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Key witness in PM’s trial: Sara Netanyahu once threatened to kill herself, blame me

Hadas Klein says she felt vindicated by recent TV report alleging PM’s wife orchestrated smear campaign against her, confirms Herzog visited her...

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Toi Staff

Columbia University professor retires as probe finds she discriminated against Israelis

Katherine Franke leaves school after investigation says she violated university discrimination policy when saying Israeli students harass...

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Luke Tress

Synagogue that survived Palisades fire becomes a ‘refuge’ for many who lost homes

‘At least this home is standing for so many people,’ says rabbi at Kehillat Israel, hundreds of whose members’ houses were destroyed in the...

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Philissa Cramer

5 said killed in Israeli strike targeting Hezbollah weapons truck in south Lebanon

Lebanese security source says the strike hit a rocket launcher, several munitions exploded; IDF says it was acting ‘in accordance with the...

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Agencies

London cops ask pro-Palestinian group to move anti-Israel rally away from synagogue

Palestine Solidarity Campaign rejects police request, as dozens of British lawmakers warn ‘that many Jewish families have been intimidated’ by...

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Ben Sales

Anti-Israel activists renew BDS referendum effort in Pittsburgh after first one fails

Not On Our Dime pushes referendum that would require Pittsburgh to divest from Israel, companies related to Israel, which officials say could be...

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David Rullo

IDF deputy chief of staff requests to step down, indicates he hopes to succeed Halevi

Maj. Gen. Amir Baram, who extended tenure amid war, appears to criticize the military head in a letter leaked to the media; move seen as opening...

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Emanuel Fabian

Report: Hamas agreed unresolved issues can be pushed off until later phase of ceasefire

Source in terror group tells Qatari outlet the sides ‘at closest point’ yet to hostage deal * Sydney synagogue defaced with antisemitic graffiti,...

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Toi Staff

CIA chief says hostage talks ‘quite serious’; White House: Deal possible by Jan. 20

Washington optimistic on chances of closing agreement to release Israelis held by Hamas before end of Biden’s term; Netanyahu huddles with...

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Jacob Magid

A long-abandoned Christian theme park sits just off a US highway. Will it rise again?

Shuttered in 1984, Connecticut’s Holy Land USA is a crumbling hodgepodge of biblical settings that was also the site of a grisly 2010 murder; a...

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Cathryn J. Prince

Shin Bet chief said to urge major counterterrorism operation in West Bank

Shin Bet chief said to urge major counterterrorism operation in West Bank

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar reportedly urged the government to approve a major IDF counterterrorism operation in the West Bank, warning of the...

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Toi Staff

IDF confirms death of hostage Hamza Ziyadne, day after father Youssef laid to rest

IDF confirms death of hostage Hamza Ziyadne, day after father Youssef laid to rest

The family of Israeli hostage Hamza Ziyadne, 22, who was kidnapped by the Hamas terror group during its October 7, 2023 onslaught, said Friday that...

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Emanuel Fabian

Australian synagogue graffitied with swastikas in latest antisemitic attack

Australian synagogue graffitied with swastikas in latest antisemitic attack

Australian authorities denounced “hate-filled” vandals who daubed swastikas and other graffiti on a Sydney synagogue in the early hours of Friday,...

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Agencies

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel’s wish list for US President-elect Trump

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel’s wish list for US President-elect Trump

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda...

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Amanda Borschel-Dan

American Israeli settlers sanctioned for violence sue Biden administration

Two American Israeli citizens who were sanctioned in 2024 by the Biden administration over alleged violence against Palestinian civilians in the...

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Toi Staff

Biden: ‘Real progress’ being made in hostage talks, but Hamas ‘in the way’ of a deal

Biden: ‘Real progress’ being made in hostage talks, but Hamas ‘in the way’ of a deal

US President Joe Biden said Thursday that he thinks his administration will be able to secure a hostage deal, even though Hamas is currently the...

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Jacob Magid

Katz to present ultra-Orthodox enlistment proposal at key Knesset committee next week

Katz to present ultra-Orthodox enlistment proposal at key Knesset committee next week

Defense Minister Israel Katz will present his long-awaited proposal for ultra-Orthodox military conscription to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and...

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Sam Sokol

French mayor scraps recycling ads showing Iran’s Khamenei

French mayor scraps recycling ads showing Iran’s Khamenei

BÉZIERS, France — A French city on Thursday removed posters depicting Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after Tehran called the images...

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Sam Sokol

Iran’s population aging fast, bucking government efforts

Iran’s population aging fast, bucking government efforts

TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran’s once-youthful population is aging fast, fueling economic fears as cash-strapped couples resist a government push for more...

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Menna Zaki

Daily Briefing Jan. 10: Day 462 – Israel’s security concept collapsed on Oct 7. What now?

