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Food Delicious Dispatch From Tel Aviv — Day 1
Yesterday I arrived in Tel Aviv for a long-anticipated vacation that’s centered around a dear friend’s wedding. This morning, I couldn’t think of a better way to kick off the day than to belly up to the bar of an open-air eatery in the Carmel Market called Shuk Shuka. At the restaurant, a few minutes…
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Fast Forward 20,000 Hasidic Jews Protest In Brooklyn Against Israeli Draft
(JTA) — An estimated 15,000 to 20,000 anti-Zionist haredi Orthodox Jews protested in New York against the conscription of haredi yeshiva students and the arrest of draft dodgers. Most of the participants in the rally Sunday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn were from the Satmar Hasidic sect, whose Central Rabbinical Congress of the U.S.A….
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Fast Forward Israel Cracked ISIS Computers — But Trump Leaked It To Russians
The source of the classified intelligence that U.S. President Trump shared with Russian officials in May was information Israel obtained after hacking computers belonging to ISIS, the New York Times reported Monday. According to the Times, which cited a U.S. official, Israeli “cyberoperators” managed to penetrate an ISIS cell of bombmakers based in Syria a number of months…
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Fast Forward 1,800 Rabbis Call On Israel To End Occupation And Create Palestinian State
(JTA) — A letter calling on Israel to end the military occupation of the West Bank and lay the groundwork for a Palestinian state was delivered on behalf 1,800 American rabbis and cantors to the Israeli embassy in Washington DC. The letter addressed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was written on behalf of the members of…
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News Making A Sexy Pitch For Israel
“Welcome to BDS News! Where we pretend to care about Palestinians, but really just want to see Israel disappear!” Thus opens one of the videos the Israeli government hopes will go viral in what is billed as a new large-scale “cyber second strike” campaign. Supported and spearheaded by the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, the campaign…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Israeli Woman Walks Naked Across Western Wall Plaza
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli woman was detained by police after streaking naked through the Western Wall Plaza. The woman removed her clothes on the women’s side of the Plaza on Sunday afternoon and then calmly started walking toward the men’s section. One person approached the woman and tried to cover her up with a…
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Fast Forward Thousands Revel At Tel Aviv Gay Pride Parade
Tens of thousands of rainbow flag-toting revelers attended the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parade in Tel Aviv on Friday, billed as the largest of its kind in the deeply conservative Middle East. The annual parade featured floats with blaring sound systems and gyrating dancers. Revelers could be seen dancing on the balconies of surrounding…
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Fast Forward Ousted Palestinians Mourn Loss Of Razed Neighborhood In Shadow Of Western Wall
Days after capturing Jerusalem’s Old City in a 1967 war, Israel razed the Moroccan Quarter, a ramshackle neighborhood of Palestinian homes in front of the Western Wall, aiming to create an open space for Jews to pray at one of their holiest sites. The 50th anniversary of that conflict has rekindled memories of the event,…
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