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Fast Forward Grinning Jewish Extremists Charged in Jerusalem School Arson
Three Israelis from a far-right group were charged on Monday with setting fire to a classroom in an Arab-Jewish school that has been a symbol of co-existence in Jerusalem. Israel’s Shin Bet security service said brothers Nahman and Shlomo Twito, aged 18 and 20, and Yitzhak Gabai, 22, belong to Lehava, a group that objects…
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Fast Forward Smirking Right-Wing Extremists Confess To Torching Jerusalem School
The three suspects who confessed to carrying out an arson attack on a joint Arab-Jewish school in Jerusalem have been identified as activists for a radical right-wing group. The trio were captured in photos smiling in a Jerusalem courtroom as they appeared to face the charges. The suspects, named as Yitzhak Gabai, 22; Nahman Twitto,…
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Opinion Longing for the Quiet of Separation in Jerusalem
With the aim of bringing peace to Jerusalem, foreigners often advise the warring natives to seek reconciliation. Speak to each other, study your differences, clarify the disputes and at the end everything will be solved. Rabbi Marc Schneier recently offered such advice in these pages: “To prevent a global conflagration that would be a disaster…
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Fast Forward Suspects Arrested in Torching of Joint Arab-Jewish School
Several suspects were arrested in the suspected arson attack on a joint Arab-Jewish school in Jerusalem. The suspects were arrested a week ago, shortly after a fire was set in the classroom of the Max Rayne Hand In Hand Jerusalem School. On Sunday, the Petach Tikvah Magistrate’s Court lifted a media gag order on the…
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Opinion Eric Garner and Moshe Twersky Bound by History
Getty Images As I sit at my desk in a modern office building in lower Manhattan, the chants of angry protestors below grow louder. “I — can’t — breathe,” they shout, echoing the haunting final words of Eric Garner, whose death by asphyxiation I saw on video the day it occurred. It was in that…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Revenge Victim’s Cousin Helped Jewish Stab Victims
A cousin of the Palestinian teen who was burned alive by suspected Jewish extremists was among the first to help the wounded in a stabbing attack on a West Bank supermarket. Mahmoud Abu Khdeir, whose cousin Mohammed Abu Khdeir was killed this summer in the Jerusalem forest in apparent revenge for the murder of three…
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Fast Forward Yehuda Glick Barred From Temple Mount
A Jerusalem court rejected an appeal by Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick allowing him to return to the holy site. On Thursday, the Jerusalem District Court upheld a restraining order against Glick, who is accused of pushing a Muslim woman at the Temple Mount, breaking her arm. Glick denies the allegation. “Taking into account the…
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News Arson Attack Shatters Idealism at Jerusalem Mixed School
(Reuters) — The Hand in Hand school in Jerusalem presents an almost too-perfect scene in a tense and divided city, where Jews and Arabs do daily business but rarely befriend one other. Classrooms are decorated with pictures of doves bearing olive branches, while pupils from both communities are as likely to greet their bilingual teachers with…
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