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Fast Forward Sex Offender Charged With Fondling Woman on Overnight Flight to Israel
A New York man was charged with sexually abusing a woman on a flight from Israel to Newark, New Jersey. Yoel Oberlander, 35, was charged Friday in federal court in Newark. U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph A. Dickson ordered Oberlander, who is a registered sex offender, detained after the indictment. According to the indictment, Oberlander was…
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Israel News The Fight to Save the ‘Ellis Island of Israel’
Jaffa – In 1932, a German Jewish judge named Kurte Tuchler traveled to British Mandate Palestine as an emissary of the German Zionist movement. After landing in the Jaffa port, he entered the new terminal building, erected the year before as the gateway for the thousands of Jewish immigrants who would make their way to…
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Fast Forward Despite Obama’s Veto Threat, House Passes Funding Boost for Israel’s Defense
The House of Representatives easily passed a $576 billion defense appropriations bill — including an allocation of $635 million for Israel’s missile defense programs, which the president said he would veto. Thursday’s vote on the bill in the Republican-controlled house passed 282-138, to Defense News. The massive $576 billion defense appropriations bill for the upcoming…
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Opinion What We Orthodox Jews Must Do To Save the Western Wall
On Thursday afternoon, around 500 men and women gathered in the Southern Plaza of the Western Wall — a stone piazza commonly used for swearing in soldiers or taking an iconic tourist selfie near Judaism’s holiest site — to hold a defiant afternoon prayer service in response to what they feel was a terrible display…
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Fast Forward Parents of African Immigrant Sue Israel — Slain After Being Mistaken for Terrorist
JERUSALEM — The parents of an Eritrean man shot and killed at the scene of a terror attack in Beersheba after being mistaken for the terrorist are suing the state. The parents of Haftom Zarhum are asking for $3 million shekel, about $780,000, in damages for the October 2015 killing. The lawsuit includes the Israel…
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Fast Forward Israel Plans to Underground Concrete Wall To Thwart Gaza Tunnels
JERUSALEM — Israel’s defense establishment plans to build a concrete wall that goes tens of yards underground as well as above ground along the Gaza Strip border. The plan, revealed on Thursday on the front page of the Israeli daily newspaper Yediot Acharonot, will cost an estimated $568 million, less than previously estimated, according to…
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Fast Forward Israeli-Americans in Boston Suburb of Newton Air Anti-Semitism Concerns
BOSTON – Amid a spike in anti-Semitic activity across New England, Jewish and Israeli residents met with the mayor of Newton, Massachusetts, to express their concern about incidents in the Boston suburb’s school system. More than 150 people attended the standing-room-only community forum with Newton Mayor Setti Warren Tuesday evening. The meeting followed the revelation in late February of several acts of…
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Fast Forward U.S. Signals It May Add Missile-Defense Aid to Israeli Package
The Obama administration is prepared to incorporate missile defense funds in a new long-term agreement on military aid for Israel, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, accommodating in principle a key request by its ally in the yet-unresolved talks. Disputes over the scope and fine print of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) have clouded already…
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