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Fast Forward Tel Aviv ‘Bubble’ Bursts But Israelis Won’t Let Rockets Run Lives
(JTA) — Had the shrapnel fallen a foot to the right, gas station attendant Michael Savlov would have been destroyed along with the rest of the Dor Alon gas station in southern Tel Aviv. Savlov was with a customer in the station’s office Thursday morning when a rocket from Gaza was intercepted overhead by Israel’s…
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Israel News How Jewish Summer Camps Are Coping With Murders of Israeli Teenagers
(JTA) — On the morning of June 30, the children began arriving at Camp Solomon Schechter in Olympia, Wash., ready for a fun-filled summer. But shortly before the first little feet descended the bus steps, the sleepaway camp’s Israeli counselors learned from back home about the discovery of the bodies of three teens kidnapped in the…
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Opinion Where’s Jewish Fury Over Tariq Abu Khdeir Beating?
Tariq Abu Khdeir is hugged by his mother following his beating in East Jerusalem / Getty Images I have no idea what Tariq Khdeir was doing on the day he was savagely beaten. I have no idea if — like the American high school student in my own home – Tariq woke up late and…
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Fast Forward Australian Beaten for Wearing IDF T-Shirt
A Melbourne, Australia man wearing an IDF t-shirt said two Arabic-speaking men assaulted him on the street. Zachary Gomo told JTA he was walking to a shop around 10 P.M. in a Jewish neighborhood on Thursday night wearing a T-shirt from his service in the Israel Defense Forces when he claims he was set upon…
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Fast Forward Jewish-Led Protests Draw 1,000 as Anger Erupts Over Israel Attack on Gaza
Protests against Israel organized by Jewish Voice for Peace drew a thousand demonstrators in 15 cities, organizers said. Cities where “We Divest National Week of Actions” protests took place included Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, according to Rabbi Alissa Wise, a director of organizing for the group and a member…
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Fast Forward Hamas Threatens Tel Aviv Airport as Death Toll From Israel Strikes Rises to 96
A fourth day of Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip killed 11 more Palestinians on Friday, raising the death toll in the coastal enclave to at least 96, most of them civilians, Palestinian officials said. Facing a possible Israeli ground invasion, militants warned international airlines they would fire rockets at Tel Aviv’s main airport….
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Fast Forward U.N. Rights Chief Slams Israel Gaza Attack
The United Nations human rights chief on Friday voiced serious doubts that Israeli’s military operation against Gaza complied with international law banning the targeting of civilians, and called on both sides to respect the rules of war. International law requires Israel to take all measures to ensure that its attacks are proportional, distinguish between military…
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Fast Forward Hamas Threatens to Target Tel Aviv’s Airport
Islamist Hamas’s armed wing has warned airlines that it intends to target Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport with its rockets from Gaza and has told them not to fly there, a statement by the group said on Friday. “In the light of Israel’s … attacks on the residents of Gaza Strip … The armed wing…
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