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Israel News Israeli Breast Cancer Survivor Launches Prosthetic Nipple Company
KFAR SABA, Israel (JTA) – Michelle Kolath-Arbel squeezes a nipple, rolling it in her fingers with a look of mild disgust. This model, which Kolath-Arbel ordered from China two years ago for $50, is thick and crude and took three months to arrive in the mail. “It was hard, rubbery,” she said. “It looked like…
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Fast Forward Hadassah Hospital Workers Threaten Strike If Not Paid Full Salary
Doctors at Hadassah Medical Center said they would start a full strike if they do not receive the salary owed to them. Staff members on Sunday threatened to go on a full strike the following day unless they receive the remaining half of their unpaid salaries by midnight, the Times of Israel reported. They received…
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Fast Forward Hadassah Hospital Files for Bankruptcy After Credit Lines Cut
Hadassah University Hospital filed a request on Friday for court protection against creditors, after reaching an agreement with the treasury and the Hadassah Women’s Organization to provide it with a total of 100 million shekels ($28.3 million) over the next three months. The injection of funding is meant to enable the financially strapped hospital to…
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Fast Forward Princeton’s Wilson School Forms Joint Program with Israel’s IDC
Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs has established a joint program with Israel’s IDC Herzliya. The joint program with the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at IDC Herzliya will begin in fall 2014. Under the program, juniors from the Wilson school will enroll in the Middle East specialization offered…
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News The Jewish Settlers Who Would Stay in West Bank Under Palestinian Rule
Eliaz Cohen is a second-generation Jewish settler in the occupied West Bank — and that’s where he’s determined to remain. Sitting in his kitchen in Kfar Etzion, between Jerusalem and Hebron, the yarmulke-wearing settler says that he wants to see a two-state solution and to see his home become part of the Palestinian state, with…
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Culture Israel’s Model of Engineering Education Comes To American Jewish High Schools
The classrooms that Adam Jerozolim visits each week don’t have neat rows of desks and chairs. There are no teachers standing at the front. Instead, he said, they each “look like a mad scientist’s lab”: computer chips everywhere; a mass of light bulbs, Legos and circuit boards strewn about. The students are huddled around tables,…
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Opinion The Times of Israel Launches Arabic Edition
For the past two years, increasing numbers of English speakers worldwide have been turning to The Times of Israel for news and analysis on Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world. Beginning this week, Arabic speakers can do the same. The Jerusalem-based online newspaper’s founding editor David Horovitz announced on February 4 the launch…
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Opinion What To Call Occupation After 47 Years?
(Haaretz) — Open Haaretz on any given day. Half or three quarters of its news items will invariably revolve around the same two topics: people struggling to protect the good name of Israel, and people struggling against its violence and injustices. An almost random example: On December 17, 2013, one could read, on a single…
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