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Fast Forward Israel Tennis Team Fined $13K for Yom Kippur Boycott
The Israel Tennis Association has been fined more than $13,000 for refusing to play a Davis Cup match on Yom Kippur. The Israeli national tennis team had been scheduled to play against the Belgium national tennis team in Antwerp on Sept. 14, which is Yom Kippur, in the world group playoffs, the highest level of…
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Fast Forward Suicidal Jewish Dad Kills Son, 9, in Custody Visit
A Jewish father shot his 9-year-old son before turning the gun on himself during a custody visit at Sunday at a New Hampshire YWCA. Muni Savyon, 54, had recently returned from his brother’s funeral in Israel and had confided in his friend and local Chabad Rabbi Levi Krinsky that he was suicidal. Still the shooting…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Threaten To Cancel Talks Over Terms of Prisoner Release
Several days before Israeli-Palestinian talks are due to reconvene in Jerusalem, a severe crisis is in the making. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, in meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and special envoy Martin Indyk, condemned what they describe as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu violation of agreements on…
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Fast Forward Israel To Release 26 Prisoners This Week as Part of Peace Deal
Israel decided on Sunday to free 26 Palestinian prisoners over the next few days ahead of a new round of peace talks, in the first group of a total of more than 100 inmates it pledged to release as part of a U.S.-brokered resumption of negotiations. Three senior members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet…
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Fast Forward Australia’s New Policy on Asylum Seekers Riles Jewish Community
The Labor government’s new policy of banishing asylum seekers who arrive here by sea has left some Jews fuming, many of them survivors of the Holocaust and their descendants who also arrived here as boat people. Like Israel, Australia holds asylum seekers, most of them from Africa, in detention centers. Australia’s centers are on the…
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Fast Forward Israel Stays Quiet on Drone Strike Near Egypt Border
Israel is neither confirming nor denying that it was responsible for a drone attack on terrorists near its border with Egypt. In a statement issued late Saturday night, Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said that ‘‘Israel respects the full sovereignty of Egypt,’’ and that Israel is ‘‘aware of the Egyptian military’s increased activity against terror…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Released From Hospital After Hernia Surgery
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was released from hospital on Sunday hours after undergoing successful hernia surgery, but doctors said he would require several days’ rest to make a full recovery. During the overnight procedure, which took around an hour and required general anaesthetic, Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon temporarily assumed the 63-year-old premier’s powers, Netanyahu’s…
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Fast Forward Israeli Ministers To Decide Which Palestinian Prisoners To Release First
A committee of Israeli government ministers is meeting to decide which Palestinian prisoners will be freed in the first round of peace talks. The first 26 prisoners, out of a list of 104, are set to be freed this week, a day before negotiations resume Wednesday in Jerusalem. Sunday’s meeting will take place without Prime…
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