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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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Fast Forward Israeli Defense Minister: Peace Is Closer Than Ever
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Israel is “far closer” to an agreement with the Palestinians than it has been before. In an interview with Israel’s Channel Thursday, Liberman expressed confidence that an offer of normalized relations with Arab states would bring the government and people of Israel on board. “We are far closer to…
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Fast Forward Rise In Smoking In Israel ‘Unheard Of In The Developed World’
TEL AVIV (JTA) — In its annual report on smoking released last week, Israel’s Health Ministry recorded the biggest single-year rise in smoking in more than a decade, with the rate rising to 22.5 percent in 2016 from 19.7 percent the previous year. “This is unheard of in the developed world,” Leah Rosen, who heads…
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Fast Forward PHOTOS: 200,000 Attend Tel Aviv Gay Pride Parade
(JTA) — Around 200,000 people took to the streets to celebrate LGBTQ pride in Tel Aviv’s annual Gay Pride Parade, the biggest event of its kind in the Middle East. The Friday parade drew some 30,000 tourists from all over the world and celebrated “bisexual visibility.” Ahead of the parade, a poll found that support in the country for same-sex…
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Fast Forward Israeli Support For Gay Marriage Rises To All-Time High
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Ahead of Tel Aviv Pride, 79 percent of Israelis Jews told pollsters they support allowing same-sex marriage or civil unions for gay couples. According to Hiddush, the religious pluralism group that commissioned the poll released Thursday, public support for allowing gay couples to marry in Israel has reached an all-time high. The…
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Fast Forward 2 U.S. Men Charged With Finding Israeli And American Targets For Hezbollah
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Two men living in the U.S. have been charged for working for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. A release from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan on Thursday said Ali Kourani, 32, and Samer El Debek, 37, were arrested on June 1 for providing material support to and receiving military training from…
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Community JVP’s Targeting Of LGBTQ Youth Shows ‘An Unbelievable Lack Of Empathy’
Jewish queer youth are a vulnerable population of Jews being unfairly targeted for Disruption and sabotage by an organization called Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). While it is important to counter the distortions and dishonesty disseminated about the group’s disruptions at the Celebrate Israel Parade (and I will below), it is far more urgent to…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Mistake Kids Movie Set For New Jewish Outpost
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian activist in the northern West Bank sounded the alarm that settlers were building a new outpost in the area, which turned out to be a set for a children’s movie. Children’s television personality Yuval Shemtov, known as Yuval HaMebulbal, or Yuval the Confused, is among the movie’s stars. The production…
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