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News Archives Reveal Israel’s Secret 1967 Plan To ‘Drive Out All the Arabs from the West Bank’
The military archives have released generals’ testimonies that put the reader on the ground during Israel’s capture of Jerusalem’s Old City in the 1967 Six-Day War. The testimonies were given as part of the Israel Defense Forces’ efforts to draw lessons from the conflict, in which Israel took the West Bank, Sinai Peninsula and Golan…
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News Does Push for India’s ‘Lost Tribe of Menashe’ Signal New Interest in Far-flung Jewish Communities?
Israel will spend 8.1 million shekels, or about $2 million, to bring more than 712 members of India’s Bnei Menashe community to Israel this year, the Israeli news site Walla reported May 22. In the past, the Ministry of Absorption and the Jewish Agency have handled group immigration to Israel. But in the case of…
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Israel News Why Israel’s Occupation Is Becoming Irreversible — and That’s the Idea
In the hills east of Jerusalem, overlooking the Palestinian city of Jericho and the Jordan Valley, stands a religious Jewish settlement whose red-tile roofs, neat gardens and brightly colored playgrounds give the sense of permanence. Mitzpe Yericho has stood on this escarpment, close to the Dead Sea – the lowest point on earth – since…
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Fast Forward 71% of Israeli Jews Deny West Bank Is ‘Occupied’
JERUSALEM — Some 71.5 percent of Jewish Israelis say they do not view Israel’s control of the West Bank as “occupation,” a monthly survey found. The same percentage of Arab respondents to the survey called it an occupation, according to the May Peace Index survey of the Israel Democracy Institute released Monday. Asked “Which of the…
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Fast Forward U.S. Plans Harsher Language Against Israel in Settlements Report
— The United States reportedly will approve harsher language against Israel in a report set to be released by the Middle East Quartet dealing with Israeli settlements and other actions in the West Bank. The focus of the report by the Quartet, the body comprising the United States, Russia, the United Nations and the European…
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Fast Forward Thousands of Jews Visit West Bank Tomb of Joshua
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Thousands of Jewish Israelis entered the West Bank Palestinian village of Kifl Haris to visit the tomb of the biblical figure Joshua. Also buried in the northern West Bank village located near the Ariel settlement are Joshua’s father, Nun, and Calev Ben Yefuneh. Joshua and Calev were two of the 12 spies…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Teen Convicted in Brutal Murder of Jewish West Bank Mom of 6
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian teen has been convicted in an Israeli military court in the brutal murder of Dafna Meir, a mother of six, in her West Bank home. The Palestinian attacker, 16, was convicted of murder and illegal possession of a weapon on Monday in Judea Military Court, the IDF announced on Tuesday. He…
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Fast Forward Israel May Create Separate Legal Systems for Jews and Palestinians in West Bank
Israel’s justice minister said she would resurrect a legal initiative to bring Israeli civil law to Jewish settlements in the West Bank while keeping the Palestinians who live there under military orders. Ayelet Shaked, of the right-wing Jewish Home party, made the remarks on Sunday evening during a speech to the Legal Forum for the…
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