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Fast Forward Israeli Says He Faked His Own Kidnapping Due to Gambling Debts
The Israeli man who faked his own kidnapping said he did so because criminals were looking for him due to his massive gambling debts. Niv Asraf, 22, was found alive on Friday in Kiryat Arba. Asraf told interrogators, according to reports: “I got mixed up in gambling and owed tens of thousands of shekels. The…
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Fast Forward Iran Helping Hamas Rebuild Terror Tunnels: Report
Iran has sent tens of millions of dollars to Hamas to help rebuild the Gaza tunnels destroyed by Israel during last summer’s conflict, the Telegraph reported. Iran also is funding new missiles to replenish the supply used to attack Israel before and during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge, the London-based newspaper reported citing unnamed intelligence sources….
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Fast Forward Abbas Rejects Israel’s Partial Transfer of Palestinian Tax Revenues
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday Israel had released frozen tax revenues to the Authority but that he had ordered the funds to be returned because money had been deducted to cover debts to Israeli utility companies. Israel started withholding around $130 million a month in tax and customs revenues in December. The…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Presses U.S. To Seek Better Iran Deal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the United States on Sunday to seek a better deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program and said he would press American lawmakers not give Tehran “a free path to the bomb.” Netanyahu, in the first of several appearances on U.S. Sunday news programs, said he has spoken with both…
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Fast Forward U.S. Senator: Iran Nuclear Deal Does Not Threaten Israel
A nuclear framework agreement reached between world powers and Iran does not threaten the survival of Israel, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein said on Sunday. Feinstein, a leading Democratic voice on foreign affairs as vice chairman of the Senate select committee on intelligence, was responding to comments by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticizing the deal….
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Fast Forward Young Man Trampled to Death at His Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi’s Funeral
One man was killed and at least three critically injured during a funeral for a senior haredi rabbi. Nearly 100,000 people came to B’nei Brak early Sunday morning for the funeral procession for Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Wosner. Wosner died on Friday night at a B’nei Brak hospital, where he had been hospitalized since March, shortly…
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Fast Forward Will Rwanda Take Israel’s African Migrants in Exchange for Favorable Contracts?
Israel and Rwanda are discussing a deal in which the East African nation would take in illegal migrants from the Jewish state in exchange for favorable contracts. Under the proposed agreement, which has come under scrutiny by human rights organizations, Israel would send hundreds of Eritrean and Sudanese nationals, many of them asylum-seekers, to Rwanda…
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Fast Forward Rwanda Eyes Deal With Israel To Accept Refugees in Exchange for Cash and Contracts
Israel and Rwanda are discussing a deal in which the East African nation would take in illegal migrants from the Jewish state in exchange for favorable contracts. Under the proposed agreement, which has come under scrutiny by human rights organizations, Israel would send hundreds of Eritrean and Sudanese nationals, many of them asylum-seekers, to Rwanda…
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