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Fast Forward Arab-Israeli Businessman Offers $10K Reward To Find Tel Aviv Gunman
An Arab-Israeli merchant is offering a $10,000 cash reward for information that helps in the capture of an Arab-Israeli fugitive suspected of killing three people in two Tel Aviv shooting attacks. Mazen Qaq, head of the merchants’ committee in Jerusalem’s Old City and a resident of eastern Jerusalem, announced the reward on Tuesday for information…
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Fast Forward Jewish Passengers Demand Arabs Leave Greek Flight
Jewish Israeli passengers on a flight from Athens to Tel Aviv demanded the crew remove two Arab-Israelis from the plane before allowing it to take off. The incident, in which the Jewish travelers stopped an Aegean Airlines plane from taking off by standing in the aisles while the plane was on the tarmac, took place…
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Fast Forward Israel Police Arrest Father of Tel Aviv Shooting Suspect
The father of the alleged gunman in the shooting attack on a bar in Tel Aviv, that killed two, was arrested by police in connection with the attack. Mohammed Melhem, father of Nashat Melhem, was arrested and questioned on Tuesday, along with five other family members and friends. They are suspected of being accessories to…
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Opinion What Benjamin Netanyahu Could Have Said After Tel Aviv Terror
The shattered glass windows had not yet been replaced. The scars of the bullet holes were still visible. Just a day earlier, on Friday afternoon, at that very spot, at the Simta Bar in central Tel Aviv, an Arab citizen of Israel had sprayed his automatic rifle into a crowded pub, killing two innocent young…
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Fast Forward New Year’s Day Rampage Punctures Tel Aviv Bubble
(JTA) — Until Friday, this city had been largely untouched by the recent wave of near-daily attacks by Palestinians on Israeli civilians. Several incidents did strike Tel Aviv — a soldier was stabbed with a screwdriver outside Israel Defense Forces headquarters in October and, the following month, two Israelis were killed in a stabbing attack…
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv Shooting Suspect Has Long History of Violence
The shooter in the attack on a bar full of patrons in central Tel Aviv that killed two has been named by police as an Arab-Israeli man with a history of violence. The attacker was named as Nashat Melhem, 31, of Arara, a village in Wadi Ara in northern Israel. A gag order was lifted…
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv Shooting Suspect’s Family Denounces Attack as Manhunt Widens
Police in Israel were hunting on Saturday for an Israeli Arab identified as the suspect in Friday’s deadly shooting attack on a Tel Aviv bar, a case they described as “complex and unique.” Nashat Melhem, 29, from the village of Arara in northern Israel was still at large and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who visited…
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The Schmooze Jerry Seinfeld Performs to Sold-Out Audiences in Tel Aviv
JERUSALEM — Comedian Jerry Seinfeld performed to sold-out audiences in Tel Aviv ove the weekend. Seinfeld performed two shows on Saturday night and two more on Sunday evening at an 11,000-seat basketball arena. The performances are Seinfeld’s first in Israel. “Oh my god, I’m in Israel!” he said at the beginning of his first one-hour…
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