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Israel News New Zealand Commitment to Israel Fades Among 7,000 Jews
(Haaretz) — In one of the farthest corners of the Diaspora, Zionism has fallen “out of fashion” to the detriment of the “struggling” Jewish community. That’s the verdict of community elder David Zwartz, 77, a former president of the New Zealand Jewish Council, former honorary Israeli consul and the only Jewish Kiwi to receive the…
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Culture Even Trees Can Be Political
The anonymous narrator of Robert Frost’s 1914 poem “Mending Wall” wonders why his neighbor insists upon having an artificial barrier between their properties. “He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines,” he says. But all his neighbor does is echo,…
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Opinion What Is Apartheid Really?
“Apartheid” is an ugly Dutch word that literally means “separateness.” In South Africa, different races were kept apart on ideological grounds. This meant that the majority of people were deprived of citizens’ rights in South Africa on the grounds of their race. Such is currently not the case in Israel, where Arab Israeli citizens have…
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Fast Forward Two IDF Soldiers Dismissed For Posting Refusal to Evacuate Settlements on Facebook
The Israel Defense Forces dismissed two soldiers after discovering that they pledged on Facebook to refuse orders to evacuate West Bank settlements. The incident comes days after the IDF evacuation of portions of three illegal Jewish outposts in the West Bank. The Facebook post that resulted in the soldiers’ dismisal was a photo of a…
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Opinion When ‘Apartheid’ Could Be the Word
Palestinian students perform in a play against Israel’s separation barrier at the Arab American University in the West Bank. What’s all the fuss about? Secretary of State John Kerry has spoken the truth. He did so, first, in warning about apartheid. It does not exist at present: Israel’s occupation of the West Bank is a…
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Fast Forward Israeli Men Have Fourth-Highest Life Expectancy, According to World Health Organization
Israeli men have the fourth-highest life expectancy of any nationality, according to recently released statistics from the World Health Organization. Israeli men born in 2012 can expect to live just more than 80 years, a figure that ranks behind only Iceland, Switzerland and Australia. Icelandic men born two years ago, according to the WHO’s World…
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Fast Forward Local Chaos and Crime Drive Aliyah Numbers From Ukraine
Chaos and criminal activity in eastern Ukraine are causing anxiety and increased emigration by Ukrainian Jews, leaders of that community said. “There is increase in emigration by Jews from Ukraine with 300 people immigrating to Israel in March alone, but this is not the result of any anti-Semitism but of anxiety and fear from criminal…
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Fast Forward West Bank Settlements Could Grow 50% by 2019
The number of Jewish settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank could grow by as much as 50 percent by 2019, Israel’s ultra-nationalist construction minister said on Friday. Palestinians want the West Bank as part of their future state and blamed settlement expansions for the breakdown last month of U.S.-mediated peace talks with Israel – a…
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