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Fast Forward 16-Year-Old Stabbed at Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade Dies of Wounds
A 16-year-old victim of the Jerusalem Gay Pride parade stabbing attack has died. Shira Banki died Sunday afternoon at Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem, where she had been fighting for her life after being stabbed in the chest and stomach. Her family agreed to donate her organs, Hadassah announced. “The murder at the pride…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu: Israel Condemns Murders of Palestinians, Who Celebrate Killing of Jews
Israel condemns the murders of Palestinians, who celebrate the killing of Israelis, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “This is what distinguishes us from our neighbors. We deplore and condemn these murderers. We will pursue them to the end. They name public squares after the murderers of children. This distinction cannot be blurred or covered…
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Fast Forward Grandfather of Toddler Killed in Arson Attack: I Helped Build Hospital Treating My Family
In the wake of the arson attack that killed 18-month-old Ali Saad Dawabshe, his grandfather, Hussein Dawabshe, has written a personal account of the events for the Israeli daily paper Yedioth Ahronoth. The attack in Duma was apparently perpetrated by Jewish settlers, who left Hebrew graffiti reading “revenge” on the building. Israeli officials called the…
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Fast Forward Gay Pride Parade Stabbing Victim Still Fighting for Her Life
One of the victims of the stabbing attack at the Jerusalem Gay Pride parade is still fighting for her life. The 16-year-old girl is in very critical condition at Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem, according to reports. She was stabbed in the chest and stomach. Yishai Schlissel, a haredi Orthodox man from Modiin Ilit…
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Opinion Why Jewish Terror Is Different This Time
Israel was stunned last week by a pair of violent attacks, both apparently perpetrated by Jewish extremists, just hours apart, that seemed to suggest a country teetering on a precipice, threatened with a wave of Jewish religious violence. It may indeed be on that precipice, but not in the way it appears at first glance….
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Letters Appeal to Authority
Among the most potent logical fallacies available to the polemicist is the “appeal to authority,” by which one attempts to suggest that the opinion of an expert on a question within the general area of his expertise must be correct. An “appeal to authority” is at the heart of J.J. Goldberg’s column “Israel Security Establishment…
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Opinion Negotiator Breaks Down Science of Iran Nuclear Deal
The Forward urged readers in to be “productive, reasoned, thoughtful, appropriately skeptical, [and] engaged” in deciding to support or oppose the Iran nuclear agreement concluded in Vienna — and to take seriously concerns that this might increase the threat to Israel. But it also acknowledged that the status quo is unacceptable, and that readers should…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Military Censor Calls for New Openness
Sima Vaknin-Gill may be Israel’s last chief military censor. And she makes no secret of welcoming that. After 10 years in a role that stirs frequent annoyance and occasional dread among journalists, Vaknin-Gill wants her office, which dates back to the country’s wartime founding, replaced with a streamlined civilian agency more in sync with contemporary…
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