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Culture How A Cult Israeli TV Show About Soccer Swept Europe (Kinda)
Who cares about Lionel Messi? Well, actually, soccer fans and players of the video game “Football Manager” do care, passionately, about the world’s greatest living soccer player, but the beauty of soccer does not come from millionaire celebrities on manicured pitches. It comes from billions of people kicking balls of all sizes on floors of…
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Fast Forward Israeli Soldier Killed In Tank Accident On Border With Egypt
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli soldier was killed and three others injured when the tank they were riding in along the border with Egypt rolled over and caught fire. The accident during an operation to stop a smuggling attempt on the border, which security forces thought could be cover for a terrorist attack, came very…
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Fast Forward Israeli Supreme Court Orders 200 African Migrants Released From Prison
JERUSALEM (JTA) — More than 200 African migrants in jail in Israel were released by order of the Supreme Court after a deal to deport them to another African country remained unsigned. Some 207 African migrants and asylum seekers were released over several hours on Sunday from the Saharonim Prison in southern Israel, where they…
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Fast Forward Ethiopian Jewish Teen Competing In Israeli Bible Quiz Will Be Allowed To Stay
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Jewish teen from Ethiopia who had been ordered to deposit thousands of dollars in order to participate in the final stages of the International Bible Quiz in Israel to guarantee that he would leave was granted residency status. While the residency status granted to Sintayehu Shafrao, 18, means that he can remain…
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Fast Forward Israeli Military Destroys Hamas Terror Tunnel That Was ‘Ready For Use’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli army destroyed a Hamas terror tunnel that stretched from Gaza into southern Israel. The tunnel, which was constructed by Hamas after the Gaza War in 2014, was “ready for use,” the IDF spokesman said. It was also connected to a network of tunnels under Gaza, according to the IDF. The…
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Opinion Could Alan Dershowitz Rescue An Israeli Being Held Hostage By Hamas?
On September 7, 2014, a 28-year-old Ethiopian-Israeli named Avera Mengistu climbed over the fence separating Israel from Gaza and disappeared into the Gaza Strip. Though the Israeli military had been watching him through a security camera for half an hour as he marched down the beach towards the border, nobody stopped him. Ten months later,…
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Fast Forward Israel Offers ‘Full Support’ For U.S.-Led Airstrikes On Syria
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered Israel’s “full support” for airstrikes on Syrian targets in retaliation for the Assad regime’s alleged use of chemical weapons against civilians in the rebel-held town of Douma. “A year ago, I declared Israel’s full support for President Trump’s decision to take a stand against the use…
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Fast Forward Jimmy Carter Says His Mideast Peace Push Drove Evangelicals To GOP
Ex-President Jimmy Carter says his push for Middle East Peace played an important role in turning the evangelical voting bloc into the arms of the Republican Party. Carter told the Associated Press, that he, “took a position of wanting to see balance between Israel and the Palestinians.” Carter wasn’t able to bring about a final…
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