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Fast Forward Israel Apologizes for Airport Questioning of New Israel Fund Leader
(JTA) — The agency that manages Israel’s border crossings apologized for any “anguish” caused by the questioning of the leader of the New Israel Fund at Ben-Gurion Airport. The Population and Immigration Authority said Thursday that its interim director general, Amnon Shmueli, had spoken to the New Israel Fund’s president after the group’s vice president, Jennifer Gorovitz,…
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Fast Forward David Friedman, Trump’s Israel Ambassador Pick, Said to Push New Settlements
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A recently approved apartment building in a West Bank settlement was reportedly funded by an organization headed by David Friedman, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Israel. The planned five-story apartment building, which will hold 20 apartments, is financed by American Friends of Beit El Institutions, which Friedman chairs, according to a…
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Fast Forward Ireland Could Recognize ‘Palestine’ After Israel’s Settlement Bill
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Ireland will likely recognize a Palestinian state, Israel’s ambassador to the country reportedly warned in a cable to Jerusalem. Zeev Boker sent the cautionary dispatch Tuesday, Haaretz reported. Israel had already expected Dublin would officially recognize Palestine, and the Knesset’s recent passage of a law to legalize thousands of West Bank settlements strengthened that assessment, an…
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Fast Forward Israel Intercepts Rockets Aimed At Eilat
(JTA) — Israel’s anti-missile Iron Dome system intercepted at least three missiles fired from the Sinai at its southernmost resort town, Eilat. The Israeli media quoted the army as saying the missiles were fired Wednesday evening. There were varying counts on the total number of missiles fired, between four and seven. There were no injuries….
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Fast Forward Palestinians File First Challenge to Israeli Settlement ‘Legalization’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Palestinian groups petitioned Israel’s High Court of Justice to overturn a controversial new law that retroactively legalizes settler homes built on private Palestinian land. In the petition filed Wednesday, they claim the legislation violates international humanitarian law and ask the High Court to issue a temporary injunction against its implementation. The involved Palestinian…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas Says He May Cut Security Ties to Israel Over Settlement Push
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday he could be forced to suspend security cooperation with Israel if the ramp-up of Israeli settlements continued. “If the colonization continues, I would have no other choice, it would not be my fault,” Abbas told France’s Senate during a visit to Paris. On Tuesday, he met President Francois…
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Fast Forward European Union Slams Israel for Creating ‘One-State Reality’ With Settlement Push
(JTA) – In an unusually harsh statement, the European Union’s foreign policy chief said Israel’s new legislation on settlements was illegal and would “entrench a one-state reality of unequal rights.” The statement Tuesday by Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, was over the passing the previous day in the…
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Fast Forward Meet Israel’s Super-Cute Newborn Baby White Rhino — His Mom’s Named Rihanna!
Israel’s zoo in Ramat Gan welcomed a baby rhinoceros named Rami last week, born to a rhino named Rihanna. Zookeepers can’t measure Rami without traumatizing mother and baby, but they estimate that the rhino calf is 110 pounds and just over a foot and a half in height. After a year and a half gestation,…
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