admin | April 14, 2023
A top defense official sought United States support to bolster IDF forces as a security expert on Thursday predicted that Israel might have to strike Iran within the year to halt its nuclear program. We held important meetings to promote significant projects focused on force buildup in the face of emerging security challenges first and foremost, the Iranian nuclear program, Defense Ministry Director-General Maj.-Gen
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admin | April 14, 2023
Since Israels government announced plans in January to overhaul the judiciary, the country has been gripped by growing turmoil in the streets, disquiet in the military and warnings from its president, Isaac Herzog, of societal collapse and even civil war. But now Mr. Herzog, who is overseeing negotiations to find a compromise, has a more hopeful message two weeks after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suspended the overhaul to allow for a month of negotiations with the opposition.
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admin | April 10, 2023
On Friday afternoon, Israels prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, found himself standing at the side of a remote road in the vast desert valley that runs the length of the occupied West Banks frontier with Jordan. Along with his defence minister, Yoav Galant, Netanyahu was inspecting the scene of a shooting attack earlier in the day that killed British-Israeli sisters Maia and Rina Dee, 20 and 15, and left their 45-year-old mother Lucy fighting for her life. An Israel Defence Forces (IDF) search for the perpetrator is still under way
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admin | April 10, 2023
Tensions simmer in Jerusalem after Israel responds to rocket attacks with strikes on targets in Syria NBC News Israel hits Syria after rockets fired towards Golan Heights Reuters Israel says its fighter jets have hit a Syrian military compound CNN
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admin | April 8, 2023
Israeli jets hit sites in Lebanon and Gaza early on Friday, in retaliation for rocket attacks it blamed on the Islamist group Hamas, as tensions following police raids on the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem this week threatened to spiral out of control. Two explosions were heard in Gaza late on Thursday.
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admin | April 7, 2023
Israel launches air strikes on the central part of the Gaza Strip. Photo: Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The Israeli military attacked Gaza and launched rare strikes against Lebanon overnight in response to a barrage of rockets fired from Lebanon toward northern Israel earlier Thursday. Dozens of rockets were also fired from Gaza overnight
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admin | April 4, 2023
JERUSALEM The Israeli government agreed in principle on Sunday to establish a national guard, handing a political victory to the far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who had long demanded the militia as a condition for supporting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The form and leadership of the national guard were yet to be determined and will take months to be fleshed out by a committee of government officials, who will then present their proposal for the cabinets approval. Regardless of the form the guard ultimately takes, the governments decision on Sunday reflected the influence that figures like Mr
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admin | April 2, 2023
Even before the freshly acquitted Gwyneth Paltrow gave us what we are obliged to call the Slalom Witch Trial, she had already made an enduring gift to the language. For a quarter century, we have spoken of Sliding Doors moments, in homage to the otherwise slight Paltrow romcom in which a single, small action has life-altering consequences opening up two very different futures
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admin | April 2, 2023
Demonstrators take to the streets days after Benjamin Netanyahus decision to freeze the controversial proposal. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have protested in Tel Aviv for the 13th straight week against a controversial judicial overhaul that has now been suspended by the government while talks are held with party representatives. Carrying Israeli flags on Saturday, people marched through the centre of Israels commercial hub, chanting democracy and carrying placards condemning the hard-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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admin | April 2, 2023
Israeli police shoot and kill a man near Al-Aqsa Mosque NPR Two dead as violence in Jerusalem, West Bank simmers Reuters.com Palestinian accused of planning to shoot police in Jerusalem The Times of Israel
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