This is the Forward’s coverage of the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory on the Mediterranean sea bordering Israel. Israel withdrew from the strip in 2005, ceding direct control to the Palestinian Authority, but it maintains strict indirect control.
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Fast Forward Israel and Palestinians Agree on Gaza Reconstruction
The United Nations, Israel and the Palestinian Authority have reached a deal to allow reconstruction work to begin in the war-torn Gaza Strip with U.N. monitoring of the use of materials, U.N. Middle East envoy Robert Serry said on Tuesday. Serry told the U.N. Security Council that the United Nations had brokered the deal “to…
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Opinion Do British Jews Have Better Approach to Strife Over Israel?
While I spend much of my time researching and writing about the British Jewish community, I’ve always been a keen observer of the American Jewish community. So it was fascinating to discover during a recent teaching visit to Houston that my British Jewish preoccupations seemed to resonate so strongly with Jews there. Much of my…
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Fast Forward Israeli Budget Fight Raises Questions About Defense Spending
Demands for billions of dollars of extra funding for Israel’s military have set the scene for a bruising political battle over the budget, as the country tries to balance the needs of a weakening economy with security threats from Gaza to Iran. The defense ministry is seeking nearly 70 billion shekels ($20 billion) in the…
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Israel News Israeli Kibbutzniks On Gaza Border Push For Diplomacy
If there were one community in Israel most likely to support Israel’s recent war in Gaza, it would be the kibbutzim sitting right on the border with the Hamas-run territory. That’s where the mortars fell so quickly that there was little time to run for shelter, where Hamas fighters attempted to infiltrate the Israeli border…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Caught Trying To Infiltrate Israel From Gaza
A Palestinian man was caught trying to infiltrate Israel from Gaza. The man was caught by an Israel Defense Forces patrol after being seen from above, according to Israeli media reports. He attempted to enter Israel near Kibbutz Kissufim, which is near central Gaza. He was carrying a knife. The man was detained and taken…
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News Philologos Takes On The Times and the Forward in Epic Hebrew Battle
The New York Times, which no one could accuse of being overly sympathetic to Israel, has hit a new linguistic low. In a September 3 report from the Erez checkpoint between Israel and Gaza, Times reporter Jodi Rudoren quotes an Israeli official as telling her that “this is a secret crossing — this is Gaza,…
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Fast Forward 43 Intelligence Reservists Vow to Stop Spying on Palestinians
Dozens of intelligence corps reservists vowed to stop collecting information on Palestinians. The letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was signed by 43 reservists, of whom 10 are officers, from the 8200 signal intelligence unit of the Israel Defense Forces’ intelligence corps. It was also Chief of Staff Benny Gantz and Aviv Kochavi, who…
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Music Israel August Tourism Numbers Take a Sharp Downturn From Last Year
Israel’s August tourist numbers took a sharp downturn from the previous year’s figures. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, 182,000 visitor entries were recorded for the month in Israel, down 36 percent from August 2013. Of the visitor entries, 164,000 were tourists staying more than one night, 32 percent less than August a year…
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