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Fast Forward 1,800-Year-Old Roman Legion Headquarters Unearthed
Israeli archaeologists have found ruins they believe are the site of one of the two Roman legions based in the country between 120 and 300 C.E. Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist Yotam Tepper had long suspected that the site in the Galilee was the base of the Legio Sexta Ferrata, the 6th Roman Legion, also known…
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Fast Forward Gay Israeli Prisoners Win Right to Conjugal Visits
Gay prisoners will be allowed conjugal visits with their partners under the same circumstances they are granted to heterosexual ones, the Israel Prison Service has said. In response to a query by Dan Yakir, the legal adviser for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, the prison service said gays and lesbians would not be…
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Fast Forward Prisoner X Family May Get $1.6M From Israel as Compensation for Prison Suicide
Ben Zygier, a Mossad agent whose 2010 suicide in Israeli prison rocked this country and his native Australia when his identity and death came to light early this year, hid his intent to commit suicide from his guards, according to the State Prosecutor’s Office. Attorneys for Zygier’s family, who are negotiating a financial settlement with…
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Opinion Ethiopians and Birth Control — Culture or Chemicals?
What is bringing down the birth rates of Israel’s Ethiopian immigrants — culture or chemicals? A new study by the nonpartisan Knesset Research and Information Center found that while Ethiopian Jews traditionally have large families, by 2010 those who arrived in the preceding decade were actually having fewer kids than other Israelis. They were having…
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Fast Forward Israel Launches Crackdown on ‘Price Tag’ Extremists
Israel announced a crackdown on Monday against Jewish ultranationalists who vandalise Palestinian property, saying they were tantamount to terrorists and their attacks could fan sectarian violence. The move followed the arrest of a 22-year Israeli from an Orthodox Jewish town near Tel Aviv for the vandalism of a Christian monastery in the occupied West Bank…
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Fast Forward Israeli Who Killed Parents Searched Online for ‘Getting Away With’ Murder
An Israeli who stabbed his mother and father to death was convicted of murder on Monday partly because he searched online for tips including “how to kill your parents and get away with it”. Daniel Maoz, 29, wanted money from his inheritance in order to pay heavy gambling debts, the Jerusalem District Court found. He…
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Fast Forward Ethiopian Birth Rate Plunged Amid Israel’s Secret Contraception Program
A Knesset study prompted by news reports about the administration of contraceptive injections to Ethiopian immigrant women before and after their arrival in Israel shows that these women gave birth to significantly fewer children in Israel than their peers who came to Israel in the 1990’s, before the practice became widespread. But the authors of…
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Fast Forward Israeli Extremist Arrested for ‘Jesus Is Monkey’ Graffiti on Catholic Monastery
An Israeli is under arrest for the vandalism of a Christian monastery in the occupied West Bank last year, carried out in solidarity with hardline Jewish settlers, police said on Monday. Graffiti left on the 19th-century Latrun Monastery referred to Migron, an unauthorised settler outpost evacuated by the Israeli government. The words “Jesus is a…
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