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Fast Forward Rock Throwers in Israel Can Now Be Sentenced to 20 Years
An amendment to Israel’s penal code will allow for sentences of up to 20 years for throwing stones or other objects at vehicles. Israel’s Cabinet passed the amendment at its weekly meeting on Sunday. “Israel is taking vigorous action against terrorists and those who throw stones, firebombs and fireworks,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said…
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Fast Forward ‘Work Makes You Free’ Sign Stolen from Dachau Concentration Camp
Part of the iron gate greeting Dachau prisoners with a sign saying “Work Makes You Free” in German was stolen. The sign, which reads “Arbeit Macht Frei,” was discovered missing from the former concentration camp early Sunday morning, The Associated Press reported. The stolen section of the gate from the prisoners’ entrance measures about 6…
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Fast Forward Kerry Calls Netanyahu To Apologize for Anonymous ‘Chickenshit’ Remark
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in a phone call to Benjamin Netanyahu apologized for a U.S. official’s anonymous attack describing the Israeli prime minister as “chickenshit.” The conversation took place on Friday, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters the following day. Kerry on Thursday had called the slur “disgraceful, unacceptable, damaging,” saying, “That…
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Fast Forward Peres at Rabin Memorial: Ruling Over Another People Against Jewish Values
Israel can not protect its Jewish and democratic character without peace, former President Shimon Peres said at a memorial for assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. “Peace has become a derogatory term. There are those who say that those who believe in peace are naive, not patriots, delusional. But I say to all those in a…
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Fast Forward Jewish Family Gets Jewels Back 72 Years After Nazi Deportation
A Dutch historical society returned jewels to a Jewish family that had given them to neighbors for safekeeping before being deported by the Nazis. The jewels were returned to a descendant of Benjamin Slager and Lena Slager-de Vries at a ceremony in the town hall of Winschoten in the north of the Netherlands on Oct….
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Fast Forward Israel Closes Border Crossings With Gaza Following Rocket Launch
Israel has closed the two border crossings between Gaza and Israel in the wake of a rocket fired into Israel from Gaza. Israel’s closing of the Erez and Kerem Shalom crossings indefinitely beginning on Saturday angered Hamas in Gaza, who called the decision “collective punishment.” “The justifications given by the (Israeli) occupation to shut down…
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Fast Forward Athens Holocaust Memorial Desecrated for Second Time This Year
The Athens Holocaust Memorial was desecrated for the second time this year, when vandals spray painted the logo of an ultra-nationalist group on it. The logo of the group known as the Unaligned Meander Nationalists was spray painted on the monument in blue paint on Oct. 30. The same group, which describes the neo-Nazi Golden…
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Fast Forward Conversion Reform Passes Israeli Cabinet Vote
Israel’s Cabinet approved a government regulation that will reform the conversion process. The regulation approved on Sunday at the regular weekly Cabinet meeting will have the force of law. It can, however, be rescinded by the Cabinet as well. Only one government minister, the Jewish Home party’s Uri Ariel, who serves as housing minister, voted…
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