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6/12/12 Round Up AM Edition

By Jspace Staff on 6/12/2012 at 11:05 AM

Categories: Israel, Politics

6/12/12 Round Up AM Edition


MK Moshe Gafni calls Reform Jews “clowns” and ejects Reform Movement Director Gilad Kariv from a Knesset Finance Committee meeting. [Arutz Sheva 7]

Israel will evacuate the entire population of Tel Aviv if it is hit by missles. [AFP]

Israeli police summon last summer’s protest leaders to prepare for this summer’s expected protests. [Haaretz]

Israel is to decide whether or not to award coveted university status to a college has taken on powerful political overtones. [CBS News]

Jezreel Valley College reaches an agreement with Professor Joram Feldon after he sued the college this past February. [Haaretz]

Swiss-Jewish organizations criticize an ad in a Swiss paper sponsored by a Swiss Protestant aid organization promoting the Migros supermarket’s decision to boycott products from Israeli settlements. [The Jerusalem Post]

Read Eliyahu Federman’s opinions on Jewish-Orthodox sexual abuse cases. [The Huffington Post]

About 1.4 million tourists visited the Holy Land in early 2012. [The Times of Israel]

Chicago art direct Doug Burnett redesigns the tzedakah box. [Chicago Tribune]

  • Tourists at Mount Bental in the Golan Heights.
  • More than 3.2 people live within the Tel Aviv metropolitan area.
  • Police evicting protesters from a building in central Tel Aviv last August.
  • Moshe Gafni
  • Migros supermarket
  • Jezreel Valley College

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