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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Graffiti Sprayed On Temple Mount
Graffiti equating the Star of David with a swastika was found painted on the Temple Mount. The graffiti in blue paint was found in at least three places on the Temple Mount on Sunday, according to reports. Israel Police have opened an investigation into the incident. The graffiti was painted less than two days after…
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Fast Forward Pope Paul VI, First Pontiff To Visit Israel, Moves Closer to Sainthood
Pope Paul VI, the first pontiff to visit Israel and the pope who opened the Roman Catholic Church to formal dialogue with the Jewish world, has moved a step closer to sainthood. Pope Francis beatified Paul at a Vatican ceremony Sunday at the close of a synod of bishops. Paul VI reigned from 1963-1978. He…
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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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