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Fast Forward Israel Inaugurates First Memorial to Gay Holocaust Victims in Tel Aviv
Under gray and rainy skies, without fanfare, history was made in Israel on Tuesday with the inauguration in Tel Aviv of the country’s first memorial to victims of the Nazis that commemorates not only their suffering as Jews. After Berlin, Amsterdam, Sydney and San Francisco, Tel Aviv now has a memorial to the thousands of…
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Fast Forward Nir Barkat Wins Jerusalem Reelection Vote
The Israeli mayor of Jerusalem won re-election on Wednesday in a hotly contested race that dealt a political blow to his challenger’s main backers, former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and the ultra-Orthodox Shas party. Lieberman, a legislator whose far-right Yisrael Beitenu party is allied with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud, is embroiled in a corruption…
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Fast Forward Rihanna Performs for 50,000 in Tel Aviv, Despite BDS Campaign
Rihanna sang before a crowd of 50,000 in Tel Aviv at Israel’s largest performance venue, Yarkon Park. Fans paid $100 and up for Tuesday’s show, part of the pop star’s “Diamonds” world tour and her second performance in Israel. She played Israel three years ago. Rihanna came to Israel despite a campaign by the Boycott,…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Man Who Planned Bus Bombing Killed in Shoot Out
A wanted Palestinian terrorist, who was behind a 2012 bus bombing in Tel Aviv, was killed in a shoot out with Israeli security officials who were trying to arrest him. Mohamed Aatzi, 28, was killed Tuesday morning during an exchange of gunfire in the West Bank Palestinian town of Bil’in during a joint operation of…
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Fast Forward Gay Candidate Nitzan Horowitz Trails in Tel Aviv Mayor Polls
As a candidate to become the Middle East’s first openly gay mayor, Nitzan Horowitz is hoping his bid to run Israel’s famously liberal city of Tel Aviv will help homosexuals across a region where they are widely frowned upon. The left-wing legislator is not predicted to defeat the incumbent, the well-established ex-fighter pilot Ron Huldai,…
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Israel News Gay Candidate Nitzan Horowitz Seeks To Shake Up Tel Aviv Mayor Contest
To Nitzan Horowitz, Tel Aviv-Jaffa embodies equality and openness — but only for those who can afford to live there. In many ways, he says, his city is a beacon of tolerance. After all, a significant part of it — the exact figure will become clear only on election day, October 22 — is backing…
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News Lost Lovers Reconnect 70 Years Later After Letters Found on Tel Aviv Street
While an abandoned suitcase on a Tel Aviv street corner is often cause for panic, when Yosef Halper saw a vintage leatherette travel bag on his commute home from his bookshop a few years ago, he turned around to investigate. “I used to be a compulsive garbage examiner,” he joked. Inside, he discovered a “collector’s…
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Fast Forward Yitzhak Rabin’s Grandson Tells 35,000 at Memorial Rally ‘You Owe Us Peace’
Some 35,000 Israelis from all walks of society gathered in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv to mark the 18th anniversary of the assassination of the former prime minister. The memorial rally was held Saturday night under the banner of “Remembering the murder, fighting for democracy,” and was organized by a diverse committee of movements and…
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