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Fast Forward 2,000-Year-Old Road Discovered In Israel
Israeli archeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old Roman-era road near Bet Shemesh. The road is up to 20 feet wide at its widest and is just under a mile long. It travels roughly the same path as Israel’s Highway 375, which crosses through Bet Shemesh and part of the West Bank. According to the Israel Antiquities…
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Fast Forward Why Ex-Ambassador Dan Shapiro Just Can’t Say Goodbye To Israel
RAANANA, Israel (JTA) – Dan Shapiro can’t seem to leave Israel. Before stepping down as the U.S. ambassador to the country in January, he said he would stay long enough for his daughters to finish the school year. On Sunday, he announced he would be sticking around even longer to join the Institute for National Security Studies, a…
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Fast Forward David Friedman Backs Settler Group That Moves Jews To Jerusalem Muslim Quarter
President Trump’s pick for Israel envoy donated to a controversial organization that plants Jewish settlers in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City in order to cement Jewish control there, Haaretz reported. Friedman has given multiple donations to Ateret Cohanim, which owns 59 properties in the Muslim Quarter and East Jerusalem where it has settled…
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Fast Forward Knesset Votes 46-28 To Bar Foreigners Calling For Boycott Of Israel
(JTA) — Israel enacted a law banning entry to foreigners who publicly call for boycotting the Jewish state or its settlements. The Knesset passed the law by a vote of 46-28 on Monday, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported. The ban applies to any foreigner “who knowingly issues a public call for boycotting Israel that, given the content of the…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Israeli Comedian Says ‘Wake Up And Smell The Apartheid’
In a searing monologue on Israel’s Channel 10, comedian Assaf Harel ended his “Good Night” show with a call to arms against his country’s occupation of the West Bank, which he framed as a dangerous human rights violation. “We’re doing great and there are a couple million people we’re responsible for and they’re in an…
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Community Unsafe Water Kills More People Than War. Meet The Israeli Helping To Change That.
“Unsafe water kills more people than war.” When I first heard this statement, I was caught off guard. In 2017, really? I come from Israel, a country troubled by both lack of water and war, and somehow I had never heard this. How could this be? Hundreds and millions of people live in Africa without…
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Community Building A Diverse Coalition? A Trip To Israel Could Help.
“To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.” — Tony Robbins This January, a group of student leaders from New York University departed on a flight bound for Israel. Together, they represented more…
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Fast Forward Would Annexing Part Of The West Bank Spark A ‘Crisis’ Between Israel And Trump?
Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Israeli annexation of the West Bank would be a “crisis” in the United States’ view at an Israeli parliament committee meeting, the Times of Israel reported. Lieberman said that he received a firm message from the Trump administration warning Israel not to go ahead with West Bank annexation…
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