Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward Turkey’s President Erdogan Paves the Way For Reconciliation With Israel
JERUSALEM — Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed the reconciliation agreement with Israel restoring diplomatic ties after a six-year freeze. Erdogan ratified the agreement on Wednesday. The Turkish Parliament approved the deal earlier this month before they left for a summer recess, after being delayed by the July 15 military coup attempt. Israel’s Knesset had approved the…
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Fast Forward Israel Police Chief Says ‘Natural’ To Suspect Ethiopians as Criminals
JERUSALEM — Activists and politicians called for the firing of Israel Police Chief Roni Alsheich after he called it “natural” for police to be more suspicious of Ethiopian Israelis than of other Israelis. “Studies the world over, without exception, have shown that immigrants are invariably more involved in crime than others, and this should not…
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Fast Forward Druze Town Scores Top High School Grades in Israel
JERUSALEM — A Druze town in northern Israel for the second straight year had the highest rate of students passing the high school matriculation exam. Some 99 percent of students in Beit Jann, located in the Galilee, received their diplomas, or Bagrut certification, in 2015, according to Education Ministry figures released Monday. The rate was…
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Fast Forward UN Envoy Slams Israel for Settlement Building
JERUSALEM — A special United Nations envoy condemned Israel for continuing to build in West Bank settlements and neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem. Nickolay Mladenov, the U.N. special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, criticized Israel for going against the recommendations of the Mideast Quartet, the diplomatic group including the United Nations and others, during…
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Israel News Ultra-Orthodox Mom Fired for Getting Driver’s License To Help Disabled Daughter
The woman reportedly obtained the driver’s license in order to more easily transport her disabled daughter
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Fast Forward CFO at Boston Jewish Not-for-Profit Fired Over Missing Cash
— Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Boston has fired its chief financial officer for alleged financial improprieties, the Boston Globe reported. The non-profit organization has hired an outside company to investigate the allegations, the newspaper reported Monday, citing a letter sent to donors earlier this month. The organization has not said how much…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas Says Palestinians Ready for Peace Talks
— The Palestinians are ready to participate in a peace initiative, the office of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said. “We are ready to participate in any regional or international initiative with the objective of a comprehensive and fair solution,” the president’s spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeina, said in a statement, the French news agency AFP…
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Fast Forward Israeli Arms Dealer Ordered Extradited to U.S.
— Israel’s Supreme Court ordered an Israel arms dealer who allegedly sold American-made fighter jet parts to Iran to be extradited to the United States. Following Sunday’s Supreme Court decision, the justice minister has to sign off on the extradition of Eli Cohen, 66, of Bnei Brak. The Jerusalem District Court last year approved the…
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