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Opinion It’s Time Israel Believed the Victims in the Yemenite Babies Affair
Between 1948 and 1954, hundreds of children of immigrant families, about two thirds of them Yemenis and the rest of other Mizrahi background, disappeared from hospitals and transit camps in Israel. Parents were told that their children had died, though no bodies or death certificates were presented. Seventeen years later, many of the children received…
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News WATCH: Ultra-Orthodox Rip Up Prayer Book To Protest Western Wall Bat Mitzvah
A video by Israeli feminist organization Women of the Wall reveals an Orthodox man ripping a prayer book to shreds in protest of women reading at the Western Wall and an American girl’s bat mitzvah. Established in 1988, WOW gathers once a month at Rosh Hodesh to read from the Torah in protest of Orthodox…
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Fast Forward Israel Tightens Noose Around Palestinian Hebron After Terror Killings
Israel has ramped up security in the occupied West Bank since a Palestinian killed a 13-year-old Jewish girl in a settlement last week, deploying more troops and setting up checkpoints near the city of Hebron. Attention is on Bani Na’im, a town to the east where the girl’s killer, a 19-year-old who stabbed her as…
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Opinion Meet Tair Kaminer, the 19-Year-Old Conscientious Objector Who Just Made Israeli History
IDF military prison number 6 lies in one of the most picturesque spots in Israel, at the bottom of the Carmel Mountain, between green fields and banana plantations. The prisoners can see the mountains from the yard, but there is no view of the Mediterranean, less than a mile away. The prison includes a separate…
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Opinion Why Israel’s Mossad and Shin Bet Leaders Are Morphing Into ‘Leftists’
How bad have the tensions gotten between Israel’s security establishment and its political leadership? Pretty bad, and getting worse. Two public events in late June, three days apart, illustrate the depth of the growing animosity. One was a gathering near Tel Aviv of retired senior military and intelligence officers, sponsored by the Council for Peace…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Adviser Says GOP Might Reject Two-State Solution
A policy adviser to Donald Trump that the Republican party might be due to assert more support for Israeli settlements, and possibly reject all together the idea of a two-state solution, which has long been a pillar of both Democratic and Republican policy in the region. David Friedman, a real estate lawyer and bankruptcy expert who Trump has described…
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Fast Forward Algeria Reportedly Cancels Soccer Match Over Israeli Coach
Don’t hate the player, hate the Jewish coach, might be Algeria’s sports motto. Algeria’s soccer team is reportedly pulling out of a friendly match with Ghana because they have an Israeli head coach, reporting from Ghanaian media. According to the report, the Algerian team canceled the match scheduled for September to ensure that Avram Grant…
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Fast Forward Israel Gives Green Light to 1,400 New Homes for West Bank Settlers
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorized the construction of new housing for Jewish citizens in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. An anonymous Israeli official confirmed Netanyahu gave the green light to build nearly the 1,400 new homes, reported Tuesday, primarily in response to the rash of Palestinian attacks on Israelis and visiting Americans since September 2015. Nearly…
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