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Fast Forward Record $53M Raised For IDF Support At Gala
(JTA) — The Friends of the Israel Defense Forces raised $53.8 million at a Beverly Hills gala. Some 1,200 people were in attendance at the annual event on Thursday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, which raised what organizers said was a “record” amount for Israeli soldiers for needed services such as: academic scholarships to…
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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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Community Most Charedim In Israel Are Not Protesting The IDF
On Monday evening October 23, there were big protests in Jerusalem in which approximately 2,000 Charedi Israelis blocked traffic and stopped local and regional public transportation from functioning properly for a few hours. These actions took place in response to the arrest by the IDF’s military police of two Charedi Israeli men who did not…
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Fast Forward IDF Strikes Syrian Rocket Launchers After Missiles Land In Israeli Territory
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel struck three rocket launchers in Syria, damaging them, in response to five rockets from Syria landing in Israeli territory on the Golan Heights. While the rockets from Syria that struck early on Saturday morning initially were identified by the Israeli military as spillover from Syria’s long-running civil war, Israeli news reports…
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News Why Trump’s Blowup With Slain Soldier’s Family Could Never Happen In Israel
Stories about President Trump’s interactions with the families of soldiers killed in military service dominated the news this week, including especially his lie that previous presidents like Barack Obama didn’t call such families, and his remark to a grieving widow that her husband “knew what he signed up for.” In Israel, mourning military families simply…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Female Israeli Soldier Uses Krav Maga To Fend Off Horde Of Hasidic Jews
A female IDF solider was forced to use karate to fend off a swarm of Hasidic Jews protesting the compulsory military draft in Jerusalem Monday, the Washington Post reported. Nomi Golan, who was off duty at the time, was attempting to guide a car through the raucous protests. “They attacked me, so as a soldier,…
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Fast Forward Israel Caught Russia Cyber-Snooping For U.S. Secrets
Israeli intelligence caught Russian spies attempting hack out classified American documents in computers across the globe, the New York Times reported. The Russians used a widely used antivirus program to effectively search millions of computers for documents from the FBI, the NSA, the CIA and other branches of government. The antivirus program is made by…
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Fast Forward 2 Israeli Soldiers Killed In Training Accident
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Israeli soldiers were killed in a training accident in the Golan Heights. A self-propelled cannon overturned into a ditch during a military exercise early Wednesday morning, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Along with the two fatalities, two soldiers were seriously injured with internal and orthopedic injuries and two others were…
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