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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in Amman, Jordan, Oct. 13, 2023. Photo by Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department.

More than half of Israelis oppose Palestinian state for Saudi ties

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More than half of the Israeli public opposes the creation of a Palestinian state as part of a deal that would end the war against Hamas and normalize relations between Jerusalem and Riyadh, according...
Hamas senior political leader Ismail Haniyeh, who lives in Qatar, speaks to the press upon his arrival at the Rafah border crossing from Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip, Sept. 19, 2017. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90.

Israeli hospital cares for Hamas chief’s grandniece

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Even as Hamas holds 136 Israelis hostage in unspeakable conditions, a close relative of the terrorist group's leader, Ismail Haniyeh, is receiving life-saving medical care at Beersheva's Soroka Medical Center. Haniyeh's sisters, Israeli citizens, live...
Reservists from the IDF's Devorah Unit drill near the Lebanese border, Jan. 16, 2024. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

IDF slammed for simulating kidnapping of Arabs by Jews

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Judea and Samaria leaders are demanding the dismissal of the author of a training exercise conducted by the Israel Defense Forces on Monday that simulated the kidnapping of Palestinian Arabs by Israeli Jews. The leaders...
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz (right) welcomes Argentine President Javier Milei at Ben-Gurion Airport, Feb. 6, 2024. Photo by Shlomi Amsalem/MFA.

Argentina’s president in Israel on wartime solidarity visit

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Argentine President Javier Milei arrived in Israel on Tuesday, reiterating his pledge to move his nation's embassy to Jerusalem and opening a new chapter in bilateral relations. The three-day solidarity trip, which is one of...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Feb. 5, 2023. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.

Netanyahu thanks France for ‘stalwart support’ against Hamas

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday thanked French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné for his country's "stalwart support" amid Israel's war against the Hamas terrorist organization. Ahead of a meeting in Jerusalem, Netanyahu commended Séjourné...
Doha, Qatar. Credit: Pixabay.

‘Hatikvah’ played in Doha after Israeli wins gold in fencing

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"Hatikvah," the Jewish state's national anthem, sounded in a Doha sporting arena this week after Israeli fencer Yuval Freilich won a gold medal at the International Fencing Federation's Grand Prix, which ended on Wednesday...

Mandy Patinkin Headlines San Diego’s ‘JFest’ June 4

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Broadway’s master songman, Mandy Patinkin, accompanied by Adam Ben-David on piano, will bring his newest theatre concert Mandy Patinkin in Concert: BEING ALIVE, to Balboa Theatre on Tuesday, June 4 at 7:30 p.m. This powerful...
From left: U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, U.S. President Joe Biden, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi gather in Tel Aviv to discuss the war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Oct. 18, 2023. Credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO.

It’s Biden who’s playing politics with the Gaza war, not Bibi

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reputation as a master political schemer and a cynical seeker of power is so deeply embedded in the public consciousness that there is literally nothing he can do without...
UNRWA staff members protest against cuts in financial aid outside the agency's offices in Gaza City on April 14, 2019. Photo by Hassan Jedi/Flash90.

Defunding UNRWA and collective punishment

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The 14th chapter of the book of Leviticus describes a mysterious disease that infects houses. It states that when this disease is suspected, the dwelling must initially be left empty for seven days. If...
Illustrative photo of a Jewish wedding canopy in front of the Mediterranean Sea, Jan. 11, 2018. Photo by Mendy Hechtman/Flash90.

Judaism is not a state of mind

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Writer Jennifer Cox recently published an article about her decision to raise her family Jewish despite the outpouring of antisemitism since Oct. 7. The piece outlines many of the choices she and her husband have made...