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Hamas says it will study Israel’s latest response in truce, hostage deal negotiations

Airstrikes reported in southern Gaza * 2 Palestinian gunmen open fire at West Bank checkpoint, are shot dead by troops * Exchanges of fire as IDF...

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‘Speak up’: Yad Vashem chief urges Columbia’s president to oppose anti-Israel protests

Dayan tells Shafik she must decide if Israel’s elimination is ‘legitimate cause’ in academic syllabi, lectures, events; draws line...

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‘It’s time to approve the deal’: Families of hostages set to rally Saturday evening

Amid renewed talks, relatives of those held by terrorists in Gaza say there’s widespread consensus on need for an agreement; anti-government...

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Hamas says it has received, will study Israel’s latest response in truce negotiations

Airstrikes reported in southern Gaza overnight; exchanges of fire in north West Bank as IDF conducts raids in Jenin, Tulkarem areas

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Columbia protest leader banned from campus for saying ‘Zionists don’t deserve to live’

In video, Khymani James said he felt ‘very comfortable calling for those people to die,’ later apologized for ‘misspeaking’;...

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Israel tells Egypt it’s giving hostage deal ‘last chance’ before launching Rafah op

Officials say Israel is willing to make further widespread concessions to secure a deal, but won’t allow Hamas to drag out talks in a bid to...

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Ben Gvir’s car flips over after running red light, minister lightly injured

Hebrew media reports claim the national security minister regularly orders his driver to commit traffic infractions; Ben Gvir hospitalized overnight...

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US says it downed two Houthi drones, anti-ship missile as rebels renew attacks

No damage, injuries in strikes; missile targeted Liberian-flagged cargo ship in Gulf of Aden; rebel spokesperson claims missiles fired at Israel,...

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Daily Briefing Apr 26: Day 203 – Yeshiva U head on anti-Israel campus protests in US

YU Pres. Rabbi Ari Berman visits ToI in Jerusalem and shares how after the Oct. 7 massacre by Hamas he forged a broad coalition of 100 university...

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Parents of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin hope video of son heartens other families

Rachel Goldberg-Polin says her son doesn’t look like himself in footage released Wednesday; Jon Polin says he would prefer a hostage deal over...

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Freed hostage: My Hamas captor gave me a ring, said I’d marry him and have his children

Noga Weiss, 18, was told other hostages would be released and she’d remain in Gaza to raise kids of captor who reunited her with kidnapped...

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Israel said willing to lower demand for release of 40 hostages in truce’s first phase

War cabinet authorized negotiators to discuss release of just 20 hostages in first phase, Hebrew media reports before citing senior official who...

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Ministers okay prison visit to October 7 terrorists by foreign monitors

Israel previously resisted pressure to let checks on imprisoned, as Israeli hostages not receiving Red Cross visits; Ben Gvir criticizes decision,...

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EU Parliament strongly condemns Iran over attacks on Israel, calls for sanctions

Resolution adopted in vote of 357-20 demands Revolutionary Guards, entirety of Hezbollah to be included on terror list; FM Katz hails...

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White House issues photo of Biden meeting freed hostage Avigail Idan: ‘She’s remarkable’

US president says Idan is ‘recovering from unspeakable trauma,’ adds meeting underscored need to free remaining captives held by Hamas

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Hezbollah denies Israeli claim of killing half of group’s commanders in south Lebanon

Hezbollah source argues Gallant’s claim ‘designed to raise morale of the collapsed Israeli army’ after months of fighting

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Netanyahu’s pick for military secretary said to back Israeli control of post-war Gaza

Brig. Gen. Roman Gofman says he wrote plan, circulated among decision-makers, as personal opinion; IDF stresses such a stance does not represent the...

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Police break up anti-Israel student protest at prestigious Paris university

Most students agree to leave Sciences Po campus, with police dispersing small group remaining; protesters demand university cut ties with institutions...

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Tel Aviv temperatures shatter 85-year April record as heatwave scorches country

City records high of 40.7°C, surpassing previous peak of 40.4°C in 1939; three people treated for heat-related injuries; temperatures predicted to...

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War cabinet discusses Rafah op, amid reported new initiative on hostage talks

Hostage families stage demonstration outside military headquarters; IDF repositions forces in the Strip as it awaits government approval for...

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Smotrich to PM: Bring down PA, annex West Bank, if it keeps seeking UN state, war arrests

Far-right finance minister vows to halt tax transfers to Palestinian Authority if it wins unilateral statehood or ICC arrest warrants against Israeli...

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Father of Hersh Goldberg-Polin tells of tears, hope as he saw hostage son in Hamas video

Jon Polin says that until moment family saw Hersh in clip released by terror group, they could only hope that he was still alive, are now even more...

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Daily Briefing Apr 25: Day 202 – Why US students must be schooled on protesters’ goals

Editor David Horovitz lays out the strategy of anti-Israel rallies across America, discusses the US ‘greenlight’ for Rafah op and weighs...

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Sinwar briefly emerged from hiding in Gaza, met with fighters, Hamas source claims

Israel doesn’t comment on claim terror leader surfaced; hostages’ families forum says intelligence officials found report...

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Dozens arrested at U of Texas, USC as anti-Israel protests spread to more US campuses

Texas governor says protesters ‘belong in jail,’ White House reiterates commitment to free speech, but condemns ‘hateful rhetoric;...

