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Fast Forward New Bribery Scandal Centers On Fraud Case Against Sara Netanyahu
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A former spokesman for Benjamin Netanyahu is accused of offering to make a judge attorney general if she agreed to close a case against the Israeli prime minister’s wife. The suspected bribe was first reported Tuesday morning by reporter Ben Caspit of the Hebrew-language daily newspaper Maariv. Caspit reported that Nir Hefetz,…
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Fast Forward New Law Allows Graves Of ‘Disappeared’ Yemenite-Israeli Children To Be Exhumed
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A new law allows families of Yemenite children who disappeared between the years 1948 and 1970 to obtain a court-ordered exhumation of their graves for genetic testing. Since the 1950s, more than 1,000 Israeli families have alleged their children were systematically kidnapped from Israeli hospitals and given to Ashkenazi families for adoption…
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Fast Forward U.S. Ambassador Says Returning West Bank Land ‘Could Lead To Civil War’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Evicting hundreds of thousands of Jewish settlers from the West Bank “could lead to civil war in Israel,” U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman told American Jewish leaders. Friedman, the official representative of the Trump administration in Israel, made his comments on Monday night during an off-the-record briefing in Jerusalem for about…
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Fast Forward Israeli Telecom Officials Arrested As Netanyahu Corruption Investigations Widen
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel Police’s corruption unit and the Israel Securities Authority have opened an investigation into the Israel telecommunications company Bezeq, part of an ongoing corruption investigation involving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Several suspects reportedly were arrested on Sunday as part of the investigation, called Case 4000, in part looking into whether Netanyahu had…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Shows Remains Of Iranian Drone: ‘Do Not Test Israel’s Resolve’
(JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to attack Iran in response to terror attacks on Israel’s soil. “Israel will not allow Iran’s regime to put a noose of terror around our neck. We will act without hesitation to defend ourselves. And we will act, if necessary, not just against Iran’s proxies that are attacking…
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Fast Forward Polish Embassy In Israel Vandalized With Swastikas As Shoah Law Fallout Grows
JERUSALEM/WARSAW, Feb 18 (Reuters) – Swastikas and profanities were daubed on the entrance to Poland’s embassy in Israel on Sunday after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Jews, as well as Poles and others, were among perpetrators of the Nazi Holocaust. Poland sparked international criticism over its stance on the facts of the Holocaust when…
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Fast Forward IDF Attacks 18 Hamas Targets Following Attack On Israeli Soldiers, Rocket Fire
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Defense Forces attacked 18 Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip in response to an attack on Israeli soldiers and rocket fire. The attacks were executed late on Saturday night and early Sunday morning. Eight of the targets were located in a Hamas military compound at Deir el Balah, in central Gaza, where…
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News FACT CHECK: Israel Does Not Have An Armed Citizenry, Mr. Huckabee.
A visitor to Israel may be overwhelmed by the abundance of guns in the streets. Firearms seem to be everywhere: The soldier sitting next to you on the bus has one, as does the security guard at the entrance to the shopping mall, and the neighbor’s daughter coming home from her army base for the…
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