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Fast Forward Soccer Body Delays Vote On Israel’s West Bank Settlement Teams
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The FIFA Congress voted to accept the proposal of the governing body of international soccer’s council and not hold a vote on a Palestinian proposal questioning the status of Israeli teams in the West Bank. The vote passed Thursday with the approval of 73 percent of the member FIFA nations. It comes…
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Fast Forward WATCH: When Ivanka Trump Scouted Real Estate In Israel
Ivanka Trump is reportedly accompanying her father when he comes to Israel this month as part of the president’s first diplomatic trip abroad. This isn’t Ivanka’s first time in Israel. Back in 2008, the president’s daughter and close adviser traveled to Jerusalem to scope out real estate opportunities for the family business. It was one…
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Fast Forward The 1989 Trump Israel Visit That Wasn’t?
Last week the Israel State Archive released documents pertaining to Donald Trump’s 1989 visit to Israel, detailing the real estate mogul’s lavish treatment on his first trip to the Jewish state ahead of the president’s diplomatic visit in May. But people that Trump met with on the trip don’t remember him visiting Israel, raising questions…
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Fast Forward Israel Breaks All-Time Monthly Tourism Record
Israel broke its all-time record for foreign tourists last month, the country’s Ministry of Tourism announced Tuesday. A record-breaking 349,000 visitors arrived in Israel from abroad in April 2017, a 38% increase from the previous April. The total since the beginning of the year is 1.09 million, a 28% increase on 2016. This has reportedly…
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Fast Forward Hamas Leader: No Change In Our Stance Toward Israel
One of Hamas’s most senior officials said on Wednesday that a document published by the Islamist Palestinian group last week was not a substitute for its founding charter, which advocates Israel’s destruction. Speaking in Gaza City, Mahmoud al-Zahar said the political policy document announced on May 1 did not contradict its founding covenant, published in…
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Culture Israel’s Book Fair Cuts Are Devastating To Readers
Forty communities in Israel, all located far away from major cities, will not be participating in this year’s Shavua HaSefer, or “Week of the Book” program due to funding cuts — and the news has prompted an outcry from writers and community leaders who say this will be devastating to readers. Shavua HaSefer, a program…
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Fast Forward Israeli Police Show 5th Graders How To Kill Palestinian Attackers
Israeli police taught elementary school students how to kill Palestinian terrorists as part of an event on Monday highlighting police-community relations in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Hasharon. Using a dummy, police officers used active fire to demonstrate how to take down an assailant armed with a knife and then verify that the assailant…
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News Carl Bernstein Says Trump Is Corrupt And Lazy — Like Nixon Of Watergate
Carl Bernstein knows a corrupt president when he sees one – after all, this is the man who helped bring down President Richard Nixon in 1974. “Donald Trump suffers from ethical blindness regarding conflicts of interests of a kind we have never seen in a presidency in the United States in the current era,” the…
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