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Fast Forward 20-Year-Old Israeli Woman Stabbed to Death as Violence Spirals
An Israeli woman was stabbed to death and three Palestinian attackers were killed in a series of incidents in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday, police said, as an eight-week-old wave of bloodshed showed no signs of dying down. A surge in street violence since Oct. 1 has challenged Israel’s security system and alarmed its…
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Fast Forward Teenage Palestinian Girl Run Down After Trying To Stab Settlers
Three Palestinians carrying out knife attacks on Israelis were killed in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Israeli police and the military said, as an eight-week-old wave of violence showed no signs of dying down. A surge in street violence since Oct. 1 has challenged Israel’s security system and alarmed the United States, whose Secretary…
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Fast Forward 4 Stabbed by Palestinian in Southern Israel Town
A Palestinian assailant stabbed and wounded four Israelis in the southern town of Kiryat Gat on Saturday, police said. The attack came shortly after the United States announced its top diplomat would travel to the region to try to ease tensions. A senior U.S. official in Washington said Secretary of State John Kerry will meet…
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News Jonathan Pollard Freed After 30 Years in Prison for Spying
Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was released on parole in the United States on Friday after 30 years in prison, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, a case that became a serious strain in relations between the close allies. “The people of Israel welcome the release of Jonathan Pollard,” Netanyahu said in a statement. “After three…
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Fast Forward House Votes To Block Syrian Refugees — Some Jews Join GOP Majority
The U.S. House of Representatives, defying a veto threat by President Barack Obama, overwhelmingly passed Republican-backed legislation on Thursday to suspend Obama’s program to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next year and then intensify the process of screening them. The measure, quickly drafted this week following the Islamic State attacks in Paris on Friday…
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Fast Forward Paris Terror Mastermind Killed in Raid
The suspected mastermind of last week’s Paris attacks was killed in the police raid of an apartment north of the capital, French officials said on Thursday. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a 28-year-old Belgian militant who had boasted of mounting attacks in Europe for the Islamic State, was accused of orchestrating last Friday’s coordinated bombings and shootings in…
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Fast Forward Jewish Teacher Stabbed by Islamists in French City of Marseille
A teacher at a Jewish school in the southern French city of Marseilles was stabbed on Wednesday by three people professing support for Islamic State, but his life was not in danger, prosecutors said. Three people on two scooters, one of them wearing an Islamic State t-shirt, approached the teacher in the street, Marseilles prosecutor…
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Fast Forward Israeli Officer Gets Slap on Wrist in Beating of Palestinian-American Teen
An Israeli policeman was spared jail and sentenced to community service on Wednesday for beating an American teenager of Palestinian descent during disturbances in Jerusalem last year, an incident that had prompted U.S. concern. Tariq Khdeir was visiting from Tampa, Florida, as protests erupted over the abduction and killing on July 2, 2014, of his…
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