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Fast Forward ‘Don’t Rent to Arabs’ Rabbi Moves to East Jerusalem
Rabbi Dov Lior, the chief rabbi of the Kiryat Arba settlement, is leaving his position in order to move to east Jerusalem. Lior decided just before Rosh Hashanah to step down from the position he has held for 38 years in order to move to the flashpoint Beit Orot neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem, located on…
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Fast Forward U.S. Slams Israel’s Approval of East Jerusalem Housing Plans
The United States condemned the reported approval by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to plan construction of at least 1,000 new housing units in eastern Jerusalem Jewish neighborhoods. “If Israel wants to live in a peaceful society, they need to take steps that will reduce tensions,” U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Monday during…
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Fast Forward No Plans To Change Temple Mount Status Quo
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there are no plans to make changes in the status quo on the Temple Mount. Netanyahu made the statement on Monday during a meeting to discuss the security situation in Jerusalem. His assurances came a day after Jordan warned that its peace treaty with Israel signed 20 years ago…
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Fast Forward Israel Pushes Plan for 1,000 East Jerusalem Settler Homes
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will expedite planning for some 1,000 settler homes in East Jerusalem, a government official said on Monday, in a bid to placate a restive coalition ally without further aggravating a dispute with Washington. The ultranationalist Jewish Home party, led by Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, has been issuing veiled threats to…
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Fast Forward Second Victim Dies of Injuries From Jerusalem Light Rail Attack
A woman critically injured in a terror attack in Jerusalem has died of her injuries. The 22-year-old tourist from Ecuador died Sunday at Hadassah Medical Center, four days after a Palestinian man drove his car into a light rail station near Ammunition Hill, in northern Jerusalem, as passengers were disembarking. Her death Sunday brings the…
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News Women of Wall Slip Torah Scroll Into Western Wall Bat Mitzvah
(Haaretz) — Defying regulations by Western Wall rabbinic authorities, members of Women of the Wall smuggled a tiny Torah scroll into the women’s section of the Kotel Friday morning, in what the feminist prayer group said was the first reading from the Torah by women at the holy site in 25 years. The tiny scroll,…
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Fast Forward Grandfather Makes Poignant Tribute to Baby Victim in Jerusalem Light Rail Attack
(JTA) — Have faith. Be strong. Do good. That’s the message a tearful grandfather has taken from the murder of his 3-month-old granddaughter in a suspected terror attack in Jerusalem on Wednesday. Chaya Zissel Braun died when a Palestinian man rammed his car into a crowd of people waiting to board the Jerusalem light rail….
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Fast Forward U.S. Government Personnel Restricted From Using Jerusalem Light Rail Stations
U.S. government personnel have been restricted from using Jerusalem Light Rail stations in parts of eastern Jerusalem for a month. The U.S. State Department announced the ban Thursday in a security message emailed to Americans in Israel the day after a terrorist attack on a light rail station left an infant dead and seven people…
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