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Fast Forward List of hostages for potential release circulates as pressure mounts for ceasefire deal
Israel cautioned that the list did not reflect any agreement with Hamas
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Fast Forward 3 Israelis killed in West Bank terror attack
The attack is the latest in a year that has seen heightened violence in the West Bank
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Fast Forward In exit interview, Secretary of State Blinken reflects on U.S.-Israel tensions and the struggle for a ceasefire in Gaza
‘Hamas, when they saw Israel under pressure publicly, they pulled back,’ Blinken said
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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 Trump lifts sanctions on West Bank settlers, earning praise from the Israeli right
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