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Fast Forward Palestinian Shot Dead After Stabbing 3 Israelis In Jerusalem’s Old City
Israeli paramilitary police officers shot dead a Palestinian on Saturday after he stabbed three Israelis in Jerusalem’s Old City, a police spokesman said. The assailant wounded two ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in the street before fleeing into a nearby house where he was caught by border police officers who had given chase. He stabbed one of…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Woman Brandishing Scissors Killed By Israeli Troops In Jerusalem
Israeli paramilitary police officers shot and killed a Palestinian woman who tried to attack them with a pair of scissors outside Jerusalem’s walled Old City on Wednesday, police spokesmen said. The incident occurred at Damascus Gate, a heavily guarded entrance to the Old City and the scene of similar violence in the past. “Police responded…
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Fast Forward Trump ‘Considering’ Moving Embassy To Jerusalem? You Can’t Be Serious.
Vice President Mike Pence’s promise that President Trump is “giving serious consideration” to the idea of relocating the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem won applauds from the AIPAC audience Sunday night. But the wording didn’t fool veteran Middle East watchers — they say the embassy ain’t going anywhere fast. One of them, Martin Indyk,…
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Community A Charedi Jew Explains: Why Do The Ultra-Orthodox Protest Women of the Wall?
Jewish law states that a court may not hear one side of an argument without the other party being present. If anyone should want to judge anything, they must listen to both sides of the argument, and only then can they find the truth. Many have written that the Charedi community ought to be ashamed…
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Fast Forward Breitbart’s Jerusalem Chief Boasts Of ‘Major Influence’ In Trump Era
The man running Breitbart’s Israel bureau is a Yeshiva U. graduate from Philadelphia who runs the outpost of the influential far-right media operation from his sunsplashed triplex apartment in Tel Aviv alongside a dog named for a machine gun. Aaron Klein also shares a deep suspicion of Muslims with his ex-boss, Steve Bannon, who now…
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Breaking News Groups Quarrel Over Memorial Service At Jewish Voice For Peace Conference
(JTA) — Two Israel advocacy groups faced off, when a pro-BDS group denied the request of an anti-BDS group to hold a memorial service at a conference it had organized. Jewish Voice for Peace, which is organizing the confab, said however that it had already planned its own general memorial event. The Israel advocacy group StandWithUs had asked…
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Breaking News Woman Charged By U.S. For 2001 Jerusalem Suicide Bombing
(JTA) — The United States charged a Jordanian woman with involvement in a suicide bombing in Jerusalem that killed 15, including two Americans. The U.S. Justice Department unsealed Tuesday the charge against Ahlam Aref Ahmad Al-Tamimi, who is in her mid 30s and is also known as “Khalti” and “Halati,” for conspiring to use a…
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Breaking News 2 Israeli Police Officers Injured In Palestinian Stabbing Attack
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Israeli Border Police officers were injured in a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem. The officers were stabbed by an alleged Palestinian assailant overnight on Sunday at their post near the Lions Gate. A third officer reportedly shot and killed the man, identified by the Palestinian Maan news agency…
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