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The Killer Mossad Shark and 5 Other Animals That (Don’t Really) Spy for Israel
It’s a gorgeous sunny weekend, and you and your family are sunning on the beach. Suddenly, a massive great white shark appears offshore and begins attacking unsuspecting tourists and pulling them under the frothing tide and… spying on them! Animals, it turns out, are not just movie stars. They also get accused of espionage all…
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India’s Jewish ‘Lost Tribe’ Faces Hard Times in Israel
TEL AVIV — According to ethnographers and Israeli geneticists who have investigated the matter — and even most members of his own ethnic group in India — Hanoch Haokip’s claim to be descended from one of Israel’s so-called “Lost Tribes” is, at best, highly debatable. But Haokip, a member of a small subgroup of indigenous…
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Feminists Facing New Enemy in Western Wall Prayer Battle — Settlers
Non-Orthodox Jews and ultra-Orthodox Jews have been fighting over the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site, for 28 years. The ultra-Orthodox want to maintain the status quo at the wall, where men’s and women’s section are separated by a partition. Liberal Jews want a place for men and women to pray together. Now another group has…
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After Torture and Desert Trek, First Sudanese Wins Asylum in Israel
Mutasim Ali always believed that he would succeed in his fight to secure refugee status for the thousands of asylum seekers in Israel. He just never thought that he would attain the status himself. As a leader in the movement for refugee rights, Ali, 29, assumed that his activism — which included organizing large-scale protests…
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One Person Isn’t Buying Yehuda Glick’s Temple Mount Crusade — His Mom
Israel’s newest Knesset member, Yehuda Glick, is on a mission to bring Jews to pray on the Temple Mount. But he hasn’t won over one person — his own mother. Unlike her son, Brenda Glick’s husband, Shimon Glick, defers to the mainstream rabbis who see ascension to the Temple Mount as religiously risky because of…
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Yehuda Glick Brings Extreme Vision of Temple Mount to the Knesset — With an Affable Touch
On May 24, Israel’s parliament welcomed its first-ever member to survive an assassination attempt before he even stepped foot into office. Yehuda Glick was shot and wounded for his leading role in groups devoted to rebuilding the Jewish Holy Temple in Jerusalem at a sensitive site sacred to Jews, Muslims and Christians worldwide. In a…
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First Sudanese Asylum Seeker Granted Refugee Status in Israel
Israel granted refugee status to a Sudanese asylum seeker for the first time on Thursday. Mutasim Ali was given Israeli residency seven years after he fled to Israel from Darfur. Ali is the executive director of the African Refugee Development Center, which advocates for the tens of thousands of Sudanese and Eritrean asylum seekers living…
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Israel Right-Winger Avigdor Lieberman Avoids Missteps in First U.S. Visit as Defense Minister
Walking on eggshells, a skeptical American administration and a top Israeli politician prone to making shocking policy statements survived their first encounter; they may have even set a foundation for better future relations. Both sides saw Avigdor Lieberman’s maiden visit to the United States in his new role as Israel’s defense minister as a test,…
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The Fight to Save the ‘Ellis Island of Israel’
Jaffa – In 1932, a German Jewish judge named Kurte Tuchler traveled to British Mandate Palestine as an emissary of the German Zionist movement. After landing in the Jaffa port, he entered the new terminal building, erected the year before as the gateway for the thousands of Jewish immigrants who would make their way to…
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Western Wall Prayer Deal Crumbling as Rivals Stage Dueling ‘Provocations’
The temporary takeover by Orthodox worshippers of the area at the Western Wall designated for non-Orthodox services combined with doubts about the Israeli government promise to sanction egalitarian prayer there has spurred non-Orthodox leaders to abandon the plan for a separate space and revert to their original demand: for their own section at the existing…
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A Muted Jerusalem Day Parade, With Some Help from a Court Order
JERUSALEM—As the alleyways of Jerusalem’s Muslim Quarter began to empty on Sunday afternoon, a policeman in grey fatigues approached Ahmad Arafa and asked him to shutter his shoe shop. “Can I smoke a cigarette first?” The 23-year-old vendor asked the officer. “If you want them to turn over your stall, be my guest,” the policeman…
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