Daily Briefing Jan. 10: Day 462 – Israel’s security concept collapsed on Oct 7. What now?

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish...

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Amanda Borschel-Dan

Smotrich calls for Israel to run civil affairs in Gaza, stay there ‘for very long time’

Smotrich calls for Israel to run civil affairs in Gaza, stay there ‘for very long time’

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Wednesday called for Israel to take over “the entire civil management of the Gaza Strip,” and warned that...

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Toi Staff

Family and friends mourn death of hostage Youssef Ziyadne, blame government inaction

Family and friends mourn death of hostage Youssef Ziyadne, blame government inaction

The family and friends of Youssef Ziyadne, whose body was recovered from Gaza 15 months after he and his son were abducted by Hamas terrorists, on...

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Toi Staff

Amid efforts abroad to prosecute combat soldiers, IDF to try to conceal their identities

Amid efforts abroad to prosecute combat soldiers, IDF to try to conceal their identities

Amid efforts by pro-Palestinian organizations to get Israeli soldiers traveling abroad arrested and prosecuted for war crimes, the Israel Defense...

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Emanuel Fabian

Blinken: We’re very close to hostage deal, it’ll be handed to Trump if not finalized

Blinken: We’re very close to hostage deal, it’ll be handed to Trump if not finalized

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that mediators were “very close” to securing a ceasefire and hostage release agreement...

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Jacob Magid

After 2-year vacuum, in shadow of war, Lebanon tries for 13th time to elect a president

After 2-year vacuum, in shadow of war, Lebanon tries for 13th time to elect a president

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon’s parliament is set to convene Thursday to attempt to elect a head of state for the 13th time during a presidential...

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Jacob Magid

IDF detains, then releases, French journalist in southern Syria buffer zone

IDF detains, then releases, French journalist in southern Syria buffer zone

The Israel Defense Forces detained a French freelance journalist and his fixer in southern Syria on Wednesday, inside a buffer zone now controlled...

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Emanuel Fabian

Israeli embassy slams destruction of Netanyahu wax figure in Mexico museum

Israeli embassy slams destruction of Netanyahu wax figure in Mexico museum

MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Israel’s embassy in Mexico on Wednesday condemned the “odious” destruction of a wax statue of Prime Minister Benjamin...

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Emanuel Fabian

Poland says it will not arrest Netanyahu for ICC should he attend Auschwitz memorial

Poland says it will not arrest Netanyahu for ICC should he attend Auschwitz memorial

The Polish government said Thursday it will ensure that Israel’s highest representatives can participate freely and safely in the 80th anniversary...

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Toi Staff

Lebanon army chief elected president, drawing Israeli hopes for postwar stability

Lebanon army chief elected president, drawing Israeli hopes for postwar stability

Lebanon’s lawmakers elected on Thursday army chief Joseph Aoun as president on Thursday, ending a stalemate that left the post vacant for two...

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Agencies

Families of American-Israeli hostages to attend Trump inauguration

Families of American-Israeli hostages to attend Trump inauguration

Relatives of the seven American-Israeli hostages still held in Gaza will attend the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump on January 20,...

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Jacob Magid

Netanyahu unlikely to attend Trump inauguration, aide says

Netanyahu unlikely to attend Trump inauguration, aide says

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not been formally invited to US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration later this month, a senior aide...

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Lazar Berman

Parents of troops, slain hostages demand Gaza deal as official says talks still stuck

Parents of troops, slain hostages demand Gaza deal as official says talks still stuck

Hundreds of parents of troops fighting in Gaza accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of needlessly prolonging the conflict and risking the...

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Lazar Berman

Addressing diplomats, pope says humanitarian situation in Gaza is ‘shameful’

Addressing diplomats, pope says humanitarian situation in Gaza is ‘shameful’

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Thursday kept up his recent criticism of Israel’s military campaign against Hamas in Gaza, calling the...

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Reuters

With a possible end to the war in sight, will 2025 bring a startup ‘baby boom’?

With a possible end to the war in sight, will 2025 bring a startup ‘baby boom’?

In 2024, Israel’s main share indices, a barometer for a country’s economic performance, were up almost 30%. The business sector, led by the...

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Sharon Wrobel

3 soldiers killed in northern Gaza fighting, raising ground offensive toll to 401

3 soldiers killed in northern Gaza fighting, raising ground offensive toll to 401

Three Israeli soldiers were killed and three were wounded while fighting Wednesday in the northern Gaza Strip, the military announced amid several...

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Emanuel Fabian

Realizing old tactics aren’t enough, US Jewish groups use science to fight antisemitism

Realizing old tactics aren’t enough, US Jewish groups use science to fight antisemitism

JTA — When Matt Williams founded a research center for the Anti-Defamation League in 2022, he vowed to “ruthlessly and systematically test” what...

