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Fast Forward European Union Offers ‘Unprecedented’ Aid to Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks
The European Union promised Israel and the Palestinians better access to European markets and “unprecedented” political and economic aid as an incentive to push them into resolving their decades-old conflict. Shrugging off gloomy predictions of failure, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said last week the Israelis and the Palestinians remained committed to peace talks…
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Fast Forward Attempted Coup in South Sudan Threatens Israeli Aid Group Operations
Intense fighting amid a coup attempt in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, has forced an Israeli aid group in the country to suspend its operations and go on lockdown. The heavy gunfire in Juba began late Sunday night; members of the Israeli group, IsraAid, reported artillery and automatic weapons fire in their vicinity. Salva…
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Fast Forward African Migrants Abandon Israeli Detention Center in Protest of New Law
More than 100 African migrants have abandoned an “open” Israeli detention centre to try to march on Jerusalem in protest at a law allowing authorities to keep them in custody indefinitely, activists said on Monday. Israel views most of the more than 50,000 Sudanese and Eritrean migrants who have crossed its border on foot from…
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Fast Forward Israeli, Lebanese, U.N. Officials To Meet Over Killing of Border Guard
Israeli, Lebanese and U.N. military officers will meet on Monday to defuse tension after a “rogue” Lebanese soldier shot dead an Israeli soldier the day before, Israel’s defence minister said. The Lebanese soldier went missing after the cross-border shooting, but has now been found, a Lebanese security source said. Sunday’s incident jarred the relatively stable…
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Fast Forward Alan Dershowitz To Retire From Harvard Law School
Alan Dershowitz, one of the country’s most prominent lawyers and a passionate, sometimes controversial, advocate for Israel, is retiring from Harvard Law School. The 75-year-old lawyer, who is known for taking on high profile and often unpopular causes and clients, has taught at Harvard Law for half a century. His retirement is official at the…
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Culture Why Jews With Psoriasis Might Think Twice About Seeking Treatment in Jordan
Years ago, Germans, quite many of them, in fact, would fly from their homeland to the Dead Sea in Israel in order to bathe in the world-famous salty waters. Some did it for recreation, others for fitness, and still others to cure themselves of psoriasis. All was fine and dandy until one day the owner…
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Fast Forward Israeli Soldier Shot and Killed Along Lebanese Border
An Israeli soldier was killed on Sunday when a Lebanese sniper opened fire in a normally quiet area of the border between the two countries, and a U.N. peacekeeping force said it was working with both sides to keep the incident from escalating. Israel’s military said in a statement that a sniper from the Lebanese…
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Fast Forward Knesset Committee Approves Bill To Tax Donations To Pro-BDS Groups
A Knesset committee approved a bill that would heavily tax foreign donations to organizations that call for a boycott of Israel. The bill, which has spurred controversy, passed the Ministerial Committee on Legislation on Sunday by an 8-4 vote. The measure taxes at 45 percent foreign donations to nonprofit foundations and organizations whose directors or…
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