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News Israel Left-Center Opposition Surges to Lead as Election Nears
Israel’s center-left opposition is poised for an upset victory in national elections next week, with the last opinion polls before the March 17 vote giving it a solid lead over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party. Polls in two of Israel’s leading newspapers predicted the Zionist Union would secure 25 or 26 seats in the 120-seat…
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Israel News Zionist Group’s Vote Could Bare Israel’s Secret Funding of Settlements
It’s an unwritten arrangement Diaspora Jewish leaders and Israel have kept for decades — though few Jews know about it: The government of Israel uses one of world Jewry’s main Zionist funding instruments to hide money that it channels secretly to exclusively Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. The funding body is the World…
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News Secrets of the Land of Esther
Arriving at the airport in Tabriz, Iran at 2:30 a.m., I covered my head as the travel agency had instructed. I had come as a tourist, planning to travel the country for three weeks. At immigration, my passport and visa were confiscated because I am American. Segregated from other arriving passengers, in the middle of…
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Culture Anita Shapira Examines the Rise and Fall of David Ben-Gurion
Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel By Anita Shapira Yale University Press, 288 pages, $25 Another book on David Ben-Gurion? Many are the studies of the iconic Zionist leader — Shabtai Teveth’s massive and comprehensive political biography, “The Burning Ground,” is an analysis from the political center; Ben-Gurion confidant Michael Bar Zohar’s 1968 “Ben Gurion: The…
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Breaking News 62% of Religious Zionists Say Jewish Majority More Important Than Ruling West Bank
Three-fifths of Israeli religious Zionists prioritize safeguarding Israel’s Jewish majority over keeping control of the West Bank. According to a survey of religious Zionists conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute think tank, 62 percent believe maintaining Israel’s Jewish majority is more important than controlling the “entire Land of Israel from the Jordan to the Mediterranean.”…
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Opinion Zionist Polls Open: Who’s Running, How to Vote
Alert readers may have read my column from last week, explaining what the World Zionist Congress is about, how the American delegation is elected and why anyone should care enough to vote. Well, the online polls are now open. To register and vote, you need to pay $10 (via credit card) and affirm that you…
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Breaking News Hamas Blasts New Muhammed Cartoon on Charlie Hebdo Cover as ‘Zionist’ Plot
Hamas said the Charlie Hebdo cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad on the satirical magazine’s latest cover was part of a plot by the “Zionist lobby.” “We condemn the latest publication of ‘Charlie Hebdo,’ which has caricatures offending the Prophet Muhammad,” spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said Wednesday, according to reports. “The way the Israeli newspapers have dealt…
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Breaking News Right-Wing Extremists Flock to Milan for Meeting of New Pan-European Party
For the second time in less than a month, right-wing extremists from around Europe met in Milan. About 300 people, among them representatives of European far-right parties and movements including Greece’s Golden Dawn and the British National Party, met at a Milan hotel on Saturday, according to local media. The gathering was organized by the…
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