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Fast Forward Israel Neutral On Catalonian Independence—Angering Spain
(JTA) — Diverging with the United States and the European Union, Israel has decided it would neither to support nor oppose Catalonian independence, an Israeli news website reported. Spain on Friday requested that Israel align itself with many other Western nations in rejecting a vote declaring independence, according to the report Monday on nrg. But senior Israeli diplomats decided in…
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Fast Forward Israeli Professor Expels Arab Student For Refusing To Remove Hijab
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A lecturer at an Israeli university expelled an Arab student from class after she refused to take off her hijab. The lecturer in Bar-Ilan University’s Middle Eastern Studies department last week asked the student to take off her head and face covering, and then asked her to leave the classroom when she…
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Fast Forward After Delay, Netanyahu Confirms Speaking Via Satellite To Jewish Federations
(JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address the Jewish Federations of North America’s annual General Assembly next month via satellite on November 14. Netanyahu will be interviewed live from Israel, as he was last year. He appeared in person at the 2013 and 2015 General Assemblies and by satellite in 2014 and last year. Reports…
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Fast Forward Germany National Railway Names Train After Anne Frank
(JTA) — Germany’s national railway has triggered a storm on social media for naming one of its superfast trains after the famous Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, who died in a Nazi camp. After asking customers to weigh in with suggestions, Deutsche Bahn named several of its new trains after famous Germans, among them Frank, whose…
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Fast Forward Hamas Terror Tunnel Discovered Under UN School In Gaza
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Hamas terror tunnel was discovered under a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip. The tunnel was discovered on Oct. 15 by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, which runs the school, and Israeli authorities were notified, the UNRWA said in a statement released on Saturday. The…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Who Killed Elderly Israeli Were Avenging Terrorist Friend’s Death
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two West Bank Palestinian men indicted for the murder of an Israeli man in an Arab-Israeli city told Israeli investigators that they decided to stab a Jew to death to avenge the death of a friend. Youssef Khaled Mustafa Kamil, 20, and Muhammad Ziad Abu al-Rub, 19, of the West Bank city…
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Fast Forward Wisconsin Becomes Latest State To Pass Anti-BDS Rules
(JTA) — The governor of Wisconsin signed an executive order that prohibits state agencies from entering into contracts with companies that boycott Israel. Gov. Scott Walker signed the executive order late on Friday. “Israel is a firm and faithful friend of the United States,” the legislation reads. Wisconsin exports over $80 million annually to Israel…
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Fast Forward Last-Ditch Effort To Interview Polish Righteous Gentiles
(JTA) — Holocaust-commemoration activists in Poland launched with British government funding a last-ditch effort to interview witnesses to attempts to rescue Jews during from the genocide. The campaign, titled “Silent Heroes,” was announced Thursday at a news conference in Warsaw that was organized by the From the Depths organization and attended by the United Kingdom’s…
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