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Fast Forward West Bank Housing Construction Soars By 34%
There has been a 34 percent increase in construction starts in the West Bank in 2016 over the same period in the previous year, according to a new report. Peace Now’s annual construction report was released on Sunday. Some 1,814 new housing units began construction, an increase of 34 percent to a parallel time period in the…
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Fast Forward No Golan? White House Video Shows Unprecedented Israel Map
A White House video designed to promote the first trip abroad by President Trump seemingly portrayed a shocking change in American policy and the Trump administration’s beliefs. But it was pulled almost immediately. The video was intended to promote the trip to four countries. A slide in the video showed a map of Israel with…
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Fast Forward White House: Our Staffer’s Claim That Western Wall Isn’t In Israel Was Wrong
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Reported remarks by a Trump administration official rejecting Israel’s claim to the Western Wall were “unauthorized” and do not represent the position of President Donald Trump, the White House said. “The comments about the Western Wall were not authorized communication and they do not represent the position of the United States and…
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Israel News If Israel Bans Overnight Trips To Bethlehem, Will Christian Tourism Take A Hit?
Drawn to the Holy Land’s biblical sites, Christian tourists make up over half of all tourists to Israel, compared with the 20 percent that are Jews. Yet Israel is considering making it harder for tourists to visit parts of the West Bank, which could mean Christian tourists would struggle to visit Bethlehem, the birthplace of…
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Fast Forward Soccer Body Delays Vote On Israel’s West Bank Settlement Teams
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The FIFA Congress voted to accept the proposal of the governing body of international soccer’s council and not hold a vote on a Palestinian proposal questioning the status of Israeli teams in the West Bank. The vote passed Thursday with the approval of 73 percent of the member FIFA nations. It comes…
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Fast Forward Rule Keeping Tourists From Palestinian Territories Would Have ‘Very Real Cost’
New Israeli government restrictions on tourists staying in the West Bank could stifle an influential non-profit that brings American Jewish leaders to stay with Palestinians in Bethlehem and elsewhere in the territories. Encounter, whose participants have included senior Jewish communal executives and prominent rabbis, says a new Israel laws could strangle its ability to run…
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Fast Forward Jewish Man Killed At West Bank Checkpoint Left Suicide Note
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Jewish man shot and killed at a West Bank checkpoint after charging at a female soldier while brandishing a knife left a suicide note. The Jewish man, 19, was shot and killed on Tuesday afternoon by Israeli security forces who felt their lives were in danger when they called on him to…
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News For Palestinians, Grim ‘Checkpoint Q’ Is Metaphor For Israeli Occupation
To one side loom towers manned by Israeli soldiers who keep watch from behind bulletproof glass. To the other stand concrete walls charred by fire bombs, pitted with bullet holes and scrawled with Palestinian graffiti. In between, barriers and steel fences block traffic or corral vehicles and pedestrians. In much the same way Checkpoint Charlie…
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