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Fast Forward Is Israel’s Fast-Growing Population Its Biggest Threat?
Israel’s birth rate, the highest in the developed world and once seen as a survival tactic in a hostile region, could be its undoing unless measures are taken to reverse the trend. The average Israeli woman has three babies in her lifetime, nearly double the fertility rate for the rest of the industrialized countries in…
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Opinion Boehner’s Successor Will Be Pro-Israel. Here’s Why Netanyahu Should Worry Anyway.
Here’s a sure bet: the next Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives will be just as supportive of Israel, in general, and of Benjamin Netanyahu, in particular, as John Boehner ever was during his almost five years at the helm. In today’s Republican Party, unabashed backing for Israel and whatever policy it pursues is…
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Opinion How Israel Can — and Should — Help Refugees
The kerchief-covered mother, a refugee desperately holding her children, reminds me of my aunt as she desperately held her child, wandering over the ruins of Europe. The refugees begging frantically to board the trains remind me of the relatives I never knew, who boarded trains to their death. For us as Jews, the Holocaust always…
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Fast Forward Bar Refaeli Weds as No-Fly Zone Rules
Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli married Adi Ezra in a traditional Jewish wedding at the Carmel Forest Spa Resort in northern Israel. Refaeli, 30, and Ezra, a businessman whose family owns the Israeli food importing company Neto ME Holdings, wed Thursday. Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman officiated at the ceremony, which according to some reports had 300…
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Fast Forward Australian Premier Warned Not To Cozy Up to Iran
An Australian Jewish lawmaker called on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to dump the nation’s current policy of rapprochement with Iran. In a statement issued Monday, Michael Danby, a federal Labor member of parliament representing Melbourne Ports, said that Turnbull “can be a friend of Israel or a friend of the dangerous Iranian regime. He cannot…
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Fast Forward Fast Train From Tel Aviv to Jerusalem Stalled by Shabbat Dispute
The completion of a fast train connection between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem will be delayed by two years because of the Israeli economy ministry’s refusal to allow work on Shabbat, Israel Railway said. The statement Friday said the project, which is due to be completed in 2017, may take until 2019, Army Radio reported. Israel…
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Fast Forward Is $300M Israel Diaspora Program Dead in the Water?
With a budget reaching $300 million, it was conceived as a broad partnership between the Israeli government and leading Diaspora Jewish groups. Its goal: to create a stronger connection between global Jews and Israel. But nearly two years after its launch was announced with much fanfare — and after a string of delays — the…
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Fast Forward French Telecom Firm Orange Invests in Israeli Start-Up
A French telecommunications company that generated controversy earlier this year when its CEO said he wanted to cut all business ties to Israel has invested in an Israel-based start-up. Hola, a video distribution network for publishers, said Wednesday that it raised $17 million in a funding round led by a strategic partnership between France’s Orange…
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