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Fast Forward 106 Israeli Lawmakers Demand Action on Jonathan Pollard
A petition signed by 106 Knesset members calling for the release of Jonathan Pollard, held in a U.S. prison for over 28 years for spying for Israel, was presented to Israeli President Shimon Peres. Both coalition and opposition Knesset members signed the petition, which was given Wednesday to Peres by the caucus to free Jonathan…
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Opinion How Good Is Israel’s New Abortion Policy?
A doctor performs a sonogram on a pregnant woman on November 9, 2011. / Getty Images It’s not every day that progressives get to see encouraging policy changes coming out of Israel, so we should celebrate them when they do come along — even if they don’t go quite as far as we might like….
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Fast Forward Israeli Killings of Palestinians in West Bank Triple in 2013
Three times as many Palestinians were killed in the West Bank in 2013 as were in the previous year, according to an Israeli human rights watchdog. Israeli security forces killed 27 Palestinians in the West Bank in 21 separate incidents, and killed nine Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in seven incidents, according to a report…
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Fast Forward Yosef Shapira, World Bnei Akiva Leader, Dies at 87
Former Israeli government minister Yosef Shapira, who was one of the founders of World Bnei Akiva, has died. Shapira died Saturday at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, near Tel Aviv, at the age of 87. Shapira, who was never elected to the Knesset, served as a minister without portfolio in the national unity…
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Fast Forward Israel Frees 26 Palestinians Ahead of John Kerry Visit
Israel freed 26 Palestinian prisoners on Tuesday, days before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was due back in the Middle East to press the two sides to agree a framework peace deal. Israel agreed to release a total of 104 Palestinian prisoners as part of a U.S.-brokered package that in July revived peace talks…
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Opinion College Campuses Will Become Climate Change Battleground in 2014
The Forward asked a number of writers to offer their hopes and predictions for the new year. What ideas and trends will shape our world in 2014? Human sources will spew billions more tons of carbon dioxide and other heat-retaining gases into the atmosphere. The industrial fervor that raised standards of living in many parts…
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Israel News Israel’s Social Justice Movement Fades Silently Into Political Obscurity
As threats from Iran, violence in the occupied West Bank and instability in Syria and Egypt dominate public discourse these days, Israel’s once-buoyant movement for social democracy that topped them all just two years ago has, silently, all but vanished. During the long summer days of 2011, in the tents of Israel’s protest cities, many…
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Fast Forward Russian Immigration to Israel Seen as Success Story
(JTA) — Growing up in the Urals, Pavel Polev was a precocious ice skater and a member of the Soviet Union’s national youth figure-skating team. But in 1992, at age 15, Polev’s life was upended when he joined the massive wave of Jews immigrating to Israel from the crumbling Soviet Union. After serving a mandatory…
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