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Community Q&A: How Do Developers View the Start-Up Nation?
‘Start-Up Nation’ and ‘Silicon Wadi’ are apt nicknames for the State of Israel in the year 2016. Like you, I love learning about the latest exits, investors, VCs, entrepreneurs and incubators in the Israeli Start-Up scene. However, I’ve noticed that little to no attention is paid to the developers, the men and women behind the…
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Community WATCH: In Israel, Civil Marriage Is Only a Cruise Away
Eight years ago I got married in the little town of Wagoner, Oklahoma. It was my first time in the US. My wife Katie and I were living in Israel at the time, young and in love, and were ready to tie the knot. There was one problem – I am Jewish and she isn’t….
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Fast Forward Ethiopian Jew Killed in Riots While Waiting To Leave for Israel
— The Jewish community of Gondar in Ethiopia said it lost one of its members in riots that have claimed dozens of lives in recent weeks. The Jew killed in Gondar was identified as Weta Chekla, the Israel-based news site Little Ethiopia reported Thursday. The report said he was waiting to immigrate to Israel amid…
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Fast Forward Reform and Conservative Jews Press Suit To Force Israel To Honor Western Wall Prayer Deal
The Reform and Conservative movements in Israel and the Women of the Wall have petitioned Israel’s Supreme Court to order the government to follow through on the plan to create the egalitarian prayer area next to the Western Wall. Should the plan not be implemented, the lawsuit filed Thursday said the current Western Wall plaza…
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Fast Forward Gaza Rocket Hits Southern Israel for Second Day in Row
JERUSALEM — A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck Israel for the second day in a row. The rocket fired on Thursday afternoon triggered the Code Red rocket warning system in communities near the border with Gaza, sending residents scurrying for bomb shelters. The rocket landed in an open area in a southern Israeli…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked Says Law Should Be ‘More Jewish’
JERUSALEM — The more Jewish Israel is, the more democratic it will become, the nation’s justice minister wrote in a new journal. The legal system in Israel should strengthen its Jewish nature, Ayelet Shaked wrote in the inaugural issue of the Hebrew language policy journal Hashiloach, published by the Tikva Fund. “When we wish to…
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Opinion The Orthodox Case for Hillary Clinton — and Against Donald Trump
The American Jewish Committee released the first national poll of Jewish voters earlier in September, and the news is good for Hillary Clinton: Jewish voters prefer her to Donald Trump by a 3–1 margin. But who are those Trump supporters? In Florida, a crucial swing state where the Jewish vote could actually tip the state…
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Israel News Israel’s New Settlement Slammed by U.S. as Betrayal of Shimon Peres Legacy
The Obama administration cast Israel’s plan to build 300 units deep inside the West Bank as a betrayal of U.S. friendship and of Shimon Peres’ legacy. The statement Wednesday by Mark Toner, the deputy State Department spokesman, was unusually lengthy and emotional in tone. Toner cited a $38 billion defense assistance agreement with Israel reached…
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