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News Polls Finds Almost Half of Jewish Israelis Think Left Is Traitorous Fifth Column
Almost half of Israel’s Jews think the country’s political left isn’t patriotic, finds the latest poll of the Israel Democracy Institute’s Peace Index, in a survey that shows a public continuing to hold attitudes that favor the current right-wing government. According to the poll, 48% of Israeli Jews don’t believe leftists are loyal to the…
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Fast Forward Golden ‘King Bibi’ Statue Toppled in Tel Aviv — You Got a Problem With That?
A gilded statue of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, dubbed “King Bibi” by its creator, stirred condemnation from Israel’s culture minister and was toppled by an onlooker after a brief public appearance on Tuesday. Sculptor Itay Zalait told reporters he had placed the four meter (13 foot) tall effigy of Netanyahu on a white pedestal in…
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Fast Forward Israel Advances Bill to Legalize Settlements on Palestinian Land
Israel’s parliament gave initial approval on Monday to a revised bill that would legalize Israeli settlement homes built on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. The proposed law has already drawn sharp international condemnation and strained relations within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing right-wing coalition. Israeli critics and Palestinians have called it a…
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News Israeli Sledder Follows His North Star to the Arctic
There’s rarely snow in Israel. But if an outdoorsman from the West Bank settlement of Efrat gets his wish, he will become the first of his countrymen to participate in a polar sledding competition, traveling hundreds of miles between Norway and Sweden next April. “I’ve always had a penchant for adventure and crazy ideas,” Erik…
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Fast Forward Poll: Donald Trump Will Be ‘Pro-Israel President,’ Most Israelis Believe
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Some 83 percent of Israelis believe that President-elect Donald Trump will be a “pro-Israel president,” according to a new poll. The poll commissioned by the Ruderman Family Foundation also found that 49 percent of Israelis thought that the status of Jews in America would remain the same in the wake of the…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump’s Israel Adviser Pledges To Stonewall J Street
David Friedman, a top adviser to President-elect Trump on Israel, has pledged not to meet the dovish group J Street if he is appointed U.S. ambassador to Israel. He spoke Sunday in a closed-door panel discussion held by the Saban Forum in Washington. J Street’s president Jeremy Ben-Ami was there. He responded on Twitter: Lord…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Vows To Lobby Donald Trump on ‘Bad’ Iran Nuclear Deal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he looked forward to speaking to Donald Trump about what to do about the “bad” Iran deal, once Trump is president. “As far as President-elect Trump, I look forward to speaking to him about what to do about this bad deal,” Netanyahu said Sunday, addressing the…
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Opinion Does Israel’s President Still Not Get How Vital the Kotel Is to Diaspora Jews?
Jerusalem — Israeli President Reuven Rivlin was the first major elected official to speak at the International Jewish Media Summit, which opened Sunday night in Jerusalem, and he encapsulated the challenge facing his country as it tries to connect more substantively with the Jewish diaspora. The challenge is this: I’m not sure he gets it. Rivlin,…
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