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Fast Forward QUIZ: How Much Do You Really Know About Israel?
On Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day), Jews around the world celebrate the founding of the state of Israel. Want a celebratory and fun test of your knowledge? Check out this 18 question Buzzfeed quiz and let us know how you did by tweeting your score @jdforward.
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Fast Forward Jewish Teen With Death Wish Killed By Israeli Troops
Israeli troops shot dead a 19-year-old man on Tuesday who ran at them with a knife at a Jerusalem area checkpoint often used by Palestinians, later discovering he had apparently wanted to kill himself. Police initially said the attacker was Palestinian, but then identified him as a Jewish man from Jerusalem. “The security officers felt…
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Opinion Is Trump Visiting Israel To Praise Bibi — Or To Bury Him?
When Donald Trump visits Israel later this month, as he reportedly will do, he faces much to potentially gain and little to lose. The reverse is true of his host, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. For Trump, it’s an opportunity to show some statesmanship and gravitas — qualities he’s not widely associated with — in…
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Fast Forward Secular Teen Wins World Bible Quiz
For the first time in 30 years, a secular Jewish teen has won the World Bible Quiz, a test given every year on Israel’s Independence Day to Jews ages 14 to 18 from around the world. Sagiv Lugassi, who attends a secular science and technology high school in Maalot in Northern Israel, was the winner…
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Fast Forward Controversial Philippines President Says ‘Supposed To Go To Israel’ — Not U.S.
(JTA) — The president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, told President Donald Trump that he may not be able to visit the White House because he is “supposed to go to” Israel and Russia. Responding to Trump’s invitation on Saturday to visit the United States, Duterte said on Monday, “I cannot make any definite promise. I’m supposed to go to Russia;…
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Fast Forward Why This Filipina Woman Volunteered To Join ‘Amazing’ Israel Army
JERUSALEM (JTA) – Staff. Sgt. Joana Chris Arpon isn’t Israeli, or even Jewish. Her service in the Israel Defense Forces is personal. Arpon, 20, is the daughter of Filipino parents who came to the Israel to find work. She said she enlisted as a combat soldier because an Israeli army team rescued her grandmother in the aftermath of the…
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Fast Forward Bar Refaeli Called A Hypocrite For Memorializing Israeli Soldiers
Israeli model Bar Refaeli was panned online for memorializing Israel’s fallen soldiers when she deliberately avoided military service to further her modeling career. Refaeli, the highest paid Israeli model whose image has appeared all over the world, posted a photograph of a flame on her Facebook page with the word “Remember,” a typical image to…
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Israel News Marijuana Is Future For Israeli Company That ‘Made The Desert Bloom’
An iconic Israeli agricultural company part of the early national effort to “make the desert bloom,” as the Zionist catchphrase goes, is now turning to an unconventional crop: marijuana. Founded in the 1960s, Netafim was the first popularizer of drip irrigation technology, which enables growers to control the amount of water their plants receive by…
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