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News Jonathan Pollard Freed After 30 Years in Prison for Spying
Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was released on parole in the United States on Friday after 30 years in prison, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, a case that became a serious strain in relations between the close allies. “The people of Israel welcome the release of Jonathan Pollard,” Netanyahu said in a statement. “After three…
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News American Terror Victim Was Suburban Boston Teen Studying for Year in Israel
The American killed in a West Bank shooting was a Massachusetts teenager who was studying for a year at an Israeli yeshiva. Ezra Schwartz, 18, of the Boston suburb of Sharon, was reportedly returning from visiting a memorial to the three young people kidnapped and killed in 2014 when he was ambushed near the settlement…
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Fast Forward 5 Killed in Tel Aviv and West Bank Including an American Yeshiva Student
Three people were killed in a shooting attack in the West Bank, including an American yeshiva student, hours after two Jewish men were stabbed to death in Tel Aviv at a prayer service. The five deaths in the attacks, reportedly by Palestinians, are the most on a single day since the latest spate of terror…
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Fast Forward Court Rules Israeli Transgender Activist’s Body Will Be Cremated
The body of an Israeli transgender activist will be cremated as she requested in her will, despite objections by her haredi Orthodox mother. The Jerusalem District Court ruled Wednesday that the body of May Peleg will be cremated, the Hebrew-language news website Walla! reported. Peleg, 31, committed suicide, according to a statement released from the…
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Fast Forward Europe Envoy Trashes Holocaust Claims in West Bank Labeling Fight
Attempts to compare the European Union’s settlement labeling guidelines to the Nazi boycott of Jewish goods and stores cheapens the memory of the Holocaust, the EU envoy to Israel said. The attempt to draw parallels is a “distortion of history and a belittlement of the crimes of the Nazis and the memories of their victims,”…
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News Israel Says Paris Attacks Prove Its Point About Terror — But Europe Disagrees
In the days after Islamic State terrorists attacked Paris, killing 129, Israeli officials had a message for the people of France: We feel your pain. The Paris attacks came on the heels of a bloody six weeks in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, in which 14 Israelis and more than 70 Palestinians have been killed….
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Fast Forward Fabled 1,700-Year-Old Lod Mosaic Goes on Display
A 1,700-year-old mosaic unearthed in the summer of 2014 — adjacent to the site where a world-famous mosaic was unearthed in Israel — is going on display for the first time. While excavating during construction of a permanent home and visitors center for the Lod Mosaic, which was found during highway construction in central Israel…
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News When Israel Demolishes a Palestinian Home, Does It Deter Terror or Encourage It?
Muawiyah Abu Jamal, a slight 42-year-old construction worker, recalls vividly the night that Israeli security forces came to his East Jerusalem neighborhood to demolish the nearby home of his younger brother, Ghassan Abu Jamal. The October 6 demolition came, he recalled, almost one year after his brother and his cousin, Odai Abu Jamal, attacked a…
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