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Israel to Open Rafah After Search for Last Slain Hostage Ends, PM's Office Says - Israel to Open Rafah Crossing After Search for Last Slain Hostage Ends, Netanyahu's Office Says

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Israel approves 90-day ban on Al Jazeera, Al Mayadeen websites

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IDF says it killed Hezbollah operatives in southern Lebanon strikes

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Israel blames vandalism of Barcelona Jewish graves on Spain's 'left-wing' government

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Live Updates - | IDF Strikes Hezbollah Targets Across Several Sites in Lebanon, IDF Says

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Police Officer Sues Ben-Gvir for Political Motives in Blocking Promotion -- Top Police Officer Takes Ben-Gvir to Court Over Political Motives in Blocking Promotion

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This Beautiful New Israeli Book Helps Children Confront the Fear of Death

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She Showed the World What's Happening in Gaza. Israel Won't Let Her Return

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UNRWA Heads Tell Haaretz: 'We Don't Radicalize Palestinians – Their Lived Existence Does'

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Not Masada or the Dead Sea: Young Diaspora Jews Provide Protective Presence in West Bank

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Analysis - | The anti-Trump: Canada's PM Came to Davos With a Plan. Will the World Listen?

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No Chocolate, No Beef: Israel's Restrictions on Goods to Gaza Have Created a Black Market

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'Yiddish Is Not a Foreign Language to Us. It's Part of the Revival of Hebrew'

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Report: Trump Administration Detained Student Over Op-ed Critical of Israel -- Report: Trump Administration Detained Student Over Op-ed Critical of Israel's War in Gaza

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Israeli Army Loses Control Over Gaza Border as Smuggled Goods Pour Into Strip

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IDF Conducting 'Large-scale' Search for Body of Last Hostage Ran Gvili in Gaza -- IDF Conducting 'Large-scale' Search for Body of Last Remaining Hostage Ran Gvili in Northern Gaza

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Toronto Gallery Faces Fallout After Rejecting Nan Goldin Artwork Amid Antisemitism Claims

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Israel Kills 3 in Gaza as Witkoff Touts 'Constructive' Talks With Netanyahu on Cease-fire

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This Palestinian Actor in Israel Says He Can't 'Play the Arab' Anymore

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'None of the war's goals were achieved': Brother of hostage on government's decision to open the Rafah crossing

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Médecins Sans Frontières to submit employee list as part of new Israeli compliance regulations

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Police foil Gaza-bound smuggling worth 1 million shekels in Negev raid

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IDF attack sites in several areas in Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah weapon storage facilities and military infrastructure

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Iran unveils mural warning of retaliation if U.S. conducts a military strike

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Columbia taps Wisconsin chancellor Jennifer Mnookin as new president amid campus protest challenges

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PM's office: Israel to open Gaza's Rafah crossing once search for body of last hostage ends

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F-15s, aircraft carrier and destroyers: What U.S. has deployed in Mideast amid potential Iran strikes

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Why Palestinians in Gaza See Trump's Board of Peace as 'Another Form of Occupation'

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California Democrat Scott Wiener on His Controversial U-turn

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'Birthright Is Tone-deaf': Why Many Young Jews Don't Want Their Free Trip to Israel

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AIPAC's Worst Nightmare? Why Netanyahu Said Israel Doesn't Want U.S. Military Aid

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As One Fearless Police Officer Challenges Ben-Gvir, Israel's Top Cop Has Gone MIA

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A New Law Reveals Just How Low Israel's Knesset Has Sunk

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It's Time for Israelis to Talk About the Mass Killings of Palestinians in Gaza

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Israel Sabotages the Fight Against Antisemitism by Embracing Europe's Jew-hating Legacies

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Israel's Ideal Zionist Is a Stormtrooper. And Its Biggest Threat Is an Arab Lawmaker

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The Rabbis Reveal: Ultra-Orthodox Jews Despise Israel

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Israel's Film Industry Faces Authoritarian Catastrophe. Here's How It Can Resist

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Who Are You Calling a Nazi? In Israel, This Word Can Get You Sued

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Father of Released Gaza Hostage Says He Hid His Arab-Israeli Identity to Protect Son

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AG: Netanyahu Government Proposal to Push Bills Without Legal Counsel Is 'Unlawful'

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Netanyahu's 11 Moves Taking Israel From Democracy Toward Authoritarian Rule

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AIPAC, the Genocide Test and U.S.-Israel: 2026 Midterm Primary Races to Watch

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Why Unlicensed Nurseries Are So Common in Israel's ultra-Orthodox Community

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Explained: The History and (Fragile) Future of U.S. Military Aid to Israel

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Explained - | Four Bills and One New Law Undermining Press Freedom and Israel's Judiciary

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F-15s, Aircraft Carrier, Destroyers: What U.S. Has Deployed Amid Potential Iran Strikes

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Three Months Into Gaza Cease-fire: Israel Expands Control and Razes Neighborhoods

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U.S. Deports Eight Palestinians to West Bank Using Private Jet

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A Serbian Woman's Search for the Family That Saved Hers in the Holocaust

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Berlin Rabbi Convicted of Sexual Assault, Sexual Coercion of Woman He Offered to Counsel

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'I Just Want a Friend': The Diary of the 'Polish Anne Frank' Comes Out in Hebrew

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Report: Iran's Khamenei Ordered to Crush Protests 'By Any Means Necessary'

