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Fast Forward American Diplomat Says Defending Israel Tougher Without 2-State Commitment
A new Israeli government that does not back a two-state solution will make the U.S. job of defending Israel “a lot tougher,” according to a top State Department official. Wendy Sherman, the undersecretary of state leading Iran talks, on Monday addressed the biennial of the Reform movement’s Religious Action Center. “We have always had Israel’s…
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The Schmooze Injured Israeli Bird Gets Feather Transplant From a German (Bird)
An injured Israeli swift has been saved from certain death by a feather transplant, thanks to an ornithophiliac couple in south Tel Aviv – and a unique collaboration between an Israeli zoo and a German clinic. Swifts are peculiarly beloved birds. They are wild and rather too small to bother eating, though certain Asian cuisines…
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Culture Searching for My Indian Jewish Family, From Kabbalah to Bollywood
MUMBAI — On my first morning in India, I found myself staring at an egg. That and a cup of coffee was all my hotel’s “free continental breakfast” amounted to, but I didn’t feel cheated. I felt vindicated. After all, I’d come to India because of an egg. I cracked the hard-boiled shell and peeled…
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Fast Forward Israel Evacuates Surrogate Parents and Babies From Quake-Ravaged Nepal
(Reuters) — Israel began evacuating infants born to surrogate mothers and their Israeli parents from Nepal on Monday, on the return legs of flights sent to provide earthquake relief. Many Israeli male couples have fathered children with the help of surrogate mothers in Nepal because in Israel the procedure is limited by law to heterosexual…
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Fast Forward Terrorists Planting Bomb on Israeli-Syria Border Killed in Strike
Four terrorists attempting to plant a bomb along Israel’s border with Syria were killed in an Israeli airstrike. The terrorists were killed Sunday evening as they laid the explosives in the Golan Heights. The men, who were in Israeli territory but did not breach the border fence, had been identified by an Israel Defense Forces…
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Fast Forward Nepal Earthquake Aftershocks Delay IDF Emergency Aid Mission
An Israel Defense Forces emergency aid mission to Nepal was delayed after a runway in the capital city of Kathmandu was damaged by aftershocks. Two jumbo jets containing a search-and-rescue team and a fully equipped field hospital were scheduled to take off on Monday morning after being delayed 12 hours in order to monitor changing…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Man Arrested Over Jerusalem Car Attack That Injured Four Police Officers
A Palestinian man from eastern Jerusalem has been arrested in connection with a car ramming attack that injured four Israeli police officers. The police officers were injured Saturday night when a car deliberately ran into them while they were standing by a road near A-Tur, the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood near the Mount of Olives where…
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Fast Forward Israel Will Observe Nuclear Pact Meeting, Hopes to Foster Dialog With Arab States
Israel will take part as an observer in a major nuclear non-proliferation conference that opens at the United Nations on Monday, ending a 20-year absence in hope of fostering dialog with Arab states, a senior Israeli official said. Assumed to have the Middle East’s sole nuclear arsenal, and having never joined the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,…
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