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A Must-See Film, Especially For Jewish Youth

Submitted by Adam Dickter on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 16:29

The new documentary film, “Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story,” should be required viewing in Jewish schools and camps throughout the country.

You can’t teach Modern Israel and the challenges of Zionism in 80 minutes. But in chronicling the life of the hero of the Entebbe rescue, the film not only manages to offer up one remarkable young man’s ongoing struggle between duty to country and the desire to pursue one’s own dreams, but also a simpler, more unified Israeli society fighting for its basic freedoms and rights.

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Netanyahu Calls For Aggressive Action Against Exclusion Of Women

12/25/2011
JTA

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the Israel Police to act aggressively against violence against women in the public sphere.

The order came from Netanyahu Saturday night through Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, following a television expose the previous evening showing an eight-year-old modern Orthodox girl who said she was afraid to walk to school because of harassment from local haredi Orthodox men. 

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Times' Friedman Responds On `Israel Lobby' Phrase

12/20/2011
Gary Rosenblatt
Editor and Publisher

New York Times columnist Tom Friedman told The Jewish Week Tuesday that the wording of a memorable phrase in his Dec. 13 column (“Newt, Mitt, Bibi and Vladimir”) may have been inexact when he wrote that the standing ovation Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received in Congress this year “was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.”

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Obama To Reform Jews: No Administration Has Done More For Israel

12/17/2011
Ron Kampeas
JTA

President Obama told a gathering of Reform Jewry not to let anyone challenge his record of support for Israel, which he said was "unprecedented."

"No U.S. administration has done more in support of Israel's security than ours -- none," he said in an address Friday afternoon to more than 5,000 people at the biennial conference of the Union for Reform Judaism. "Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise. It is a fact."

The crowd at a hotel in the Maryland suburbs outside of Washington gave him a standing ovation.

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Citing End Of Unilateral Steps, Israel Releases $100 Million To PA

11/30/2011
JTA

 

Israel released $100 million in tax funds it had withheld from the Palestinian Authority.

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Sarkozy Pledges Friendship to Netanyahu In Letter

11/15/2011
JTA

French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged his friendship to Benjamin Netanyahu in a condolence letter written to the Israeli prime minister.

“You have my friendship, and our differing views on the problems of the Middle East, and the interpretations appearing in the media, have no effect on it,” Sarkozy wrote, according to Reuters, citing two unnamed Israeli officials in the prime minister's office. The message was included in a letter of condolence to Netanyahu over the death of his father-in-law, Shmuel Ben-Artzi.

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Diplomatic Impugn-ity: The Press And The Bibi Slam

Sarkozy and Obama, above, give Netanyahu the business in private comments.
11/08/2011
Stewart Ain
Staff Writer

Bloggers and columnists had a field day Tuesday after a French photo agency reported that French President Nicolas Sarkozy and President Barack Obama had privately exchanged disparaging remarks about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“I cannot stand him; he’s a liar,” Sarkozy is said to have told Obama.

The French Website “Arret sur Images,” said Obama replied: “You’re fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!”

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Reports: Israel And Hamas Near Deal To Exchange Prisoners For Gilad Shalit

10/11/2011
Staff Report

More than five ears after he was seized by Hamas militants, Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit may be on the verge of going home, and more than 1,000 Palestinian militants may be the price.

The deal could include a range of notorious prisoners including Marwan Barghouti, who is serving multiple life sentences in Israel for terrorist attacks, Ahmad Sadat of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and  Ibrahim Hamed, former Hamas commander and plotter of the 2002 terror bombing at the Moment cafe in Jerusalem, Haaretz reported, citing Arab-language media.

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Trading Charges, Not Olive Branches

Submitted by Douglas Bloomfield on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 02:28
By ramping up the incendiary rhetoric with accusations of Israeli racism, ethnic cleansing, targeted assassinations, waging a war of aggression, apartheid and threatening Islamic holy places, Mahmoud Abbas was fanning the flames of a Third Intifada he claims he doesn't want. 
 
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Abbas, Netanyahu Trade Charges Of Ethnic Cleansing

09/23/2011
JTA

Mahmoud Abbas outlined a vision for an independent Palestine that hewed to the two-state formula but also revived rhetoric that hearkened back to an era of Palestinian belligerence.

Shortly after concluding his speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Friday, the Palestinian Authority president was followed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who laid out a very different vision of the two-state solution that underscored the depth of the gulf between the two leaders.

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