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Fast Forward Rocket Fired From Gaza Strikes School Building In Sderot
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A rocket fired from Gaza hit a school building in the southern Israeli city of Sderot on Thursday evening. The building, identified as a Jewish religious school, was damaged but no injuries were reported. It was reported to be empty at the time of impact and was fortified against rockets. No one has…
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Opinion David Friedman Is A Joke. He Should Be Fired.
Last week, an Israeli armed with nothing but an avocado robbed two banks in the southern city of Beer Sheva. He told the terrified tellers he was holding a hand grenade. And although the average Israeli eats more avocados than anyone elsewhere in the world besides Mexico, Chile, and Peru, the tellers failed to realize…
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Opinion Netanyahu Has Changed The Democratic Party – One Candidate At A Time
If you don’t think Benjamin Netanyahu has changed the debate about Israel inside the Democratic Party, just listen to Pete Buttigieg’s foreign policy speech yesterday at Indiana University. Buttigieg is no radical; he’s a darling of the post-Obama Democratic establishment. And yet he said things on Tuesday that would have been unthinkable during Obama’s campaigns….
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Fast Forward Moldova Says It Will Move Its Embassy To Jerusalem
(JTA) — Moldova will move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, the government of the small Eastern European country said Tuesday. The announcement followed fallout from a constitutional crisis and power struggle that ended last week with a constitutional court’s suspension of the country’s elected president, Igor Dodon. The statement tied the decision, which…
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Fast Forward Explosive Balloons From Gaza Ignite Fires In Southern Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Incendiary balloons ignited three fires Tuesday in the Kissufim forest on the border with the Gaza Strip. A day earlier, incendiary balloons ignited four fires — several in the same forest and another in a wheat field — that burned dozens of acres. The balloons, carrying flammable materials, are lit and sent…
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Fast Forward Iran Accuses Israel Of Threatening To Destroy It
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Iran’s foreign minister accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of threatening to destroy the Islamic Republic and warned that Tehran would not remain passive. “You should ask a regime possessing nuclear weapons about how Netanyahu stands next to the Dimona (reactor), a nuclear weapons site, and says Iran should be destroyed,” Mohammad…
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Fast Forward U.S. Ambassador Says Israel Has The Right To Annex Part Of West Bank
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The U.S. ambassador to Israel did not rule out an Israeli move to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, land that the Palestinians seek for a state, in an interview with the New York Times published on Saturday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in the run-up to an April election…
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Fast Forward Terrorist Attacks On Israelis Tripled In May
(JTA) — Terrorist attacks against Israelis more than tripled in May, which was the deadliest month in almost two years. The increase to 449 incidents in May over April’s 126 incidents owes to the launching of hundreds of rockets last month from Gaza into Israel. The rockets killed four people and wounded eight out of…
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