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Fast Forward France Denies It Has Secret Tax Department Investigating Jews
The French government has denied a report that it set up a secret division of its tax authority devoted to investigating French Jews with property in Israel. The Israeli business newspaper Globes reported on Thursday that France’s Ministry of Finance had hired 20 Hebrew-speaking employees who are charged with poring over tax and property records…
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Fast Forward Israeli Government OKs $72 Million Anti-BDS Project
(JTA) — Israel’s government has approved a plan setting aside $72 million to fighting the campaign to boycott it. The plan, which would entail the largest monetary investment yet by Israel specifically toward combating the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, was announced last week to the cabinet ministers and approved as an executive order after…
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Fast Forward Israel, U.S. Sign Agreement On Countering Iran
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Top U.S. and Israeli teams have agreed on a strategy to counter Iran. Barak Ravid, a reporter for Israel’s Channel 10 and for the U.S. political newswire Axios, reported on Thursday that teams led by President Trump’s National Security Adviser, H.R. McMaster, and his Israeli counterpart, Meir Ben-Shabbat, agreed on overt and…
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Fast Forward Michael Oren Calls For IDF To ‘Shoot To Kill’ Suspected Terrorists
(JTA) — Michael Oren tweeted that the Israel Defense Forces should “shoot to kill” suspected terrorists, rather than just “neutralize” them. Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States who serves as a deputy minister in Israel’s Knesset, made the call for extrajudicial killing while tweeting Wednesday about Omar al-Abed, who was convicted on the…
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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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