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'My Settlement Is Pastoral and Fun… I’m Dying to Leave'

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: What it's like living in the West Bank settlement of Oranit

“Easter Procession in a Village,” by Vasily Perov. The Jews’ takeover of the vodka business in Ukraine could lead to confrontations with Russian Orthodox priests.

The Link Between the History of Vodka and Antisemitism

Khalil Awawdeh’s father Mohammed, at home this week. The family refused the army’s demand, during a nighttime raid earlier this year, to take down their posters of the hunger striker.

Why This Palestinian Hunger Striker's Father Is Prepared to Lose His Son

Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin. “I was already in a state of mind that I wouldn’t return. On Friday evening I spoke with my wife on the phone and thought about how to conduct a final conversation now without telling her that I’m not coming back.”

Many Israeli Generals Have PTSD, but This Confession Is Unprecedented

High school students in class in Tel Aviv, 2021.

Israel's Teachers Union Threatens Strike Before School Year if Demands Not Met

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Rescuers evacuates residents from a flooded street in Souppes-sur-Loing, southeast of Paris, in 2016.

Israeli Scientists Weigh in on High Heat Followed by Flooding in Paris

Prime minister Yair Lapid and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Israeli forces raid DCIP office, confiscate computers and files.

U.S. Says Israeli Info on Palestinian NGOs Not Enough, 'Concerned' Over Raids

A Barak 8 missile being fired from a navy ship.

Vietnam Eyes Purchase of Israeli Air-defense System

Prime Minister Yair Lapid attends a security assessment meeting alongside defense officials in Tel Aviv, August 4.

Israel's Lapid Lobbies U.S., EU to Abandon Iran Nuclear Talks

Israel's Defense Minister Benny Gantz (left) and Prime Minister Yair Lapid at the Knesset, in May.

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Abbas' '50 Holocausts' Gives Israel's Gantz the Campaign Boost He Needed

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas shake hands in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday.

German Chancellor Condemns Abbas Holocaust Denial to Israel's Lapid

A Haredi youngster heading to the Golan Beach on the Sea of Galilee last week.

‘We Wait for It All Year’: Welcome to Israel's Haredi Vacation Season

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Clockwise from top left: Mansour Abbas, Itamar Ben-Gvir, outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Benjamin Netanyahu, Yair Lapid and Merav Michaeli.

These Five Questions Could Decide Israel’s Upcoming Election

Gadi Eisenkot and Netanyahu in 2019.

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The Army Chief Who Didn’t Shy Away From Political Crises Enters the Battlefield

Gadi Eisenkot, Benny Gantz, and Gideon Sa'ar, during the announcement of the founding of the National Unity party, on Sunday.

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Israel Elections: With New General, Gantz Could Force a Three-headed Race

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah addressing supporters through a giant screen in south Beirut on Tuesday.

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Israel's Military Believes That Nasrallah Fears War. Does He?

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Meydad Eliyahu. 'You come from ‘there,’ but I wasn’t so sure what this ‘there’ actually was.'

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Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, last year.

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This file photo taken on September 7, 1972 shows a burned-out army helicopter standing on Fuerstenfeldbruck Air Base, after Palestinian terrorists of the Black September group had stormed the Israeli athletes quarters during the Munich 1972 Olympic Games.

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IDF raid on Palestinian NGOs.

Israel Raids Outlawed Palestinian Rights Groups' Offices in West Bank

Palestinians protest against Israeli settlement activity near Nablus in the West Bank, last Friday.

Palestinian Killed, 30 Wounded in Clashes With IDF

Balad Chairman Sami Abu Shehadeh in February

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Adir Habani, in court in Nazereth, in March.

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The Likud primary in the central Israeli city of Rishon Letzion, last week.

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Former Meretz leader Zehava Galon, last month in Tel Aviv.

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MK Itamar Ben-Gvir, on Monday.

