President-elect Donald Trump promised “all hell to pay in the Middle East” if the Israeli hostages Hamas still holds are not released by Jan. 20, when he is inaugurated. Trump made the threat, which he did not elaborate upon, on social media on Monday, hours after Israel announced that an American-Israeli held hostage in Gaza […]
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PORAT, Israel — Eyal Golan sat at a table flanked by two citrus trees in his parents’ garden in the pastoral community of Porat – a makeshift office that has become, reluctantly, his command center. Here, he has conducted dozens of media interviews about his sister Shirel, who died by suicide at the family home […]
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WASHINGTON — After announcing a ceasefire deal on the Israel-Lebanon border, President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had sharply different takes on what might happen next in the Gaza Strip. The divide between the two men is the same one that’s existed for months: Biden wants to use the momentum from the […]
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France has joined the nations who are signatories to the agreement that established the International Criminal Court pledging not to honor its warrants to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant. The statement Wednesday by the French foreign ministry adds France to Argentina and Hungary as parties to the […]
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Israel’s security cabinet has approved a U.S.-brokered ceasefire proposal with Hezbollah, which would end more than a year of conflict with the terror group on Israel’s border with Lebanon. President Biden said in an address to the nation after the agreement that Lebanon’s government had agreed to the agreement, and that the withdrawal of forces […]
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WASHINGTON — The killing of an Israeli Chabad rabbi in the United Arab Emirates shocked many, and illustrated the dangers Jews face around the world. But if the aim of the attack was to to undermine the Abraham Accords between Israel, the UAE and other Arab nations, Middle East analysts say it could well have […]
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TEL AVIV — With no formal training but with all the aplomb of a seasoned chef, Sharona Dahan serves up plate after plate of Moroccan fish — a dish rooted in her family’s culinary traditions — in the bustling open kitchen of Café Asif in central Tel Aviv. As a mother of six, Dahan is […]
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Israeli security and intelligence agencies are involved after an emissary of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement disappeared Thursday in the United Arab Emirates. Rabbi Zvi Kogan, who works in the capital of Abu Dhabi, may have been the victim of terrorism, according to the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Since his disappearance, and given information […]
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WASHINGTON — For Benjamin Netanyahu, the world just got a little smaller. Israel’s prime minister has long touted his worldwide network of relationships and years of experience working with foreign leaders. But now that the International Criminal Court has issued a warrant for his arrest, he’ll face incarceration if he sets foot in countries where […]
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The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant based on allegations that they starved Palestinian civilians in Gaza during Israel’s war against Hamas. The court on Thursday also issued an arrest warrant against Mohammed Deif, the Hamas military chief whose death has been reported […]
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