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News Meet the Arab Christian leading the race to represent Israel at Eurovision
Valerie Hamaty’s success has ignited debate among Arab and Jewish Israelis alike about what it would mean for her to head to Basel in May
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Opinion The return of Trump diplomacy, and a reckoning with the ICC: What does 2025 have in store for Israel?
The Jewish state is at a pivotal point in its history — here are 3 predictions for how things might unfold
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Fast Forward Ford Motor Company apologizes after X account posts ‘Israel is a terrorist state’
The account posted two other pro-Palestinian messages that were quickly deleted
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Opinion Why ‘Israel’ was the 2024 word of the year
No term shaped public discourse this past year quite like the name of the Jewish state
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Fast Forward Yuval Shoham, 22, soldier who searched for his captive friend Hersh Goldberg-Polin, dies in Gaza
Shoham is at least the ninth graduate of his Jerusalem high school to die in the war
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Fast Forward Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize winner behind ‘Maus,’ plans graphic novel about Gaza
‘I’ve never had a bigger wrestling match inside my head,' the author said of the project
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Fast Forward Israel has spent millions trying win hearts and minds abroad. It’s about to spend 20 times more.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry will receive $150 million for what’s officially known as public diplomacy, or in Hebrew, hasbara
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Fast Forward IDF loosened rules of engagement after Oct. 7, fueling high death toll in Gaza: Report
A New York Times story comes as Israelis debate allegations of misconduct by troops and their higher-ups
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News Who was Horst Wessel, and why are people comparing Charlie Kirk to him?
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Culture Charlie Kirk kept a ‘Jewish Sabbath.’ What did he mean by that?
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Film & TV Robert Redford’s legacy is surprisingly Jewish
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Antisemitism Decoded Israel is being blamed for Charlie Kirk’s death. Here’s what that conspiracy theory says about the far right’s divide
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Opinion The terrifying Nazi precedent for Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension — and the reasons to stay hopeful
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Fast Forward Freed hostage Edan Alexander says he’s returning to the IDF next month
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Yiddish World How a Yiddish acting troupe fooled the Tsarist government
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Fast Forward After years of war, world’s oldest synagogue paintings are revealed as intact in Damascus
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