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Over 20 arrested as police disperse anti-Israel protest at University of Texas

US House speaker visits Columbia, calls on president to quit ‘if she cannot bring order to this chaos’ * UN humanitarian official notes steps by...

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Netanyahu likens US campus encampments by ‘antisemitic mobs’ to 1930s Nazi Germany

PM claims anti-Israel protesters are also chanting ‘Death to America’; standoff at Columbia continues amid dueling claims about talks with...

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Minister claims Biden harming ties with Israel, says he’d vote for Trump if he could

Comments from Amichai Chikli accusing US president of failing to project strength come hours before package earmarking billions in military aid...

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Daily Briefing April 24: Day 201 – Gaza heats up as Hezbollah drones reach Israeli beaches

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on intensified fighting in Strip and IDF efforts to evacuate Gazans, IDF’s responses to mass graves...

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Two men killed, one severely injured in Shfaram shooting

Killings bring number of Arabs murdered this year to 61, Abraham Initiatives says, four more than this time last year

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Argentina asks host countries to arrest visiting Iranian minister over 1994 bombing

Buenos Aires notes Interpol warrant out for ex-senior Revolutionary Guards official Ahmed Vahidi, accused of masterminding AMIA Jewish center attack...

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Man in France accused of threatening Jewish woman’s life to ‘avenge Palestine’

Suspect allegedly held victim in Paris apartment, sent messages to her mother that she would never see daughter again; rape suspicions also being...

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Lapid says US must act against campus antisemitism; anti-Israel protest ‘seders’ held

White House vows to denounce Jew hatred ‘in very clear terms’ as issue raised in Herzog’s call with VP; Trump: College unrest...

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With massive majority, US Senate okays aid package that includes billions for Israel

Bills now go to Biden, who vows to swiftly sign them * White House wants ‘real progress’ before restoring UNRWA funding * North Korea officials...

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Israel fumes as UN secretary-general leaves Hamas off sexual violence blacklist

Foreign Ministry denounces UN chief as ‘standing shoulder to shoulder with rapists and murderers,’ asserts Antonio Guterres would not have...

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UN nuclear chief: Iran ‘weeks, not months’ from enough uranium to make a bomb

Head of International Atomic Energy Agency stresses that is not the same time frame as would be needed to make a device, but admits Iranian activity...

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Qatar says Hamas will remain in Doha as long as group remains ‘useful’ for mediation

Gulf state has been criticized in Israel for funding terror group and sheltering its politburo, amid role in hostage negotiations

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Activist at NYC cafe demands Alec Baldwin say ‘Free Palestine, f**k Israel’

Pro-Palestine protester also taunts celebrity over fatal 2021 movie set shooting, actor knocks her phone to the ground

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Daily Briefing April 23: Day 200 – Rachel Goldberg and Jon Polin want freedom for Hersh

Host Jessica Steinberg speaks to the parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin about Passover, a hostage deal and working with Israel’s allies

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London’s top cop defends officer who stopped man for being ‘openly Jewish’

After meeting Jewish community, Mark Rowley says he ‘completely understands’ behavior of policeman who prevented activist from entering...

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Dozens arrested as New York police move to clear anti-Israel ‘liberated zone’ at NYU

Biden slams ‘antisemitic protests, those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians’ * US: Hamas has ‘moved the goal post’...

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Israel said readying to evacuate Palestinians from Rafah ahead of planned offensive

Egyptian officials briefed on Israeli plans tell WSJ that IDF will gradually move into Hamas’s last major Gaza stronghold, with fighting...

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Israelis mark Passover under shadow of war, absence of 133 hostages still in Gaza

Kibbutz Be’eri survivors hold Seder in Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square; hundreds demonstrate outside Netanyahu’s home demanding hostage deal, set...

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UNRWA review: Israel hasn’t provided evidence that agency staff were terror group members

Independent panel says UN Palestinian refugee agency has ‘robust’ neutrality mechanisms but that issues persist; Israel: UNRWA ‘a...

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Police detain 13 trying to smuggle goats onto Temple Mount for sacrifice ritual

Suspects, found by police with animals in their possession, likely seeking to perform biblical Jewish sacrificial ritual in honor of Passover

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Israelis tell NYT: Original plan was major strike on military targets near Tehran, beyond

Account also cites Israeli official saying a 2nd missile fired at Iranian antiaircraft battery was destroyed by the IAF en route, once it was clear...

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‘In every generation:’ Haggadah supplements put October 7 reckoning on Seder plate

Additions to traditional tract allow holiday celebrants to grapple with trauma of terror and ongoing hostage crisis casting shadow on festival of...

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Gantz, Gallant press Blinken not to sanction IDF unit as US stays mum

Israeli ministers say move undermines Israel’s legitimacy, has no justification; statements from Washington on talks make no mention of subject

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Daily Briefing April 22: Day 199 – What could make Pharaoh Sinwar let our people go?

Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman on heightened antisemitism at Columbia University, potential US sanctions on one – or more – IDF units...

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Slain soldier proposed with a ring donated by father who lost his son on October 7

When Dor Zimel got a day off from reserve duty in late October he scrambled to plan a fairytale proposal — complete with a diamond in honor of a...

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