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Fast Forward Gavin Newsom says some ‘appropriately’ call Israel an ‘apartheid state’ while questioning US military aid
The comments from Newsom, a likely 2028 presidential candidate, come shortly after the California governor said he “never will” take money from AIPAC
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Fast Forward A war-weary Jerusalem marks Purim one day after the rest of the world, a tradition born in what is now Iran
A missile attack from Iran briefly halted the festivities, but then the party went on
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Film & TV Tensions in Israel loom large in these Oscar-nominated shorts
‘Butcher’s Stain’ and ‘Children No More’ reveal waning trust in a society traumatized by war
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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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News Purim gets creative in Israel, with festivities driven underground
Reading Megillat Esther in the bomb shelter takes place of the usual raves and parades in a country at war
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Fast Forward Hezbollah enters Iran war, firing on Israel’s north, as US officials say more fighting is to come
The victims of the Beit Shemesh strike were named and include three teen siblings
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Fast Forward Yet again, Israel’s public shelters become sites of camaraderie amid steep danger
'I’m doing great. We’re all together all the time,' one Jaffa resident said about her neighbors and friends one day into the war of Iran.
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Opinion Israel and US go for regime change in Iran, with leaders few trust
Israelis return to bomb shelters, if they have them, while Trump and Bibi’s brazen gambit for an Iranian popular uprising unfolds
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