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Israel News Jewish man, 39, killed in Palestinian stabbing attack in Tel Aviv suburb
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A 39-year-old Jewish man was killed in a stabbing attack Wednesday afternoon in suburban Tel Aviv allegedly by a Palestinian assailant. Police video from the suspected stabbing attack in Petah Tikva. 39 y/o Israeli killed, Palestinian suspect arrested. pic.twitter.com/e7vkLtj5cj — Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) August 26, 2020 The incident took place at…
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Fast Forward Pompeo will address Republican National Convention from Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (JTA) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will address the Republican National Convention from Jerusalem, spurring criticism that he is using his government office for political gain. Pompeo arrived in Israel on Monday morning and met in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. They were expected to discuss “regional security issues related…
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Fast Forward In A First, An Israeli Will Race In The Tour De France, World’s Premier Cycling Event
JERUSALEM (JTA) — For the first time, an Israeli will compete in the Tour de France, the world’s premier cycling event. Guy Niv, 26, is a member of Team Israel Start-Up Nation, the first Israel-based and -owned team to race in the Tour de France. The team, which was established in 2015 as the Israel…
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News How one woman’s need for toilet paper turned into a charity serving thousands
Last March, Liron Samara, an Israeli-born psychotherapist living in Los Angeles, read an article about an elderly woman who couldn’t find toilet paper at the store. It was shortly after the coronavirus pandemic had turned toilet paper into a rare and valuable commodity. Samara had just lost her 89-year-old grandmother in February, and she wanted…
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News Remembering Professor Ruth Gavison, scholar, activist, and friend
This past Saturday saw the untimely passing of Professor Ruth Gavison z”l, one of Israel’s leading intellectuals and legal minds, at the age of 75. Ruth Gavison was the rarest of individuals: a searingly brilliant legal theorist and a deeply engaged citizen in the life of her country, a person with little patience for small…
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Fast Forward Kushner: US will not consent to West Bank annexation ‘for some time’
(JTA) — Israel will not move forward with its West Bank annexation plan without U.S. approval — and that consent won’t come for some time. That’s what Jared Kushner, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, told reporters from Middle East media outlets on Monday. Kushner said the Trump administration had gained Israel’s trust by…
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Israel News 5 winners, 4 losers from the historic treaty between Israel and the UAE
(JTA) — The treaty between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is a big deal. The agreement, announced Thursday in a joint statement from the White House and called the Abraham Accord, means that Israel will now have diplomatic and economic relations with a country that had not recognized it. In return for recognition and…
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Israel News Analysis: How the Israel-UAE deal helps Trump – and Biden
The governments of Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced a historic agreement on Thursday, in which the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would suspend plans to annex parts of the West Bank in exchange for the normalization of ties from the sheikhdom. The deal was brokered by President Trump, who said that…
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