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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 4 Palestinians Detained By Their Own Police After Visiting Sukkah
Four Palestinians who attended a Sukkot celebration alongside Israelis in the home of a West Bank mayor were arrested by Palestinian security forces. The celebration took place without incident Wednesday at the home of Oded Revivi, mayor of the Efrat settlement. Revivi had invited several dozen Palestinians living near Efrat to join 30 Israelis in…
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Opinion Why the Fight Over Israeli Settlements Is Reaching a Boiling Point
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is caught in a tightening pincer of opposing pressures as his government faces a court-ordered December 25 deadline to dismantle the West Bank’s oldest and largest illegal settlement outpost. The main combatants include Israel’s Supreme Court, the settler movement and the Obama administration. Caught in the middle are Netanyahu and…
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News The Kabbalist Who Would Be King of a New Jewish Monarchy in Israel
The crowd was eclectic, from stern, black-garbed ultra-Orthodox men to youths of both sexes bedecked in colorful, hippie-like clothes. They hailed from homes as far as Safed, the kabbalist center in Israel’s North, and as remote as isolated hilltop settlements in the occupied West Bank. Even a few New Age types from secular Tel Aviv…
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