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News Will Israel’s 4th election in 2 years really be different? It’s possible.
At first glance, the early election into which Israel is being helplessly dragged, like a hostage in the clutches of a bank robber, is just more of the same. The fourth Knesset election in under four years. So what else is new? But there could be no greater mistake. This time it’s a whole new…
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Culture Oh, great, Benjamin Netanyahu performed a duet with an Israeli pop star
Whenever a head of state sings, it’s a risky endeavor. How does one look fun without sacrificing the dignity of the office? Or, on the flip side, austere and on-pitch enough to honor a serious occasion? President Obama is the leader who’s pulled it off most successfully in recent memory: At various points in his…
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Culture Israel’s former space security chief says there’s a ‘Galactic Federation.’ We have some questions.
Groucho Marx, and later Alvy Singer, once quipped “I don’t want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member.” But what if that club includes aliens? The question came to us Dec. 7, after the Jerusalem Post reported that former Israeli space security chief Haim Eshed dished about the…
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Fast Forward Israel looks headed for more elections as Benny Gantz backs bill to dissolve Parliament
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Tuesday that his party will back a bill crafted by the opposition in parliament to dissolve the government, likely sending Israel to its fourth election in two years. The votes from Gantz’s Blue and White would provide the needed votes for the measure to pass in the Knesset. Gantz…
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Community Why would the government of Israel undermine the legacy of Yad Vashem?
The proposed nomination of Effie Eitam to head Yad Vashem would irrevocably wound Israel and the Jewish people’s memorial to the Holocaust. It will seriously weaken Israel’s ability to invoke the moral authority conferred on the Jewish people by that event. The move is unwise and undermines the memory of the Shoah’s victims and the…
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News Mr. Netanyahu’s Neighborhoods: Demonstrations only grow under lockdown
Some 600 people filled an intersection in the northern Tel Aviv neighborhood of Yehuda HaMacabee on Saturday night — new fathers with babies strapped to their chest, women hoisting black flags, retired couples and children banging pots and pans. “Balfour is here,” read signs hanging from the balconies of apartment buildings, as the demonstrators pumped…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for agreements with UAE and Bahrain
(JTA) — An Italian lawmaker has nominated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel for the Nobel Peace Prize. Paolo Grimoldi of the right-wing Northern League party tweeted Wednesday that he had nominated Netanyahu because he signed peace agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, as well as the dialogue with Saudi Arabian officials that…
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Fast Forward Trump’s cabinet hated Jared Kushner: new Bob Woodward book
A new book by veteran reporter Bob Woodward says President Trump’s cabinet members saw the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner as unworthy of their trust and weak in dealing with world leaders, according to the Washington Post. Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Kushner’s warm interactions with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
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