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Fast Forward Israeli Citizen Expelled From Colombia For Drug And Human Trafficking
(JTA) — An Israeli citizen accused of belonging to an international crime organization was captured and extradited from Colombia. Binyamin Cohen, 35, was arrested in Medellin, Colombia’s second largest city. He is accused of crimes including arms trafficking, car robbery, home burglary, human trafficking, and smuggling cocaine from the South American country to the Jewish…
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Community How Much Should Jewish Law Control The Jewish State?
For decades, religious and ultra-Orthodox members of Knesset, backed and encouraged by their rabbis, have worked to inject the secular state with as much Judaism as possible. In an extended and collective effort, they have done all they can to pass religious laws, to base the governing of the state on Jewish law, and to…
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Community The Destruction Of Susya Would Spell Disaster For Israel
This past summer, as a J Street U intern in Israel, I visited two West Bank towns by the same name: the Palestinian village of Susya and the nearby Israeli settlement of Susya. I expected to see a disparity between them, but what I witnessed was shocking injustice. While the surrounding settlements and outposts were…
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Fast Forward Israel Begins Sending Deportation Notices To African Migrants
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel began the process of serving deportation notices to African refugees from Eritrea and Sudan. The notices started being distributed on Sunday, according to reports. The first notices will be issued to single men without children, a total of about 20,000 men. The men, who have to renew their residence visas every…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Blames Soros For Widespread Opposition To Deporting African Migrants
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros of funding the widespread public campaign against the Israeli government’s plan to deport thousands of African migrants and asylum-seekers. Netanyahu made his remarks during a meeting of ministers from his Likud party, according to Israel’s Channel 10. Netanyahu was reportedly responding to Science…
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Fast Forward Bill Nye Thinks Israel Is Leading The World In Medical Marijuana Research
People are getting high in the Holy Land for a good cause. In a recent episode of “Bill Nye Saves the World” in which Nye explore medical marijuana, he sends a correspondent to Israel for a segment called “How is Israel healing the world with marijuana.” The episode highlights the progress Israel has made in…
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Fast Forward ADL Chief Suggests Israel Deporting African Migrants Would Appear Racist
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, likened African migrants in Israel to the “Dreamers” at the heart of a contentious U.S. immigration debate and suggested that deporting them would make Israel appear racist. “African refugees, who seem like the Dreamers in the U.S. — young people who by dint of…
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Fast Forward Israel Begins Legalizing West Bank Outpost After Settler Killed There
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Cabinet approved a proposal that begins the process of legalizing the Gilad Farm outpost in the northern West Bank. The approval comes less than a month after Rabbi Raziel Shevach, the 35-year-old father of six children, was killed in a drive-by shooting at the outpost junction. The proposal says the government…
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