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News Israeli Ambassador Honored By ‘Anti-Islam Hate Group’
Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer will be accepting an award in New York next month from an American organization that has been labeled an anti-Muslim hate group. The Center for Security Policy, which will be honoring Dermer with a “Freedom Flame Award,” is included in a watch list of hate groups compiled…
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Israel News Gaza Doctor Gives Israeli President Reuven Rivlin a Stark Diagnosis on Conflict
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin received a stark diagnosis on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Wednesday from a Gaza doctor. “Israelis are sick with the disease of fear because of their history and narrative,” Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Toronto-based doctor from Gaza told Rivlin, according to Israeli news site Ynet. “The Palestinians are sick with the disease of…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Barely Wins in Israel Exit Poll — Margin Down Dramatically From 2012
Though early voting in Israel has reportedly gone in Donald Trump’s favor, support for the Republican Party has taken a serious, almost unprecedented hit, early exit poll data presented on Thursday suggested. According to so-called exit polls conducted by iVote Israel – a right-leaning group that helps American expats vote in Israel – Trump won 49 percent of the…
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Fast Forward Keeping Kosher May Impose High Economic Price on All of Israel
Behind Israel’s food and tourism industries thrives a parallel economy run by rabbis and a legion of inspectors whose business it is to make sure everything is kosher. Since most Israelis prefer knowing their food is prepared according to Jewish custom, hotels, restaurants and manufacturers have little choice but to go along with the arrangement…
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Fast Forward BDS Spurs Rising Anti-Semitism on Campus: Brandeis Report
— Reports of anti-Semitic incidents on U.S. college campuses have increased, much of it attributed to the rise of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, a new report has found. Researchers at the Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University conducted the study, which was released in late October….
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Israel News WATCH: Holocaust Survivors Strut Their Stuff in Fashion Show
After surviving the Holocaust, a group of elderly women took a star turn this week at a fashion show in the Israeli city of Haifa, dressed in pageant dresses and celebrated with cheers and applause. “Tonight we’re letting some women who survived the Holocaust have something that was robbed from them in their youth,” David…
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Israel News Israel Denounces Online Gaza War Game as Incitement
Israel regularly cites Palestinian television and radio programming for what it says an incitement to violence against the Jewish state. Now, the country’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan is reportedly demanding that Google and Apple remove a game from their app stores that he says encourages attacks on Israeli soldiers. Blasting the game, called “Liyla…
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Israel News Meet Shifa al-Qudsi, Wannabe Palestinian Suicide Bomber Turned Peace Activist
Shifa al-Qudsi once sought vengeance on Israel, trying and failing to commit a suicide bombing against the Jewish state. But after six years spent in prison for her crime, the Palestinian former hairdresser now advocates nonviolence as a peace activist, the New York Times reported in a Saturday profile. “They occupy your home, your land,…
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