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IDF Chief Gadi Eisenkot

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas shake hands in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi shake hands at the Saadabad palace, in Tehran, Iran this summer

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan shake hands during a press conference in Ankara, in March.

Erdogan Hopes Closer Ties With Israel Will Make Turkey a Hub for Transporting Gas

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, speaks during a news conference after a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, at the Chancellery in Berlin, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022.

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Doug Mastriano, the Republican candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, speaking at a primary night gathering in Chambersburg in May.

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The Israeli delegation parading during the opening of the Olympic Games in Munich, August 26, 1972.

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Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian meets Joseph Borrell, the EU representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Tehran, Iran, in June.

Iran Sets Ground for Signing Nuclear Deal Despite Unresolved Issues, Israeli Officials Say

An artist's illustration of Saccorhytus coronarius, from the front. Not your ancestor.

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Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi, on Sunday.

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan shake hands during a press conference in Ankara, in March.

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Boys-only performance of 'Havurat Taryag' in Jerusalem, on Monday.

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Israeli soldiers fire shells from a position near Beirut, Lebanon during the first Lebanon war, known in Israel as Operation Peace for the Galilee

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The Bank of Israel building in Jerusalem.

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Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian meets Joseph Borrell, the EU representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Tehran, Iran, in June.

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday.

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A mall in Rishon Letzion. Private consumption contributed to the second quarter spike in growth.

Israeli Economy Sees Impressive Growth Rate of 6.8 Percent in Second Quarter

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Israeli Firm Cellebrite Sold Phone-hacking Tools to Uganda's Brutal Dictatorship

The first day of school for first-graders in Jerusalem, last year.

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The carbon footprint of Israeli tycoons' jets soars. And the hell with global warming

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Joseph Aviram at the Israel Exploration Society in 2013.

Archaeologist Jospeh Aviram, Who Led Excavations in Pre-state Israel, Dies at 106

A Haredi man works at a company in Jerusalem's Talpiot industrial area.

Jerusalem Wants to Be the Capital of High-tech, but Struggles to Start Up

Avraham 'Emmy' Palant (right) with Avigdor Kahalani (lef), in 2000.

Israeli War Hero Emmy Palant Who Fought Off Syrians in 1973 'Valley of Tears' Dies

Dr. Lee Perry-Gal holding some of the knucklebones found at Maresha, central Israel.

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A nurse gives COVID-19 vaccine to child, in 2021.

Israel Hoped to Vaccinate 750,000 Toddlers Against COVID. Few Parents Have Heeded the Call

A screenshot from an anonymous Russian animation video against Putin's war in Ukraine.

'There Are Explosions in Moscow!' Russian Animators Declare War on Putin

Students writing couplets in an elementary school in Handan City, north China's Hebei Province, in 2018.

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The funeral of the minors who were killed in the strike, last week in Jabalia.

Israeli Strike Killed 5 Gaza Kids, Officials Admit, After Initially Blaming Islamic Jihad

People shopping in the market.

July Sees the Biggest One-month Price Hike in Israel Since 2009

Israeli marathon runners (from right) Mahru Teferi, Gashau Ayale, Omer Rimon, Yimer Getahun and Girmaw Amare with their gold medals at the European Athletics Championships in Munich, Germany, on August 15, 2022.

Israel Stuns Europe With Poignant Gold Medal in Team Marathon in Munich

Ultra-Orthdox men protest the decision to perform an autopsy in Bnei Brak on Monday.

Israel's Top Court Overturns Decision to Perform Autopsy of Murdered Child

Natan Fitoussi.

Israeli Soldier Killed by Friendly Fire in the West Bank

Israel Police cars.

Israel Arrests Three in Major Fraud Scheme That Targeted French Treasury

Dalal Awawdeh, wife of Khalil Awawdeh, who is a prisoner in Israel, last Tuesday.

Israeli Court Refuses Release of Islamic Jihad Prisoner on Hunger Strike

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