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Fast Forward Will Tangled Web of Corruption Finally Dethrone ‘King Bibi’ Netanyahu?
Benjamin Netanyahu has spent 30 years in public office, including 11 years as Israel’s prime minister, but this year his political future is being called into question as seldom before. Police say they have questioned Netanyahu twice since Jan. 2 at his official residence in Jerusalem in two separate criminal cases involving allegations of abuse…
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Fast Forward Reform Movement ‘Concerned’ Over David Friedman Nomination as Israel Envoy
(JTA) — The Reform movement’s Religious Action Center has joined the list of liberal Jewish groups objecting to President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of David Friedman as U.S. ambassador to Israel. In a Tuesday statement commenting on Trump appointments, the center’s director, Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, questioned whether Friedman has “the temperament or judgment to represent the United…
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Fast Forward Senate Bill Bars BDS Against Israel — and West Bank Settlements
(JTA) — Two senators introduced a bill providing protection from lawsuits to state and local governments passing anti-BDS legislation. On Tuesday, Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., introduced the Combating BDS Act, which would increase legal protection for state and local governments that ban, limit or divest from companies “engaged in commerce-related or investment-related BDS…
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Fast Forward American Ambassador to Israel is Staying On as an Expat
Outgoing U.S. ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro is leaving his diplomatic mansion in Herzliya but he’s not going home – instead, he and his family have rented a house in nearby Raanana to finish the school year. In an exit interview with Haaretz, Shapiro said he has received no calls from his possible successor David…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Did Obama Just Sound Final Death Knell for Mideast Peace?
In his final White House press conference on Wednesday, outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama seemed ready to close the book on peace between Israel and the Palestinians. “I don’t see how this issue gets resolved in a way that maintains Israel as both Jewish and a democracy because if you do not have two states,…
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Fast Forward Israeli Lawmakers To Launch Annexation Push Just Two Days After Trump Inauguration
Right wing Israeli lawmakers will waste no time advancing a bill to annex part of the West Bank after Donald Trump’s inauguration as U.S. president, believing that the incoming administration will be sympathetic toward settlement building in the occupied territory. Knesset Members Yoav Kish from the ruling Likud party and Bezalel Smotrich from the ultra-right…
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Fast Forward Israeli President Reuven Rivlin Gets Pacemaker
JERUSALEM (JTA) – Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will be admitted to the hospital to be fitted with a pacemaker. Rivlin, 77, will enter the hospital over the weekend for about 24 hours, according to a statement issued by his office. The procedure will not require general anesthetic, and he will return to his residence after…
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Fast Forward On Riverbank Where Jesus Was Baptised, Fragile Agreement To Clear Deadly Mines
Ghost churches on the western bank of the Jordan River, near where Jesus is believed to have been baptized, could be reopened to pilgrims as part of a project to remove booby-traps and land mines. The river banks were once a war zone between Israel and Jordan, and were littered with thousands of mines and…
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