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Fast Forward U.S., Israel Teaming Up to Facilitate Entry Into Visa Waiver Program
The United States and Israel are creating a working group to help Israel advance toward joining the visa waiver program. “This is a goal of both the United States and Israel, and it would make travel easier for citizens of both countries,” Julia Frifield, the assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, said in a…
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Opinion A Giant Initiative To Save the Jewish People
It is almost a cliché to say that Passover is the family holiday for Jews (our Thanksgiving, if you will). It’s when we get to sit at the same table with our loved ones, who also happen to be the ones that can be oh-so exasperating. It is a fascinating tradition where we tell a…
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Culture Doomed Jewish Freedom Fighter’s Journey From Tel Aviv to Auschwitz
(Haaretz) — For decades, no one took an interest in the seven letters, handwritten in Polish and kept in the home of Priva and Jacob Bendet. They had been sent in the 1930s to Priva, at her home in Tel Aviv, by her sister Lusia, from Warsaw and from Paris. “One letter led to the…
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Fast Forward Hundreds Attend Funeral for West Bank Passover Shooting Victim
Hundreds attended the funeral for Israel Police Chief Superintendent Baruch Mizrahi, who was killed near Hebron while on his way to a Passover seder with his family. “Instead of growing old together and watching the seasons pass, with the shriek of a bullet, I lost the love of my life,” his pregnant wife, Hadas, who…
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Opinion A Hebron Land Grab, Just in Time for Passover
Getty Images For the settlement movement, there is poignancy in the fact that the Hebron Jewish community has branched out into a previously Palestinian neighborhood just before Passover. It was Passover 1968 when settlers first got their foothold in Hebron, after renting out a hotel and refusing to leave. For critics of the settlement movement,…
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Fast Forward Israeli Killed in Shooting in West Bank
An Israeli man was killed in a shooting attack on a civilian car near the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the eve of the Jewish holiday of Passover, military sources said. Israeli media reported the car was carrying a family to see relatives for the ritual Passover “seder” dinner. The…
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Fast Forward Israel Claims Secret Talks Will Lead to Arab Ties
Israel is holding secret talks with some Arab states that do not recognise it, looking to establish diplomatic ties based on a common fear of Iran, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Monday. Amongst the countries he was in contact with were Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, Lieberman told newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth – the first…
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Fast Forward Hadassah Hospital Must Create Recovery Plan
A Jerusalem court ordered Hadassah Medical Center and the Israeli government to reach an agreement on a recovery plan in ten days. Jerusalem District Court Justice David Mintz on Sunday also extended a stay of protection from its creditors, even as it continues to operate at a deficit. Hadassah has run out of the combined…
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