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Fast Forward Israel Doubles Down on East Jerusalem Settlements After UN Vote
The Jerusalem municipality, undeterred by a U.N. anti-settlement resolution, is due to consider on Wednesday requests for construction permits for hundreds of new homes for Israelis in areas that Israel captured in 1967 and annexed to the city. Israel is still fuming over the resolution approved last Friday by the United Nations Security Council that…
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Israel News Israeli President Celebrates Hanukkah at David Friedman’s Favorite Settlement
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin marked the third night of Hanukkah by lighting a menorah in Beit El, the West Bank settlement that is supported by Donald Trump’s Israel envoy pick David Friedman. Friedman, Trump’s lawyer, is the president of American Friends of Beit El Institutions, which raises about $2 million a year from U.S. donors…
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Fast Forward Taiwan High School Students Throw Nazi Salutes and Parade
Israel’s consulate in Taiwan is not happy after local high school students held a Nazi parade as part of holiday celebrations, something that the students reportedly saw as dress-up. “Schools should educate for tolerance and understanding among people, and we are deeply disappointed that this took place in Taiwan,” the Jewish state’s diplomatic mission in…
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Fast Forward France Rejects Israel Defense Chief’s ‘Dreyfus Affair’ Claim About Paris Peace Summit
JERUSALEM (JTA) — France rejected the Israeli defense minister’s comparison of next month’s Middle East peace summit in Paris to the anti-Semitic Dreyfus trial. French Foreign Ministry officials said Monday that the Jan. 15 meeting was being held to “re-affirm” the international community’s commitment to a two-state solution. Earlier in the day, Avigdor Liberman told…
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Life A Strike in Israel Brings Gender Equality for Parents Into the Spotlight
If you turned on the television in Israel on the morning of December 21st, you’d have been greeted by news reporter Eli Rachlin — and by two little girls who look like they’d probably rather be somewhere else. Of course, with the public workers’ strike taking effect across the country and nursery schools and other…
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Israel News Israel’s ‘Walter Cronkite’ Accused of Sexual Harassment
Haim Yavin, Israel’s veteran Channel 1 newscaster, known to Americans as “Israel’s Walter Cronkite,” has been accused of sexual harassment by several women who worked with him. The women accused 83-year-old Yavin after the retired television anchor’s comments in an interview in which he appeared to be lamenting the loss of a culture of impunity…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Tweets UN ‘So Sad!’
Donald Trump on Monday chided the United Nations as “sad,” just days after the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements despite pressure by the U.S. president-elect for a veto by Washington. “The United Nations has such great potential but right now it is just a club for people to…
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Opinion David Friedman’s Critics Are Wrong — Here’s Why
Is it possible to be too pro-Israel for some Jews? Apparently, it is – given the hyperventilated response to President-elect Trump’s nomination of David Friedman to be the next U.S. ambassador to Israel. I understand that Friedman has made some remarks that do not comport with the views of many on the opposite end of…
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