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Opinion My Mayor Thinks He Can Show ‘Who Owns Jerusalem’ — With a Cable Car
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat declared recently that new transportation arrangements for the city have been designed to “cause the wider world to understand who really owns the city.” Barkat was describing his proposed project to create a new tourist entrance into the Old City by building a cable car up from David’s City through the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Troops Kill Unarmed Palestinian Who ‘Ran at Them’ on West Bank
Israeli soldiers on Friday shot and killed an apparently unarmed Palestinian who ran towards their position in a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, and the incident was under review, a military spokeswoman said. A Palestinian official said the 38-year-old man suffered from mental illness, and several unsourced Israeli news websites reported that no…
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Fast Forward Apple Scrambles To Fix Israeli Firm’s iPhone Hack
— The discovery of an Israeli firm’s secret method of hacking in iPhones and iPads prompted Apple Inc to issue a patch to fix a flaw in the security of its products. The iPhone hack of the NSO Group, an Israeli company that makes software for governments which can secretly target mobile phones and gather…
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Opinion Stop Trying To Paint Democrats as Weak On Israel
(JTA) — Every four years the same movie plays at the Jewish Political Film Festival: It’s the one where the Democrats pass another party platform with more ironclad support for Israel and then nominate yet another presidential candidate whose record on Israel is beyond question. The ending is always the same, too, with two-thirds to three-quarters…
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Fast Forward Israel Sold Arms to Argentina for 1982 Falklands War Against Britain: Secret Files
— Israel sold weapons to Argentina that were used to bomb British soldiers during the height of the Falklands War in 1982, newly declassified documents from the British Foreign Office show. Among Israel’s military exports to the Argentine military were Skyhawk jets, which killed dozens of British troops in the conflict, the British daily The…
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Fast Forward Egyptian Olympian Lashes Out Over Israeli Photobombing
— An Egyptian Olympian who appears in a viral photo featuring an Israeli flag said on Facebook that she was photobombed by “dirty” people and there will “never be peace between me and these people in my life.” Doaa Elghobashy, 19, a volleyball player, has been harshly criticized on Arab social media since the Israeli…
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Israel News Are Ultra-Orthodox Ready To Join Israel’s Start-Up Nation Boom?
Avreimi Wingut uses what is known in the ultra-Orthodox world as a “kosher” cell phone, without access to YouTube or Facebook. But as the co-founder of Kama Tech, an Israeli organization supporting Haredim in Israel’s high tech workforce, he hopes to see more religious Jews working in companies like these. There’s no contradiction there, he…
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Opinion Israelis and Palestinians Could Make Peace Tomorrow If Not for This Misperception
If the political will existed, Israelis and Palestinians could reach a peace agreement tomorrow, based on specific terms that majorities on both sides would accept. But it’s not likely to happen, in part because of the nearly bottomless mistrust that each side feels toward the other. What’s more, mistrust has been growing over the past…
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