Shahar Ilan
By Shahar Ilan
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Breaking News Arab Knesset Members Boycott Session Marking Partition Anniversary
Arab members of Israel’s parliament boycotted Monday a special Knesset session commemorating the 60th anniversary of the 1947 United Nations decision to partition British Mandate Palestine into an Arab state and a Jewish state. The decision effectively gave international backing to the creation of the State of Israel. All but one Arab Knesset member, Nadia…
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News J’lem Gets 1st Charedi Mayor
JERUSALEM — The accession to mayor of the United Torah Judaism Party’s Uri Lupoliansky, an ultra-Orthodox Jew, is underscoring the gains that charedim have made in the city during the last decade. For many Israelis, Lupoliansky, who belongs to an extreme ultra-Orthodox sect and represents a non-Zionist party, serves as a symbol of those gains…
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