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Aliyah Hits 10-Year High

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Last year's summer war did not stop 2014 from drawing record immigration numbers in ten years, as 26,500 new Israelis disembarked at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport, a 32 percent increase from the year before. While French and Ukrainian Jews led the surge, North America also claimed its highest immigration numbers to Israel in a decade, with 3,700 Jews leaving the United States and Canada in a 7 percent jump from 2013.

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Terrorist Attack Survivor Provides Refuge for Israeli Arab

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In 2010, Kay Wilson, a Jewish tour guide, was one of two women bound up with shoe laces and attacked with a serrated knife in the forest near Jerusalem by local Arabs. Her friend, Kristine Luken, an American Christian whom the Palestinian terrorist cell mistook for being a Jew, did not survive. This traumatic experience did not stop Wilson, however, from taking into her home 17-year old Nazareth resident Mohammad Zoabi after receiving death threats for his support of Israel during Operation Protective Edge.

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Palestinian Authority Seeks UN Vote on Statehood

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The Palestinian Authority has submitted a draft of a UN Security Council resolution through member nation Jordan, setting a one-year deadline for reaching a peace deal with Israel, and the end of 2017 as the deadline for total Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria, Israel's ancient heartland, which includes east Jerusalem. The move comes amid growing international pressure to recognize a Palestinian statehood, with a series of European parliaments asking their governments to recognize a Palestinian state.

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Relations Between US and Cuba Shift after the Release of American Jew

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The release of American Jew Alan Gross from a Cuban prison has heralded a major shift in relations between the US and Cuba. The release of American Jew Alan Gross from a Cuban prison has heralded a major shift in relations between the US and Cuba. Gross, who is now 65, was arrested in December of 2009 for importing banned technology. The US Agency for International Development (USAID) subcontractor was trying to set up Internet service for the Cuban Jewish community.

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Israeli Poor Ask How They Are to Feed Their Children

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The recent National Insurance Institute 2013 Poverty Report has revealed that one in five Israelis (1.6 million) live below the poverty line. Four out of five Israelis spend more than they make. A 47-year-old mother of five living in Jerusalem responded to the survey, saying, “I do not need a poverty report to know that the three jobs my husband and I work do not pay enough to survive. We are fighting for food and clothing. They say there are tough security situations in Jerusalem? The war is first and foremost inside the home: how to survive, how to live, how do I feed my kids.” (YNet)

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EU Court Removes Hamas from List of Terrorist Organizations

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Last Wednesday, the General Court of the European Union, the EU’s second highest court, ruled on a technicality that it is illegal to keep Hamas on a list of terrorist organizations. The Court argued that the original decision that ruled Hamas is a terrorist organization was not based on the opinion of competent authorities, but on Internet and media reports.

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