Deborah Danan
By Deborah Danan
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Fast Forward Shalom, Slurpee: Israel gets its first 7-Eleven in convenience store chain’s planned wave
'In the end, people will like it more than other places,' one shopper said during the splashy opening event
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Fast Forward Why Israel’s new right-wing leaders started out by making disposable plates inexpensive again
Israel’s haredi Orthodox saw a new tax on single-use tableware as unfairly targeting them
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Israel News For some Americans who moved to Israel, this week’s election results are conjuring 2016 deja vu
Liberal American immigrants said they are heartbroken by the right’s success the way they were when Donald Trump was elected in the United States
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News Eating grasshoppers for Israel: On the bus with the army of pro-Israel TikTok influencers
Dog, skin care and science influencers are increasingly seen as Israel’s most advanced weapon in its war for public opinion.
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Fast Forward In first Israel talk, Ben Shapiro rails against Reform Judaism, ‘woke culture’ and Jewish Democrats
The conservative podcaster and Orthodox Jew packed one of Tel Aviv’s largest indoor venues for his first-ever talk in Israel
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Israel News Why these Israeli farmers became heroes after killing their crops (hint: it’s in the Bible)
An organization that subsidizes farmers observing shmita, the every-seven-years agricultural sabbatical, says it is doling out more than twice as much as last time around.
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Fast Forward Mourners throng Bnei Brak for funeral of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, largest in Israel’s history
(JTA) — Thousands of men escorted the late leader’s body from his home on Rashbam Street to his final resting place close to the grave of his uncle, Rabbi Avraham Yeshayohu Karelitz (the “Chazon Ish”) in the Zichron Meir Cemetery. Only close members of family and senior public figures, including Israel’s chief rabbis, were allowed…
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