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News Clashes break out between Israeli police, Arab protesters as slain man is laid to rest
Hundreds gathered on Tuesday for the funeral of an Israeli Arab man who was shot dead the night before in clashes in the central city of Lod, amid high tensions throughout the country and renewed demonstrations by the Arab community against Israel’s latest actions in Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. Clashes between police and some…
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Fast Forward Two killed in Israel, dozens injured as Gaza rockets hit buildings
Two in Israel were killed Tuesday following rocket fire from Gaza, as a heavy barrage of rockets battered the southern city of Ashkelon. Dozens of Israelis have been wounded by rocket fire and shrapnel since Monday’s escalation with Gaza, as Hamas claimed responsibility for 137 rockets which were launched toward Ashkelon and Ashdod over a…
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Culture Will Seth Rogen’s very Jewish book upset Jews?
It’s been nine months since Seth Rogen agitated the Jewish community by expressing a sentiment increasingly common among his generation. You’d be forgiven for forgetting all about it. In August, the actor-writer appeared on Marc Maron’s podcast and said he was “fed a huge amount of lies about Israel” throughout his Jewish education. The backlash…
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News Biden can neither ignore nor address Israeli-Palestinian violence
As President Biden is preparing to engage in talks with Republican leaders on a bold infrastructure package, a rash of events in the Middle East is threatening to pull the U.S. back into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Biden administration immediately condemned “in the strongest terms” the rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into Israel late…
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News Tensions over Jerusalem Day march, Temple Mount clashes culminate in rocket fire from Gaza
The controversial annual flag march by Jews in Jerusalem’s Old City was canceled by the police and then reinstated against the backdrop of heightened tensions in the city between Jews and Palestinians that culminated late in the afternoon Monday with rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, directed at the Jerusalem area by Hamas. At one…
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News From TikTok to Temple Mount clashes: 28 days of violence in Jerusalem
Hundreds of Palestinians were injured over the weekend as long-simmering tensions between Jews and Arabs boiled over in Jerusalem, leading to repeated clashes between Ramadan worshipers and police at one of the city’s holiest sites. At least 205 Palestinians and 17 police officers were wounded Friday as clashes erupted at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on…
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Opinion Israel’s new government won’t be perfect. But as a former Knesset leader, I know they can make progress on six key issues.
The unity government taking shape in Israel is complicated, but it is not doomed. New leadership means new opportunities to create real change. There is a chance that the new government — which includes diverse ideological groups, is younger and more liberal than previous governments, and is not committed to the grave mistakes of Netanyahu…
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Culture Israeli Eurovision contestant Eden Alene doesn’t have time for pandemic hobbies
I began the interview with a question I ask almost everybody these days: “Do you have a pandemic hobby?” Eden Alene looked at me, politely confused. “What is a pandemic hobby?” “You know,” I said, thinking of all my failed sourdough starters. “A lot of people learned to do new things because they had so…
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