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Fast Forward United Announces Direct Flights Between San Francisco and Tel Aviv
Less than two months after American Airlines canceled its Philadelphia-Tel Aviv route, rival carrier United Airlines is adding a San Francisco-Tel Aviv route. United will begin the direct San Francisco-Tel Aviv flight in April, the Israeli business daily Globes reported. The airline will offer three flights per week from San Francisco and three each week…
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Israel News Tel Aviv Train Is Coming Despite Fears of Rats and ‘Carmaggedon’
In 1936, Israeli poet Nathan Alterman was already bemoaning Tel Aviv’s lack of a subway. The “underground dream” of the new city, he wrote in Haaretz, had “evaporated.” Lamenting the transportation system in Israel’s metropolis has practically become a national pastime, as government inaction has delayed such a project for decades. But now, 79 years…
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Fast Forward Is Mystery Tel Aviv Shipwreck Baron Rothschild’s Lost Yacht?
A shipwreck discovered off Israel’s coast almost 40 years ago has been identified as likely a vessel belonging to Edmond James de Rothschild, a French Jewish banker and philanthropist. Although discovered in 1976 off Dor Beach, near Zichron Yaakov, which is on the Mediterranean coast between Haifa and Tel Aviv, the shipwreck had not been…
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Fast Forward Paris City Counselor Wants To Cancel ‘Tel Aviv Sur Seine’ Festival
A French watchdog against anti-Semitism condemned a Paris city council member who called to cancel a city festival dedicated to Tel Aviv. One day of the week-long Paris Plages festival, which will turn the banks of the Seine river into a beach and this year will devote each day to a beach in another country,…
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News Will Stabbing Attack Tear Apart Israel’s LGBT Community?
When an ultra-Orthodox fanatic named Yishai Schlissel stabbed six people at the Jerusalem Gay Pride march in July — 16-year-old Shira Banki later died of her wounds — Schlissel also fractured Israel’s self-image as a global beacon for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. For years, Israeli diplomats have used their country’s impressive record on…
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Fast Forward Pilot Louis Lenart, ‘The Man Who Saved Tel Aviv,’ Dies at 94
(JTA) — Louis (Lou) Lenart, an American fighter pilot hailed as “The Man who saved Tel Aviv” during the opening days of Israel’s War of Independence, has died. Lenart died Monday at his home in Raanana, Israel, of heart and kidney failure. He was 94. His funeral on July 22 at the Kefar Nachman Cemetery…
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The Schmooze Tel Aviv Scientists Find That Pot Heals Your Bones
Broke your arm? Time to smoke some dope. According to researchers at Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University, marijuana can help heal bone fractures. Their results were published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. “The clinical potential of cannabinoid-related compounds is simply undeniable at this point… it is possible to detach a clinical…
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Fast Forward Germany Will Help Tel Aviv Preserve Bauhaus Architectural Legacy
Germany is committed to help Israel preserve an architectural legacy that recalls Jewish design pioneers who fled the Nazi regime in the 1930s. Germany will invest $3.2 million over the coming nine years to help save Bauhaus-style buildings in the historic “White City” district of Tel Aviv, Barbara Hendricks, German minister for the Environment, Nature…
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