It only took 25 minutes of play for the Irish national soccer team to build a 3-0 lead over Israel in the countries’ UEFA Nations League B match on Sunday. But there were decades of bad blood that preceded Ireland’s shutout victory in a game dominated more by the geopolitics of the Gaza war than […]
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President Isaac Herzog called leaders of Jerusalem’s Kol HaNeshama Reform congregation on the eve of the Sukkot holiday to express solidarity following a string of attacks against the synagogue and took the matter up with Israel Police, his office told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Sunday. The call came days after Jerusalem police arrested three […]
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Some top New York Jewish Democrats are defending New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called him an “antisemite” and said he is “buddies” with Hamas. Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, and the outsized role Mamdani played in it, were the culmination of escalating criticism […]
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Pop singer Pink is facing more calls — including from Spanish Oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem — for her removal as an ambassador for UNICEF, the United Nations agency that provides aid to children and mothers. Pink criticized Macklemore for the pro-Palestinian comments and imagery in his opening set on Ed Sheeran’s tour. The rapper was […]
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called out his and Israel’s enemies as he addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, labeling New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani an antisemite. Netanyahu spoke at a time when his country has been increasingly isolated and vilified on the international stage following three years of war against Iran and […]
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Palestinians are in danger of being pushed off their land as Israel closes off the option of a two-state solution, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday in a virtual address. The danger is no longer about preventing a Palestinian state, he said, stressing, “It has now come to […]
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TEL AVIV – Israel’s Central Election Committee on Thursday allowed far-right Jewish parties to be on the ballot in the Oct. 27 election after it had disqualified two Arab parties from running the day before. The decision could boost Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s electoral prospects unless the Supreme Court overturns the decision. On Wednesday, a […]
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HAIFA, Israel — From his fourth-floor lab at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Professor Ron Kimmel can see Haifa Bay, the green slopes of Mount Carmel and the distant hills of Galilee. But it’s the view of microscopic breast cancer cells on his computer screen that really excites him. Kimmel is an expert in computer […]
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A Palestinian assailant seriously wounded the son of Israel’s ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter on Wednesday in a car-ramming attack in the West Bank, where he was serving as an IDF reservist at a checkpoint. Neria Leiter, 38, was struck at the Maccabim checkpoint on Route 443 by a Palestinian driver who drove toward […]
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Standing at his father’s grave after Yom Kippur, 16-year-old Yoav Shukron thanked him for the warning that saved his life a day earlier, when a Palestinian gunman opened fire on the two of them at a West Bank spring. “Dad, I want to say thank you for 16 years together. Thank you for giving me […]
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