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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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Fast Forward Republican Jews Embrace James Mattis as Defense Chief — Despite Israel ‘Apartheid’ Remarks
General James Mattis, President-elect Trump’s choice to be the next Secretary of Defense, once warned that Israel’s policy of expanding West Bank settlements could lead to an apartheid state. But Jewish Republicans see no problem with this comment. In a statement issued Friday morning, the Republican Jewish Coalition welcomed Mattis’ appointment as a “smart and…
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News How Many L’s Does ‘Lincoln’ Have — in Hebrew?
Should “Lincoln” have two L’s in Hebrew? Some of the Jewish world’s top scholars convened at a Jerusalem conference to discuss Abraham Lincoln — and that was one of the topics of conversation at the event. During the conversation, held to mark the publication of a Hebrew translation of Jonathan Sarna’s “Lincoln and the Jews”…
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Fast Forward Iran Owns 5% of German Firm Building Submarines for Israel
(JTA) — An Iranian state-owned firm has substantial shares in the German shipping giant that is supplying the Israeli Navy with submarines, a newspaper in Israel reported. The Iranian investments in ThyssenKrupp began in the 1970s and were inherited by the Islamic regime when it took over Iran in the 1979 revolution, Yediot Acharonot reported…
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Opinion No, the Keith Ellison Tape Isn’t Anti-Israel — and Shouldn’t Torpedo His Democratic Run
It looks as though opposition is mounting, perhaps approaching a critical mass, against the bid by Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison to become chair of the Democratic National Committee. A small flood of messages and articles is circulating through the Jewish community and precincts of the Republican right, supposedly documenting his hostility to Israel and support…
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