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Fast Forward Pompeo wants Congress to deny Biden funding to reopen U.S. consulate for Palestinians
Mike Pompeo, former President Donald Trump’s secretary of state, called on Congress to stop the Biden administration’s plan to reopen the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem to serve Palestinians. “There ought to be members from both sides of the political aisle who will see this as folly and as a dangerous mistake, Pompeo, who is a…
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News Interview: Former prime minister Ehud Olmert says the two-state solution is not dead
Ehud Olmert was one of Israel’s shortest-serving prime ministers, in office just over three years — and is the only one (so far) who has been convicted of a crime, serving 16 months in prison for bribery and obstruction of justice. Now 75, Olmert remains fully engaged in his country’s rough-and-tumble politics, as one of…
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News Likud’s Nir Barkat eyes leadership in Israel — and seeks allies in the US
Nir Barkat, a member of the Knesset, is not a household name in the U.S. or Israel, despite his two terms as mayor of Jerusalem. Now a member of the main opposition party, Likud, Barkat has never served in the cabinet. Nonetheless, the 61-year-old high-tech entrepreneur — whose net worth is estimated at several hundred…
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Culture Why does everyone want Jerusalem? CNN investigates in a new docuseries
Sunday night, after Jews around the world mourn the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem on Tisha B’av, CNN will premiere a series that — in so many words — traces 3,000 years’ worth of conflict to the laying of those structures’ cornerstones. Solomon’s Temple, author Susan Wise Bauer argues in “Jerusalem: City of Faith…
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Culture Raves in the desert, secret parties in mansions — COVID couldn’t stop Israel’s underground party scene
In Israel, #hotvaxxedsummer is already underway; all restrictions have been lifted, bars are packed and parties are sold out. Hookup culture has come back to life, and people are beyond grateful to be out of their houses, finally seeing their friends and meeting new people. But not everyone actually stopped seeing people in the first…
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Culture What will #hotvaxxedsummer look like? Israel beat us there
The U.S. is finally reopening. Nightclubs will soon be back in full swing, and people are predicting another Roaring ’20s era of debauchery and indulgence — dubbed, at least online, #hotvaxxedsummer. But not everyone is so excited. Some are anxious about how it will feel to be in a crowd after over a year of…
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Opinion The fights over Sheikh Jarrah reveal the folly of relitigating Israel’s founding
Defending the pending evictions of as many as 300 Palestinian residents from East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Aryeh King rhetorically asked: “If you are the owner of the property, and someone was squatting on your property, wouldn’t you have the right to take him from your property?” But the story is more…
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Fast Forward In first of its kind, archeologists find an ancient ‘lucky’ oil lamp in Jerusalem
A rare oil lamp, believed by archeologists to have been intended by ancients to bring good fortune, was uncovered in a recent excavation in Jerusalem at the City of David National Park. The lamp was discovered at the foundations of a building which once stood on the famed pilgrimage road of ancient Jerusalem. Ari Levy…
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