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Fast Forward WOW Air Announces $149 Flights To Israel
The Icelandic low-cost airline WOW Air announced Monday that it will soon be offering flights from the United States to Israel for as low as $149. The budget carrier will fly between Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv and multiple locations in North America beginning September 12, WOW CEO Skuli Mogensen said in Israel. One-way…
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Fast Forward American Official Who Called Western Wall ‘Part Of West Bank’ Is Identified
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Trump administration official who said the Western Wall is not part of Israel was David Berns, the political counselor at the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem, according to an Israeli television news report. A second U.S. official, the consulate’s economic counselor Jonathan Shrier, also was involved in the incident, Channel 2 reported…
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Fast Forward Why Israel Is Worried Over What Trump Told The Russians
WASHINGTON (JTA) — As of Tuesday morning, thanks to the unfiltered confessional that is Twitter, we now know this: President Donald Trump shared information with Russia about “terrorism and flight safety,” as he put it. Trump was responding, after about 12 hours, to a Washington Post report that he shared highly classified information with the…
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Fast Forward That Time Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler Bumped Into New Ambassador At The Western Wall
Just another day at the Western Wall. Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler, who is in Israel to play a concert, ran into the new U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman at the holy site on Monday. The grizzled rocker and the white-haired diplomat were quite the odd couple — which made for an interesting photo op….
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Fast Forward American Tourist Sets Guinness Record — By Finally Getting Into Israel
Israel was the last stop on Dustin Pfundheller’s mission to visit every country on the planet and become the world’s youngest traveler to have done so. But the 31-year-old dentist reached his milestone on Monday, after state authorities granted him a long-wished-for tourist visa. Pfundheller, who has now stopped in at 236 countries, was initially…
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Fast Forward David Friedman Takes Office As New Envoy To Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The new U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman presented his credentials to President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem. Friedman, who is an Orthodox Jew and owns an apartment in Jerusalem, also presented his wife, Tammy, and daughter, Talia, to Rivlin following the playing of the United States national anthem by an Israeli military…
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Fast Forward 7 Immigrants Win Nefesh B’Nefesh Prizes For Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Seven immigrants to Israel from English-speaking countries have been awarded the 2017 Sylvan Adams Nefesh B’Nefesh Bonei Zion Prize. The $10,000 prizes announced Tuesday are awarded to English-speaking immigrants who have made a major contribution the State of Israel. The prizes will be awarded at an official ceremony at the Knesset at the end of…
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Fast Forward Intel Pays Israel Tax On Mobileye Deal In Dollars To Keep Shekel Down
Israel sought to prevent the shekel rising further on Tuesday by agreeing to allow Intel Corp to pay the tax due on its planned purchase of Israeli autonomous vehicle technology firm Mobileye in dollars. Intel agreed to buy Mobileye for $15.3 billion in March in a deal which, if completed, is expected to result in…
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