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Abbas Meeting With Trump May Be His Chance To Shine – If He Can Pull It Off
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump wants a deal with Israel and the Palestinians. The Israeli and Palestinian leaders say they want Trump to make the deal. What could go wrong? For all the good cheer guaranteed when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meets Wednesday with Trump at the White House, it’s a question that’s…
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Marijuana Is Future For Israeli Company That ‘Made The Desert Bloom’
An iconic Israeli agricultural company part of the early national effort to “make the desert bloom,” as the Zionist catchphrase goes, is now turning to an unconventional crop: marijuana. Founded in the 1960s, Netafim was the first popularizer of drip irrigation technology, which enables growers to control the amount of water their plants receive by…
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How The Forverts Covered The Six Day War
Fifty years ago, the Six Day War was front page news on the Yiddish Forverts, which kept its readers abreast of developments mainly by reprinting wire service reports from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, declaring Israel’s “huge victories” as the war progressed. With limited resources on the ground in Israel, the newspaper relied on its correspondent,…
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Forverts In 1967: Leaders Of The Heroic Israeli Army
The following is a translation by Chana Pollack of the Yiddish Forverts’ 1967 coverage of the Six Day War: Let’s open the door, for our readers, and permit them to peek inside the rooms of the Israeli Army Staff. The Israeli general-staff of 15 ‘alufim’ (ranks ranging from Colonel up to General) is doubtless the…
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Israeli Minister Fudges European History In Auschwitz Speech
Did Israel’s education minister fudge Holocaust history at an Auschwitz memorial event? Naftali Bennett, minister of education and leader of the Jewish Home party, was the Israeli government’s senior representative at this year’s March of the Living event at the Nazi death camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland Monday. The event, taking place on Yom Hashoah,…
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‘Wonder’-ful Gal Gadot And 6 Other Things The World Can Thank Israel For
TEL AVIV (JTA) – To build a Jewish state in the Middle East, Israelis had to be innovators. Some of what they’ve come up with has been used mostly by their fellow citizens — think Hebrew slang, Bamba snacks and the Iron Dome missile defense system — at least so far. But many other Israeli creations have…
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U.S. Pushes U.N. Security Council To Focus On Iran, Not Israel
The United States pushed the United Nations Security Council on Thursday to focus on “illegal and dangerous behavior” by Iran and Lebanese group Hezbollah in the Middle East, an accusation that Iran dismissed as “misleading propaganda.” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told the 15-member council that its monthly meetings on the Middle…
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What Do Israelis Think Of Jared And Ivanka?
American Jews have a fraught relationship with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. Whatever pride they feel in the Jewish couple in the White House is tempered by the fact that most of them voted against President Trump and oppose the administration’s policies. In Israel the feeling is much less complicated. “For us it is like…
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Concentration Camp Artist’s Mini-Masterpieces Get New Life — Thanks To Daughters
Joseph Bau moved into the Krakow ghetto with a case filled with brushes and paints, in which he fashioned a double bottom to hide precious family photographs. In the ghetto, and later in the Płaszów concentration camp, he created drawings and poetry on the paper he collected from cigarette butts thrown aside by the Nazis….
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Birthright Faces J Street-Led Protest Over Israel Travel Ban
More than 500 Jewish American students are challenging Birthright, the biggest sponsor of trips to Israel in the world, to take a stand against a new law that would deny entry to foreigners who support boycotting the country, even if the boycott is restricted to West Bank settlements. In a letter to senior executives at…
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Why Are Israelis Suing To Go To Egypt On Passover?
On the Passover holiday, Jews commemorate the exodus from Egypt. But this Passover, two Israeli Jews are suing their government to go there. Two Israeli Jews petitioned the High Court to go to Egypt over the Passover holiday after Israeli authorities closed the Sinai crossing in an unusual step over security concerns. On Sunday the…
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