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Fast Forward Israeli Consulate Workers Halt Almost All Services in Strike
Foreign Ministry employees heightened their 3-month old labor dispute Sunday by halting virtually all consular services abroad. The only exceptions will be emergencies, the repatriation of bodies to Israel and procedures relating to adoption and surrogacy. The employees are demanding a collective agreement and are concerned about issues such as salary erosion. They also want…
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Fast Forward Chief Israeli Rabbi Suspends Himself After Arrest on Corruption Charges
Israel’s Ashkenazi chief rabbi, Yona Metzger, has suspended himself from some of his duties following his arrest on corruption charges. Metzger said he will suspend himself from his position as president of the Chief Rabbinate Council and will not attend its meetings, and from, his position as a Rabbinical High Court judge. Metzger made the…
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Fast Forward Abbas Accepts Resignation of New Palestinian Prime Minister
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday accepted the resignation of his new prime minister, whose quick departure clouded efforts to project government stability after Western favourite Salam Fayyad quit the post. Officials told Reuters that Rami Hamdallah, an academic and independent who became prime minister two weeks ago, decided to step down after a dispute…
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Israel News Billionaire Bets on Arabs of Nazareth To Advance Dream for Israel
He’s just made billions selling the company that he started in his backyard to Warren Buffett, so you may think that it’s time for 86-year-old Stef Wertheimer to take it easy. Instead, Wertheimer, one of Israel’s wealthiest citizens, is today putting most of his energy into the Arab town of Nazareth. There, in the presence…
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Opinion Why Jewish Baby Names Are So Important
What’s in a name? Roses by any other name would, as the bard would have it, smell as sweet. Because after all, a name cannot change a person’s inner essence and soul. Or can it? These are the questions that keep you up late at night as you wonder what you will name your unborn…
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Israel News Even Middle-Class Arabs Get Cold Shoulder From Jews in Israeli Town
The founding ethos of this town in the Lower Galilee, adjoining the ancient city of Nazareth, hits the visitor upon arrival. The town looks down directly on Nazareth, a large Arab-populated city. The two municipalities are divided by Zionism Street, a road decked with large Israeli flags — the type normally seen on a border…
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Fast Forward ‘Start-Up Nation’ Dumps Israel for Big Apple
Joey Low, an American-Jewish businessman, does not hide the fact that he is nuts about Israel. He took part in funding the reality-TV program “Hashagrir” (“The Ambassador”), and has participated in the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center’s Elevator project, which aspires to promote young entrepreneurs. Now he is taking things to the next level. He has rented…
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Fast Forward Hundreds March for Gay Pride in Religious City
Hundreds of Israelis took to the streets on Friday to take part in the first ever official gay pride march in Ashdod in southern Israel. More than 600 people marched together in the port city, which has a large religious population. 2000 people had been expected to march in the pride parade in Israel’s fifth-largest…
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