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Cancelling planned protest, elite air force squadron will ‘continue to serve the Jewish and democratic State of Israel as long as it is required’ and report to training

HAARETZ Elite Israeli Reserve Air Force Pilots Reverse Decision to Protest, Set to Meet With Their Commanders Amos Harel March 7, 2023 Reserve pilots from an elite squadron in Israel’s Air Force announced on Tuesday that they will not boycott … Continue reading

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Bibi: “Those who say, ‘Well, if we take action against Iran, we will face war’ – You will face a war if you don’t, a potentially horrible nuclear war if you don’t”

JPOST Netanyahu: ‘Horrible nuclear war’ will break out, if Iran isn’t stopped Tovah Lazaroff March 9, 2023 A “horrible nuclear war” will break out if the world does not stop Tehran from obtaining atomic weapons, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said … Continue reading

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The U.S.-backed anti-judicial reform protests in Israel are being shaped by the intersection of two crises, one in U.S. Iran policy and the other resulting from the rise to power of religious communities in Israel

TABLET MAG How U.S. Ambassador Tom Nides Became Israel’s Arsonist-in-Chief Michael Doran March 6, 2023 …So what, precisely, is the source of the terror that these [Israelis] are feeling? The reform is five conflicts in one. First, it is a … Continue reading

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For those not in the know, Channel 14 in Israel is a politically conservative station and many have opined that it’s content and perspectives are similar to that of Fox News in the United States

THE JEWISH VOICE Why is Israel’s 24/6 News Channel 14 Soaring in the Ratings? Fern Sidman March 7, 2023 Since the inception of the modern state of Israel, the political and cultural landscape has been, for the most part dominated … Continue reading

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Glick: “Like the Left throughout the Western world, over the past 30 years, Israel’s Left has abandoned labor union politics for cultural Marxism and post-nationalism. Its new globalist ideals render the Left’s constituent parts contemptuous, and increasingly hateful, of Israel’s nationalist majority”

NEWSWEEK What the Battle For Judicial Reform Is Really About Caroline Glick March 2, 2023 In Israel as in states throughout the Western world, the political Left is an ecosystem of power, and not merely a political camp. It starts … Continue reading

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“Many gulf nations are hoping Israel will act — even if it only sets back Iranian nuclear ambitions for a few years”

BLOOMBERG Israel’s Window to Strike Iran Narrows As Putin Enters Equation Ethan Bronner March 3, 2023 Iran is seeking sophisticated new air-defense systems from Russia that Israeli officials believe will narrow the window for a potential strike on Tehran’s nuclear … Continue reading

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In the role he would be best remembered for, Topol played Tevye on and off through 2009

NEW YORK POST Chaim Topol, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ actor, dead at 87 David Russell March 9, 2023 Chaim Topol, the Academy Award-nominated actor who notably portrayed Tevye in the 1971 film “Fiddler on the Roof,” died at 87 years … Continue reading

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“Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust” (another reminder that Wikipedia articles are not always reliably accurate)

JTA Wikipedia’s ‘Supreme Court’ tackles alleged conspiracy to distort articles on Holocaust Asaf Elia-Shalev February 28, 2023 When a pair of professors earlier this month published a paper accusing a group of Wikipedia editors from Poland of revising articles to … Continue reading

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On the campus today, “the left isn’t interested in debate but in conformity”

HOT AIR Princeton senior: Campus politics are driving some students to the right John Sexton March 1, 2023 The NY Times published an opinion piece by a Princeton senior named Adam Hoffman. Hoffman writes that he’s heard there was a … Continue reading

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Why did the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations violate the purpose of its leadership mission by refusing to give podiums to Israeli leaders at the forefront of promoting the judicial, anti-terror and other reforms?

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Cancel culture comes to the Conference of Presidents Morton A. Klein March 1, 2023 …It is painful for me to report that the Conference of President’s directors violated the leadership mission’s purpose, by refusing … Continue reading

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