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Fast Forward Israeli Firm Provides Drinking Water For India And Vietnam — From Air
TEL AVIV (JTA) — An Israeli company has signed deals to produce drinking water — by extracting it from the air — in India and Vietnam, two countries that have long faced shortages. Water Gen inked an agreement last week with India’s second largest solar company to produce purified water for remote villages in the country. Earlier,…
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Fast Forward Father Of Accused JCC Bomb Threat Teen Apologizes To American Jews
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The father of the Israeli-American teenager arrested on suspicion of calling in more than 100 bomb threats to JCCs and Jewish institutions, apologized for his sons actions. The father appeared in his first interview in Israel, nearly two weeks after he was arrested along with his son following a months-long undercover investigation…
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Fast Forward Students At Toronto University Adopt Broad Definition Of Anti-Semitism
(JTA) — The student union at Ryerson University in Toronto has voted to adopt a broad definition of anti-Semitism. The definition adopted last week includes the denial of the Jewish right to self-determination, the application of double standards to the State of Israel, the comparison of contemporary Israeli policies to that of the Nazis, and the…
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Fast Forward Columbia U. Student Council Kills BDS Referendum
NEW YORK (JTA) — A student council at a Columbia University college voted not to add a question asking about support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement to a student referendum. The Columbia College council decided Monday that it would not include the resolution, which was proposed by the student group Apartheid Divest, to the ballot, according to The…
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Fast Forward David Friedman One Of Few Willing To Stand Up To Trump — What That Means For Israel
President Trump has little room for niceties, either in the White House or in the real estate business. But according to reports, he always made an exception from his usual gruffness to accommodate the Sabbath observance of David Friedman, his new ambassador to Israel. It’s that closeness that has conservatives hopeful that he will push…
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Fast Forward Some Jewish Settlers Lose Interest As Growth Slows — And Inconvenience Grows
After five years, Batsheva Reback couldn’t take living in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank any longer. Despite renting a house with a garden for far less than it would cost in Israel itself, it didn’t make sense. Her new apartment in Israel may be small, but unlike where she used to live…
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Threaten To Shut Israel Airport With Anti-Draft Protest Over Passover
An ultra-Orthodox group is threatening to disrupt operations at Israel’s Ben-Gurion International Airport during the busy Passover holiday week with protests against the drafting of yeshiva students into the army. A body calling itself “the committee for the rescue of the world of Torah” took out ads in ultra-Orthodox media outlets, saying that the planned…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Was Banksy Spotted At An Israeli Mall?
A woman claims to have captured footage of the elusive British artist Banksy at work on an exhibition in an Israeli mall. The woman said she went into a mall in Herzilya, north of Tel Aviv, and a security guard asked her to sign her name. She noticed an English name on the list and…
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