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Fast Forward Netanyahu Offends Japanese Prime Minister By Serving Him Dessert In A Shoe
Prime Minister of Israel ?? and his wife ❤️ host the Prime Minister of Japan ?? Great honor to cook for you! Not obvious for me #unforgettable night ❤️?? A post shared by segevmoshe (@segevmoshe) on May 2, 2018 at 1:04pm PDT (JTA) — After a day of high-level meetings in Israel on May 2…
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Fast Forward Tamika Mallory Blames Trump Border Wall On Israel
(JTA) — Women’s March leader Tamika Mallory said in a tweet that President Donald Trump’s so-called Muslim ban and plan for a wall on the border with Mexico were inspired directly by the policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Mallory, who returned over the weekend from a trip to Israel sponsored by the New…
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Fast Forward Israeli Committee Approves Bill Allowing Knesset To Override Supreme Court
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Knesset committee approved controversial legislation that would allow Israel’s Parliament to override rulings of the country’s Supreme Court. The Knesset’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation by a vote of 11 to 1 on Sunday approved the bill, known as the override power bill, an amendment to Israel’s Basic Law, which would allow…
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Community Will El Al Ever Fly To Tehran Again?
In 2018, Israel celebrated the 70th anniversary of its independence. In 2019, Iran will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Islamic Republic. In 1897, at the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, Theodor Hertzl predicted that a Jewish state would exist in fifty years. In 2018, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic…
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Fast Forward Israel Will Have To Pay ‘A Price’ For U.S. Embassy Move, Liberman Admits
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said that Israel will have to pay “a price” for the U.S. decision to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. “There is no free lunch,” Liberman told Israel Channel 2’s Saturday night program “Meet the Press.” He added that “the opening of the U.S. Embassy…
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Fast Forward IDF Bombs Hamas Position In Gaza Over Kite Firebombs
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Defense Forces bombed a Hamas position in Gaza after it was used to launch kites carrying explosives. The Israeli military attack on Saturday night was in response to the incendiary kites, which have sparked fires in the current hot and dry weather which have burned more than 200 acres of…
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Culture Amos Oz’s Daughter Claims Israeli Authors Can’t Win The Nobel. Is She Right?
Fania Oz-Salzberger, the historian, author and daughter of Amos Oz, took to Twitter to offer what she described as “one tweet and that’s it” on the subject of Amos Oz and the Nobel Prize. Tweeting in Hebrew, she made three points: “1. He’s not dreaming and he’s not trying. He knew long ago that it…
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Fast Forward Dutch Cop Cites Israel In Demanding Removal Of Holocaust Memorial Sign
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A bookshop owner in the Dutch capital said that a police officer asked him to remove a sign commemorating Holocaust victims, citing Israel’s actions. Gert-Jan Jimmink told the De Telegraaf daily in a video published online Friday that the request was over a sign that read “Open Jewish Homes, Houses of Resistance.”…
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