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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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Fast Forward Netanyahu Quizzed Again In Corruption Case — Rivals Eye ‘Post-Bibi’ Era
Police are expected to question Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a fourth time on Monday in a corruption investigation that has prompted political rivals to start looking to a “post-Bibi” Israel. Israeli TV and newspapers, citing unnamed sources, said Netanyahu would be questioned later in the day. A police spokeswoman declined to confirm the reports,…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Militant Killed In Israeli West Bank Raid
A Palestinian gunman fired at Israeli soldiers and military police during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Monday and the Israeli forces shot and killed the attacker in response, the army and police said in a statement. The exchange of fire took place in Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian Authority in the…
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Fast Forward No Sabra No Problem When It Comes To Israel’s Baseball Team
To players on Team Israel, it doesn’t matter that they don’t live in Israel and play ball in the United States, don’t speak Hebrew and haven’t visited the country until recently. For the World Baseball Classic, they are representing Jewish fans worldwide. “It’s more than just Israel,” Ty Kelly, who is on the New York…
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Fast Forward Andrew Cuomo Says ‘No Tolerance’ For Anti-Semitism In Yad Vashem Visit
JERUSALEM (JTA) — “There will be no tolerance for these acts of anti-Semitism,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said of the recent bomb threats against Jewish institutions in the United States, during a weekend visit to Israel. “We must live by the rules that an abuse to one, an affront to one, is an affront…
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