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Fast Forward Moldova President ‘Very Seriously’ Considering Moving Embassy To Jerusalem
(JTA) — Moldova’s president said his country would “very seriously consider” moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, according to Jewish interlocutors who met with him. Igor Dodon said this during a meeting last week with Euro-Asian Jewish Congress leaders in connection with his visit earlier this month to Israel, the Newsmaker website reported….
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Culture Amos Oz and Jerusalem: A Complicated Relationship
For Amos Oz, the publication of his memoir “A Tale of Love and Darkness” was an electric moment. “As if I was digging in my own backyard, and I must have touched an underground cable; suddenly the lights in all of the windows began to flash,” he told me in 2011. The book, he said,…
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Opinion Mourning Amos Oz In Jerusalem, Where Even The Stones Seem To Weep
It is strange to learn of Amos Oz’s death while in Jerusalem, on the eve of Shabbat, as the dull winter cold descends on the city still drenched from yesterday’s downpour. It’s as if the sky is grieving, the stones are crying. A native son is gone. Oz, who died earlier today at 79, was…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Negotiator: White House Needs Statesman, Not Real Estate Agents
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner doesn’t have a great rapport with Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat — at their last meeting, things went sour, Erekat recently said in an on-stage interview at the Doha Forum in Qatar. Buzzfeed News on Sunday provided a transcript of Erekat’s recollection of the November 30 meeting. Less than…
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Fast Forward U.S. Envoy Condemns Jailing Of Palestinian For Selling East Jerusalem Property To Jews
The U.S. ambassador to Israel called on Palestinians on Wednesday to free an American-Palestinian who, the envoy said, was detained for “selling land to a Jew,” apparently violating a long-standing Palestinian ban on selling land to Israelis. Through its official Wafa news agency, the Palestinian Authority has accused property dealer Issam Akel, a U.S. citizen,…
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Fast Forward Kushner Learns Brazil Will Move Embassy To Jerusalem From President-Elect’s Son
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — The son of Brazil’s president-elect has confirmed to the U.S. president’s Jewish son-in-law that his country’s embassy will move to Jerusalem. “The question should not be whether we will do it, but when we will do it,” Brazilian congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro told Jared Kushner during a meeting in Washington on…
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Fast Forward 4 Israel Police Officers Injured In Attack At Eastern Jerusalem Station
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Four Israel Police officers were injured in a stabbing attack at a police station in eastern Jerusalem. The alleged stabber came to the entrance of the police station in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood of eastern Jerusalem, also known as East Talpiot, and attacked three of the officers with a knife. Other officers…
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Fast Forward U.S. Consulate For Palestinians In East Jerusalem To Close
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The U.S. consulate in East Jerusalem, which primarily serves Palestinian-Americans, will close and its functions will be handled by the new embassy in the western half of the city, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced. The diplomatic mission will be located at the embassy site on Agron Street in the center…
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