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Books Israel’s City of the Future: Portrait of a Smug Society
Excerpted from the book “No Country for Jewish Liberals.” This is a political and personal story about Israel, about how over the years it went one way and I went the other. I’m going to start where I live, literally—in the city (actually the sprawling suburban bedroom community) of Modi’in, which is truly a showcase…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Israel Envoy David Friedman Says He Prayed For Trump At Western Wall
The new U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, prayed for Trump at the Western Wall on his first day in Israel. In a video posted to Twitter by the U.S. embassy, Friedman said that he came straight to the Western Wall from the airport with his wife and daughter on Monday. Welcome to US Ambassador…
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Fast Forward Alan Dershowitz: What If Israel Is the Ally That Trump Betrayed To Russia?
Lawyer and Israel advocate Alan Dershowitz speculated that Israel was the source of intelligence that President Trump revealed to the Russians. “Let’s take the following hypothetical: What if it was Israel who provided this intelligence?” he said on an interview on MSNBC. He warned that if Israeli intelligence was shared with Russia, then Russia could…
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Fast Forward Former Chief Rabbi Of Israel Guilty In Fake Credentials Scheme
(JTA) — A former chief rabbi of Israel, Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, was convicted of issuing fake rabbinic credentials to 1,500 police and security services employees, who used them to apply for pay raises. Bakshi-Doron was found guilty in Jerusalem District Court of fraud, falsifying documents and breach of trust on Monday. Sentencing has not yet been set. Bakshi-Doron, 76, was…
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Fast Forward Ukraine’s Jewish Prime Minister Meets With Netanyahu In Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman of Ukraine met with Israeli officials, including his counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, after an earlier visit was canceled over Ukraine’s support of a United Nations resolution condemning settlements. Groysman, his nation’s first Jewish prime minister, met Monday with Netanyahu in Jerusalem. They are the only Jewish prime ministers in the…
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Fast Forward White House: Our Staffer’s Claim That Western Wall Isn’t In Israel Was Wrong
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Reported remarks by a Trump administration official rejecting Israel’s claim to the Western Wall were “unauthorized” and do not represent the position of President Donald Trump, the White House said. “The comments about the Western Wall were not authorized communication and they do not represent the position of the United States and…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Denies Claim That He Told Trump Not To Move U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Benjamin Netanyahu’s office responded to a tweet by a Fox News correspondent which asserted that the Israeli prime minister asked President Donald Trump not to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. “The claims posted by a Fox News correspondent are false,” read the statement from the Prime Minister’s Office, which then went on…
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Israel News 6 Things You Didn’t Know About The Six Day War
(JTA) – The three paratroopers casting eyes upward at the Western Wall. The troops reveling in the waters of the Suez Canal. The sweeping views of a Galilee no longer vulnerable to shelling from atop the Golan Heights. Not to mention Naomi Shemer’s anthem “Jerusalem of Gold,” reissued after the Six Day War with a…
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