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Breaking News Police Caught Off Guard by Tel Aviv Protests
Officials at the Tel Aviv District Police said Sunday that the district may have been inadequately prepared for Saturday’s social protest, which turned violent as scores of protesters clashed with police, smashed bank windows, and blocked roads. Police officers in the district said that the police failed to correctly anticipate the number of protesters that…
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Breaking News Thousands Clash With Police in Tel Aviv
More than 6,500 people converged in and around Tel Aviv’s Habima Square on Saturday night, protesting the arrest on Friday of Daphni Leef, a leader of last summer’s social protest movement. The protesters blocked Ibn Gabirol Street north to Rabin Square, before moving on to blocking Ayalon highway. Around 20 demonstrators who broke into a…
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Breaking News Fayyad Suggests He May Run Against Abbas
Tension between the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is expected to reach new heights following an interview Fayyad gave the Washington Post, and that was published over the weekend. In the interview – which bore the marks of a political campaign launch, Fayyad claimed that Abbas and Hamas are working in…
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Breaking News Tel Aviv Eyes Long, Hot Summer of Protest
Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch should not be allowed to forget these pictures, nor should Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino or Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai (a retired brigadier general): Five police special unit officers – maybe six – drag protest leader Daphne Leef out of a group of demonstrators on Rothschild Blvd. in Tel Aviv…
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Breaking News Protest Leader Arrested in Tel Aviv
Daphni Leef, one of the leaders of Israel’s social justice protest movement, was arrested by police on Friday afternoon during a demonstration on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard. The demonstration, which began around noon, was meant to revive the social justice protests that swept Israel last summer. Several hundred demonstrators carried tents to the site, which…
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Breaking News British Schools Cut Pork From Lunch Menus
Animal welfare, religious tolerance and political correctness all seem to be conflicting with each other in Britain as politicians, educators and community leaders try to balance dietary customs and liberal values. While the government tries to find a way to accommodate Jewish and Muslim ritual slaughter and at the same time conform with what they…
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Breaking News Fake Documents Used by Settlers To ‘Buy’ Arab Land
Hussein Farahat was born in 1919 in the West Bank village of Ein Yabrud, northeast of Ramallah. He owned a seven-dunam plot of land (1.75 acres ). He did not live to see the establishment of the settlement of Beit El; he died at home in 1971, survived by five children. But for the settlers…
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Breaking News Hundreds Flock to Social Justice Protest Site
Hundreds of people descended on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard on Friday, in attempt to revive last year’s wave of social protests. The rally came after ,last week, Daphni Leef, one of the leaders of last summer’s protets, along with a number of other social activists set up a tent on the high-end Tel-Aviv boulevard. Tel…
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