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Fast Forward Bring On The Kosher Sabbath-Friendly Panic Alarm Button
Synagogues in Israel are getting a new tool that will let them handle a Sabbath emergency – a tablet that’s designed to call first responders on the day of rest, when many congregants do not carry phones. Developed by the software company Nedarim Plus, the tablet has only two features – to phone the police…
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Fast Forward Madrid Official Hosts Solidarity Event For Jailed Palestinian Terrorists
(JTA) — A deputy mayor of Madrid hosted in a municipal space an event honoring Palestinian terrorists from Hamas and other groups who are imprisoned in Israel. The event, titled “International Day of Palestinian Prisoners,” was hosted Monday at the main municipal space of the district of Retiro in the southeastern part of the center…
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Fast Forward The Tiny Insect Israeli Researchers Are Using To Hone The Drone
Israeli scientists are using whiteflies, tiny insects that feed on the undersides of leaves, to create better drone technology. Tel Aviv University researchers say that the fly could serve as a model for stability in small drones, based on the fact that the propel their bodies forward before flapping their wings in flight. “Whiteflies take…
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Fast Forward Is Israel Heading Toward A Housing Bubble?
Israel could be headed toward a housing bubble soon, warned an executive with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Peter Jarrett, the head of an OECD division that oversees 10 of the 34 member states including Israel, issued the warning, with plenty of caveats, in an interview with Globes, Israel’s economics magazine. Israel is…
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Israel News Concentration Camp Artist’s Mini-Masterpieces Get New Life — Thanks To Daughters
Joseph Bau moved into the Krakow ghetto with a case filled with brushes and paints, in which he fashioned a double bottom to hide precious family photographs. In the ghetto, and later in the Płaszów concentration camp, he created drawings and poetry on the paper he collected from cigarette butts thrown aside by the Nazis….
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Fast Forward Chile Activist Pushes For Ban On Israeli Tourists
A Chilean Palestinian official is urging his country to refuse entry to Israeli tourists after he was barred from entering the Jewish state. Anuar Majluf, executive director of the Palestinian Federation of Chile and a prominent BDS, or boycott, divestment and sanctions, movement activist, was refused entry by the government of Israel on April 10 when…
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Fast Forward Allies Knew About The Holocaust 2 Years Before Liberating Camps
The Allied Powers knew about the Holocaust two and a half years before they intervened, newly accessed documents show, according to a report in the UK’s Independent newspaper. The U.S., the UK and the Soviet governments had even prepared war crime charges against Adolf Hitler and head Nazis, aware that at least two million Jews…
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Fast Forward Michael Oren Slams New York Times For ‘Journalistic Terrorism’ Over Palestinian Op-Ed
Michael Oren, an Israeli parliamentarian and former ambassador to the United States, said that the New York Times had committed a “journalistic terrorist attack” in publishing an op-ed by imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti. In an interview on Monday on Israel’s Army Radio, Oren said that the New York Times should be “held accountable” if…
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