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Culture Israel: What You Need To Know
It can be difficult to enter the Israel conversation. Especially because so many people hold such strong opinions, even the task of separating facts from misinformation can seem daunting. That is why we’ve put together these simple-ish answers to simple-ish questions (but honestly, when it comes to Israel, everything is a little complicated) to help…
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Fast Forward Dozens Arrested Protesting Ethiopian-Israeli’s Shooting Death By Off-Duty Cop
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Thousands of Ethiopian Israelis and their supporters demonstrated in cities across Israel on Tuesday night to protest the killing two nights earlier of an Ethiopian teen by an off-duty police officer. At least 60 protesters were arrested and at least 47 police officers were injured as protesters blocked major intersections throughout the…
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Fast Forward Lindsey Graham: One-State Solution Is ‘Dangerous’ And ‘Crazy’
A one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is “dangerous” and “crazy,” Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Tuesday in Jerusalem, according to The Jerusalem Post. Graham, a top ally of President Trump in the Senate and a leading Republican voice on foreign policy, said that a two-state solution, which would create an independent Palestinian state, was…
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Fast Forward Some IDF Cadets Listen To Rabbis Over Commanders, Former Defense Minister Says
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Religious pre-military academies are creating “private militias” that listen to their rabbis over their military commanders, Avigdor Liberman charged. Liberman, head of the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party and formerly defense minister, made the statement during an address at the annual Herzliya policy conference. “We can’t throw out the baby with the bathwater….
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Fast Forward Bibi Says Trump Knew In Advance Of Mossad Mission To Steal Iran Nuclear Files
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he informed President Trump in advance of what Israel has described as a spy mission in Tehran last year to capture a secret Iranian nuclear archive. Netanyahu said in April 2018 that Mossad operatives had spirited thousands of hidden documents out of Tehran…
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Fast Forward Israeli Equestrian Show Jumping Squad To Compete In Olympics For First Time
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli team will compete in equestrian show jumping for the first time at the Olympics. Israel’s four-rider squad, including a woman from New York and a man who twice represented his native Colombia, qualified Sunday for the 2020 Tokyo Games, narrowly defeating Poland during the Olympic qualifier in Moscow. Along with…
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Fast Forward J Street Launches Birthright Alternative, Featuring ‘Occupation 101’
A first-of-its-kind “alternative Birthright” tour aimed at progressive-minded young American Jews kicks off in Israel on Tuesday. Forty participants are set to take part in the 10-day inaugural trip, titled “Let Our People Know,” which is sponsored and financed by J Street. The tour includes visits to the West Bank cities of Hebron and Ramallah,…
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Opinion It’s Time To Admit That The US Is Signing The Checks For Greater Israel
As part of their alleged plan for the Middle East, the Trump administration held what they called an economic “workshop” in Manama. It was an utter failure. The plan presented was nothing more than a real-estate brochure, and its revelation in Bahrain a poorly attended affair. What Trump’s team, led by his son-in-law Jared Kushner,…
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