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PHOTO ESSAY: At Israeli Detention Center, African Refugees Hold a Seder
Why was this Passover seder, held about a week before the holiday started, different from all other seders? For starters, it took place outside, under the harsh desert sun, and most of the attendees weren’t even Jewish. At this gathering, the men who recalled the exodus from Egypt were telling their own stories of flight….
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Israeli Hospitals Admit Enabling Separation — Deny Racism
Israeli hospital officials and their American fundraising arms have forcefully rejected claims in the Israeli press that their medical facilities practice ethnic and religious segregation in their maternity wards. But hospital administrators did describe efforts the hospitals make to accommodate requests from patients who want to room with other patients with whom they share “cultural…
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Israel Police Request Probe of Opposition Leader Herzog for Pay-to-Play Tactics
Police ask attorney general for permission to launch criminal investigation against Zionist Union leader, suspected of benefiting from the funding of political activities by interested parties during the primary for the Labor Party leadership in 2013. Police have asked Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit for permission to launch a criminal investigation against Zionist Union chairman Isaac…
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For Parents of Israeli Soldiers Lost in Gaza, the War Never Ended
KFAR SABA, Israel (JTA) — One family lost their son in late July 2014. The other lost theirs on the first of August in the same year. One family has lobbied the United Nations and crossed an ocean in hopes of bringing their son’s remains back. The other mostly stays home. One family is sure…
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Israel On Alert For Annual Cyberattack by ‘Anonymous’
Israel’s security agencies are bracing for potential cyberattacks on Thursday. Agence France Press that the country is on high alert in anticipation of attacks by the international hacker group Anonymous, which targets Israel each year on April 7 as a demonstration of solidarity with the Palestinians. Since 2013, the group has targeted Israel each year,…
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ADL Slams Sanders for Exaggeraring Palestinian Death Toll in Gaza War
The Anti-Defamation League has called on Sen. Bernie Sanders to publicly correct his statement that “over 10,000 innocent people were killed in Gaza” in the war between Israel and Hamas in 2014. Sanders, I-Vt., a Democratic presidential candidate, made the statement in an with the editorial board of the New York Daily News published Monday….
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U.S. ‘Concerned’ About Israel Destroying Palestinian Homes
WASHINGTON — The United States is “concerned” about Israel’s demolition of Arab buildings in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, a State Department spokeswoman said, adding that it raised questions about Israel’s commitment to a two-state political solution to the Palestinian conflict. Israeli forces bulldozed a school in the Bedouin village of Khirbet Tana in…
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Israel Passes Law to Cap Bankers’ Salaries
JERUSALEM – The Israeli Knesset passed one of the world’s toughest curbs on bank executives’ salaries to try to narrow a big gap between bosses’ and workers’ pay. The law was pushed through by Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, who, ahead of last year’s election, ran on a platform of lowering the cost of living and…
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Charges for IDF Soldier Who Fatally Shot Terrorist May Be Downgraded
JERUSALEM — A soldier caught on video shooting a prone Palestinian terrorist in the head could be charged with manslaughter rather than murder, the military prosecutor said at a hearing. “We are trying to decide what he could be charged with, including manslaughter,” the prosecutor said at Tuesday’s hearing in Kastina, near Ashdod, where it…
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Trump Puts Divide Between Israel Lobby and American Jewry on Vivid Display
Washington – It was the “yay” heard around the Jewish world—and beyond. When rank-and-file members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee cheered Donald Trump’s attack on President Obama—“in his final year—yay!” the GOP frontrunner declared—with roaring applause and a standing ovation, leaders of the powerful lobby were mortified. Within 24 hours, they felt obligated…
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48% of Israeli Jews Back ‘Expulsion’ or ‘Transfer’ of Arabs, New Pew Survey Says
Almost half of all Israeli Jews are in favor of transferring or expelling the state’s Arab population, a major U.S. survey of Israeli public opinion has found. That staggering statistic comes from the Pew Research Center’s report on Israel’s religiously divided society, released on March 8. The Israelis polled were not responding to an Israeli…
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