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Fast Forward Shower, shelter, swipe: Israel’s ‘startup nation’ meets Iran war with a wave of apps
Israelis are downloading apps to calculate the risk of showering — and to look for love in bomb shelters
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Opinion The left won’t let Iranians be grateful for the end of Khamenei’s reign
Doing nothing about a brutal regime is its own kind of choice
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Opinion Marco Rubio invoked a medieval antisemitic trope in justifying war with Iran
It's deceptive and conspiratorial to suggest that Israel forced the US into this conflict
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Fast Forward Death of Iranian leader just before Purim revives Book of Esther parallels
The timing of Israel’s strike, days before the holiday, prompted religious and political figures to invoke themes from the biblical story set in ancient Persia
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Fast Forward US urges Americans to ‘DEPART NOW’ from Israel and a dozen other Middle Eastern countries
The order from the State Department comes as commercial travel in Israel has screeched to a halt
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Opinion In 3 days, Israel and the US reshaped the Middle East
The war to date has been enormously successful. Can it continue?
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Culture The Jewish space lasers are real — well, kind of
The Iron Beam is a laser-powered defense Israel has been developing for years
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Fast Forward Khamenei long obstructed peace for Israel. But his influence was waning before his assassination.
Iran’s supreme leader’s anti-Israel tweets reflected an ideology that preceded him — and could outlast him
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