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Fast Forward Israel in Negotiations on $15B Gas Supply Deal With Jordan
Israel is in advanced negotiations to supply natural gas from its vast Leviathan field to Arab peace partner Jordan under a 15-year, $15 billion agreement, the Israeli government, gas operators and industry officials said on Wednesday. The deal would involve the supply of 1.6 trillion cubic feet (tcf, 45 billion cubic meters) of gas over…
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Fast Forward Hamas More Popular Among Palestinians Than Before Gaza War: Poll
Hamas’ popularity has surged in the West Bank and Gaza since its latest conflict with Israel, a new poll found. A Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey research poll released Tuesday found that 61 percent of Palestinians would choose the Islamic terror group’s Ismail Haniyeh for president if elections were held today, the Associated Press…
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Fast Forward Israel Lobbies U.S. Anew as Another Iran Nuclear Deadline Looms
Israel is lobbying world powers anew against any Iranian nuclear deal that would let Tehran retain potential bomb-making technologies, a senior Israeli official said on Wednesday as another deadline for the international diplomacy loomed. Negotiators hope for a comprehensive agreement by Nov. 24 under which Iran, which denies seeking nuclear weaponry, would curb its disputed…
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Fast Forward Slain U.S. Journalist Steven Sotloff Also Had Israeli Citizenship
Steven Sotloff, a U.S. journalist beheaded by Islamic State militants, also held Israeli citizenship, Israel said on Wednesday after apparently withholding the information in a bid to stem the risks to the captive. “Cleared for publication: Steven Sotloff was #Israel citizen RIP,” tweeted Paul Hirschson, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem. Islamic State,…
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Israel News Birthright Now Offers Free Trips to Israel — For Israeli Americans
A decade ago, Eden Bennun wouldn’t even pass the initial screening for a Taglit-Birthright trip to Israel. She was born to Israeli parents and is fluent in Hebrew. More important, she had already visited Israel numerous times. But now the 20-year-old psychology major from American Jewish University Los Angeles is preparing for her Birthright trip…
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Fast Forward U.S. Slams Israeli Appropriation of West Bank Land
The United States on Tuesday took the unusual step of publicly criticizing Israel for plans to appropriate land in the occupied West Bank and calling for it to reverse the decision. Some 400 hectares (988 acres) in the Etzion Jewish settlement bloc near Bethlehem were declared “state land, on the instructions of the political echelon”…
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Opinion Why Did We Obsess Over Israel’s War in Gaza? Capitalism.
A journalist films as rescue workers remove the body of a Palestinian man from the rubble of his home in Gaza / Getty Images The American media covers Israel more than almost any other pressing geopolitical concern. The disproportionate coverage was continually pointed out (as it had been in the past) as reporters crawled in…
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Fast Forward Ehud Olmert Goes on Trial again in Talansky Affair
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert went on trial for the second time in the Talansky Affair, the bribery case which led to his resignation in 2008. Olmert’s retrial, ordered last month by Israel’s Supreme Court, began with a hearing Tuesday in Jerusalem District Court. The Supreme Court said it will allow new testimony from…
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