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Fast Forward Israel Limits Contact With Palestinians as Talks Fray
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a halt to high-level contacts with the Palestinians on non-security related issues, but exempted his chief peace negotiator from the ban, government officials said on Wednesday. One Israeli official called Netanyahu’s order a response to “the Palestinians’ grave violation of their commitments in the framework of the peace…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Suggests Israel Sparked Mideast Peace Talks Crisis
Secretary of State John Kerry suggested on Tuesday that Israel’s refusal to free Palestinian prisoners and its announcement of plans to build about 700 housing units in East Jerusalem was the proximate cause for the near collapse of its peace talks with the Palestinians. However, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Kerry was not seeking…
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Fast Forward Fox Purchases Rights to Another Israeli TV Show
Fox has purchased the rights to Boom!, a new Israeli game show. The program debuted earlier this month in Israel. Under the format, four contestants race against the clock to diffuse a bomb by cutting colored wires that hold the answers to trivia questions. Viewers can also play using a smartphone app. If the bomb…
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Fast Forward Nearly 900,000 Israelis Go Without Food Due to Poverty, Government Says
Some 894,000 Israelis go for an entire day without food or eat smaller meals because they cannot afford to buy food, according to a government report. The State Comptroller’s Nutritional Insecurity report issued Monday found that 306,000 of those who go hungry are children. In addition, nearly 50 percent of the Israeli-Arab population cannot meet…
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Fast Forward Maryland Lawmakers Slam Anti-Israel Boycott But Leave Out Penalties
Maryland lawmakers included language in the new state budget condemning academic boycotts of Israel but scrapped any penalties that were included in a bill under consideration. Wording in the 2015 fiscal year spending plan, which was adopted Sunday, includes a statement of strong support for Israel along with condemnation of the American Studies Association’s boycott…
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The Schmooze Israeli Basketball is Pretty Intense
When Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv face off, things get crazy. That’s the main message we can take away from what happened last night, when Maccabi center Sofoklis Schortsanitis charged into the crowd to try to beat up a Hapoel fan. Madness ensued. Israeli fans raged. Watch the whole incident below:
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Fast Forward Yair Lapid Backs Curbs on Settlements To Save Peace
(JTA) — Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid said he supports freezing settlement growth to help jump-start peace negotiations and vowed that his centrist Yesh Atid party would leave Israel’s governing coalition if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were responsible for the collapse of the peace process. In an interview this week with JTA, his first with an…
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Opinion Can Brooklyn Jews Talk Civilly About Israel?
Young Jews discuss Israel at a ‘Resetting the Table’ event in Brooklyn. / Ezra Weinberg This past Sunday, in the high-beamed, chilly Brooklyn Lyceum, a group of 20- and 30-somethings tried to talk about Israel — no small feat. The program, called “Resetting the Table,” was designed to allow young people to get together and…
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