Allyn Fisher-Ilan
By Allyn Fisher-Ilan
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Attacker Stabs 6 at Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade
An Orthodox Jewish assailant stabbed and injured six participants of an annual Gay Pride march in Jerusalem on Thursday, police and witnesses said. Police reportedly said a suspect is the same man who was convicted of a similar attack in 2005 and was recently freed from prison, the Times of Israel reported. It was the…
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Fast Forward Digital Imaging ‘Unwraps’ 1,500-Year-Old Biblical Scroll
Israeli archaeologists said on Monday they had discerned biblical writing on a charred 1,500-year-old parchment with the help of digital imaging and described the text as the oldest found since the Dead Sea Scrolls. U.S. and Israeli researchers made the discovery using advanced medical and digital technology to examine the object, first unearthed 45 years…
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Fast Forward Human Rights Groups Feel Heat From New Israel Government
On a backstreet in Jerusalem sit the sparse offices of B’Tselem, an Israeli organization that has long been a bane of successive governments, tirelessly flagging military abuses in occupied Palestinian territory. Set up by a group of academics, lawyers and politicians more than 25 years ago, the NGO – whose name means “in the image…
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Fast Forward Will Iran Deal Spur Push for Israel Unity Government?
(Reuters) — Concerns over Iran’s nuclear negotiations and the need to repair relations with the White House may push Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seek to form a national unity government with his center-left rivals. Political analysts pointed on Monday to a new position paper from the main challenger that Netanyahu beat in last…
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Fast Forward Will Israel’s Sephardic Voters Desert Benjamin Netanyahu?
(Reuters) — In the past, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party could count on Israelis like 50-year-old shopkeeper Yossi Levy when it came to election day. Levy, who describes himself as a lifelong Likud voter, is a member of Israel’s Sephardic community – Jews of Middle Eastern descent who, attracted by a tough stance towards…
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Fast Forward Senator Threatens Aid Cut to Palestinians Over ICC ‘War Crimes’ Case
The Palestinians could lose annual U.S. aid if they file a lawsuit against Israel at the International Criminal Court which they joined this month over American and Israeli protests, a senior U.S. Republican senator said on Monday. Lindsey Graham, part of a seven-member delegation of senators visiting Israel, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, said existing U.S….
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Fast Forward Israel Top Court Outlaws African Immigrant Jail
Asylum-seekers Detained in Israel’s Desert from Jewish Daily Forward on Vimeo. (Reuters) — Israel’s high court on Monday outlawed a detention center where African migrants are held without trial and ordered some 2,000 inmates there released over the next three months. The ruling struck down a measure passed by Israel’s parliament in December to indefinitely incarcerate…
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Fast Forward Human Rights Group Accuses Israel of Killing 2 Palestinian Teens ‘Unlawfully’
(Reuters) — A human rights group released video on Tuesday which it said showed that two teenage Palestinians shot dead by Israeli security forces during a protest last week had posed no danger and were killed unlawfully. The Israeli military said a preliminary investigation indicated that security personnel had fired rubber bullets but not live…
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