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Asaf Elia-Shalev

Some Jewish film festivals tiptoe around Oct. 7. A Miami festival is leaning into it

Some Jewish film festivals tiptoe around Oct. 7. A Miami festival is leaning into it

How much can or should a Jewish film festival add the theme of October 7 and its aftermath to its usual repertoire, with feelings still raw and...

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Rich Tenorio

Deadly LA wildfires rip through Jewish communities, sparking action amid ashes

Deadly LA wildfires rip through Jewish communities, sparking action amid ashes

JTA — Daniel Sher’s voice broke as he related the latest to members of his Pacific Palisades synagogue. Kehillat Israel had just sent a message...

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Philissa Cramer

Lebanon’s Aoun described as ‘dedicated’ army man with ‘national interest at heart’

Lebanon’s Aoun described as ‘dedicated’ army man with ‘national interest at heart’

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Joseph Aoun, Lebanon’s army chief who was elected president on Thursday, is a political neophyte whose position as head of one...

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Philissa Cramer

Japan’s Kaneka buys Israeli medical device startup in $100 millon deal

Japan’s Kaneka buys Israeli medical device startup in $100 millon deal

Japanese conglomerate Kaneka Corp. has inked an agreement to buy Israeli startup Endostream Medical, a medical device developer for the treatment...

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Sharon Wrobel

Lawyer for PM’s aide: Netanyahu knew he planned to leak classified document to press

Lawyer for PM’s aide: Netanyahu knew he planned to leak classified document to press

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Wednesday’s events as they happen. The Biden administration is expected to defer to the incoming Trump...

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Toi Staff

Katz said trying to hide IDF comments that it can draft all eligible Haredim by 2026

Katz said trying to hide IDF comments that it can draft all eligible Haredim by 2026

Defense Minister Israel Katz is delaying the filing of the state’s response to High Court petitions on Haredi military enlistment, in order to...

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Toi Staff

‘It is crazy’: Wildfires ravage Los Angeles area, destroying synagogue and causing chaos

‘It is crazy’: Wildfires ravage Los Angeles area, destroying synagogue and causing chaos

California firefighters battled wind-whipped wildfires that tore across the Los Angeles area, destroying homes, clogging roadways as tens of...

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Agencies

Foreign Ministry: No foreign court has issued warrants for reservists over Gaza war

Foreign Ministry: No foreign court has issued warrants for reservists over Gaza war

The Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday pressure groups were pushing foreign courts to take action against Israelis over alleged war crimes in Gaza...

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Agencies

Ireland files motion to intervene in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel

Ireland files motion to intervene in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel

Ireland has officially filed a declaration of intervention in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, the International Court of Justice...

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Lazar Berman

Till death do them part: After top rabbi dies, power struggle blazes at elite Haredi yeshiva

Till death do them part: After top rabbi dies, power struggle blazes at elite Haredi yeshiva

A sacrilegious tug-of-war over the body of a brilliant Talmud scholar and firebrand as he was being brought to rest has unleashed a new bout of...

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Mati Wagner

Australian federation won’t host hockey tourney featuring Israel, citing safety fears

Australian federation won’t host hockey tourney featuring Israel, citing safety fears

SYDNEY — Australia’s ice hockey federation has pulled out of hosting a lower-tier men’s world championship event featuring Israel’s national...

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Asaf Elia-Shalev

Top asset management firm stops rating human rights risk in Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Top asset management firm stops rating human rights risk in Israeli-Palestinian conflict

JTA — When investors need help navigating business decisions in conflict zones they turn to specialized firms that are supposed to help them keep...

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Asaf Elia-Shalev

US Department of Education opens antisemitism probe at Sarah Lawrence College

US Department of Education opens antisemitism probe at Sarah Lawrence College

JTA — The federal Department of Education is opening a Title VI antisemitism investigation into Sarah Lawrence College in response to a complaint...

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Andrew Lapin

Massachusetts man arrested for antisemitic threats had Nazi flag, guns and ammo

Massachusetts man arrested for antisemitic threats had Nazi flag, guns and ammo

A Massachusetts man who was arrested on Saturday for threatening antisemitic violence had a gun, ammunition and a Nazi flag, police said. Local...

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Asaf Elia-Shalev

Israeli passenger hauled off flight after accosting pilot over long delay in Berlin

Israeli passenger hauled off flight after accosting pilot over long delay in Berlin

An Israeli passenger was pulled off a plane by police in Berlin on Monday following an altercation with the pilot after she complained about the...

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Toi Staff

Northern Israeli indicted for racist assault of Arab doctor who stopped to help him

Northern Israeli indicted for racist assault of Arab doctor who stopped to help him

A resident of Kfar Pines in northern Israel was indicted on Tuesday and charged with assault that caused grievous bodily harm after he allegedly...

