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Fast Forward Pope Francis Agrees To Visit Israel
Israeli President Shimon Peres invited Pope Francis on Tuesday to visit Israel, at his first meeting with the new pontiff who has appealed for peace in the Middle East. The pope accepted the invitation “with willingness and joy,” a Vatican spokesman said, but there was no indication when a trip would be made. “I am…
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Fast Forward Gaza Rocketmaker Killed in Israeli Strike
Israel on Tuesday launched its first targeted attack on a militant in Gaza since a war in November, killing a Palestinian jihadist in an air strike that put further strain on a five-month-old ceasefire. There was also bloodshed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where for the first time since 2011, a Palestinian killed a Jewish…
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Opinion Towards a More Transparent Jewish State
A year after the eruption of the 2011 social protest in Israel, and just before the 2013 election campaign, we — a small group of the protest leaders — decided to embark on a cross-country journey to learn what had changed during the intervening months, and to find out how Israelis would like the protest…
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Israel News One Giant Step for Israel as Company Plots Moon Launch
Is the startup nation poised to become the blast-off nation? Past a gaggle of undergraduates and up two flights of stairs, in a shabby Tel Aviv University building, sits a team working to change the face of space travel — starting with an Israeli moon landing. The group is designing a spacecraft that is just…
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Fast Forward Israel Evicts Bedouins From West Bank Village
Israeli soldiers evicted several hundred Bedouins from a village in the occupied West Bank on Monday after the army declared the area a live-fire training zone. The residents of Wadi al-Maleh, a village mostly inhabited by shepherds in the arid area bordering Jordan, had almost all left their homes by an evening curfew and retreated…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Insists Iran Hasn’t Crossed Israel’s Nuclear Red Line
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday Iran had not crossed the “red line” he set for its nuclear programme, despite an assessment to the contrary by a former Israeli intelligence chief. At the United Nations in September, Netanyahu drew a red line across a cartoon bomb to illustrate the point at which he said…
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Israel News Israelis Chafe Under Orthodox Grip on Marriage, Divorce and Conversion
To get married in Israel, Dima Motel had to bring his family photo album and two of his ancestors’ birth certificates to a rabbinical court. Then an investigator quizzed his mother in Yiddish. Israel’s Chief Rabbinate often asks Russian immigrants like Motel to prove that they’re Jewish, sometimes requiring documentary evidence that can be hard…
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Fast Forward Lag B’Omer Bonfires Burn Out of Control Across Israel
Bonfires lit throughout Israel in honor of Lag b’Omer burned out of control, as thousands remained stranded in Meron after celebrating at the gravesite of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. Hot, dry and windy conditions in Israel contributed to several heat-wave related fires burning out of control. Eleven people were injured at Maasiyahu Prison in central…
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