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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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Fast Forward U.S. Opens First Military Base In Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The United States opened its first official military base on Israeli soil. The base started operating Monday following a ceremony at the end of last week to inaugurate the facility that included Israeli and American military personnel. It will operate independently from within an Israeli military base in southern Israel that houses an…
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Jews Clash With Police In Protest Against IDF Conscription
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hundreds of Haredi Orthodox protesters demonstrated in Jerusalem against conscription in the Israel Defense Forces. The protesters clashed with police on Sunday during the demonstrations in the Haredi neighborhood of Mea Shearim, leading to the arrest of at least 8 protesters. At least two teenage protesters were injured in the melee, Ynet…
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Fast Forward Mitchell Flint, U.S. Pilot Who Helped Create Israeli Air Force, Dies At 94
(JTA) — Mitchell Flint, a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot who helped create the Israeli Air Force in 1948, has died. Flint died on Saturday in Los Angeles at the age of 94. Flint served in Israel’s first fighter squadron, as one of the founding members of Machal, a group of non-Israelis who fought in…
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Community How Israeli Culture Killed The Mensch
“Be a mensch,” a person of integrity, is a phrase one will likely hear frequently growing up Jewish in the United States. Striving for moral goodness is a quintessential feature of Judaism in America. Israeli Jews live by a completely different dictum: “don’t be a freier” — a sucker. A freier is easily exploited, something…
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Fast Forward Israeli Supreme Court Revokes Law Giving More Yeshiva Students Draft Exemptions
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court struck down a law that increased the number of draft exemptions for haredi Orthodox yeshiva students. The legislation, passed two years ago, was “unconstitutional, disproportionate, and harms equality,” the justices wrote in the majority decision, which passed 8-1. The law’s stated purpose of reducing the inequality of the burden of…
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Fast Forward Celebrating The Life Of Danny Lewin, The First Victim Of 9/11 Terror Attacks
Danny Lewin was 16 years ago today the first victim of the 9/11 attacks, when he tried to stop hijackers on one of the plans that would crash into the Twin Towers from storming the cockpit on his flight. Lewin, a veteran of the Israel Defense Forces and an MIT-trained mathematician, was working on his…
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Opinion The Writing On The Wall: Signs Of Occupation In Hebron
I was born in the ancient Palestinian city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank in a home around the corner from the entrance to Shuhada Street, the main thoroughfare and marketplace in the city. The name of our neighborhood was Bab el-Khan. Today, hanging on the stone walls of my old Bab el-Khan neighborhood…
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