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Daily Archives: January 10, 2022

Netanyahu files police complaint after receiving death threat

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Israeli opposition leader and former prime minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu has filed a police complaint after receiving a death threat against himself and members of his family. The authors of the letter describe themselves as...
Deputy IRGC commander Admiral Ali Fadavi, 2019. Credit: Mehr News via Wikimedia Commons.

Top Iranian general: ‘When we strike at America, it will be with great force’

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The deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a recent interview that when the time was right, Iran would strike the United States “with great force.” In an interview with Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV on...
Knesset member Yair Golan of the Meretz Party, Feb. 17, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

MK Golan apologizes for calling Homesh residents ‘subhuman,’ but stands by his criticism

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Israel’s Deputy Economy Minister Yair Golan has issued an apology for calling the residents of the Homesh outpost “subhuman” after his remarks sparked controversy last week. “I regret the remark, which may have included problematic wording ...
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Nov. 30, 2021. Source: Twitter.

Lapid and Macron talk about return to Iran deal, among other pressing topics

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Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid talked with French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday evening, specifically discussing the ongoing nuclear talks in Vienna surrounding a possible return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, according to...
Israeli Aliyah and Integration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata (back row, seventh from the right) welcomes new immigrants from North America at Ben-Gurion International Airport, April 26, 2021. Credit: Nefesh B'Nefesh.

Israeli population reaches 9,449,000 at start of 2022

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Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) estimates Israel’s population at 9,449,000 as of Dec. 31, 2021. Of that number, 6,982,000 are Jewish (73.9 percent of the total population), 1,995,000 are Arab (21.1 percent) and 472,000 identify as...