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Fast Forward Man Charged With Murdering Florida Mom in 2012 — Fled to Israel
An arrest warrant was issued for a man who is believed to have murdered his mother three years ago in Florida before moving to Israel. Authorities believe that Thomas Gross, 61, who has dual American-Israeli citizenship, killed his 78-year-old mother, Ina Gross, in her Lakewood Ranch home on Jan. 9, 2012. Gross would need to…
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Fast Forward Israel Bans 3 Islamist Groups From Temple Mount
(Reuters) — Israel shut down three local Islamist groups on Monday, accusing them of stoking tensions at a contested shrine in occupied East Jerusalem that has seen increased visits by Jews. Al Aqsa mosque compound in East Jerusalem is Islam’s third-holiest site and the vestige of Judaism’s ancient temples. Captured by Israel from Jordan in…
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Fast Forward BBC Reporter Sorry for Saying Palestinians ‘Suffer at Jewish Hands’
BBC reporter Tim Willcox apologized after saying at the Paris unity march on television that Palestinians “suffer hugely at Jewish hands.” Willcox, who works for BBC News and BBC World News, on Twitter Monday morning tweeted, “Really sorry for any offence cause by a poorly phrased question in a live interview in Paris yesterday –…
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Opinion France Was Dead Wrong To Ask Bibi To Stay Home
Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech at the Grand Synagogue in Paris / Getty Images I’ve got two immediate and possibly contradictory takeaways from the news that French President Francois Hollande asked Benjamin Netanyahu not to appear at the unity rally that took place in Paris on Sunday. Let’s first look at the reasons Hollande reportedly…
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Opinion How Bibi Tried To Make Paris All About Him
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at kosher grocery store in Paris / Getty Images Israelis are having a hilarious time mocking their prime minister’s visit to Paris, with ironic tweets and Hebrew Facebook statuses galore. For those who haven’t been following the story, Netanyahu crashed the national solidarity event despite President Hollande’s explicit request…
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Opinion Now, Sadly, France Knows How It Feels To Be Israeli
Relatives mourn during the funeral for Emanuel and Miriam Riva in Tel Aviv, Israel / Getty Images I spent my weekend glued to the television. Even if I’d tried, I couldn’t have taken my eyes off the images of Paris: that kosher supermarket and that video of a policeman on the ground getting shot in…
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Opinion JeSuisBibi as Benjamin Netanyahu Jostles for Cameras
(Haaretz) — Just as you can sometimes identify Israeli tourists abroad by their loud voices, poor manners and gauche behavior, none of the hundreds of millions of people around the world who watched Sunday’s Paris rally on television had any problem locating Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: smack in the middle of world leaders at the…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Rebuked by Rabbi for French Emigration Plea
(Reuters) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu managed to ruffle a few feathers while taking part in the “Charlie Hebdo” rally in Paris on Sunday, an event his office initially said he would not be attending for security reasons. Perhaps most awkward was his invitation to French Jews – alarmed by the Paris attacks and the…
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