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Fast Forward Israeli-Palestinian Ceasefire Talks Begin in Cairo
Indirect cease-fire negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians resumed in Cairo despite Palestinian threats to suspend them over Israel’s killing of two Palestinians accused in the murder of three Israeli teens. The talks began Tuesday afternoon. They started two hours later than scheduled while the Palestinian delegation decided whether to boycott over the deaths earlier…
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Fast Forward Israel Air Force Shoots Down Syrian Warplane in Israeli Airspace
The Israel Air Force shot down a Syrian warplane that infiltrated Israeli airspace. The plane crossed the border Tuesday morning. The Israel Air Force fired a Patriot anti-aircraft missile at the warplane, hitting it and shooting it down, according to the IDF. The breach of Israel’s border with Syria “is a continuation of the growing…
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Life So Many Ways To Segregate Women in Synagogue
The women’s section in Tel Aviv’s Heichal Yehuda Synagogue./Photo by Haaretz/Adva Naama Baram (Haaretz) — Where are you for the High Holidays? If “you” refers to Orthodox Jewish men, then you get to pray in the main sanctuary, which you will enter through the main entrance. Once inside the sanctuary, you will be full participants…
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Fast Forward 2 Kidnap Suspects Killed by Israel in West Bank
The two Palestinian men suspected of kidnapping and killing three Israeli teens were killed in a firefight with Israeli troops during an operation to apprehend them. Marwan Kawasme and Omar Abu Aysha were killed early Tuesday morning in Hebron, where Israeli troops had surrounded the house that they were hiding in, more than three months…
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The Schmooze VIDEO: Shimon Peres Needs a Job
Hiring? Shimon Peres is your man. A newly released video (in Hebrew with English subtitles) from the Peres Center for Peace has the former president seeking help from an unemployment office. Turns out, the 91-year-old shows an impressive range of skills. from pumping gas to pizza delivery, with a skydiving session or two thrown in…
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Opinion Gay Party Organizers Use ISIS Imagery in Ads
Drek’s ISIS-inspired party poster / Facebook Advertising is a tough business. People are busy. Getting them to come out to your event can be hard. But does that justify using ISIS imagery to gain publicity for your party? Tel Aviv’s popular gay party organizers, Drek, apparently think so. In recent advertising, they used imagery from…
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Fast Forward Israel Population Rises to 8.9 Million
The official population of Israel on the eve of Rosh Hashanah is 8.9 million. The population grew 2 percent since the previous year, an increase of 173,811 to 8,904,373 , according to the Population and Immigration Authority, which released the figures on Sunday. About 75 percent of the population is Jewish. The number of babies…
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Fast Forward Mossad Takes Hunt for Spooks Online
It is already common for intelligence agencies to recruit their officers online, but Israel’s Mossad has gone one further by touting for local agents and informants too. Israel, which has full diplomatic ties with only two Arab countries, Egypt and Jordan, lacks embassies elsewhere in the Middle East that would-be informants could turn to, leaving…
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