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Fast Forward Second Israeli Dies in Jerusalem Car-Ram Terror Attack
An Israeli man injured in an attack in which a Palestinian rammed his car into pedestrians died of his injuries on Friday, a hospital official said, taking to three the death toll in the incident, including the assailant shot dead at the scene. The militant Islamist group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack on Wednesday…
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Fast Forward Palestinan East Jerusalem Seethes, But Will Uprising Last?
(Reuters) — For months, the streets of mainly Arab East Jerusalem, in the shadow of the Old City but where tourists seldom venture, have been ablaze, with daily clashes between armed Israeli police and Palestinians throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails. The roots of the unrest are many: from the killing in July of a Palestinian…
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Fast Forward 1 Killed in Jerusalem Car-Ram Terror Attack
A Palestinian rammed his car into pedestrians in central Jerusalem on Wednesday in the second attack of its kind in two weeks, killing one person and fueling concerns of another Palestinian uprising. The driver, who was shot dead by police, was identified by an Israeli security official as Ibrahim Akari from East Jerusalem, and the…
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Fast Forward Jordan Recalls Israel Envoy Amid Spiralling Conflict in Jerusalem
Jordan on Wednesday recalled its ambassador to Israel in protest against what it described as Israeli “violations” in Jerusalem and its holy sites, the Jordanian state news agency reported. The decision was taken “in protest at the increasing and unprecedented Israeli escalation in the Noble Sanctuary, and the repeated Israeli violations of Jerusalem,” the news…
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Israel News Jerusalem Passport Case Is Clash Between Congress and White House Powers
(JTA) — A lawyer for a boy born in Jerusalem whose parents want Israel listed as the birthplace on his U.S. passport tried mightily this week to make a Supreme Court hearing mainly about their wish, but the justices kept upping the ante. That might mean bad news not just for 12-year-old Menachem Zivotofsky and his…
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Fast Forward Israel Demolishes Palestinian Homes in Flashpoint East Jerusalem Neighborhood
Israeli forces demolished two Palestinian homes on Tuesday in an East Jerusalem neighborhood that has been at the heart of clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian protesters, a move likely to exacerbate weeks of tension in the holy city. Authorities knocked down the buildings near the district of Abu Tor, southeast of the Old City,…
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Fast Forward Plans for Hundreds of East Jerusalem Apartments Get City Backing
A Jerusalem planning committee approved the construction of hundreds of apartments in a Jewish neighborhood of eastern Jerusalem. On Monday, the city’s District Planning and Building Committee backed the building of 500 apartments in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood. The plan is reported to be in response to Palestinian violence in Jerusalem in recent months. The…
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Fast Forward Israel Pushes 500 Settler Homes in East Jerusalem
An Israeli government committee on Monday advanced plans for 500 settler homes in East Jerusalem, an official said, in the face of disapproval from the United States at construction on occupied Palestinian land. The Interior Ministry panel’s preliminary approval of the new homes for Ramat Shlomo, a neighborhood built on West Bank territory captured in…
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