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Israel News Israeli Television Hitmakers Take Hollywood by Storm — Eye Global Market
Amid rising calls in some quarters for a boycott of Israel, creating television shows is one export that is humming like never before around the world — and even making quiet inroads in Muslim countries where business ties with the Jewish state are taboo. After the success of shows like ‘Homeland,’ Israeli TV hitmakers are breaking…
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Fast Forward HarperCollins Sorry for Erasing Israel From Map
The HarperCollins publishing house apologized for omitted Israel from maps in atlases that it sells to English-speaking schools in the Middle East. “HarperCollins regrets the omission of the name Israel from their Collins Middle East Atlas. This product has now been removed from sale in all territories and all remaining stock will be pulped. HarperCollins…
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Fast Forward Is Mahmoud Abbas Choosing Confrontation With International Criminal Court Move?
(Reuters) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has entered into his most serious confrontation yet with Israel by signing onto the International Criminal Court (ICC). His decision on Wednesday gives the court jurisdiction over crimes committed in Palestinian lands and could even lead to cases being brought against Israeli or Palestinian leaders. The nearly 80-year-old bespectacled…
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Fast Forward Israel Immigration Hits 10-Year High Mark
Aliyah reached a ten-year high in Israel in 2014 with about 26,500 new immigrants. The figures released Wednesday, on the last day of 2014, by The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption, marked a 32 percent increase in worldwide aliyah over the previous year, which saw about 20,000 new…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Convicted in Kidnap Murders of 3 Teens
An Israeli military court has convicted the alleged leader of the terrorist cell that kidnapped and murdered three Israeli teenagers in June. Hussam Kawasme of Hebron on Wednesday was convicted of planning and financing the kidnapping and murder of Gilad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach and Naftali Fraenkel, a dual Israeli-American citizen. Kawasme, who was arrested in…
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Fast Forward HarperCollins Scrubs Israel From Middle East Map
The HarperCollins publishing house has omitted Israel from maps in atlases that it sells to English-speaking schools in the Middle East. Collins Bartholomew, a map-publishing company that is a subsidiary of HarperCollins, told The Tablet, an international Catholic news weekly based in London, that including Israel in its the “Collins Primary Geography Atlas For The…
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Israel News Ben Ammi Ben Israel’s Spiritual Journey From Segregated Chicago to Negev Desert
When 77-year-old Rabbi Richard Nolan recalls Ben Ammi ben Israel, the leader of the Hebrew Israelite community in Israel who died last weekend, their shared hometown of Chicago is wrapped up in that recollection. And the image is bleak. “There was degradation, segregation, discrimination, lack of education and opportunity,” Nolan said. “A people who had…
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Fast Forward Students at Elite Israeli School Protest ‘Oppressive’ Army
(JTA) — The Israel Defense Forces oppresses people, the letter said. The army creates inequality, perpetuates injustice and corrupts social values. The letter didn’t come from a foreign protest group, but from teachers and graduates of one of Jerusalem’s elite high schools, the Israeli Arts and Sciences Academy, or IASA, and it encouraged the school’s…
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