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Breaking News Jared Kushner’s Parents’ Foundation Donated Tens of Thousands to Settlement Groups
JERUSALEM — The charitable foundation of the parents of Jared Kushner, son-in-law of President-elect Donald Trump, has donated tens of thousands of dollars to West Bank groups and institutions, an Israeli newspaper reported. The Charles and Seryl Kushner Foundation has given a few million dollars a year to charitable causes, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported, citing…
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News Kushner Foundation Bankrolls Radical Jewish West Bank Settlers
In recent years, the parents of Jared Kushner – the son-in-law and trusted confidant of President-elect Donald Trump – have donated tens of thousands of dollars to organizations and institutions located in the West Bank settlements, according to their tax forms. The U.S. State Department has long held that the settlements are an impediment to…
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Breaking News Illegal Jewish Settlers Hunker Down for FIght in West Bank Outpost
On a hilltop in the occupied West Bank, Israeli teenagers are hammering stakes into the earth and erecting tent frames, preparing the ground for a confrontation with Israeli security forces. The devoutly religious young men see themselves as a last line of defense for Amona, a collection of pre-fabricated homes perched in the highlands of…
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Breaking News U.S. Government Concerned About West Bank Death of Palestinian-American
JERUSALEM — The Obama administration reportedly said it still has “concerns” about the death of a Palestinian-American teen at the hands of Israeli security forces. Mahmoud Shalan, 16, who was born in Florida and held U.S. citizenship, was killed in February at a West Bank checkpoint near Ramallah where Israeli soldiers say he tried to stab…
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Breaking News Avigdor Lieberman Wants Deal With Trump To Expand Big West Bank Settlements
JERUSALEM — Israel’s defense minister said his country should reach an agreement with the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump to freeze building in isolated West Bank settlements in exchange for continued building in settlement blocs. Avigdor Liberman made the remarks on Wednesday at a briefing with reporters, the first since his Yisrael Beiteinu party…
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Breaking News Woman Named To Lead West Bank Rabbinic Court
JERUSALEM — An Orthodox Jewish woman has been appointed director of a rabbinical court in the West Bank settlement of Efrat. Jennie Rosenfeld will head the rabbinical court for property claims in the Efrat municipal region, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. She will not serve on the court, which deals with such issues as financial…
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Israel News My Son’s Killer Is on Trial and No One Informed Me
The video is infamous: In March an Israeli sergeant shot and killed a Palestinian who had already been lying for several minutes in the street, wounded and neutralized, after being shot while stabbing and wounding another soldier. Now, Abdul Fattah Sharif’s death is in its long second phase — the sergeant’s military trial. And though…
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News Left and Right Mostly Agree: Federation Trips to Settlements Could Be a Good Thing
The day after a watershed decision by the Jewish Federations of North America to allow some of its trips to visit the West Bank, the organization is hearing an unusual sound: Applause from both sides of the Jewish communal aisle. Hawkish and dovish Jewish leaders are cheering the October 26 board vote for wildly different…
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