Israel news feed
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Haaretz - 19:49 May 29, 2025
The decision followed an Israeli military assessment that women would not be able to handle the burden of combat roles and that it would pose a health risk, despite claims that professionally, female soldiers perform equally to male combatants -
Haaretz - 19:40 May 29, 2025
The Knesset is advancing a bill to create a special tribunal for hundreds of suspects already in Israeli detention for participating in the October 7 massacres; those convicted could be sentenced to death. But the bill raises a long list of serious legal and political questions -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 19:36 May 29, 2025
A photograph of the couple is now on display at the Church of the Ascension and Saint Agnes next to some candles, inviting visitors to prayer.
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JPost.com - Antisemitism - 19:22 May 29, 2025
“Democratic Socialists of America seek to democratically transform our society and reject vigilante violence,” DSA posted on X.
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Haaretz - 18:59 May 29, 2025
The museum re-opening ceremony focused on both the victims' legacy and the community's ongoing resolve amid unprecedented spikes in antisemitism. 'It is up to all of us to denounce antisemitism in all forms,' said Mayor Muriel Bowser -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 18:51 May 29, 2025
France's National Assembly's Defense Committee unanimously approved the bill on Wednesday, citing the desire to "repair a historical injustice."
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Haaretz - 18:34 May 29, 2025
As U.S.-backed aid efforts unravel in Gaza, scenes of desperation underscore a brutal cycle of blockade, conflict, and neglect by both Hamas and Israel – leaving Palestinians trapped and starving -
Haaretz - 18:34 May 29, 2025
In a letter to Netanyahu, Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar protested several instances in which the prime minister had refused to authorize the agency's use of wiretaps against suspects in nationalistically motivated crimes. Following Bar's letter, Netanyahu reversed course and approved the operations -
Haaretz - 17:37 May 29, 2025
The Gulf states are pushing Trump toward a nuclear agreement with Tehran that would rule out an Israeli attack, which anyway would leave Israel without many of the friends that helped it shoot down Iranian missiles last year -
Haaretz - 16:41 May 29, 2025
The exposure of more than 80 phishing attempts is the latest in a series of announcements indicating that the covert digital front between Israel and Iran has been heating up since October 2023, becoming increasingly visible -
Haaretz - 16:36 May 29, 2025
The pregnant Tzeela Gez was killed in a terror attack, but doctors managed to deliver her son. He succumbed to his wounds two weeks later. 'My heart is broken twice,' his father said, adding that for the few seconds he'd opened his eyes, 'he looked like an angel' -
Haaretz - 16:21 May 29, 2025
An Israeli source said that Witkoff's outline includes releasing ten living hostages and 18 dead hostages in two phases in exchange for a 60-day cease-fire in the Gaza Strip -
Haaretz - 16:17 May 29, 2025
A century ago, as Germany faced rising militarism, the League of Jewish Women did not flinch from taking a stand against the looming danger -
Haaretz - 16:13 May 29, 2025
Tom Barrack's expanded role affirms that the U.S. views Turkey, not Israel, as the primary outside player in Syria. Barrack, a close friend of President Trump, was previously charged with being an unregistered foreign agent for the UAE -
Haaretz - 15:50 May 29, 2025
The massive killing from airstrikes, the starvation, the expulsions from one area to another – Israel's cruelty is reaching new heights. Dr. Mimi Syed, an American physician who volunteered to help the Gazans, is now telling their stories -
Haaretz - 15:47 May 29, 2025
On the war's 600th day, grief erupted into fury when dozens broke into the Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv, barricading themselves outside Netanyahu's office -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 15:46 May 29, 2025
According to Yad Vashem, Cukurs held a “senior, operative position in the Arajs Kommando, the unit that from June 1941 until March 1942 carried out mass killings of Jews and other civilians."
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Haaretz - 15:30 May 29, 2025
Fuad Alian, a resident of East Jerusalem's Beit Safafa, was assaulted with his cousin in a park last week, and subsequently was allegedly chased and ran over by the suspect