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Fast Forward Mexico Says It Will Stop Voting Against Israel At U.N.; Bibi Says ‘Gracias’
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted a message of gratitude to Mexico following its announcement that it would not vote against the Jewish state in upcoming votes at the United Nations. “Thank you President of Mexico @EPN and Secretary of Foreign Affairs Videgaray for refusing to go along with one…
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Israel News Was Ruth Bader Ginsburg Snubbed For ‘Jewish Nobel’ — And Was Bibi Behind It?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently received a lifetime achievement award from a major Jewish philanthropic group. The group, the Genesis Prize Foundation, is best known for its Genesis Prize, often called the “Jewish Nobel.” This year, Natalie Portman received the prize. But a report in Haaretz is claiming that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stopped the…
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Community Birthright’s Move To Exclude Arab-Israelis From Its Narrative Is A Crisis — And Here’s How We Fix It.
Birthright Israel’s education department recently announced that all providers of its signature 10-day trip to Israel for young Jews must stop including meetings with Israeli Arabs in their programming. The move has hit a nerve. It has brought out the raw feelings surrounding the funders of the program, those who safeguard the educational content and…
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Opinion Avi Gabbay Is #Winning: Israel’s New Political Dynamo Plays For Keeps
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! Avi Gabbay wants you to know that he is a different kind of Labor Party leader. The newly-elected head of Israel’s oldest and arguably most troubled political party sat down with me for…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Vows ‘No Free Gifts’ In Hardline Message To Hamas On Body Swaps
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to push a hard line with Hamas to bring home the bodies of Israelis being held in Gaza. Netanyahu made the remarks on Monday during a construction agreement ceremony in the city of Migdal HaEmek in northern Israel. “The government has two roles: to protect the…
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Opinion How Trump’s Bumbling And Netanyahu’s Cunning Landed Them In The Same Place
It’s hard not to notice the similarities between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. Critics love to comment on the two men’s shared resume of defiant nationalism, open warfare with the press, testy relations with other Western leaders and voluble contempt for their liberal opposition. There’s a crucial difference, of course: One of them is a…
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Opinion Behind The Scenes Of The 2017 Forward 50
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word!** In 1994, Bill Clinton was in the White House, Benjamin Netanyahu was just head of the Likud party, “Friends” debuted on television, “The Lion King” was still just a movie and Jeff Bezos…
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Fast Forward After Delay, Netanyahu Confirms Speaking Via Satellite To Jewish Federations
(JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address the Jewish Federations of North America’s annual General Assembly next month via satellite on November 14. Netanyahu will be interviewed live from Israel, as he was last year. He appeared in person at the 2013 and 2015 General Assemblies and by satellite in 2014 and last year. Reports…
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