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Fast Forward American-Born Israeli Poet Janice Silverman Rebibo Dies at 65
Known for her bold, vivid and often humorous poetic voice in English and Hebrew, the critically acclaimed American-born Israeli poet Janice Silverman Rebibo has died. Rebibo, of Brookline, Mass. and Rehovot, Israel, died on March 11, after a year-long battle against cancer at the age of 65. Over many decades, the bilingual poet and educator…
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Fast Forward Michael Oren: After Netanyahu Speech, Israel Must Repair Ties With U.S.
Israel must try to repair relations with the United States no matter who wins Tuesday’s election, said Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to Washington and a potential foreign minister if his party joins the next government. “We have to do a major reach-out. There’s some work to be done,” Oren said, citing strained ties…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Offers Finance Ministry to Rival Days Before Election
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, trailing in opinion polls two days before a parliamentary election, publicly offered on Sunday the Finance Ministry portfolio to a potentially king-making rival. Facing possible upset defeat in the March 17 vote, Netanyahu has launched a media blitz to counter what appears to be a rising tide of support for…
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Israel News From Pot to Pirates, Meet the Parties That Definitely Won’t Win Israel’s Election
This year, Israel’s pro-marijuana party, Green Leaf, struck a self-aware tone in its appeal to voters: “Of course it is not the most important thing,” the party’s campaign slogan calling for pot legalization read. “But it is very important.” In an election dominated by security and economic issues, that dictum might sum up the sales…
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Fast Forward Mideast Peace Talks Were Like a Bad Divorce
(JTA) — Part of the reason Israeli-Palestinian peace talks failed last year is because the sides were so far apart in their fundamental visions of what two states would look like. Another reason is that the two sides could barely stand each other. Those are two of the contentions contained in a blistering critique of…
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News Israel Left-Center Opposition Surges to Lead as Election Nears
Israel’s center-left opposition is poised for an upset victory in national elections next week, with the last opinion polls before the March 17 vote giving it a solid lead over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party. Polls in two of Israel’s leading newspapers predicted the Zionist Union would secure 25 or 26 seats in the 120-seat…
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Opinion Israel’s Debates Creep (Back) Into Our Bloodstream
Regardless of how Israelis vote on March 17, it will take weeks of coalition negotiations before we learn what the next government in Jerusalem will look like. Still, it’s not too early to start surveying what we’ve already learned from Israel’s political drama — what it’s taught us about our lives here as American Jews,…
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Fast Forward Shocker! Benjamin Netanyahu Uses Speech to Congress in Campaign Ad
Despite denials that his speech to Congress was a bid to boost his party in national elections in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu’s party released a campaign ad showing him being applauded by congressmen. The 80-second ad released Thursday comes as polls show Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party trailing the opposition Zionist Union…
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