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Fast Forward Abbas Will Negotiate if Israel Freezes Settlements
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly said he wanted to negotiate with Israel it if freezes construction for six months in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Abbas made the statement on Sunday in Qatar during a meeting of Arab League nations in Doha, The Jerusalem Post reported. He was responding to statements by Qatari Prime Minister…
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Fast Forward Temporary Draft Exemption for Yeshiva Students
Israel’s Cabinet approved a temporary exemption for haredi Orthodox yeshiva students from the military draft. The exemption, passed Sunday in the wake of the expiration of the Tal Law that had allowed haredi men to defer army service, provides a framework for the yeshiva students to join the National Service program in place of being…
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Fast Forward Divided Over Israel, Palestinian Groups Call for Unity
Leaders of the feuding Palestinian factions, the Islamist group Hamas in Gaza and the secular Fatah government in the West Bank, urged reconciliation between the two former foes on Sunday despite diverging policies on Israel. Fatah and Hamas have been at loggerheads since the latter pulled off a surprise win in 2006 parliamentary polls. A…
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Fast Forward Olmert: I’m Not Re-entering Politics
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told an Israeli television news magazine that he decided not to run in the upcoming elections due to rifts in the Center-Left political camp. Olmert, former head of the Kadima Party, also threw his support behind current Kadima Party leader Shaul Mofaz, during an interview Saturday night on Israel…
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Fast Forward Israeli ‘Spy Vulture’ Caught in Sudan
Several Middle Eastern media reported that Sudan captured a vulture which the country’s officials say Israel fitted with spy equipment. According to the online edition of the Egyptian daily El Balad, the vulture was captured in the town of Kereinek in the Darfur region in Sudan’s west and that the finding prompted Sudanese authorities to…
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Fast Forward Bibi: Hamas’s Gaza Jubilation Proves Israel Is at Risk
Hamas’s vow to vanquish Israel after claiming “victory” in last month’s Gaza conflict vindicates Israel’s reluctance to relinquish more land to the Palestinians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. Khaled Meshaal, the leader of the Islamist Hamas movement, made a defiant speech before thousands of supporters in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, promising to…
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Israel News Least Known Holocaust Restitution Project
For Americans and most Diaspora Jews, Israel is not the first place that comes to mind when discussing Holocaust-era restitution. For years the focus has been on property, bank accounts and insurance policies looted in Eastern Europe by the Nazis or taken over by local residents whose Jewish neighbors never came back from the death…
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Opinion Ear to the Ground, Examining Israel Feelings
Over the past year or so, alert readers have noticed a furious debate has erupted among our leading professors and pundits over the changing relationship between young American Jews and the State of Israel. It’s been a knock-down, drag-out fight among the experts, filled with name-calling and high-stakes drama. Amazingly, the combatants are mostly looking…
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