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Fast Forward Jewish Settlements Receive Higher Share of State Funds, Study Shows
Jewish settlements in the West Bank and on the Golan Heights received a higher share of state funds than other communities, according to a new report. Arab towns receive the second highest amount of state funds per capita followed by development towns, according to the report by the Adva Center, which tracked Israeli government spending…
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Fast Forward Israel Plans 283 More Homes in West Bank Elkana Settlement
The Israel Land Authority published a tender for constructing 283 housing units in the West Bank settlement of Elkana. The announcement Thursday, advancing an expansion the Israeli government first approved in 2012, comes after international criticism, including from the United States, over Israel’s recent appropriation of approximately 1,000 acres in the West Bank. The publication…
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Opinion Did Hamas Get Bibi to Freeze Settlements?
Getty Images Settlements haven’t been in the news of late — and not simply because war pushed them off the media’s radar. They haven’t been in the news because since the kidnapping and murder of the three Israeli yeshiva students back in June, there hasn’t been much settlement news to report. True, already-approved settlement construction…
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News Israel To Stop Exporting Settlement Poultry, Dairy to E.U.
Israel will stop exporting poultry and dairy from settlements to the European Union, Israeli and European officials announced. Effective Sept. 1, Israeli poultry and dairy exports to the EU will be restricted to products from within the Green Line, Israel’s pre-1967 borders, the French news agency AFP reported. An Israeli official involved in discussions with…
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Fast Forward Israeli Intelligence Eavesdropped on John Kerry During Peace Negotiations
Israeli intelligence eavesdropped on telephone conversations made by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry during Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, Der Spiegel reported. In addition to Israel, at least one other intelligence agency also listened in on the phone calls, the German weekly reported in an article to appear in its Monday print edition. A summary was…
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Israel News What Kind of Israel Do Settlers Want?
Jane Eisner’s special report, Across the Green Line, will run in two parts, starting today and continuing tomorrow. Here’s how Ofra began as a Jewish community. Modern history puts the start date as April 1975. Ofra’s inhabitants will tell you that its real beginning goes back to the Book of Joshua, a lineage that makes…
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Opinion Trace Kidnap-Murders Back to Israeli Settlements
Palestinian families leave their houses following Israeli air strikes in Gaza City / Getty Images When I was 14 years old, I remember my father, Edgar M. Bronfman, publicly calling for the end of Israeli settlement building. It was 1977, the very beginning of the implementation of the Drobles Plan, and only a few thousand…
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Opinion What Did You Expect?
What did you expect? Did you think that terrorists wouldn’t attack three teenagers hitchhiking on a Palestinian road? Did you think that the Palestinian population isn’t angry enough to create extremist fringes like this? Did you really think that a continued occupation and no hope for independence would not breed some percentage of hard-core, terrorist…
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