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Fast Forward Israel Thwarted ISIS Plot To Bomb Australian Flight, IDF Says
(JTA) — The Israeli army said it provided intelligence that prevented a plot by the Islamic State to bomb an Australian flight in August. An unnamed senior army officer said Wednesday that the Military Intelligence Unit 8200 had thwarted the planned attack, according to The Times of Israel. “The unit provided exclusive intelligence that led to…
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Fast Forward Congressmen Questioned By Police After Taking Olive Branch From Temple Mount
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two U.S. congressmen were questioned by police after they removed an olive branch from the Temple Mount compound. Reps. Scott Tipton of Colorado and David McKinley of West Virginia, both Republicans, visited the site holy to Muslims and Jews on Thursday morning. They are part of a weeklong fact-finding mission hosted by…
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Life Israel Appoints First Female Ultra-Orthodox Judge
She’s breaking the glass ceiling — all the way from the ultra-Orthodox enclave of Bnei Brak. Israel’s Judicial Selection Committee, overseen by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, has elected Chavi Toker to head the Jerusalem Magistrate Court on Thursday — making Toker Israel’s first female Haredi judge. Toker, 41, was born in England and grew up…
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Yiddish World WATCH: How Israel’s Yiddish Radio Pioneer Reached Past The Iron Curtain
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Few people today know that in the 1950s, Yiddish programming on Israeli radio had half a million listeners every evening. Even Jews from abroad would listen, including those behind the Iron Curtain, where Jews would seek out ways to listen to the banned transmissions on their transistor…
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Yiddish World About Three Yiddish Poets From Vilna (Chapter I)
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Fast Forward African Asylum-Seekers In Israel Go On Hunger Strike To Protest Imprisonment
JERUSALEM (JTA) — African asylum seekers in a detention center in southern Israel began a hunger strike after the first seven Eritreans who refused to leave the country were jailed. The hunger strike by 750 asylum seekers detained at the Holot open detention facility began Tuesday night after the seven men were transferred to the nearby…
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Fast Forward Former Netanyahu Confidant Turns State’s Witness In Corruption Investigation
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A former civil servant and confidant of Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to turn state’s evidence which could incriminate the prime minister in a corruption investigation. Shlomo Filber, the suspended director general of the Ministry of Communications, agreed in exchange for a lighter sentence to provide police with information about Netanyahu’s part in the…
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Fast Forward Kushner Can Work On Peace Talks Amid Security Clearance Tensions, Kelly Says
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Nothing should keep Jared Kushner from pressing ahead in trying to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace, the White House chief of staff, John Kelly, said as reports of a rift between Kelly and President Donald Trump’s key adviser proliferated. “As I told Jared days ago, I have full confidence in his ability to continue…
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