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Fast Forward Should U.S. Jews Light Israel’s Independence Day Torch?
Lighting one of the 12 torches at the ceremony marking the opening of the country’s Independence Day celebrations is one of Israel’s highest honors, so this year’s decision to invite two Jewish American leaders to participate is proving controversial. Philanthropist Michael Steinhardt and Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Wiesenthal Center, were chosen to light…
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Fast Forward Will Trump’s Tax Cuts Kill Israel’s Start-Up Scene?
President Trump’s proposed tax plan may decimate Israel’s vaunted high-tech industry, business analysts have warned. Trump aims to lower the top corporate marginal tax rate from 35% to 15% in a bid to grow international investment and keep companies from outsourcing. This would likely spur foreign entrepreneurs to move their businesses to the U.S., or…
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Fast Forward 700 Teens Teach Holocaust Survivors To Surf The Internet
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Nearly 700 Israeli teens studying in science and technology schools in Israel are teaching Holocaust survivors to use computers and the internet. The students meet weekly in pairs with survivors in 22 cities across Israel through a program called Mechubarim, which means connected. Students have helped the survivors to search for family…
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Fast Forward Under 50’s Think West Bank Is Part Of Israel
A growing number of Israelis believe that the settlements are part of sovereign Israel, according to a new poll published in Fathom, a UK journal on Israel. A public opinion poll conducted between October and November 2016 asked 1,027 Israeli Jews whether Israel had declared sovereignty over the West Bank (it hasn’t). The survey is…
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Fast Forward Abbas Cuts Off Power Payments For Gaza In Bid To Pressure Hamas
With the prospect looming of a Middle East peace initiative by a new U.S. administration more sympathetic to Israel, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has decided to turn the screw on the Hamas group that has kept Gaza out of his control for a decade. Abbas’s Western-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) on Thursday told Israel it would…
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Fast Forward Israel Strikes Iran-Backed Base In Syria
Israel struck an arms supply hub operated by the Lebanese group Hezbollah near Damascus airport on Thursday, Syrian rebel and regional sources said, targeting weapons regularly sent from Iran via commercial and military cargo planes. Video carried on Lebanese TV and shared on social media sites showed the pre-dawn airstrikes caused a fire around the…
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Fast Forward Did Jared Kushner Have Real Estate Links To Shady Israeli Billionaire?
Jared Kushner and his family business has now been linked to real estate transactions with an Israeli billionaire under investigation in four countries for bribery and corrupt practices. According to The New York Times, Kushner partnered in 2012 with Raz Steinmetz, whose family got rich in the diamond business, to purchase $190 million worth of…
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Israel News How The Forverts Covered The Six Day War
Fifty years ago, the Six Day War was front page news on the Yiddish Forverts, which kept its readers abreast of developments mainly by reprinting wire service reports from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, declaring Israel’s “huge victories” as the war progressed. With limited resources on the ground in Israel, the newspaper relied on its correspondent,…
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