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Opinion How American Jews Can Fight the Academic Intifada
As the New York Times reported this weekend, Israel is under attack. Except, this time, the tools of attack are not military. They are not rockets fired on Sderot from Gaza, or Hezbollah-sponsored salvos from Lebanon. The attacks are not even located in Israel itself. They are attacks on the very idea of Israel, and…
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Israel News Birthright Paves Path to BDS for Some Participants
Sam Sussman’s tour of Masada started in a pretty standard way. It happened three years ago as part of the Taglit-Birthright program, which offers young Jews free 10-day trips to Israel. At Masada, 50 American students were on hand. Sussman, a 24-year-old New Yorker, climbed to the top of the plateau and expected the requisite…
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Opinion My Message to the Man Who Attacked Me at the Kotel
On a sunny morning last month, I was swept into the women’s section of the Western Wall in Jerusalem in a flurry of aggression directed at the Women of the Wall, the Israeli group fighting for women’s prayer at Jerusalem’s holiest site. (JTA) One of the group’s male supporters, Charlie Kalech, was strangled and thrown…
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Fast Forward Sara Netanyahu Accuses Her Accuser in Ex-Caretaker’s Lawsuit
The wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the media and made new accusations against a former employee who is suing the Netanyahus. Sara Netanyahu testified Sunday in Jerusalem Labor Court in a suit by Meni Naftali, who served for nearly two years as the caretaker for the official Prime Minister’s Residence. In the…
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Fast Forward 2 Spanish-Language Networks: Israeli Aid to Nepal Was Cover for Baby Trafficking
Israel used its humanitarian aid mission to Nepal as a cover for trafficking 25 Nepalese babies, two Spanish-language networks reported. Iranian HispanTV and Venezuela’s Telesur networks broadcast the reports. Telesur is the national public television channel in Venezuela, which is rebroadcast throughout Latin America on other public television networks. HispanTV broadcast the original report, which…
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Fast Forward Ethiopian-Israelis Want Police Officer Who Beat Soldier To Go On Trial
Ethiopian-Israeli activists called for a police officer caught on camera beating an Ethiopian-Israeli soldier to be put on trial. At a news conference Sunday in Tel Aviv, the activists also demanded that charges be dropped against protesters arrested in the city last week during a demonstration spurred by the attack that turned violent, The Jerusalem…
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Fast Forward Israel Closes Field Hospital in Nepal After Treating 1,400 Patients
Israel closed its field hospital in Kathmandu at a joint ceremony with its Nepali counterparts. The 60-bed field hospital, which treated over 1,400 patients during its 10 days of operation, was closed on Sunday, Reuters reported. The hospital performed 90 life-saving surgeries, and delivered eight babies, six by Caesarean section, according to the Times of…
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Fast Forward Israeli Cabinet Approves Proposal To Expand Government — and Save Netanyahu’s Coalition
Israel’s Cabinet approved a proposal to expand the number of government ministers to more than the current 18. The decision was made by the outgoing Cabinet of the 33rd government of Israel and overturns a law passed during its term limiting the number of Cabinet ministers and deputy ministers. Netanyahu reportedly plans to appoint 20…
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