Maayan Lubell
By Maayan Lubell
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Defends Son Taped Talking About Prostitutes Outside Strip Club
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday defended his son over drunken remarks made between visits to strip clubs and taped illicitly that drew criticism for being derogatory of women. The recording, aired late on Monday by Israeli Hadashot News, was made in 2015 while Netanyahu’s son, Yair, toured strip clubs in…
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Fast Forward Israel Finance Minister Makes Rare Confidence-Boosting Visit To Palestinians
Israel’s finance minister has met the Palestinian prime minister, Israeli officials said on Thursday, in a rare visit by an Israeli cabinet member to the occupied West Bank as part of a U.S. peace push. Israel’s security cabinet agreed just before U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to Jerusalem and the West Bank May 22-23 on…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Still Starkly Divided — 50 Years After ‘Reunification’
A half-century after Israel captured East Jerusalem, the holy city remains deeply divided by politics, religion and ethnicity – and struggling with grim economic realities. A treasure fought over for millenia, it is also one of Israel’s poorest areas. About 45 percent of Jerusalem’s nearly 900,000 people live below the poverty line, compared with 20…
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Israel News Jordanian Stabs Israeli Police Officer, Shot Dead
A Jordanian citizen stabbed and wounded an Israeli police officer who then shot him dead in Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday, Israeli police said, the latest in a string of street attacks. Police spokeswoman Luba Simri said the officer was walking down a street when he was attacked by a 57-year-old Jordanian who had arrived…
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Fast Forward Some Jewish Settlers Lose Interest As Growth Slows — And Inconvenience Grows
After five years, Batsheva Reback couldn’t take living in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank any longer. Despite renting a house with a garden for far less than it would cost in Israel itself, it didn’t make sense. Her new apartment in Israel may be small, but unlike where she used to live…
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Fast Forward Israel Approves Hundreds of New Settlement Homes
Israel approved building permits on Sunday for hundreds of homes in three East Jerusalem settlements, two days after U.S. President Donald Trump took office, expecting him to row back on the last administration’s criticism of such projects. The housing projects, on land that the Palestinians seek as part of a future state, had been taken…
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Fast Forward Israel Far Right Plans Big Push for Settlements as Trump Takes Office
Israel’s right wing has been eagerly awaiting Donald Trump’s arrival in the White House, hoping a Republican president will usher in a new era of support for Israeli settlement-building on land Palestinians want for a state. The far-right Jewish Home party, along with members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, is promoting legislation that…
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Fast Forward Israeli Arab Shot Dead After Running Over Police Officer — Was It Car-Ram Attack?
Police in Israel said an Arab Israeli on Wednesday rammed his car into a group of policemen in the southern Negev region, killing one before being shot dead, though a rights activist who was present disputed it was an attack. Police said the violence sparked a riot in the village of Umm al-Hiran, where an…
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