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An Israeli bulldozer demolishes a Palestinian farm shed in the village of Masafer Yatta, on Feb. 27, 2020. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.

The truth about ‘No Other Land’

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The Oscar-nominated documentary “No Other Land” portrays the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the microcosm of a collection of Palestinian Arab settlements called Masafer Yatta. In that cluster of makeshift villages, the film gives the impression...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at a press conference with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez after their meeting at La Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Sept. 19, 2024. Photo by Thomas Coex/AFP via Getty Images.

Pay-for-slay to continue, ‘even if we have [only] one penny left,’ Abbas vows

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The Palestinian Authority will not deduct a single penny from its "pay-for-slay" fund that rewards terrorists and their families for their attacks, P.A. chief Mahmoud Abbas told members of his ruling Fatah faction last...
A view of the Philadelphi Corridor between the southern Gaza Strip and Egypt on July 15, 2024. Photo by Oren Cohen/Flash90.

Israeli official: We will not leave the Philadelphi Corridor

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The IDF will not pull out of the Philadelphi Corridor that separates the Gaza Strip from Egypt, an Israeli official told reporters on Thursday, saying Jerusalem would refuse to allow Hamas terrorists to regroup...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog delivers a speech urging the completion of the Gaza hostage deal with Hamas at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on Feb. 3, 2025. Photo by Ma'ayan Toaf/GPO.

Herzog: ‘Our hearts ache’

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Thursday eulogized the four hostages whose remains were returned from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip overnight Wednesday. "Our hearts ache upon receiving the bitter news of the identification of Ohad Yahalomi,...
The four slain hostages recovered from Hamas, from left, Shlomo Mantzur, Itzik Elgarat, Tsachi Idan and Ohad Yahalomi. Source: Hostage and Missing Families Forum/X.

Itzik Elgarat, Ohad Yahalomi, Shlomo Mantzur, Tsachi Idan murdered by Hamas

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The Prime Minister's Office announced on Thursday that the deaths of Ohad Yahalomi, Tsachi Idan, Shlomo Mantzur, and Itzik Elgarat have been confirmed following forensic analyses. "Following the completion of the identification process by the...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, Jan. 4, 2025. Photo by Avi Ohayon/GPO.

Harvard Poll: 77% of Americans support Israel against Hamas

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Americans' support for Israel over Hamas in the Gaza conflict remains high, with 77% of voters supporting the Jewish state, according to poll results released on Feb. 24. The February Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll is a monthly...
Mourners near the grave of Israeli hostages Shiri Bibas, and her young sons Ariel and Kfir, at the cemetery in Tzohar in southern Israel, on Feb. 26, 2025. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

‘Mi amor’: Yarden Bibas bids emotional farewell to wife and sons

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The surviving member of the Bibas family, Yarden, shared a poignant eulogy at Kibbutz Nir Oz on Wednesday for the burial of his wife, Shiri, and their two children, Ariel and Kfir who were...

Paul Ehrlich, Discoverer of a Drug to Battle Syphilis

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Paul Ehrlich performed pioneering research work in chemistry, medicine, physiology, histology, bacteriology, hematology and oncology and became the founder of immunology and pharmacology and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
Yair Lapid, the Israeli opposition leader and former prime minister and foreign minister of Israel, delivers his proposal for Gaza's future in an event at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies moderated by Mark Dubowitz, the CEO of FDD, Feb. 25, 2025. Credit: Jeff Song/FDD.

Lapid calls for Egypt to control Gaza

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Yair Lapid, the Israeli opposition leader, floated his plan for a post-war Gaza at a Foundation for Defense of Democracies event on Tuesday, calling for long-term Egyptian guardianship of the Strip in exchange for forgiveness of...
Indians arrive at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam after being expelled from Uganda, Nov. 24, 1972. Credit: Bert Verhoeff for Anefo/Netherlands National Archive via Wikimedia Commons.

Trump, Gaza and false analogies

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It was interesting to watch the bemused look on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s face during a Washington press conference as President Donald Trump floated his harebrained idea of deporting all Gazans. Yet the...