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Fast Forward Israel Sends 148-Member Team to Typhoon-Ravaged Philippines
The Israel Defense Forces has sent a 148-member humanitarian delegation to the Philippines to provide search-and-rescue and medical services to areas hard hit by Typhoon Haiyan. The team left Israel on Wednesday equipped with a field hospital as well as about 100 tons of humanitarian and medical supplies, according to the IDF. The team will…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Teen Stabs Israeli Soldier Dead on Bus
An 18-year old Israeli soldier was stabbed to death by a Palestinian residing in Israel illegally while on a bus in northern Israel. Police are calling the Wednesday morning incident a terrorist attack. The assailant was a 16-year-old Palestinian boy from Jenin. The attack occurred in Afula on a bus traveling from Nazareth to Tel…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Negotiators Quit Peace Talks Over Israeli Settlement Plans
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday his peace negotiators had resigned over the lack of progress in U.S.-brokered statehood talks clouded by Israeli settlement building. The development would mark a new low point for the talks with Israel that resumed in July and which officials from both sides have said have made little headway….
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Opinion Marijuana Goes Local in Israel
(JTA) — Taking a puff is going local in the Jewish state. According to a Bloomberg report, Israel’s tightened border security — aimed at curbing the influx of African migrants, as well as securing the country against potential threats from Lebanon and Syria — has also had the effect of hampering the country’s supply of…
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Israel News Jewish Leaders Rally Against Orthodox Control of Religion — and Waning Faith Practice
Defying predictions, America’s Jewish federations mustered to mount an unabashed show of strength when they gathered in Jerusalem November 10 for the annual General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA). It wasn’t exactly the sort of defiance their Israeli hosts were accustomed to seeing at an American Jewish philanthropists’ convention. Prime Minister…
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News What If Disney Princesses Weren’t So Perfect
(Haaretz) — In a new series of illustrations entitled “The Trials of Disney Princessdom,” illustrator Rayut Siman Tov depicts Disney’s perfect princesses in human settings, complete with bodily defects and the ravages of the beauty industry. To become human, the little mermaid in Hans Christian Anderson’s iconic story had to give up her tail for…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Backs Down From Plans to Build 24,000 New Settler Homes
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered on Tuesday a reassessment of plans to build nearly 24,000 settler homes, saying he feared an international outcry that would divert attention from Israel’s lobbying against a nuclear deal with Iran. The right-wing Israeli leader announced the reversal in the face of stiff U.S. opposition to settlement expansion in the…
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Fast Forward U.S. Furious Over Plans for 24,000 New Homes for Jewish Settlers
The United States was both caught unawares and displeased by reports that Israel is making plans to build nearly 24,000 more settler homes in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, a spokeswoman said. “We are deeply concerned by these latest reports that over 20,000 additional units are in the early planning stages,” State Department…
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