Ori Lewis
By Ori Lewis
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv Shooting Suspect’s Family Denounces Attack as Manhunt Widens
Police in Israel were hunting on Saturday for an Israeli Arab identified as the suspect in Friday’s deadly shooting attack on a Tel Aviv bar, a case they described as “complex and unique.” Nashat Melhem, 29, from the village of Arara in northern Israel was still at large and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who visited…
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Culture Israel Bans Novel About Mixed Romance From Classrooms
Israel’s Education Ministry has ruled against the inclusion of a novel about a romance between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man in the Hebrew high school curriculum because it feared it could raise tensions among pupils, an official said on Thursday. Israeli media said some teachers requested Dorit Rabinyan’s novel, “Borderlife,” be included in…
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Fast Forward Yossi Cohen Tapped to be Israel’s New Mossad Chief
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has named his top national security adviser Yossi Cohen to head the secretive Mossad intelligence agency. Cohen, a former Mossad operative, has been Netanyahu’s top security adviser for the past two years. He will replace Tamir Pardo, a Mossad veteran whose five-year term expires soon. “Yossi has headed the National…
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Fast Forward Ban Ki-moon Urges Israel and Palestinians To Avoid ‘Abyss’
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Palestinians and Israel on Tuesday to step back from a “dangerous abyss” as he arrived on a snap visit to the region at the head of international efforts to quell three weeks of violence. The bloodshed began with a string of stabbing attacks on Israelis in Jerusalem. One reason given…
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Fast Forward UN Chief Visits Israel in Bid To Halt Violence
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was due to begin a snap visit on Tuesday to try to stem Israeli-Palestinian violence as Israel issued fresh assurances addressing Muslim fears of Jewish encroachment at a mosque compound at the center of the conflict. In the latest incident, a Palestinian stabbed and wounded an Israeli officer in the occupied…
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Fast Forward Israel Imposes 4 Year Minimum Term for Stone-Throwers
Israel will impose a minimum four-year jail term on Palestinian petrol bombers and rock throwers and will ease open-fire regulations and impose harsher fines, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday. The Israeli leader’s “Security Cabinet” of senior ministers agreed measures aimed at quelling a recent rise in roadside attacks against Israeli vehicles in Jerusalem…
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Fast Forward Owner Vows To Sell ‘Racist’ Jerusalem Soccer Team After Violence
The owner of Beitar Jerusalem said on Friday he was putting the Israeli Premier League club up for sale because he felt ashamed of supporters who threw smoke bombs, flares and firecrackers at a Europa League qualifying round match in Belgium. Nine-man Beitar were thrashed 5-1 at Charleroi in the first leg tie on Thursday….
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Fast Forward 2 Israelis Held by Hamas in Gaza
Two Israeli citizens are being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, a situation that could lead to demands for a prisoner exchange between Israel and the Islamist militant group. Hamas, which took control of the Palestinian coastal enclave in 2007 and fought three wars with Israel since…
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