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Opinion Why HarperCollins Was So Wrong To Erase Israel
(JTA) — Before the HarperCollins Middle East atlas story is deleted from email inboxes, it pays to spend another moment ruminating on the damage caused by companies that ought to know better. On its website, HarperCollins bills itself as “one of the world’s leading English-language publishers.” It has a storied brand and a list of top-notch…
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Israel News Walking in a Soggy (Holy City) Wonderland
A rare winter storm eased away from Israel on Thursday, leaving behind a coating of the white stuff around Jerusalem and power outages, but little serious damage. As the snow turned to icy rain, cold-phobic Israelis ventured out Thursday after many cowered inside the day before. One man who works at a convenience store off…
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Opinion How Terror Attack Hits Raw Nerve for Paris Jews Like Me
People gather outside French embassy in Berlin to say #JeSuisCharlie / Twitter Paris, my city, is under attack. All of France is shocked and shattered. As of 11:00 this morning, French TV channels and radio stations have interrupted their regular programming to cover the story of the attack. On Twitter, the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie is now…
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Fast Forward U.N. Chief Agrees To Admit ‘Palestine’ to ICC
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced that Palestine will join the International Criminal Court on April 1. The accession to the court will allow the Palestinians to press war-crimes charges against Israel. Ban made the announcement late Tuesday night, days after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas signed the Rome Statute, the international treaty under…
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Fast Forward Snowstorm Slams Israel — Roads and Schools Close
The main roads were closed into Jerusalem as the worst storm of the year gathered strength. The storm moved in late Tuesday night and many Israelis woke Wednesday morning to freezing temperatures and snow in the air. Snow covered the Golan, with schools closed Wednesday morning in Israel’s Golan and Galilee regions, as heavy rain…
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Fast Forward Kidnap Ringleader Gets Life in Killings of 3 Israeli Teens
An Israeli military court on Tuesday sentenced a Palestinian to life imprisonment over the killing of three Israeli youths, whose abduction in the occupied West Bank set off a chain of events leading to the 50-day Gaza war last summer. The court found that Hussam Kawasmeh, a member of the militant Hamas Islamist group, planned…
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Fast Forward Israel Independence Declaration Preserved for Future
Israel’s Declaration of Independence was photographed using special technology to preserve it for future generations. The document was removed Tuesday from the facility where it is stored in a special environment to ensure its preservation. It then was photographed using technology developed especially for the delicate and history-laden Dead Sea Scrolls. The project is a…
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Fast Forward ICC Acknowledges Receiving Membership Request From Palestinians
The International Criminal Court acknowledged that it received a signed document stating that the Palestinian government accepted jurisdiction of the court. The Palestinians also filed an ad hoc declaration for the ICC to investigate Israel for war crimes as of June 13. The date is one day after the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli…
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