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News Ringleader in 3 Teens’ Kidnapping Is Nabbed
A West Bank man said to be the leader of the terrorist cell that kidnapped and killed three Israeli teenagers in June was arrested. A gag order on reporting the arrest, which took place more than three weeks ago, was lifted Tuesday evening, according to Israeli media. Hussam Kawasme of Hebron was apprehended while attempting…
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News Israel Claims Arrest of Ringleader of Kidnapping of 3 Teens
A West Bank man said to be the leader of the terrorist cell that kidnapped and killed three Israeli teenagers in June was arrested. A gag order on reporting the arrest, which took place more than three weeks ago, was lifted Tuesday evening, according to Israeli media. Hussam Kawasme of Hebron was apprehended while attempting…
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Opinion 6 Ways To Spin the Gaza War
Getty Images (JTA) — Now that the latest Gaza conflict appears to be nearly over it’s time to take stock of the winners and losers. Who won the war? Perhaps more than the other two Gaza conflicts in the last six years, Israel is the clear winner this time. The Israel Defense Forces dealt a…
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Fast Forward Mission Accomplished? Don’t Tell Israelis Near Gaza
(Reuters) — Many Israelis living on the Gaza border were unconvinced by their military’s announcement that its mission was accomplished in a nearly month-long campaign aimed at ending rocket strikes and tunnel infiltration. Israel’s government, they said, had taken too long to deal with the network of underground passages Palestinian militants had been digging for…
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Opinion Jews Shouldn’t Blame Palestinians for Getting Killed
Getty Images For Israelis and Palestinians, as well for their friends and family around the world, these past few weeks have been torture. Each day for Israel brings new rocket attacks, new cross-border terrorist raids, new funerals and shivas for IDF soldiers. Each day for Palestinians in Gaza brings new rounds of artillery shelling, fresh…
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Fast Forward Will Israel Tourism Bounce Back Quickly?
Tourism to Israel, badly damaged by rocket fire from Gaza during an Israeli offensive against Islamist militants in the enclave, should bounce back later in the year, Tourism Minister Uzi Landau said on Tuesday. More than 3.5 million visitors came to Israel in 2013, pumping some 40 billion shekels ($12 billion) into the economy and…
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Culture A Lizard’s Eye View of the Conflict in Israel
My three sons were looking for lizards when the first sirens blared. Overlooking the sea, Independence Park in Tel Aviv is the perfect place to find lizards, if you can force yourself to be still enough to evade their detection. To say the sirens broke the silence is an understatement. You don’t have to be…
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News My Gaza Memories
To most people reading the news, Gaza seems distant and unknowable — in many ways a faraway place. This is true even within Israel, where the ritsua, the strip, seemed forever like a festering outlier: something to speed past on the way to someplace better. And those of us who had the hapless luck of…
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