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Fast Forward Swedish Embassy Backpedals On Palestinian Statehood Recognition
The Swedish Embassy in Israel appears to have walked back the new prime minister’s declaration that Sweden would recognize a state of Palestine. In a statement released Sunday evening, the embassy said Sweden will recognize a Palestinian state at the conclusion of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. “The conflict between Israel and Palestine can…
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Opinion How Israel Hides Its Asylum Seeker Problem
Lily Padula “There is no asylum seeker problem in Israel.” So said Netanyahu when, following his recent address to members of the Jewish Federations of North America in New York, one of the attendees raised the issue of African asylum-seekers. “They are illegal job immigrants,” the Israeli prime minister said, adding: “Asylum seekers can come…
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Fast Forward Israeli Agency Sends Mobile Clinics to Africa To Fight Ebola
MASHAV, Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation, will send three mobile emergency clinics to areas in western Africa to help prevent the spread of the Ebola virus. A staff of Israeli medical experts will be attached to each clinic, and they will train the local health care workers in the operation of the clinic and…
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Fast Forward IDF Fires On Infiltrators from Lebanon
Israel Defense Forces troops fired on two suspects infiltrating into Israeli territory from Lebanon. The suspects escaped and returned to Lebanon, the IDF Spokesman said. Lebanese security sources told the Daily Star of Lebanon that Israeli soldiers fired on a Lebanese Army patrol in the Sheba Farms area near the border with Israel, wounding one…
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Fast Forward 11 American Beauty Queens Visit Israel
Eleven Miss America and Miss USA pageant winners visited Israel. The women, including a Miss Teen USA title holder, and two competitors from the Miss Universe pageant, visited Israel for five days through Oct. 2 under the auspices of The Face of Israel, a private organization that promotes Israel internationally through outreach to influential decision-makers…
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Fast Forward Swedish Envoy Summoned to Jerusalem Over ‘Palestine’ Declaration
The Swedish ambassador to Israel will be summoned to Jerusalem’s Foreign Affairs Ministry following the Prime Minister of Sweden’s declaration that his government will recognize the state of Palestine. Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said in a statement that he regrets that the new prime minister “was quick to issue statements regarding the position of Sweden…
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Fast Forward Israeli Tourist Arrested for Flying Drone Over Paris
An Israeli tourist was arrested and thrown in jail for flying a drone over Paris landmarks. The Israeli man, 24, was arrested Oct. 1 and spent the night in jail. The following morning he was levied a nearly $650 fine for “operating an aircraft non-compliant with safety laws,” the French news agency AFP reported. The…
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Israel News Needy Israeli Brides Find Wedding Day Nirvana Courtesy of Charities
Ally Betech would have never predicted that her trip to the chuppah would include a detour down a Jerusalem alleyway and into the fluorescent-lit basement of a bomb shelter. But that is where the Modern Orthodox 24-year-old discovered the wedding dress of her dreams: an embroidered ivory gown that covered her upper arms and collarbone…
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