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Fast Forward Hundreds Rally Against ‘Jewish State’ Bill
Hundreds of Israelis protested in Jerusalem against the nation-state bill enshrining Israel’s status as a Jewish state. The protesters gathered Saturday night in front of the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a softened version of the measure to the Cabinet on Sunday. The bill will go to the Knesset for…
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv Synagogue Vandalized in ‘Jewish State’ Protest
A Tel Aviv synagogue apparently was vandalized in protest of Israel’s nation-state bill. “In a place where the Jewish State bill will be legislated, books will be burned,” read the graffiti painted Sunday on a wall of the Tel Aviv International Synagogue. A pile of burned books — none of them religious texts — were…
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Fast Forward 3 Charged With Plotting Temple Mount Attack
Three Palestinian men were indicted for planning to attack activist Yehuda Glick and right-wing lawmaker Moshe Feiglin during a visit to the Temple Mount. The men, ages 18 to 21 from eastern Jerusalem, were charged over the weekend with conspiracy to injure a person using weapons and with nationalistic motivation. The attack was to occur…
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Fast Forward Knesset Bill Funds Druze and Circassian Communities
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will submit a plan to the Knesset for significant investments in the Arab Druze and Muslim Circassian communities. The plan will include funds for education, infrastructure, and employment “in order to reduce the existing disparities,” Netanyahu announced Saturday night on his Facebook page, an on Sunday in an official announcement…
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Opinion A Jewish State for Whom?
Of course, Israel is a Jewish state, as in a state with a Jewish majority, a Jewish flag, a Jewish official calendar, a Jewish military, a Jewish national airline, a Jewish sensibility, etc., etc. It is the only country on the planet that can make those claims. That is the whole point of its existence:…
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Israel News When Zionism Comes With $1M Condo
(JTA) — If they buy it, they will come. That’s the philosophy behind a new luxury apartment project in Israel called The Hamptons in Herzliya Pituach that’s attempting to link two very swanky locales in the service of strengthening Diaspora Jews’ connections to Israel — and selling high-end apartments. The 34-unit building is the brainchild…
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Fast Forward Israel Names Lebanon Veteran as New Military Chief
Israel on Saturday announced the appointment of a new chief of staff of its armed forces, Major-General Gadi Eisenkot, who has spent much of his operational career confronting Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon. Eisenkot, 54, currently deputy to incumbent chief of staff, Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz, will take over in February when Gantz completes his four-year…
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Israel News Israeli Arabs Stamp Facebook Photos With ‘Second–Class Citizen’
(Haaretz) — Hundreds of Arab citizens in Israel have replaced their Facebook profile photo with one that is stamped “second–class citizen,” in a protest against the proposed Jewish nation–state law. It was black humor that prompted Sana Jamalia, a graphic designer in Haifa, to launch the protest. In a conversation with a friend, she recounts,…
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