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Fast Forward Survivors Of Stabbing Attack Sue Palestinian Authority Over Family Deaths
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The surviving children and other family members of the five members of a West Bank family stabbed to death in a terrorist attack have sued the killers and the Palestinian Authority. The three surviving children of Udi Fogel, 36, and Ruth Fogel, 35, and several other family members, including the grandparents who…
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Fast Forward Israel Scraps Tax Plan That Prompted Church Of The Holy Sepulchre To Close
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel on Tuesday suspended a tax plan and proposed property legislation that had prompted the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, revered as the site of Jesus’s crucifixion and burial, to be closed in protest since Sunday. After receiving a statement from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Roman Catholic, Greek…
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Fast Forward Congressional Black Caucus Urges Israel Not To Deport African Migrants
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Congressional Black Caucus is urging Israel’s government to end a plan that forces some 40,000 African migrants in the country to choose between deportation and jail. Under the Israeli plan, migrants face a choice between jail and deportation later, or deportation now with cash incentives and free airfare. Until now, most…
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Opinion The Palestinians Just Might Accept Jared Kushner’s Peace Plan. That Would Be A Disaster For Israel.
At some point, Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt will reveal their Peace Plan for the Middle East (God only knows the reason for the delay; after all, no advance consent is required). In their eyes, it will be a deal which the Israeli right wing government could swallow, and the Palestinian side will have to…
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Community The Israeli Settlement Movement Is Failing
Earlier this week, settlement movement leader Yaakov Katz, in comments to the Associated Press boasting about the growth of the settler population in the West Bank, illustrated well the old saying, “in God we trust; and all others must bring data.” Katz does bring data — but we must not trust them. Contrary to his…
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Fast Forward Israeli Cabinet Approves Legalizing West Bank Outpost
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A proposal to begin legalizing the West Bank outpost of Netiv Haavot was approved by Israel’s Cabinet. More than a dozen homes on the outpost, located 11 miles south of Jerusalem in the Etzion bloc, are scheduled to be demolished next week. The Cabinet approval on Sunday includes funds for the outpost,…
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Fast Forward Thousands Demonstrate In Tel Aviv Against Deportation Of African Asylum Seekers
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Up to 20,000 demonstrators protested in Tel Aviv against the deportation of African asylum seekers. The protest on Saturday night took place in south Tel Aviv, near neighborhoods highly populated with the African migrants, mostly from Sudan and Eritrea. Many of the Israeli residents of the neighborhood object to their living there….
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Fast Forward Church Of The Holy Sepulchre Closes To Protest Israeli Policies
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem locked its doors and closed until further notice to protest a new municipal tax policy and a bill that would allow the Israeli government to confiscate some church land in exchange for compensation. “We, the heads of Churches in charge of the Holy Sepulchre…
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