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Fast Forward Scary Clowns Come To Israel As ‘It’-Inspired Trend Spreads
As the re-make of the Stephen King work “It” hits the movie-screen, some Israeli teens are taking a cue from the film and dressing up as clowns to frighten passers-by. The Israeli police have detained 15 Israeli children and teens – some of them under the age of 12 – who were donning the costumes…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Slams Palestinian Unity Push — Vows To Expand Settlements
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at a meeting in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim, said that the Palestinians are reconciling “at the expense of our existence. He was referring to a meeting on Tuesday in Gaza of the Palestinian Authority cabinet in Ramallah, led by PA Prime Minister Rami…
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Fast Forward Family Home Of Palestinian Shabbat Killer Will Be Demolished
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The family home of the Palestinian man who killed three security officers in a shooting attack at an entrance to the West Bank settlement where he worked will be demolished. The Israel Defense Forces notified the family of Nimr Mahmoud Ahmed Jamal, 37, on Monday night. The military said the family has…
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Fast Forward Israeli Tourists Found Safe After Las Vegas Massacre
JERUSALEM (JTA) — All Israelis in Las Vegas have been located and none were injured the shooting attack on a country music festival that killed 58 and injured more than 500. On Monday the Foreign Ministry had said that up to eighteen Israelis were unaccounted for and considered missing. Some 7,000 Israelis live in Las…
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Fast Forward Amazon Expanding ‘Alexa’ Offices In Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Amazon is expanding in Israel, setting up Alexa Shopping teams in two cities. The company will open research and development groups in Haifa and Tel Aviv with a total of 100 employees at the start, the Israeli business daily Globes reported. Alexa is a digital personal assistant developed by Amazon that allows…
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Fast Forward Israeli Trauma Expert Worried About Mass Shooting In ‘Open’ Las Vegas
When Dr. Avi Rivkind landed in Las Vegas three years ago to lecture as a trauma care expert, he saw something that troubled him. The airport, McCarran International, felt too open, almost exposed. He felt no less comfortable on the city’s Strip while watching crowds flow from hotels to casinos to shops to the street…
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Community Israel Has An Asylum-Seeker Problem — And Here’s What One Tel Aviv Group Is Doing To Help.
A few weeks ago, I was in Israel having a coffee with the great ethnographer of high-tech culture Gideon Kunda, explaining my interest in collaborating on research on the impact of Chinese investment in Israel. After a probing conversation on my work and sensing I was looking for a more meaningful way to make a…
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Fast Forward Barcelona Chaos Had This Israeli Lawmaker Dodging Rubber Bullets
(JTA) — Seeing armed police in riot gear outside a school in Barcelona, the Israeli lawmaker Ksenia Svetlova felt the instincts kick in from her days as a Middle East reporter for Russian-language media. “One look was enough to see these officers were preparing for something bad,” said Svetlova, a Zionist Union lawmaker who was in…
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