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Opinion #JeSuisCouteau Trending After Tel Aviv Attack
This might just be the world’s worst hashtag — ever. Hours after a Palestinian terrorist stabbed 12 people on board a Tel Aviv bus, extremists took to social media to praise his actions with #JeSuisCouteau, which is French for “I am the knife.” The hashtag, a clear play on the #JeSuisCharlie hashtag used around the world…
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Breaking News Palestinian Stabs 12 on Tel Aviv Bus
At least 12 people were wounded, some seriously, when a Palestinian terrorist boarded a bus in Tel Aviv, stabbing the driver and passengers. Four victims, including the driver, remained in serious condition following the Wednesday morning attack, which Israeli reports say injured between 12 and 21 people. The assailant, a 23-year-old Palestinian man from the…
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The Schmooze Are The Kardashians Moving to Tel Aviv?
Getty Images Brace yourself Tel Aviv, the Kardashians are coming. The Times of Israel reports that Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian have their eye on $30 million worth of real estate on the city’s A-list Hayarkon Street. The sisters would apparently combine a fourth floor apartment and 11,840 square feet penthouse to create the ultimate…
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Culture I Spent 18 Hours In Tel Aviv’s Bus Station
I arrived at the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station at 5:34 a.m. on the rainiest day of the year. The concrete building was just yawning open; shopkeepers placed bourekas onto particleboard pallets and dressed mannequins in discount winter coats as they prepared for the 60,000-plus passengers who would pass through the station that day. But…
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Breaking News Tel Aviv Synagogue Vandalized in ‘Jewish State’ Protest
A Tel Aviv synagogue apparently was vandalized in protest of Israel’s nation-state bill. “In a place where the Jewish State bill will be legislated, books will be burned,” read the graffiti painted Sunday on a wall of the Tel Aviv International Synagogue. A pile of burned books — none of them religious texts — were…
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Breaking News Court Allows Tel Aviv Markets To Open on Shabbat
A Tel Aviv court ruled that supermarkets may remain open on the Sabbath in the municipality. Tuesday’s ruling denied a city request that the court require the stores to heed municipal attempts to keep stores closed on Saturdays. It is illegal in Israel to open retail businesses on the Jewish Sabbath, which begins at sundown…
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Music Soldier Stabbed in Suspected Tel Aviv Terror Attack
A Palestinian stabbed and critically wounded an Israeli soldier near a Tel Aviv train station on Monday, police said, as anti-Israel violence that has raised concern about a new Palestinian uprising in the making reached the country’s business capital. Israeli-Palestinian tensions have festered over access to a Jerusalem compound housing Islam’s third holiest site and…
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Culture Is ‘Amy Winehouse’ Exhibit Too Loving a Portrait?
(Haaretz) — “Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait,” an exhibition originally curated with the assistance of the late singer’s brother and sister-in-law at the Jewish Museum London, has relocated, almost intact, to Tel Aviv. In addition to the fact that Winehouse, who died from alcohol poisoning at age 27 in 2011, has won pride of place in…
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