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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Concedes ‘Some Settlements’ Will Be Uprooted
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would give up “some settlements” in occupied Palestinian land to help secure a peace agreement but would limit as much as he could the number of enclaves removed. The settlements are a key issue in peace talks renewed under Washington’s tutelage in July after a three-year impasse. Little progress…
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Fast Forward Wounded Ukraine Protesters Airlifted to Israel
For 17-year-old Bolodimir Bedyuk, a Ukrainian who was severely wounded in clashes with Ukrainian forces on Feb. 18, Israeli medical care may be his only hope. After a pitched battle with Ukrainian police forces on Institutskaya Street in Kiev, Bedyuk suffered extensive liver damage — his brother, Aleksei, said Bolodimir’s liver “was torn practically in…
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News Ukrainian Jews Seek To Emigrate Amid Uncertainty
The Jewish Agency for Israel has seen a spike in Ukrainians looking to immigrate to Israel as turmoil roils their country. Marina Steiman, a Jewish Agency official in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, declined to give numbers, but she said the agency is receiving “more calls then usual.” Steinman, the agency’s director of community relations in…
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Fast Forward Pro-Boycott Israel Figures Judith Butler and Rashid Khalidi Push Back
Judith Butler and Rashid Khalidi are circulating a letter objecting to retaliation against those who support boycotts of Israel. Both Butler and Khalidi recently had events canceled at Jewish institutions after critics raised objections to their views on Israel. Butler, a literary theorist affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, pulled out of a talk…
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Fast Forward Michele Bachmann Accuses Jews of Selling Out Israel
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said American Jewish organizations are selling out on Israel in favor of the Obama administration. Bachmann made the accusation this week during a telephone interview with Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council and host of the online radio show that is featured on the conservative Christian group’s website. “What…
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Fast Forward Irish Students Vote for Israel Boycott
A motion supporting a blanket boycott of Israel was passed by students of the National University of Ireland. The result of Thursday’s referendum at the NUI Galway Students Union make it the first student body in Ireland to endorse the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS, campaign against Israel, according to the local news site…
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Fast Forward Israel Envoy Meets With Ukraine ‘Anti-Semite’ Dmitry Yarosh
Israel’s ambassador in Kiev, Reuven Din El, opened a hotline with a Ukrainian ultra-nationalist movement to “prevent provocations.” The agreement came at the end of a meeting held last week between Din El and Dmitry Yarosh, the leader of the Right Sector paramilitary group, which participated in the overthrow of the government of President Viktor…
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Israel News Brave Beauty Queen Who Refused To Go to Back of Israeli Bus
(Haaretz) — An ultra-Orthodox resident of Beit Shemesh was convicted of sexual harassment yesterday for calling a female Israel Defense Forces soldier a “prostitute” after she refused to move to the back of a bus. The soldier, Doron Matalon, who has since started a modeling career, won second place in Tuesday night’s televised “Miss Israel”…
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