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Fast Forward Israeli-Arab Doctor Killed Fighting for ISIS
A doctor who worked as a resident at a hospital in southern Israel joined ISIS and has been reported killed. Othman Abdal-Kian, 26, from the Bedouin village of Hura, located near Beersheba, had been doing his residency at Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon since February, after studying medicine in Jordan. The hospital confirmed to Israeli…
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Israel News Christian Evangelicals Push Aliyah — and Jews Are Concerned
It was the early Jewish nationalist Nathan Birnbaum who coined the term “Zionism” in 1890 to describe the movement to establish a secular Jewish state in Palestine. The idea’s essence was defined in the very name of the journal he published to advance the cause: “Self-Emancipation!” But now, the largest evangelical Christian group supporting Israel…
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Fast Forward Israeli Survivor of Nepal Blizzard Recounts Ordeal
(Reuters) — Trekkers battling a Himalayan blizzard were left helpless after porters fainted from the cold, a survivor of one of Nepal’s worst mountain disasters said on Friday, as rescue teams resumed a hunt for 10 missing hikers and the death toll reached 29. The dead included trekkers from Canada, India, Israel and Poland, as…
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Fast Forward Israel Holds Ebola Identification Training Exercise at Ben Gurion Airport
Israel is holding an Ebola identification training exercise at Ben Gurion Airport. The exercise Friday will simulate the arrival of a passenger with Ebola, including initial questioning as well as evacuation and hospital treatment. On Thursday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held additional consultations to evaluate the readiness of state agencies to fight Ebola….
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Opinion PHOTOS: How To Turn a Gaza War Into Art
As donors pledge billions to rebuild Gaza in the wake of Hamas’s war with Israel, one Gazan is engaged in another type of construction: turning remnants of the war into works of art. Hossam al-Dabbus, a 33-year-old who works in Gaza’s honey industry, has collected shells, rockets and missiles from the war that killed around…
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Fast Forward 2 Israeli Trekkers Killed in Nepal Blizzard
A blizzard and avalanche in Nepal have killed more than a dozen trekkers, including at least two Israelis. Extreme weather conditions spurred by the remains of Cyclone Hudhud struck the mountainous country on Tuesday, killing 17 hikers, including the Israelis, according to a report by the French news agency AFP. Other reports have varied, with…
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Israel News Open Hillel Meets With Exuberance and Defiance
(JTA) — Harvard senior Rachel Sandalow-Ash scanned the exuberant crowd that packed a campus auditorium on Saturday night. “Wow,” she said, speaking to an audience of some 350 composed primarily of American college students. “This is amazing. This is really cool.” Sandalow-Ash, 21, went on to discuss the importance of nurturing a pluralistic and intellectually…
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News Tales of a Jewish ‘Nun’
My high-school nickname was “The Jewish Nun,” and it has taken me almost 20 years to see the appropriateness of it. The “nun” part was an accurate description of my high school theatrical career, which was oddly confined to religious roles, including a novice in a one-act play about a convent sheltering Jews during the…
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