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The Schmooze Israel’s Hyped for the World Cup — Even Without Spot
(JTA) — Blue-and-white soccer fans may not be able to rally behind the Israeli team with bold colors and flags at this year’s World Cup, but their country won’t be underrepresented in Brazil. According to the most recent data from FIFA, Israel (11,222) ranks behind Canada (28,542) for the largest number of tickets purchased by…
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Fast Forward Pope Francis Endorses ‘Palestine’ on Surprise Visit to Israeli West Bank Wall
(Reuters) — Pope Francis made a surprise stop on Sunday at the wall Palestinians abhor as a symbol of Israeli oppression, and later invited presidents from both sides of the divide to the Vatican to pray for peace. In an image likely to become the most emblematic of his trip to the holy land, Francis…
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News Israeli Couple Slain in Brussels Museum Attack
An Israeli couple was killed in the mass shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, Israeli sources told Haaretz. The third fatality was a female volunteer at the Jewish Museum of Belgium, according to an unconfirmed report Saturday night on the news site HLN.be, which is the online edition of the Het Laatste Nieuws daily….
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Fast Forward Pope Francis Kicks Off Middle East Visit Fraught With Danger for Israel
(Reuters) — Pope Francis called for urgent steps to end Syria’s three-year-old civil war as he arrived in neighboring Jordan on Saturday, starting a Middle East trip aimed at bringing hope to the region’s dwindling Christian population. Addressing Jordan’s King Abdullah on his first visit as pope to the Holy Land, Francis praised the Western-backed…
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Israel News Settlers Leave West Bank for Israel’s Mixed Arab-Jewish Towns
Ariel Greenbaum insists he’s a settler. But he lives many miles from the West Bank. “Settling the land also applies here,” he said in the Galilee synagogue where he spends his days studying Talmud. This synagogue tells the story better than most places of the “settlement” activity Greenbaum and other young Jews are bringing to…
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Israel News New CNN Video Raises Fresh Questions on Killings of Palestinian Teens
(Haaretz) — CNN released new footage, adding fuel to the fire involving the controversial killing of two Palestinian youths on Nakba Day, May 15, by Israeli forces. The video, filmed by CNN producer Kareem Khadder in the West Bank village of Beitunia, depicts a number of Border Policemen in the area, including one firing at…
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Life Avoid Bad Rabbi? There’s an App for That
An Israeli couple at their wedding (Haaretz) — When Israelis want to be warned of traffic jams ahead they check Waze, the popular crowd-sourced GPS. When they are planning their vacation, they look at hotel ratings and reviews on Tripadvisor to make sure their trip is smooth. So why shouldn’t they have the benefit of…
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Fast Forward UCLA Student Court Says No Conflict in Israel Trips
A student-run judicial body at UCLA found that two former student government representatives did not violate conflict-of-interest rules in accepting sponsored trips to Israel. The Judicial Board for the Undergraduate Students Association ruled Thursday in favor of Sunny Singh and Lauren Rogers, who had taken trips to Israel sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League and the…
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