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YNET: U.S. Intel Officials Tell Israel Not To Share Info With Trump Administration
(Haaretz) — Israeli intelligence officials are concerned that the exposure of classified information to their American counterparts under a Trump administration could lead to their being leaked to Russia and onward to Iran, investigative journalist Ronen Bergman reported by Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot on Thursday. The intelligence concerns, which have been discussed in closed forums…
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Pharmacist Sued For Destroying Cancer Drugs Worth $1.2 Million
(Haaretz) — An Israeli HMO filed a 4.5-million-shekel ($1.2 million) lawsuit against a former employee last Tuesday, after he admitted destroying cancer drugs worth 4 million shekels in 2015. The pharmacist, a resident of the southern Bedouin town of Kseifa, had been employed by Clalit Health Services for 10 years. He said in a statement…
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Jury Considers Bond Trader Accused of Greed and Lies
The fate of a former Jefferies Group bond trader being tried a second time for defrauding clients now lies with a federal jury, after prosecutors and the defense battled over whether he told his customers “lies” or merely employed sales “banter” they knew to shrug off. Jesse Litvak, 42, was “motivated by greed,” and it…
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Obamacare Repeal Effort Worries Jewish Service Group
(JTA) — Before the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, Jewish Family Service of Metro Detroit organized local doctors to provide free care to Jews who lacked health insurance. The Detroit agency closed the doctors’ program after enactment of the health care law, also known as Obamacare, and instead worked to enroll people in health…
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Milan Jews Object to Planned Rally by Far-Right Movement
ROME (JTA) – Italian Jewish leaders warned against a neo-fascist rally planned for Saturday in Milan. In a joint statement, the president of the umbrella Union of Italian Jewish Communities, Noemi Di Segni, and the leaders of the Milan Jewish community called the planned rally by the far-right Forza Nuova movement “a dangerous initiative, promoted…
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ADL Calls Out Huffington Post Arabic For Blaming Jew for Muhammad’s Death
(JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League called on the Huffington Post’s Arabic-language edition to remove a blog post claiming a Jewish woman poisoned the Prophet Muhammad with arsenic. The ADL has been urging the site to take down the article since shortly after it was published Nov. 29, the organization said in a press release on Thursday….
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Gas Canisters, Nazi Slogans Hurled at 4 London Jews
(JTA) — Four haredi Orthodox Jews from London, including a mother and her 13 year-old son, were pelted with gas canisters by at least one man who yelled “Heil Hitler” at them from a moving car. Police apprehended a suspect, 19-year-old Patrick Delaney, who admitted to participating in the attack last week in Tottenham in northern…
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Ari Rath, former Jerusalem Post editor, Dies at 92
(JTA) — Ari Rath, a prominent Austrian-Israeli journalist who served as editor-in-chief at the Jerusalem Post, has died. Rath died Friday in Vienna, a week after turning 92, The Jerusalem Post reported. In recent years, he suffered from heart problems. Born in 1925 in Vienna, Rath came to pre-state Palestine as a 13-year-old, following Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria in 1938. He…
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Vandals Scrawl ‘Kill Jews’ at Massachusetts Cemetery
(JTA) — Unidentified perpetrators spray painted the words “kill Jews” and a white supremacist slogan on headstones at a cemetery in Cape Cod. Several headstones were knocked over at Oak Neck, a 5.5-acre graveyard that is the only active cemetery in the village of Hyannis, 70 miles southeast of Boston, Fox25 reported last week. Oak Neck is not…
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Report: Abbas Met With U.S. Businessmen to Establish Trump Back Channel
(JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with American businessmen in Ramallah earlier this month in an attempt to set up a back channel for contacts with the incoming administration of Donald Trump. On Jan. 2, Abbas met in Ramallah with hedge fund manager Daniel Arbess, who is Jewish, and with the Palestinian billionaire…
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Israel Frees UN Worker Said to Have Aided Hamas in Gaza
(JTA) — A United Nations employee from Gaza who assisted Hamas was released after six months in an Israeli prison. Waheed al-Bursh, a Palestinian engineer working for the United Nations Development Program in Gaza, was sentenced last week in Israel for assisting the terrorist group last year by transporting to a Hamas-run facility 300 tons…
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