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Fast Forward A New Tel Aviv Holocaust Monument Will Honor Gays Persecuted By Nazis
JERUSALEM — A monument to gays persecuted by the Nazis will be built in Tel Aviv. The monument, the first of its kind in Israel, will be constructed in Meir Park, near the Tel Aviv Gay and Lesbian Association Center in the central part of the city, Haaretz reported. It will include a concrete pink…
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Fast Forward Hamas Urges Egypt To Reopen Gaza Border With Sinai
Palestinian Islamist group Hamas urged Egypt on Wednesday to reopen the border crossing with the Gaza Strip that was closed after a suspected militant attack on Egyptian policemen near the frontier earlier this week. Hamas, an off-shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, has ruled Gaza since 2007 and has an uneasy relationship with Egypt’s new army-backed…
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Fast Forward Israeli High Court Urges Lesbian Couple To Look Abroad for Surrogacy Help
A seven-justice panel of the High Court of Justice heard the case Tuesday of a lesbian couple seeking to have a child by surrogacy in Israel instead of needing to get the procedure done overseas. Members of the panel urged them to accept a Health Ministry offer to have part of the procedure performed in…
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Fast Forward Polio Virus Spreads From South To Northern Israel
A strain of the polio virus was found in waste water near Hadera, meaning that the virus has spread to the north of Israel. The discovery comes two weeks into a national vaccination project to innoculate all Israeli children ages nine and under with a weakened form of the live virus. The vaccination project, scheduled…
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Israel News Israel Supporters Divided on Cutting Military Aid to Egypt
The debate over whether the United States should continue military aid to Egypt is roiling Washington; pitting political idealists against realists; separating liberals, conservatives and neoconservatives — and dividing supporters of Israel. Israel and the lobby backing it in the United States have made clear that they oppose suspension of aid to Cairo, fearing that…
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Opinion Newtown Gets Some Advice From Israel
The people of Newtown have received plenty of advice on keeping children safe since their town was plunged into the national spotlight last December. Now, Israel is offering its best words of wisdom. “Awareness has become part of our DNA,” said David Rubin, a former Israeli government official. Rubin and a group of Israeli experts…
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News White House Condemns Turkish Prime Minister’s ‘Offensive’ Remarks About Israel
ISTANBUL – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan angered Ankara’s U.S. ally, as well as regional leaders in Egypt and Israel, by accusing Israel on Tuesday of helping overthrow Cairo’s Islamist president. The White House called the remarks “offensive”. Erdogan, who has become one of the fiercest critics of the Egyptian army’s removal of Mohamed Mursi,…
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Culture First American-Style Liberal Arts College Opens Doors In Israel This Fall
In the most ambitious attempt to import American-style higher education to Israel to date, the country’s first liberal arts college will open its doors this fall. The four-year degree program at the new Shalem College, located on the Jewish Agency’s campus in the East Talpiot neighborhood in Jerusalem, will teach a broad curriculum like those…
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