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Toi Staff

Hostage’s mother allowed back into Knesset, but must avoid ‘breaking the rules’

Hostage’s mother allowed back into Knesset, but must avoid ‘breaking the rules’

A ban on entering the Knesset was lifted Tuesday from Einav Zangauker, the mother of hostage Matan Zangauker and a prominent voice in the fight to...

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Toi Staff

Iran executed at least 901 people in 2024, UN tally of reports finds

Iran executed at least 901 people in 2024, UN tally of reports finds

GENEVA — Iranian authorities reportedly executed more than 900 people last year, including around 40 in a single week in December, the United...

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Toi Staff

Soldier killed fighting in Gaza as IDF withdraws brigade from northern Strip

Soldier killed fighting in Gaza as IDF withdraws brigade from northern Strip

An IDF soldier was killed on Tuesday fighting in Gaza, as the military announced it was pulling a brigade from the northern Strip in order to...

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Emanuel Fabian

Hamas member tells IDF interrogators that gunmen operated in Kamal Adwan Hospital

Hamas member tells IDF interrogators that gunmen operated in Kamal Adwan Hospital

The IDF released on Tuesday interrogation footage of a Hamas operative detained by troops at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, in which he...

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Emanuel Fabian

Sanctions on draft dodgers need to be strengthened, top officer tells lawmakers

Sanctions on draft dodgers need to be strengthened, top officer tells lawmakers

The IDF’s capacity to absorb ultra-Orthodox recruits is set to increase dramatically in the coming years, Brig. Gen. Shay Tayeb, head of the IDF...

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Sam Sokol

French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, anti-immigrant firebrand, dies at 96

French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, anti-immigrant firebrand, dies at 96

PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and...

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Thomas Adamson

American Historical Association resolution condemns Israel’s ‘scholasticide’ in Gaza

American Historical Association resolution condemns Israel’s ‘scholasticide’ in Gaza

The American Historical Association on Sunday passed a resolution that condemns Israel’s “scholasticide” in Gaza, accusing it of...

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Toi Staff

US envoy says Israeli forces have begun withdrawing from second south Lebanon town

US envoy says Israeli forces have begun withdrawing from second south Lebanon town

US envoy Amos Hochstein, visiting Beirut on Monday, said Israeli forces began withdrawing from a south Lebanon border town more than halfway into a...

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Jacob Magid

In Syria’s Quneitra, frustration at lack of action to end Israeli incursion

In Syria’s Quneitra, frustration at lack of action to end Israeli incursion

A main road in the provincial capital of Quneitra in southern Syria was blocked with mounds of dirt, fallen palm trees and a metal pole that...

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Jacob Magid

State comptroller accuses IDF of ‘intimidating’ officers testifying in Oct. 7 probe

State comptroller accuses IDF of ‘intimidating’ officers testifying in Oct. 7 probe

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman on Monday accused the military of “intimidating” senior officers giving testimony in the framework of his...

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Jeremy Sharon

IDF says two soldiers killed, two seriously injured in northern Gaza combat

IDF says two soldiers killed, two seriously injured in northern Gaza combat

Two Israeli soldiers were killed and four others were seriously wounded in fighting in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, the Israel Defense Forces...

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Emanuel Fabian

Congress certifies Trump’s 2024 win in sharp contrast to mob violence of 4 years ago

Congress certifies Trump’s 2024 win in sharp contrast to mob violence of 4 years ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress certified President-elect Donald Trump as the winner of the 2024 election in proceedings Monday that unfolded without...

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Lisa Mascaro

Deal being advanced would leave most hostages in Gaza forever, families warn

Deal being advanced would leave most hostages in Gaza forever, families warn

A forum representing the vast majority of the remaining 100 hostages in Gaza on Monday called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government...

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Jacob Magid

Outgoing PM Trudeau lost confidence of much of Canada’s Jewish community

Outgoing PM Trudeau lost confidence of much of Canada’s Jewish community

JTA — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will step down from his post and from his party leadership amid plummeting poll numbers and dissent...

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Andrew Lapin

For the first time since WWII, Austria’s far right gets mandate to lead government

For the first time since WWII, Austria’s far right gets mandate to lead government

VIENNA (AP) — The leader of Austria’s Freedom Party received a mandate Monday to try to form a new government, which would be the first headed by...

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Philipp Jenne

‘We don’t want no Zionists here’: Anti-Israel activists protest against NYC hospital

‘We don’t want no Zionists here’: Anti-Israel activists protest against NYC hospital

NEW YORK — Several hundred anti-Israel protesters demonstrated on Monday outside the NYU Langone Health Center in New York City. The protest was...

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Luke Tress

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