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Fast Forward British Girl, 6, Undergoes Special Surgery In Israel To Keep Her Leg
(JTA) — A 6-year-old British girl has undergone special surgery in Israel that will allow her to keep her leg and her doctor called it a success. Kyra Warrell, of Brighton, located on the south coast of England, is afflicted with proximal focal femoral deficiency, which will leave her left leg about 8 inches shorter…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Mother, Daughter Arrested For Planning Terror Attack On Israelis
A Palestinian mother and daughter were arrested on suspicion of planning to carry out a terrorist attack, incitement and illegal possession of a weapon. The 16-year-old daughter, a resident of the West Bank, called a police station and stated that she planned to carry out an attack on Israeli citizens. Following the call, an investigation…
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Opinion What Do I Tell My Children About Stabbings Here in Israel?
“Why do we let them stay? Why, when they just walk up to us and kill us, why do we let them stay?!” This was the tormented question my daughter asked me last night at the news of yet another fatal stabbing. A 29-year-old father of four, Rabbi Itamar Ben Gal, was stabbed to death…
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Fast Forward U.S. Ambassador To Israel Criticizes Palestinians For Praising Terror Attack
JERUSALEM (JTA) — U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman accused Palestinian leaders of praising a terror attack that left a father of four dead. David Friedman did not say what Palestinian leaders he was referring to in the tweet on Tuesday morning. “20 years ago I gave an ambulance to Har Bracha hoping it would…
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Fast Forward Teen Charged With Making JCC Bomb Threats Briefly Escapes Police Custody
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The American-Israeli teen charged with making hundreds of bomb threats to Jewish community centers in the United States and elsewhere briefly escaped from police custody in Israel. Following a hearing in Jerusalem, the teen, 19, who managed to loosen a leg shackle, pushed away the security officer accompanying him and made a…
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Fast Forward Poland Cancels Israeli Minister’s Visit After He Vowed To Tell ‘Truth’ About Holocaust
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Poland cancelled a scheduled visit by Israel’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett, after he said he would use the opportunity to tell the Polish people the “truth” about Poland and the Holocaust. Bennett said that while in Poland he was “determined to say explicitly what history has already proved — the Polish nation…
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Fast Forward Mar-A-Lago Will Host Gala For Israel’s 70th Birthday
(JTA) — An event marking Israel’s 70th year will be held at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida. The event scheduled for late March is organized by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, which is selling tickets for $10,000 per table, Haaretz first reported. Speakers at the event will include U.S….
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Fast Forward Vladimir Putin Inherits Tel Aviv Apartment
Tel Aviv may be getting a famous new resident: Vladimir Putin has inherited a one-and-half bedroom apartment on Pinsker Street. The Russian president originally bought the beach-front property for Mina Yudikskaya Berliner, his high school teacher in St. Petersburg, Russia who moved to Israel in 1973. After Berliner passed away last December, she left the…
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