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News Carlos Santana Will Go Ahead With Israel Gig — ‘Black Magic Woman’ Singer Shuns BDS
Carlos Santana is moving ahead with a performance, just days away now, in Tel Aviv — shunning public calls from the movement for the boycott, divest and sanction against Israel for him to cancel. The Grammy-award winning rock superstar is scheduled to play in Tel Aviv on July 30. And while Palestinian, Israeli and American…
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Fast Forward U.S. Issues Warning Over Jerusalem Gay Pride March
The U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem issued a warning Tuesday to American citizens to “exercise caution” at the city’s gay pride parade. The statement two days before the Jerusalem Pride Parade comes as the city and police announced increased security measures for the march. At last year’s parade, a haredi Orthodox man stabbed to death a…
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Fast Forward Student’s Nude Painting of Ayelet Shaked Censored by Israeli College
An Israeli art college removed a student’s painting from a year-end exhibit that depicted a naked woman with the face of Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked. The removal of the painting at the Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, a public college in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv, prompted a department head to resign. Larry…
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Fast Forward 12-Year-Old Palestinian Boy Reportedly Killed By Israeli Forces During West Bank Clashes
A 12-year-old Palestinian boy reportedly was killed by Israeli security forces during clashes in the West Bank. Citing the Palestinian news agency Maan, The Times of Israel said Mohiyeh al-Tabakhi was killed Tuesday evening in the town of al-Ram as Israeli forces fired rubber bullets during the clashes there. The official Palestinian Wafa news agency…
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Opinion Uncovering the Lost Palestinian Villages Underneath Glitzy Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv residents are often described as living in a “bubble,” because of their relative distance from the epicenter of conflict and occupation, and because, at least compared to Jerusalem, the zeitgeist of the city tends toward liberalism and open-mindedness. But despite all the talk about Tel Aviv’s insulated status, this “first Hebrew city” is…
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Fast Forward Could Israeli Tech Help European Union Weed Out ‘Lone Wolf’ Terror Suspects?
European powers are trying to develop better means for pre-emptively spotting “lone-wolf” militants from their online activities and are looking to Israeli-developed technologies, a senior EU security official said on Tuesday. Last week’s truck rampage in France and Monday’s axe attack aboard a train in Germany have raised European concern about self-radicalized assailants who have…
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Fast Forward Israel Army Rabbi Calls Gays ‘Perverts’ — Says No Need To Prevent Civilian Deaths
A rabbi who heads a religious Zionist pre-military yeshiva in the West Bank has come under criticism for calling homosexuals “perverts” and claiming the Israeli army is promoting a socially liberal agenda. Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, who runs the Bnei David academy in the Eli settlement, also said last week at a conference — a video…
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Fast Forward 2 Israeli Soldiers Wounded in Stabbing Near Hebron
JERUSALEM — Two soldiers were wounded in a Palestinian stabbing attack between Hebron and Gush Etzion. The attack on Monday afternoon occurred while the soldiers were carrying out a routine patrol on Route 60, a well-traveled West Bank thoroughfare, near the al-Aroub refugee camp north of Hebron. The Palestinian assailant was shot by one of…
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