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Fast Forward Sara Netanyahu’s Fraud Trial Over Restaurant Tab Opens In Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The trial of Sara Netanyahu, wife of the Israeli Prime Minister, opened in a Jerusalem courtroom. Sara Netanyahu appeared on Sunday in the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court where she is on trial in the so-called Prepared Food Affair, charged with fraud and breach of trust. She is accused of ordering some $96,000 worth…
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Fast Forward 2 Israelis Killed In Terror Attack At West Bank ‘Coexistence’ Industrial Zone
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Israelis were killed and another injured in a terror attack in the Barkan industrial area in the West Bank. The attack took place on Sunday morning shortly before 8:00 at the beginning of the work week in the settlement’s industrial zone that is home to 160 factories that employ thousands of…
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Community I Was Assaulted Twice By The Same Known Predator. The Police Told Me There Was Nothing They Could Do.
We’ve heard about how Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony on Thursday was triggering for millions of women. I am one of them. I was attacked in a parking garage in Jerusalem when I was 23. It shattered my sense of safety, my then-idealistic image of life in the Jewish state, and for a time, my…
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Fast Forward 12-Year-Old Palestinian Boy Killed By Israel In Gaza Protest
Israeli forces killed three Palestinians including a 12-year-old boy at a protest along the Israel-Gaza border on Friday and wounded at least 126 others, Palestinian officials said. The Israeli army said it was defending against members of the crowd who were throwing grenades and explosives at its soldiers. Thousands of Palestinians had gathered for a…
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Fast Forward I Can’t Stop Watching The Crazy Way This Israeli Cook Serves Falafel
An Israeli man has turned serving falafel into a performance art. Brightening up the internet on what is otherwise a bleak news week, a longtime falafel shop owner is seen in a YouTube video masterfully throwing the ground-chickpea balls in the air so fast, you can barely see them land in the pita bread he’s…
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News Israel Uses Canary Mission Blacklist Info To Bar Activists
Israel’s Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy Ministry is using information from the controversial right-wing website Canary Mission, to bar political activists from entering the country, according to documents obtained by Haaretz. The internal documents, some of which were submitted to the appeals tribunal in the appeal against the deportation of American student Lara Alqasem, show…
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Fast Forward NASA Signs Deal With Israel Space Agency For Lunar Mission
JERUSALEM (JTA) — NASA has signed an agreement with the Israel Space Agency and the Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL to collaborate on the Jewish state’s unmanned moon mission slated to launch from Cape Canaveral next year. The landing would culminate eight years of collaboration on the $88 million project. If it succeeds, Israel will become the…
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Fast Forward Trump Administration Praises $38 Billion, 10-Year Defense Agreement With Israel
(JTA) — The Trump Administration praised the support for Israel shown in the new ten-year defense agreement signed in 2016 under President Barack Obama. The 10-year $38 billion Memorandum of Understanding went into operation on Monday, the first day of the new fiscal year. Under the memorandum of understanding, the United States will set funding…
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