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Fast Forward Pope Francis Agrees To Visit Israel
Israeli President Shimon Peres invited Pope Francis on Tuesday to visit Israel, at his first meeting with the new pontiff who has appealed for peace in the Middle East. The pope accepted the invitation “with willingness and joy,” a Vatican spokesman said, but there was no indication when a trip would be made. “I am…
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Fast Forward Gaza Rocketmaker Killed in Israeli Strike
Israel on Tuesday launched its first targeted attack on a militant in Gaza since a war in November, killing a Palestinian jihadist in an air strike that put further strain on a five-month-old ceasefire. There was also bloodshed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where for the first time since 2011, a Palestinian killed a Jewish…
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Fast Forward Jewish Settler Stabbed and Shot Dead by Palestinian at West Bank Bus Stop
A Palestinian man stabbed and shot dead an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Israeli ambulance service and police said. It was the first time an Israeli has been killed by a Palestinian in the West Bank since 2011. Israeli media said the attacker was standing at a bus stop used…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivors and Liberators Meet on Museum’s 20th Anniversary
Ending a three-decade quest, Debbie Long on Monday met the American “kid” soldier who freed her mother from a World War II Nazi concentration camp. She threw her arms around Eldon Ooton, now 90, and sobbed. Long and Ooton were among the former concentration camp prisoners, their families, and the U.S. soldiers who liberated them…
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Fast Forward Empire State Building Deal Looks Set To Move Forward
A New York judge signaled on Monday he would probably allow the group that controls the Empire State Building to proceed with a plan to sell off the fabled New York landmark as part of a public stock offering despite the objections of dissident investors. Malkin Holdings wants to roll the 102-story tower in midtown…
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Fast Forward Israel Evicts Bedouins From West Bank Village
Israeli soldiers evicted several hundred Bedouins from a village in the occupied West Bank on Monday after the army declared the area a live-fire training zone. The residents of Wadi al-Maleh, a village mostly inhabited by shepherds in the arid area bordering Jordan, had almost all left their homes by an evening curfew and retreated…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Insists Iran Hasn’t Crossed Israel’s Nuclear Red Line
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday Iran had not crossed the “red line” he set for its nuclear programme, despite an assessment to the contrary by a former Israeli intelligence chief. At the United Nations in September, Netanyahu drew a red line across a cartoon bomb to illustrate the point at which he said…
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Fast Forward Women Plan To Read From Torah Scrolls in Western Wall Push
Women seeking equal prayer rights at the Western Wall are planning a further challenge to Jewish Orthodox tradition at the site after a court ruling bolstered their cause, an activist said on Sunday. The Women of the Wall movement hopes to have its members read from a Torah (holy scriptures) scroll at the Jerusalem site,…
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