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Fast Forward Israel Admitted As Full Member of Nuclear Physics Lab CERN
Israel was admitted as a full member of the prestigious European nuclear physics lab CERN. The CERN Council on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution making Israel the organization’s 21st member state. Israel also is the council’s first non-European member state as well. A formal signing ceremony will be held next month. “This is a very…
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Fast Forward Israel Will Put Controversial Bedouin Resettlement Plan on Hold
The Israeli government is shelving a proposal to resettle tens of thousands of Bedouin residents of the Negev that had drawn fierce criticism. One of the proposal’s main architects, Benny Begin, told reporters on Thursday that the so-called Prawer-Begin Plan would be revised. He said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had approved delaying presentation of the…
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Opinion Israel’s Blood Donation Rules Are Becoming a National Problem
Yesterday, an Ethiopian-born lawmaker was told at a Knesset blood drive that the state doesn’t want her blood because of her origins. I know how she feels. There is widespread outrage following the news that Pnina Tamano-Shata, the first Ethiopian born Knesset member, was told not to donate (or that she could donate but the…
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Fast Forward Congress Triples Obama’s Request for Spending on Israel-U.S. Defense Projects
The final version of the congressional defense budget triples the Obama administration’s request for funding for joint U.S.-Israel defense cooperation. The $284 million in the budget released jointly Dec. 10 by the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate budget committees – up from $96 million requested by the Obama administration – includes funding for the…
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Fast Forward Kerry Returns To Israel To Try To Save Faltering Peace Talks
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry headed back to the Middle East on Thursday, a week after his previous visit ended with Palestinian dissatisfaction over U.S. security ideas for an elusive land-for-peace deal with Israel. Kerry, who has quipped that his frequent trips to the region have become a commute, planned separate meetings with Palestinian…
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Israel News Is Imprisoned Fatah Leader Marwan Barghouti the Mandela of the Palestinians?
In October, supporters of Marwan Barghouti, perhaps the most prominent of the Palestinian militants currently in Israel’s prisons, held a high-profile demonstration in a unique venue more than 4,000 miles away from Israel. The demonstration, in which they called for Barghouti’s release, was staged off the coast of South Africa, on Robben Island, where Nelson…
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Fast Forward Ethiopian-Born Knesset Member Rejected As a Blood Donor
Israeli lawmakers called for an examination of Magen David Adom blood donation policies after an Ethiopia-born Knesset member was rejected as a donor. Pnina Tamano-Shata of the Yesh Atid party tried to donate during a special blood drive Wednesday at the Knesset but was told she could not because she had “the special kind of…
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Fast Forward Former U.N. Amabassador Calls on President Obama to Free Jonathan Pollard
Bill Richardson, the former U.N. ambassador known for his efforts to release American captives overseas, called on President Obama to free Jonathan Pollard immediately. In a Dec. 10 letter to Obama, whom he endorsed after dropping out of the 2008 presidential race, Richardson noted that an increasing number of figures involved in government when Pollard…
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