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Fast Forward Israeli Minister Forced NBA To Scrub ‘Occupied’ From Palestine Listing
Israel’s minister for sports and culture recently pressured the National Basketball Association to delete the word “occupied” from a listing for the “Palestinian Territories,” the Guardian reported. The designation was on a part of the NBA’s site listing countries in a pop-up menu for a poll of favorite players. Representatives for the NBA say the…
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Fast Forward State Dept.: Report That U.S. Envoy Wanted Ban On ‘Occupation’ Is Misleading
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Reports that the U.S. ambassador to Israel asked the State Department to stop calling the West Bank “occupied” are misleading, a department official said. Israel’s Kan public broadcaster reported on Tuesday that David Friedman asked the State Department to stop calling Israel’s control over the West Bank an “occupation” in official documents….
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Fast Forward Israeli Agriculture Minister Prays For Rain At Western Wall To Relieve Drought
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – With technology coming up short, Israel’s agriculture minister sought an unconventional solution on Thursday to end the country’s water shortage – rallying a few thousand worshippers at Jerusalem’s Western Wall to pray for rain. Four years of heavy drought have overtaxed Israel’s unmatched array of desalination and wastewater treatment plants, choking its…
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Fast Forward Lebanon Foreign Minister Denounced After Saying Israel Deserves Security
BEIRUT – Lebanese politicians on Thursday criticized Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil over a television interview in which he was shown saying that Lebanon did not have an ideological problem with Israel and was not against it having security. The comments, made to al-Mayadin television channel during a long interview on Tuesday, had just started attracting…
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Fast Forward 63 Israeli Teens Sign Open Letter To Netanyahu: We Refuse To Serve IDF
(JTA) — Some 63 Israeli high school students signed a public letter declaring that they will refuse to be drafted into the Israel Defense Forces. The letter, published on Thursday in the Hebrew-language daily Yediot Acharonot, was addressed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Education Minister Naftali Bennett and IDF Chief of…
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Fast Forward Israel Got 3,633 New Immigrants From North America In 2017
(JTA) — With the arrival of a flight carrying 93 new immigrants, a total of 3,633 people from North America made aliyah in 2017, Nefesh B’Nefesh reported. The group flight that landed at Ben Gurion International Airport on Wednesday included 15 future lone soldiers and a soon-to-be bride, according to the organization which, in cooperation…
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Fast Forward Israeli Minister Wants To Name Planned Jerusalem Train Station For Trump
An Israeli minister wants to name a planned train station in Jerusalem’s Old City for Donald Trump, the New York Times reported. Trump recently recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a designation not recognized by the vast majority of the world’s countries. On Wednesday Yisrael Katz, who sits on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet…
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Fast Forward Israeli Man From Belarus Convicted For Joining ISIS
(JTA) — An Israeli immigrant from Belarus who later converted to Islam was convicted for trying to join the Islamic State. Valentin Vladimir Mazalevsky, 40, a married father of five who lives in the Arab-Israeli town of Shibli in northern Israel, was arrested in February for trying to join the jihadists. He was convicted on…
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