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Fast Forward U.N. Nuclear Agency Rejects Arab Move To Chide Israel
Member states of the U.N. nuclear agency on Thursday rejected an Arab resolution targeting Israel over its assumed atomic arsenal, in a diplomatic victory for the Jewish state and Western countries opposing the initiative. Arab states had submitted the non-binding text – which called on Israel to join a global anti-nuclear weapons pact – to…
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Israel News Foreign Workers Now Teach Jews How To Farm — on the Kibbutz
The four date farmers stood atop their palm tree, breathing in the humid air and wiping the sweat from their foreheads under the glaring July sun. It was about 1 p.m. Taking a short break, the workers looked out at the thousands of date palm trees spread before them below the Arava desert’s dusty pink…
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Fast Forward Reform and Conservative Shuls Gain Ground in Israel
(Religion News Service) — At Beit Daniel, a Reform synagogue in Israel’s secular metropolis, 75 members gather for the Friday evening Sabbath service, led by a female rabbi and a guitar-strumming cantor. Long used to new faces and numerous Hebrew accents, the congregation these days is getting even more diverse. That’s because even as Israel…
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Israel News Why Is Government Seeking To Kill United Against Nuclear Iran Lawsuit?
When federal investigators found in 2005 that two senior staffers with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee had received classified information from a midlevel Pentagon official, they pressured the pro-Israel lobby to fire the two men. Then they prosecuted the pair, and the Pentagon official who gave them the information, under the 1917 Espionage Act….
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Says Too Many Israelis Ready To Dump Peace Bid
President Barack Obama lamented on Wednesday that “too many Israelis” were ready to abandon Middle East peace efforts and urged them to reflect on the matter, saying the status quo with the Palestinians was unsustainable. As part of a broader speech to the United Nations Assembly, Obama appeared to gently chide close U.S. ally Israel…
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Fast Forward Israel Boosts Defense Spending by 10%
Israel will increase its 2015 defense budget by 6 billion shekels ($1.6 billion) or more than 10 percent to 57 billion shekels, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Wednesday. The 50-day Gaza conflict which ended last month has underpinned hefty budget demands by the Defense Ministry. With Israel also preparing for a possible confrontation…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama All But Ignores Iran ‘Threat’ in United Nations Speech
President Obama devoted the bulk of his U.N. speech to the fight violent Islamic extremism and all but ignored the subject of Iran’s nuclear program. Tehran’s nuclear pursuits were a major focus of Obama’s address last year at the U.N. General Assembly, but at this year’s General Assembly, Iran got just a couple of lines…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Lauds Sacrifice for Israel in Rosh Hashanah Message
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Rosh Hashanah greetings spoke of the painful year that passed and pledged his nation’s support to Diaspora Jews dealing with virulent anti-Semitism. “Over the past few months, three of our teenagers were kidnapped and brutally murdered, thousands of rockets were fired at our country and too many of…
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