested in connection with a car ramming attack that injured four Israeli police officers. The police officers were injured Saturday night when a car deliberately ran into them while they were standing by a road near A-Tur, the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood near the Mount of Olives where…
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Fast Forward Ted Cruz Vows Closer Israel Ties at ‘Sheldon Adelson Primary’ in Las Vegas
Vying for the attention of major donors, Republicans attending a Jewish forum for presidential contenders said they would make better relations with Israel a priority. The four-day long gathering in Las Vegas at the Venetian Resort, owned by Sheldon Adelson, a major backer of the Republican Jewish Coalition, drew more 700 activists from across the…
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Fast Forward Russian Jewish Groups Call For Lifting of Sanctions Against Moscow
Representatives of major Jewish groups in Russia urged Western coreligionists to lobby for peeling back sanctions against Moscow. The call was made in a document that carried signatures of Crimean Jews and executives from the Chabad-affiliated Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, as well as the Congress of the Jewish Religious Organizations and Associations in…
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Fast Forward Wladislaw Bartoszewski, Righteous Polish Official Who Survived Auschwitz, Dies
Former Polish Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, a former prisoner of Auschwitz who was named a Righteous Among the Nations, has died. Bartoszewski, who was also a social activist, journalist and historian, died on April 24 at the age of 93. Bartoszewski in 1940 was sent to Auschwitz due to his social activism. He was released…
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Fast Forward Israel Sends Rescue Team To Aid Nepal Earthquake Victims
Israel is relaying an emergency assistance team to the site of an earthquake in Nepal, where Israelis are believed to have been trapped by 7.9 scale tremors and a subsequent avalanche that have so far killed over 1,300 people. “The delegation will land near the affected zone and make its preparations until it becomes possible…
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Fast Forward Portugal Priest Cited for Saving Dozens of Jews From Holocaust
Israel and Portugal honored in Lisbon a deceased priest who last year first received recognition for saving dozens of Jews during the Holocaust. A nephew of Joaquim Carreira, a Catholic priest from Portugal, last week received a medal from Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem in recognition of his late uncle’s actions. Separately, Portugal’s…
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