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Fast Forward Palestinian Official Anonymously Donates To Israeli Hospital That Treated Him For Cancer
A Palestinian Authority official has donated thousands of dollars to a Haifa-area hospital where he received cancer treatments, the Times of Israel reported Monday. The official, who chose to remain anonymous, cited his experience at the Rambam Medical Center as a primary motivation for the donation. “When I arrived at Rambam, I saw a medical…
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Fast Forward Israelis Rejoice: Indian PM Will Skip Palestinian Authority In Upcoming Trip
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be making a diplomatic visit to Israel next month. However, in an unusual move, he will not meet with the Palestinian Authority. “This is going to be a purely bilateral visit. He is coming to visit us, and only us,” a senior Israeli official told the Times of Israel….
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Fast Forward Palestinian Town Refuses To Rename Women’s Center Named For Terrorist
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian town has refused to change the name of a women’s center that was named for a female Palestinian terrorist. The center in the West Bank village of Buraq was named for Dalal Mughrabi, who led the 1978 massacre on a highway near Tel Aviv that killed 37 civilians, many of…
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Fast Forward Tillerson: Trump ‘Putting A Lot Of Pressure’ On Israel And Palestinians
WASHINGTON (JTA) – President Donald Trump is “putting a lot of pressure” on Israel and the Palestinians to restart peace talks, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said. “The president was very forceful in his encouragement to both of them to be serious about approaching these discussions in the future and recognize you have to compromise,”…
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Opinion How Important Is Trump’s Meeting With Abbas?
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will soon meet with President Trump at the White House for the first time. After strongly proclaiming support for Israel throughout his presidential campaign, Trump now has an opportunity to reach out to Benjamin Netanyahu’s counterpart. Here’s what top Middle East hands say about the critical summit. Aaron David Miller,…
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Fast Forward Reform Movement Leaders Meet With Mahmoud Abbas In Ramallah
(JTA) — Leaders of the U.S. Reform movement met with Palestinian Authority President President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. The delegation of around 30 leaders from the Union for Reform Judaism, led by its president, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, met with Abbas and other Palestinian officials Thursday afternoon. Discussions during the meeting, which represented the first time…
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Community In Israel, A Case For The Status Quo
The status quo is not the ideal solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But it’s better than any of the alternatives. And sometimes that’s the best that can be done in an imperfect world. Secretary of State John Kerry argued in his recent speech that Israel can be either democratic or Jewish, but not both. What…
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Israel News EXCLUSIVE: Does Aid to Palestinians Subsidize the Families of Terrorists?
In July, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a dramatic step against alleged support for terrorism by the Palestinian Authority: Henceforth, he declared, Israel would withhold a portion of the tax revenues it owes to the P.A. in response to the Palestinian leadership’s own payouts to terrorists and their families. The announcement came on the…
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