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Denying Chauffeur Privileges Abuse, Netanyahu Reveals His Son Keeps Shabbat
(JTA) — A spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied reports that his children get chauffeured on weekends to social events, revealing that his youngest son observes the Shabbat. The denial came following a report earlier this week by the news site The Marker on the publication of a personnel ad by the Prime…
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Too Soon To Discuss Jerusalem Embassy, Says Trump
(JTA) — In his second media interview as president, Donald Trump said it was too early to discuss moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and praised Israel’s separation barrier as effective at providing protection. “The wall is necessary,” Trump said in replying Thursday to a question by Fox News’ Sean Hannity about Trump’s plan to…
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How Jared Kushner Became a Teenage Hero — and Learned To Be a Zionist
Almost 20 years before Jared Kushner became a chief adviser to Donald Trump, a man who has boasted about groping women’s genitals, he rescued a teenage girl from a groping attack in Poland. The incident happened in 1998, when Kushner was a high school participant in the March of the Living, a Holocaust education trip…
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Trump Says Telephone Call With Benjamin Netanyahu ‘Very Nice’
President Donald Trump said a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday was “very nice.” Trump, who took office on Friday, spoke with Netanyahu on Sunday afternoon. Trump was asked about the call by reporters after delivering remarks at a ceremony swearing in his top advisors at the White House.
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‘YOLO-caust’ Art Project Takes Aim at Shoah Selfies
A Berlin-based Israeli artist has created a jarring online visual critique of tourists who take selfies at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial. YOLOCAUST, a combination of the acronym “YOLO,” which stands for “you only live once” and the word “Holocaust,” juxtaposes selfies at the Berlin outdoor monument with photographs of Nazi death camps. In one photo,…
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Trump Plans To Talk With Benjamin Netanyahu by Phone Today
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump have scheduled a telephone conversation. Trump and Netanyahu will talk on Sunday evening, Netanyahu told his Cabinet on Sunday morning. “There are many issues between us including the Israeli-Palestinian issue, the situation in Syria and the Iranian threat,” Netanyahu said. He added…
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300 Women Rally in Tel Aviv in Defiance of Trump
About 300 Americans, Israelis and dual nationals, including a handful in pink pussy hats, waved Hebrew and English signs and chanted outside of the United States embassy in Tel Aviv in a sister rally to the Women’s March on Washington. Protestors spoke for women’s and LGBT rights and democracy and against anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in…
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Women Plan Anti-Trump March in Tel Aviv — but Split Looms Over Occupation
An anti-Trump protest coinciding with the Women’s March on Washington is set to take place outside the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv on Saturday. But protesters are split about whether to make Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians a key focus of the demonstration. Pantsuit Nation Israel, an offshoot of the pro-Hillary Clinton Facebook group in…
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Women Face Body Searches at Western Wall — Despite Court Ruling
Member of feminist prayer group Women of the Wall and their supporters were asked to submit to body searches at the Western Wall Jewish holy site on Thursday morning, in apparent violation of a recent Israeli High Court order against such searches. According to the group’s director, Lesley Sachs, about 50 men and 20 women…
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European Jews Alarmed by Israeli Outreach to Anti-Semitic Far Right
Jews in Europe are voicing increasing consternation about Israel’s budding engagement with surging far-right European parties that have anti-Semitic histories. In Poland, Austria and the halls of the World Jewish Congress, among other places, Diaspora activists are raising sharp questions about the morality of Jerusalem’s foreign policy. “We should not abandon our heritage and cut…
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Can Generals Scare Israelis Into Accepting a State for Palestinians?
A group of former Israeli security chiefs in favor of a two-state solution is trying to scare the Israeli Jewish public into separating from the Palestinians with massive billboards of a Palestinian demonstration with Arabic writing that reads: “We will soon be the majority.” The ad campaign plays on the fears of a so-called “demographic…
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