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Fast Forward Hebron Becomes Focus of Conflict as Israel Backs Jewish Settlers
Israel shut down the main radio station in Hebron on Tuesday and turned part of the city in the occupied West Bank into a closed military zone, with troops clamping down on a district that has become the focal point of violent unrest. The city, 30 km (20 miles) south of Jerusalem, is the largest…
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Fast Forward Israel Now Neutral on Ousting Syria’s Bashar al-Assad
Israel is no longer taking a public position on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s prospects of staying in power, its defense minister said on Tuesday, citing the opposing goals of the United States and Russia as they intervene in the civil war. Seeing enemies on all sides of the insurgency that erupted in the neighboring Arab…
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Fast Forward Israel Minister Pushes ‘Paws’ on Plan To Deport Stray Cats
Agricultural Minister Uri Ariel has backpedaled on his controversial recommendation that Israel’s population of stray cats be transferred to a foreign country to control their numbers in a way that accords with Jewish law. Following widespread derision, Ariel has maintained that the Environmental Protection Ministry should no longer spay and neuter stray cats and dogs….
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News Israel Cat Fight Erupts as Minister Pushes to Deport Strays
Claws were out on Monday after an Israeli cabinet minister proposed sending stray dogs and cats to another country as an alternative to government-funded efforts to sterilize them. “Use the budget to transfer stray dogs and/or cats of one gender (all the males or all the females) to a foreign nation that will agree to…
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Opinion Why My Jordanian Students Thought I Was Lying About Judaism
“So, wait, Miss — there is a difference between Jews and Israelis?” Coming from a seventh-grade Jordanian of Palestinian origin, this question was a breakthrough in my classroom. As a foreign teacher in a private Jordanian school, I need to be careful what I say in front of my students. I am not allowed to…
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Opinion The Wesleyan Debate on Free Speech — and What It Means for Israel
A debate over race and free speech is roiling my beloved alma mater, and in it I find unmistakable parallels to the fraught conversation about Israel that is the subject of so much Sturm und Drang — and so much communal spending — on college campuses across the country. The analogy isn’t exact. The harassment…
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News In Rabin Square, Few Lessons From the Murder of a General Turned Peacemaker
As memorial ceremonies for slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin kicked off in Israel, the Tel Aviv square named in his honor was empty. A tropical rainstorm had chased away visitors. Just a few people walked through a photo exhibit at the plaza that marked 20 years since Rabin was assassinated by right-wing extremist Yigal Amir…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Teen Killed at Checkpoint — 8-Month-Old Dies After Tear Gas Fired
Israeli security forces shot and killed a Palestinian who ran at them with a knife in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, police said, as a month-long wave of violence showed no signs of abating. An Israeli police spokeswoman said that at a checkpoint in the northern West Bank a Palestinian holding a knife ran…
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