Marcy Oster (JTA)
By Marcy Oster (JTA)
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Breaking News Israel Fire Kills 40, A New Tragedy
In a country always on guard to prevent the next tragedy born of terrorism or war, an out-of-control forest fire was the culprit in a tragic bus incident that left some 40 people dead in northern Israel. The bus, carrying police cadets from Israel’s prison service, became stuck Thursday morning among burning trees that fell…
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Breaking News Four Israelis Killed in Attack Near Hebron
Four Jewish Israelis were killed when gunmen opened fire on the car they were riding in at the entrance to Kiryat Arba, near Hebron. Tuesday night’s attack in the West Bank comes on the eve of the opening of peace talks in Washington between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas….
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Breaking News Multiple Fronts Exist in Fight Over East Jerusalem
The day that Zacharia Zigelman, 26, moved into a home in the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, in eastern Jerusalem, he got beaten up, he says. “You get used to it,” Zigelman said of the incident, which occurred about six months ago. Zigelman, his wife and 5-month-old son are one of seven Jewish families living…
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Breaking News Rosa Rein, World’s Oldest Jew, Dies at 112
Switzerland’s oldest resident, believed to be the world’s oldest Jew, died about a month shy of her 113th birthday. Rosa Rein died Sunday in her sleep at an old age home near Lugano, Switzerland that was her residence since a fall in 2001. Rein was born in Poland in March 1897. She married a German…
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Breaking News Jewish Terrorist’s Arrest Raises Questions About Investigation
After the news broke in Israel that a West Bank settler was charged with murdering two Palestinians in 1997 and bombing the home of a prominent Israeli professor last year, many Israelis were asking why it took police so long. On Sunday, Israeli authorities lifted a gag order on the arrest of Yaakov (Jack) Teitel,…
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