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Fast Forward Israel Moves To Prevent Palestinian Prisoner Swaps
Israel’s parliament has passed a law aimed at limiting the practice employed in the past of releasing Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis to promote peace efforts. “Terrorists should die in jail,” Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, from the far-right Jewish Home party, which promoted the legislation, said after parliament voted 35-15 late on Monday to…
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Israel News Should U.S. Block Charity Aid to Israeli Settlers?
When Marc Ginsberg heard recently that the settler group Ateret Cohanim had taken possession of two properties in East Jerusalem and evicted its Palestinian tenants, the former Clinton administration official saw it as one more sign of a crucial flaw in… U.S. tax policy. As it turns out, American donors receive tax breaks to fund…
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Fast Forward Israel Moves To Ease Path to Conversion
(JTA) — The Israeli government has adopted a major reform expected to ease the path to conversion for hundreds of thousands of Israelis now prohibited from marrying in the Jewish state. In the most significant response in decades to the estimated 400,000 Israelis who are not considered Jewish by the Chief Rabbinate, the Cabinet expanded authority…
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Fast Forward Plans for Hundreds of East Jerusalem Apartments Get City Backing
A Jerusalem planning committee approved the construction of hundreds of apartments in a Jewish neighborhood of eastern Jerusalem. On Monday, the city’s District Planning and Building Committee backed the building of 500 apartments in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood. The plan is reported to be in response to Palestinian violence in Jerusalem in recent months. The…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Passport Case Divides Supreme Court
(Reuters) — The U.S. Supreme Court appeared closely divided on Monday as it considered whether Congress overstepped its authority in passing a law designed to allow American citizens born in Jerusalem to have Israel listed as their birthplace on passports. Congress passed the law in 2002 but the government has never enforced it. Seeking to…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Meets Jordan King Abdullah Over Temple Mount
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jordanian King Abdullah II reportedly met secretly to discuss tension in Jerusalem and on the Temple Mount. The meeting took place Saturday in Amman, the Kuwaiti Arabic-language daily Al-Jarida reported Monday citing “well-informed sources.” The two sides pledged to work together to ease the tensions in Jerusalem and the…
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Israel News Sheldon Adelson Is a Philanthropist Like No Other
When a storm wreaked havoc on East Coast air travel last winter, among the thousands of travelers stranded were several dozen Israeli-American teens from Washington and Philadelphia. But these youths, who were en route to the annual meeting of the Tzofim, the Israeli scouts, were luckier than the many others forced to mill about air…
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Fast Forward Jewish Demonstrators Condemn Anti-Israel Protests in South Africa
Jewish protesters demonstrated outside a South African chain store to condemn anti-Israel protests that they say have turned anti-Semitic. The South African Jewish Board of Deputies umbrella body staged the demonstration Thursday outside the Sea Point store, part of the upscale national chain Woolworths, against the Congress of South African Students’ Western Cape branch. The…
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