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Israel News Leaked Emails Say Hillary Clinton Will Patch Up Ties to Benjamin Netanyahu in First 100 Days
Hillary Clinton’s plan to meet the Israeli prime minister in her first month as president is listed high in an internal campaign memo outlining the priorities of her first 100 days — a sign of how important it is to repair U.S.-Israel tensions. The campaign’s determination to distance itself from President Barack Obama’s difficult relationship…
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Israel News Israelis Might Soon Get Their Pot at the Prescription Counter
If Health Minister Yaakov Litzman has his way, Israelis might soon be able to get pot along with their aspirin at the local drugstore. Pending regulations from the Health Ministry, Israel’s biggest pharmacy conglomerate will dispense medical marijuana at its hundreds of locations, according to a report in Ha’aretz. Israel currently allows sick people to…
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Israel News Israeli Terror Survivors and War Vets Get Inked To Help Heal
Five of the world’s top tattoo artists traveled to Israel this week to ink Israelis injured in terrorism and war. A project of the group Artists 4 Israel, which beautifies Israeli bomb shelters, the Healing Ink event sought to exhibit the power of tattooing to help trauma victims externalize their pain. Tattoos are prohibited in…
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Fast Forward French Center-Right Candidate Blasts Hillary Clinton’s ‘Submission to Zionists’
— French Jews demanded the country’s Republican party take disciplinary action against a lawmaker who said Hillary Clinton endangers Europe because she is controlled by Zionists. The president of CRIF, the umbrella group of French Jewish communities, made the demand in a statement Thursday about Jean Fréderic Poisson, a National Assembly lawmaker whose Christian Democratic Party…
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News Jewish Vice Presidential Candidate Mindy Finn Touts Independent Ticket as ‘Extremely Pro-Israel’
As you might or might not have heard , there is a Jewish woman running for vice president. Two weeks ago, Mindy Finn joined the conservative ticket of independent candidate Evan McMullin. Finn is a proud Jew, a fierce early critic of Donald Trump — and a staunch supporter of Israel. In a recent interview…
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Israel News A Clinton Backer and Trump Fan Face Off at an Israel Debate Watch Party For 2
In the United States, one would be hard pressed to find Trump and Clinton supporters at the same debate watch party, let alone in the same room. But in a Jerusalem apartment, two political rivals watched the candidates face off over bowls of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. Hardly any Israelis watch the presidential debates,…
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News Donald Trump Invites Malik Obama, the President’s Hamas-Supporting Half-Brother to Debate
Donald Trump invited President Obama’s half-brother to be a guest of honor at the final presidential debate — despite reports that Malik Obama is a supporter of the anti-Israel Hamas terror movement. The Republican candidate’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment on a 2010 photo depicting Malik Obama wearing a Palestinian headscarf…
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Letters Why Israelis Are Right To Oppose the Palestinian ‘Right of Return’
Dear Editor, There is a fundamental misunderstanding in one of the Forward’s articles, dated October 17 and titled, “If Israel Lets In Palestinian Refugees, Will It Lose Its Jewish Character?” The five million descendants of Arab refugees from the 1948 war who continue to live in 59 refugee facilities administered by UNRWA in Israel, Lebanon,…
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