Six days after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seized power in Iran on Feb. 11, 1979, he hosted his first foreign dignitary: the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat. Arafat, seen then by the Americans and the Israelis as a terrorist, was an ardent opponent of the emerging Israel-Egypt peace deal. Khomeini expelled Israeli diplomats […]
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TEL AVIV — Spirits ran high inside a large public bomb shelter in the Israeli coastal city of Jaffa, with loud chatter, singing and greetings of “Happy Iran Holiday,” an incongruous soundtrack to the joint U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran and the hundreds of missiles that followed. The room itself looked much cheerier than most shelters, with […]
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The death toll is ratcheting up as the U.S.-Israel war against the Iranian regime enters its second day, with casualties mounting among all parties as well as elsewhere in the Middle East. At least nine people, including children, were killed when their bomb shelter suffered a direct missile strike in the Israeli city of Beit […]
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JERUSALEM — Jacob Phillips’ first trip to Israel from his home in Germany was in 2023, to visit Holocaust survivors in Tel Aviv as part of a university program. It was cut short by the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack, which forced him to leave the country. He returned with his girlfriend this month to see […]
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The U.S.-Israeli military attack on Iran that launched early Saturday morning comes eight months after the last Israel-Iran war, in June 2025. As we wait to see what happens in the current war, here’s a look back at how the 2025 conflict played out, from uneasy tensions to U.S. intervention to a grim death toll […]
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This is a developing story and will be updated. The United States and Israel jointly launched what U.S. President Donald Trump called “a major military operation” in Iran on Saturday morning, ending weeks of speculation. Iran immediately retaliated by launching missiles toward Israel and U.S. positions in the Middle East, sending Israelis across the country […]
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Lucy Aharish was supposed to be in the United States this week, delivering a lecture at Stanford University in honor of Daniel Pearl, the Jewish journalist murdered by jihadist militants in Pakistan in 2002. Instead, the Arab Israeli journalist was hunkered down in her native Israel, trying to keep her family safe from far-right Jewish […]
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Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has told U.S. government employees and their families that they may leave the country and should do so expediently, amid mounting signs of a possible U.S. attack on Iran. Huckabee emailed embassy staff on Friday morning saying that if they want to leave, they should do so “TODAY,” according to […]
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During Tucker Carlson’s interview last week with Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, both men made considerable waves with their takes on history and theology. Huckabee sparked a diplomatic row by citing the Bible to argue that Israel had a divine right to claim all of the Middle East — even though he didn’t […]
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TEL AVIV — Natalie Silverlieb’s go-bag looks a little different from the last time she ran to the bomb shelter with Iranian missiles incoming. Since last summer, she has had a baby, so she now has packed diapers and wipes alongside passports and water. But apart from that, she hasn’t done much else to get ready […]
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