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Fast Forward Abbas Won’t Seek To Redivide Jerusalem or Flood Israel With Refugees
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told Israeli students visiting him in Ramallah that he does not seek to redivide Jerusalem. Abbas said Sunday that the capital of a Palestinian state could be located in eastern Jerusalem, and west Jerusalem would be controlled by Israel, and a higher council could control movement between the two sides,…
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Protest Shooting of Natalie Portman Film ‘Tale of Love and Darkness’
Residents of a Haredi Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem reportedly have complained that filming for American actress Natalie Portman’s new film will take place there. The filming of “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” based on the book by Israeli author Amos Oz, began Tuesday in the Nahalot neighborhood, Haaretz reported. Portman, who appears as Oz’s…
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Opinion The Jewish Bloodbath We Caused — and Forgot
“Do you kids have a permit to hang up all of these posters around the city?” the policeman asked. “Permit?” my friend and I questioned in response. “We are trying to raise public awareness about baseless hatred, and destructive conflict, and you’re asking us for a permit?” Yet, after several hours in the sweltering heat…
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Opinion Jerusalem Protest Breeds Color War, Not Civil War
Settler youth bear signs reading “Girls of Israel for the nation of Israel,” “A king’s daughter doesn’t date a non-Jew,” and “No more assimilation!” / Elisheva Goldberg Last night in Jerusalem, Arabs and Jews (well, mostly Jews) got together at an event called “Pashut Sharim” or “Just Singing,” a four-year-old initiative funded primarily by Hillel…
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Culture All The Print That’s Fit To Print
Recently, the Jerusalem Print Workshop — long the first port of call for those working in the medium of print — celebrated its 40th anniversary. For Israeli artists, the only first-rate alternative to the workshop is the [Gottesman Etching Center,][2] which opened its doors in 1993. Now, at the suggestion of Israeli artist Asaf Ben…
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Fast Forward Norway Divests From Firms in East Jerusalem
Norway’s government instructed a state-run pension fund not to invest in two Israeli firms because of their activity in eastern Jerusalem. The decision regarding the Government Pension Fund Global, or GPFG, appeared Thursday on the website of Norway’s finance ministry. It named the two Israeli construction firms, Africa Israel Investments and Danya Cebus, as well…
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Fast Forward New Lion Named Gir Debuts at Jerusalem Bible Zoo
The Jerusalem Biblical Zoo is welcoming a new male lion from Sweden. The two-year-old rare Asiatic lion was scheduled to arrive Thursday night. He replaces Lider, a 16-year-old male Asiatic lion who was put to sleep last summer. The new lion, Gir, will join lioness Ileniya, 16, though the two lions will be kept apart…
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Opinion How Israel’s Politics vs. Security Rift Aids Jihadis
Hamas fighters testing a Gaza-made M-75 long-range missile, November 2013 / Getty Images Maariv’s Eli Bardenstein offered a stunningly clear and disturbing report (in Hebrew, my translation below) on Friday that illustrates the vexing complications introduced into the triangular Jerusalem-Cairo-Gaza relationship by political turmoil in all three places. It makes a very useful companion piece…
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