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Fast Forward Israel Tycoon’s Huge Mining Deal With African Nation of Guinea in Doubt Over ‘Bribes’
Guinea could void BSG Resources’ (BSGR) mining permits if corruption investigations in the West African nation and the United States lead to convictions, the head of a committee tasked with reviewing mining deals said. BSGR, the mining arm of Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz’s business empire, is battling Guinea over the right to mine one of…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Jewish Boxer Dmitriy Salita Plans To Move to Israel After Career
Orthodox Jewish boxer Dmitriy Salita said he will make aliyah at the end of his professional career. On a visit to Argentina as part of fundraising activities for the network of Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish schools Oholey Jinuj, the Ukraine-born pugilist spoke with JTA about his future. “I will make Aliyah with my family,” Salita told JTA…
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Fast Forward Boycott Israel Front Opens in Europe Supermarket Aisles
Two weeks ago, the Dutch public learned of what appeared to be an unprecedented victory for European advocates of boycotting Israeli products. Four major supermarket chains reportedly declared a boycott of products from the West Bank, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. But the “victory,” as some activists in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)…
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Fast Forward Israel Gives Green Light for 878 Settlement Homes
The Civil Administration, Israel’s highest civilian authority in the West Bank, approved construction plans on Wednesday for 878 housing units in isolated settlements across the territory. Discussion of some of the plans had initially been postponed following U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s announcement that diplomatic negotiations with the Palestinians would resume, but was brought…
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Fast Forward Eric Cantor To Lead Twenty-Six House Republicans on AIPAC Trip to Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the Republican majority leader in the House of Representatives, will lead 26 GOP lawmakers on a tour of Israel funded by AIPAC’s educational affiliate. Next week’s tour follows on the heels of a similar one this week for 37 Democratic lawmakers led by Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the…
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The Schmooze Dr. Oz Goes to Israel
(JTA) — Dr. Mehmet Oz sat down to talk with JTA on the Tel Aviv coast last week, but what he really wanted to do was go to the beach. Oz, the surgeon and well-known TV personality, was in Israel for the first time and had a packed itinerary. He traversed the country from the…
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Fast Forward Israel’s High Court Will Rule on a Petition Against Releasing Palestinian Prisoners
The High Court of Justice was asked on Wednesday to reject a petition to overturn a government decision to release 104 Palestinian prisoners. In a response to a petition filed by the Almagor Terror Victims Association against freeing the prisoners, many of whom were responsible for terror attacks that killed and maimed Israelis, the State…
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Fast Forward Israeli Energy Firm Plans To Bring Gas Pipeline To Middle East Countries
JERUSALEM — An Israeli energy company announced plans to export natural gas via pipelines through Turkey and other countries in the Middle East. The Delek Group, the parent firm for several energy and gas exploration companies, said in its new prospectus that it plans to export some of the newly discovered natural gas off the…
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