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Fast Forward Jews Say Bye-Bye Brazil as Economy and Crime Bite
Fruit smoothie and juice bars come a dime a dozen in Tel Aviv. But this is probably the only one that sells fresh-squeezed sugarcane juice mixed with pineapple – a Brazilian classic. It is definitely the only such establishment that bakes its own Brazilian cheese rolls, otherwise known as pao de queijo, and serves them…
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News Is Birthright To Blame for Sexual Harassment on Trip?
Taglit-Birthright Israel sends 200 groups of young adult Jews to Israel each year. This summer alone, the program hosted 30,000 participants, an all-time record. Many of those participants say that Birthright is a life-changing experience. But something went very wrong on a trip in early June, and those involved assert that the organizer’s lax regulation…
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Opinion Why We Need To Subsidize Teen Travel to Israel
Another summer season has passed and parents of high-school-age teens who wanted to give their children an experience of Israel had to dig deep into their pockets and pay the full cost. Programs for teens that range from three to six weeks can cost up to 10,000 dollars for teens coming from the West Coast…
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Fast Forward Freed African MIgrants Banned From Tel Aviv
The some 1,200 illegal migrants who will be released from a Negev detention facility will not be allowed to settle in Tel Aviv or Eilat. The migrants, most asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan, will receive a temporary residence permit when they leave the Holot detention center, which will prevent them from entering the two…
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Fast Forward Israel Deepens Ties to Kurds With $1B Oil Buy
Israel has purchased $1 billion worth of oil from Iraqi Kurdistan in recent months, the Financial Times reported. The import of some 19 million barrels of oil took place over the last three months, The Financial Times report said, citing shipping data, trading sources and satellite tanker tracking. The amount represents about one third of…
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Fast Forward American Airlines To Cancel Flights to Israel
American Airlines announced that it will stop flying to Israel. The airline said it will halt its Philadelphia to Tel Aviv route in January because it is losing money, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. It is the only American Airlines route to Israel. The route was first inaugurated in 2009. The office of Philadelphia Mayor Michael…
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Fast Forward First Ultra-Orthodox Woman Admitted to El Al Pilot Training
Israel’s national airline, El Al, accepted a haredi Orthodox woman into its pilot training program. Identified in Israeli media only by her first name, Nechama, the new recruit is a mother of three children in her early 30s from a town near Jerusalem, the news site www.ch10.co.il reported on Wednesday. Nechama, who will be El…
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Fast Forward Israel Points Finger at Iran as Syria Border Fight Flares
Israel said it killed at least five Palestinian militants in an air strike on the Syrian Golan Heights on Friday, after cross-border rocket fire from Syria prompted the heaviest Israeli bombardment since the start of Syria’s four-year-old civil war. An Israeli defense official said the people killed in Friday’s air strike were Palestinian militants from…
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