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UN Probe Condemns Iran Protest Deaths as Regime Provides Conflicting Casualty Reports

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Dutch Airline KLM Cancels Flights to Israel, Middle East Amid Tensions With Iran

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Trump's Board of Peace Finds Few Enthusiasts Among Palestinians in Gaza

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'We Saved the Child From Drowning': In Gaza, Winter Storm Makes Displacement Even Deadlier

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In Gaza, IDF Drones Infiltrate Every Moment of Palestinians' Lives

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Israeli Comedian Guy Hochman's LA Show Canceled After Refusing to Condemn Gaza 'Genocide'

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Over 100 Rabbis Protest Against ICE in Minnesota

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U.S. Withdraws From World Health Organization; Israel Previously Proposed to Leave

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U.S. Sends Military Assests to Middle East Even as Trump Pulls Back on Iran

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Gaza & West Bank

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A West Bank Bus Trip Through 'The Best Documented Ethnic Cleansing in History'

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Police Shoot Palestinian Driver on West Bank Road, Say He Accelerated Toward an Officer

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Israel Supporting New Gaza Militias Fighting Hamas, Wall Street Journal Reports

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Assailants Torch Palestinian Cars in West Bank, Spray Star of David and 'Happy Ramadan'

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Sources: Israel Asked U.S. to Deploy Private Security Firms at Gaza-Egypt Border Crossing

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A Dirty Little Habit: Kissing in Ancient Rome

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Oldest Art in Thrown Back to 67,800 Years Ago, in Indonesia

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The Last Common Ancestor of Humans and Neanderthals Is Found, in Morocco

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Earliest Cremation in Africa 9,550 Years Ago Discovered in Malawi

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Study Identifies Our Likely Earliest Ancestor After Split From Chimp

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How Antisemitism Haunts Jews Around the World

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Justice Minister to File Complaint Against Top Court President; AG: Lacks Factual Basis

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Top Court Gives Gov't One Week to Respond to Contempt Claims Over Haredi IDF Draft

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Smotrich's Far-right Party Pulls Out Support for Netanyahu Coalition Bills

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U.K. Police Arrest 86 at Palestine Action Protest Supporting Activist on Hunger Strike

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Eight Men Accused of Trying to Establish neo-Nazi Separatist State Go to Trial in Dresden

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Germany, Italy and Spain Join Slate of Countries Rejecting Trump Board of Peace

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Dozens of Israeli Environmental Groups Urge FM to Block Withdrawal From Climate Pact

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It's Only a Matter of Time Before the Netanyahu Government Openly Denies Climate Change

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On Climate and Security, Israel Mistakes No Existential Threat for Stability. It's Wrong

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Storm Byron to Hit Israel With Heavy Rain and Flood Risk

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After Palestinian Shepherd Communities, Forced Displacement Targets a New Frontier

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'At 75, I Made a Mistake and Went to Prison. What I Saw There Was Haunting'

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Indian-Israelis Revel in Nostalgia – and Dream About Returning to the Old Country

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'I'm Getting Divorced. I'm Sure We'll Be Best Friends One Day'

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Queer Leftists Supported Palestinians in the '70s, Too. Back Then, They Hijacked Planes

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Warner Bros. Discovery Bringing HBO Max to Israel in January

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On Israeli TV, Starving Gazan Babies Aren't a Problem. As Long as There Are No Photos

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New TV Series Revisits the Day Israeli Soldiers Surrendered to Egypt

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'Pinch Myself': The Auschwitz Survivor Who Reported on the Nuremberg Trials

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Three Films About Gaza War Nominated for Oscars

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I Did a Seven-hour Round Trip to See This Film and It Was Worth It

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The First Hebrew City Gets Its First all-English Bookstore

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An Israeli Poet Whose Repetitions Echoed a Life of Pain

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Who Are the Intellectuals Making MAGA's Policies?

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An Opera on Blindness Is the Most Eye-opening Show in Israel Right Now

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'I Fell in Love With the Mold and Dirt': The Designer Rebuilding the Israel of the Past

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Werner Braun's Lens Captured a Romantic Zionist Gaze

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An Arabic-language Music Talent Show Is a Surprise Hit on Israeli TV

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'It Isn't Sexy, Being Ashkenazi. But on the Culinary Level, It Has Much to Offer'

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Can Israel Overtake Australia as the New Land of the Macadamia Nut?

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After Facing Hate and Boycott, Antwerp-based Israeli Food Chain Boker Tov Closes

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The Tel Aviv Eatery That Will Make You Long for Istanbul

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Craving Kugel: The ex-Haredi Serving Up Jewish Comfort Food for Tel Avivians

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Why Is This Green Paradise Next to Tel Aviv Closed to the Public?

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Israel's First Poop Influencer Is Grading What We'd Rather Not Discuss

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Israel Tourism Ticks Up in 2025, Still Far Below Prewar Peak

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How Will the Iran Protests End? Arash Azizi Says 'This Won't Be a Classic Revolution'

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From Tragedy to Solidarity: The Jewish World's Turbulent and Traumatic 2025

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From Trump's Gaza Riviera to the Iran War and Qatargate: Israel's 2025 in Review

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'But No One Came': Untold Heroism, Anguish and Abandonment at Kibbutz Alumim on October 7

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Erased: Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West Bank

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Two Years of Hell: A Timeline of Key Events in the Israel-Gaza War

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