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Israel News Israel Pushes for Boost in U.S. Aid to More Than $3B a Year
Israel’s 10-year assistance agreement with the United States doesn’t expire until 2017. But in Washington time, that’s not too far away for Israel to argue now for increasing aid levels when the agreement is renewed. Citing the ongoing instability in the Middle East, Israel is already pushing for an increase in U.S. military aid to…
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Fast Forward Pro-Israel Groups Suspend Lobbying Push on Syria
(JTA) — Pro-Israel groups suspended their high-profile lobbying effort for a strike on Syria now that the United States and Russia have struck a deal to strip the Assad regime of its chemical weapons. A spokesman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which organized a Capitol Hill blitz last week aimed at persuading Congress…
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Fast Forward Israel Scrambles as Court Axes Law Aimed at African Immigrants
The High Court of Justice’s decision Monday to overturn a year-old law allowing African migrants to be held without trial for up to three years caught Israeli officials by surprise. Government ministries that will be affected by the ruling began studying the decision immediately, and will continue to examine its implications for a number of…
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Opinion Syria Chemical Attack Underlines Need for Israel Shift on Non-Conventional Weapons
The list includes North Korea, Syria, Angola — and Israel. Needless to say, a democracy like Israel would rather not be grouped together with a rogue’s gallery of outlaw states and authoritarian regimes. Yet that is exactly where Israel finds itself alongside the handful of nations that have not ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)….
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Fast Forward ‘Homeland’ Pulls Out of Filming in Israel, Citing Syria Conflict
Parts of the third season of the television series “Homeland” will not be filmed in Israel as originally planned. The filming was switched to Morocco due to concerns over the uncertain situation in Syria, according to Ynet. The show’s producers in Israel were told of the decision over the weekend, the news site reported, citing…
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Opinion Victory for African Immigrants in Israel?
Will the doors of Israel’s detention centers really open, allowing illegal immigrants to walk free? According to today’s High Court ruling, this is exactly what should happen over the coming weeks. Israel’s High Court has just struck down a controversial law that allows the state to detain illegal immigrants for up to three years. Judges…
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Fast Forward Anti-Immigrant Law Struck Down by Israel High Court
An expanded Israeli panel of nine High Court of Justice judges has unanimously voted to strike down controversial legislation that allowed Israel to detain illegal migrants for three years without trial. The judges ruled that the amendment to the Law for Prevention of Infiltration is unconstitutional and violates the right to liberty. The amendment went…
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Fast Forward Israeli Transgender Man Recognized as Child’s ‘Father’ in Same-Sex First
Israel’s Interior Ministry has recognized the two biological fathers of the same baby. The baby is the son of Yuval and Matan Topper-Erez. Yuval Topper-Erez, the first Israeli transgender man to get pregnant, gave birth to the baby in December 2011. The Interior Ministry at first refused to recognize Matan as the baby’s biological father,…
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