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Fast Forward Knife-Wielding Palestinian Shot Dead in West Bank
Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian who tried to stab them in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday and an Israeli woman was wounded in a separate knife attack near a Jewish settlement, the military and police said. The latest assaults underscored what appeared to be a shift in weeks of bloodshed to the West…
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The Schmooze ‘God’ Actor Morgan Freeman Seeks Answers in Jerusalem
He may have depicted God in Hollywood films, but Morgan Freeman came to Jerusalem with questions about religion still unsettled. “I’m primarily interested in why, what is the why of it,” the Academy Award-winning actor told Reuters on Wednesday during a break in shooting “The Story of God,” a National Geographic and Highlight Films documentary…
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Fast Forward Israeli Muslim Leader Jailed for Comments Made in 2007
An Arab Israeli Muslim leader, seen by Israel as a powerful voice stoking Palestinian anger over a Jerusalem holy site, was ordered jailed for 11 months on Tuesday for comments he made in 2007. Sheik Raed Salah, leader of the Islamic Movement’s northern section was convicted for incitement to violence in 2013, the Justice Ministry…
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Fast Forward Third Israeli Dies of Wounds From Terror Bus Attack
A 76-year-old American-Israeli educator, wounded in a Palestinian stabbing and shooting attack on a Jerusalem bus two weeks ago, died on Tuesday of his injuries, an Israeli hospital said. Richard Lakin, a former school principal in Glastonbury, Connecticut, immigrated to Israel in the early 1980s. A Facebook page that appeared to have been set up…
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Fast Forward Jews Challenge Temple Mount Status Quo with ‘Secret Prayers’
As the group of Orthodox Jews came near the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem’s Old City, one began to mumble while staring down at his mobile phone. Another looked up in awe, eyes half shut in concentration. The woman’s lips moved silently. Asked afterwards whether they had prayed, a violation of an 800-year-old ban…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Officials Wary of Al-Aqsa Video Monitoring Promoted by Kerry
Palestinian officials reacted warily on Sunday to what U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hailed as Jordan’s “excellent suggestion” to calm Israeli-Palestinian violence by putting a sensitive Jerusalem holy site under constant video monitoring. “This is a new trap,” Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said on Voice of Palestine radio, accusing Israel of planning to use…
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Fast Forward Israel Claims Citizen Entered Syria Using Paraglider Over Golan Heights
Israel said on Sunday that one of its citizens, probably a member of the country’s Muslim Arab minority, had illegally flown to rebellion-wracked Syria by using a paraglider to cross the Golan Heights frontier. Israeli media gave the man’s age as 23 and quoted investigators as speculating that he sought to join Islamic State or…
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Fast Forward Ehud Barak Faces Civil Suit by Victim of Gaza Flotilla
Relatives of a 19-year-old U.S. citizen killed in Israel’s 2010 storming of a Turkish-led aid flotilla are suing former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak for the raid, in which nine activists died. Furkan Dogan, a dual Turkish-U.S. citizen, was filming on the flotilla carrying some 700 activists attempting to land humanitarian aid in circumvention of…
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