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Fast Forward Brazil Resists Confirming Right Wing Settler Leader as Israel Envoy
Brazil is refusing to confirm Dani Dayan, who was named as Israeli ambassador to the country. Citing an unnamed senior Brazilian official, the Times of Israel reported Thursday that Brazil plans not to respond to Israel’s request for confirmation in hopes that the Jewish state will eventually name another ambassador. Dayan, a native of Argentina,…
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Fast Forward Republican Ben Carson Cancels Israel Trip, Citing ‘Security Concerns’
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson cancelled a trip to Israel, citing “security concerns.” Carson had been scheduled to travel to Israel on Dec. 27 and meet with Israeli government officials, and then travel to Kenya, Zambia and Nigeria, returning to the United States on January 2, 2016, according to the Washington Post. “The trip has…
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Fast Forward State Department Issues Travel Warning for Israel
The U.S. State Department has issued a travel warning for Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. The warning, which replaces one issued in February, was issued Wednesday due to what the State Department called “heightened tensions and security risks.” The warning notes a “rise in political tensions and violence in Jerusalem and the West Bank…
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The Schmooze Bar Refaeli Questioned for 12 Hours in Tax Case
Supermodel Bar Refaeli was reportedly questioned for 12 hours by authorities under suspicion of failing to pay millions of shekels in taxes. Refaeli, 30, was identified by Israeli media on Thursday as the unnamed supermodel who was questioned on Wednesday until midnight. She is suspected of failing to report gifts and discounts on luxury goods,…
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Opinion The Left’s Double Standard on ‘Tolerance’
When is open dialogue prized, and when is it synonymous with capitulation? Two disputes that happened within a day of each other highlighted that question along the deepest fault lines in modern Jewish life: the dispute over religious pluralism, and the relationship between Israeli Jews and their Arab neighbors. On December 9, Israel’s Ashkenazi chief…
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News Fake Brooklyn Charity Admits Israel ‘Research Lab’ Was Sham
Until early last year, the website of a Brooklyn-based charity called the National Children’s Leukemia Foundation boasted that the organization had its own “biomedical cancer research center” where “leading scientists” were working on cancer treatments. A PowerPoint slide that the group’s founder, Zvi Shor, used in a presentation showed an office building where the research…
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Fast Forward Bibi Blames Palestinians for Lack of Peace Progress in Rebuke to John Kerry
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed the Palestinians for the lack of progress toward peace in an apparent response to statements by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. “The time has come for the international community to understand that the reason there is no negotiation and no progress toward peace is not Israel’s fault but…
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Opinion VIDEO: Extremists Incite Witch Hunt Against Israeli Human Rights Advocates
If this isn’t incitement, I don’t know what is. Im Tirtzu, the Israeli extreme right-wing organization that has ties to the Likud and Yisrael Beitenu parties, just posted a horrific video on social media, accusing four Israeli human rights activists of being “foreign operatives” who help facilitate Palestinian terror attacks. The video ad is meant…
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