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Israel News Mazel Tov! Israeli Supermodel and Designer Bar Rafaeli Has Given Birth to a Baby Girl
— The Israeli model Bar Refaeli has given birth to a healthy baby girl. Refaeli, 31, gave birth to her first child on Thursday at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, which is also known as Ichilov hospital, Israeli media reported. The baby, weighing seven pounds, was named Liv. Refaeli is considered Israel’s leading female model and was featured…
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Fast Forward Vietnam Looks to Defend South China Sea Claims with Israeli Weapons, Analysts Say
Vietnam has secretly fortified several of the islands it claims in the disputed South China Sea region with new mobile rocket launchers purchased from Israel, according to Western officials. Foreign officials and military analysts believe the launchers form part of Vietnam’s Israeli state-of-art EXTRA rocket artillery system. The launchers have been hidden from aerial surveillance…
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Opinion I’m a Jew of Color and Accusing Israel of ‘Genocide’ Disgusts Me
I was initially a proponent of the Black Lives Matter movement. As a person of color, I was startled and frightened when I watched video footage of young people of color being shot in the back, choked to death and beaten. It proved that the lives of people of color, particularly of African Americans, were…
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Fast Forward On Eve of Annual Conference, Britain’s Labour Party Drops Security Firm With Ties to Israel
— The Labour Party in Britain was left without security arrangements for its annual conference next month following its boycott of a longtime contractor with ties to Israel. Labour’s dropping of the British-Danish G4S security multinational firm follows a controversial vote last year by members of its National Executive Committee, leaving the party with no fixed…
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Israel News The Drive to Make the Perfect Israeli Baby
‘Every mother in Israel wants a perfect baby, no less than that,” said Dr. Avraham Steinberg, the chief medical ethicist at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center, at a conference on Jewish genomics in Israel in July. For the past 12 years, Shaare Zedek has been in the business of making a more perfect baby. The…
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Fast Forward 5 Interesting Facts About Israeli Judo Bronze Medalist Yarden Gerbi
The Israeli judo fighter Yarden Gerbi made worldwide headlines after she won bronze in the under-63 kilogram weight category in Rio on Tuesday and secured the country’s first Olympic medal since 2008. While Gerbi celebrates her victory over France’s Clarisse Agbegnenou, here are five other interesting facts that you (probably) didn’t know about this 27-year-old…
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Fast Forward Judo Fighter Yarden Gerbi Scores Israel’s First Olympic Medal in Rio
Yarden Gerbi became the first Israeli to medal at the Rio Olympics, bringing home a bronze in the women’s 63-kg judo competition. Gerbi defeated Miku Tashiro of Japan on Tuesday for Israel’s first Olympic medal since the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. “The medal is for all of Israel, for everyone who supported me and cheered…
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Fast Forward Trump Adviser Reportedly Meets Senior Israeli Officials in Jerusalem
David Friedman, an adviser to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, visited Jerusalem and met with senior officials from the Prime Minister’s Office. According to a report in Haaretz, a senior government official told the newspaper that Friedman had sought the meeting and that to maintain balance, an adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had traveled…
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