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‘So much pain in this war’: Two soldiers killed in Gaza blasts laid to rest

Spiritual leader of Israel’s Druze calls for hostage deal, end to Gaza war while eulogizing officer slain in Khan Younis blast; 2nd soldier killed...

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Toi Staff

Netanyahu didn’t tell Ben Gvir, Smotrich about Gaza aid boost, IDF ‘humanitarian pauses’

Far-right, Orthodox ministers were excluded from cabinet call because decision was taken on Shabbat; Ben-Gvir said to be ‘furious,’ brands move...

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Toi Staff

Government plans to boycott AG after it dismisses her but before High Court ruling on case

Ministers set to fire Baharav-Miara on August 4; plan is not to invite her to subsequent cabinet meetings, circumventing court decision freezing...

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Jeremy Sharon

Syria says first parliamentary elections under new regime to be held in September

Election officials say vote to be held Sept. 15-20, electoral college to be set up to ensure provincial representation in government

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Agencies

Houthis say they’ll target all ships linked to firms dealing with Israeli ports

Previously, Iran-backed Yemen rebels have claimed they only attack ships directly tied to Israel through ownership or port calls

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Agencies

Trump: Israel will ‘have to make decision’ on Gaza war, images of starvation ‘terrible’

Netanyahu says Israel has allowed aid to enter Gaza throughout the war, otherwise ‘there would be no Gazans,’ insists that Hamas stole supplies,...

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Jacob Magid

Upping threat, Houthis say they’ll target any ships that do business with Israeli ports

UK’s Starmer expected to press Trump on ending Gaza war during Scotland talks Monday * Man killed, three others injured in shooting in Muqeible,...

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Toi Staff

Outnumbered and unprotected, Kibbutz Sufa was left to fight Hamas alone on Oct. 7 — probe

IDF investigation reveals nearly 50 terrorists attacked the southern kibbutz before reinforcements arrived, leaving one civilian and two local...

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Stav Levaton

Ex-US humanitarian envoy pans Israeli claim that UN allowing aid to amass on Gaza border

David Satterfield, who served during early months of war, says dangerous transport routes, looting from desperate Palestinians severely hinder...

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Jacob Magid

Ministers gather at United Nations for delayed meeting on Israel, Palestinians

France to urge other countries to join it in recognizing Palestinian state at conference postponed last month due to Israel-Iran war

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Reuters

Once again, Israel tried to restrict Gaza aid. Once again, it failed miserably

The Netanyahu government’s spectacular reversal points to an ongoing lack of a coherent strategy, and raises serious questions about Israel’s...

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Lazar Berman

The sole Jewish-Japanese family in American WWII internment camps faced antisemitism

New book delves into how, fearing a fifth column following Pearl Harbor, the Roosevelt government incarcerated 120,000 on the West Cost, two-thirds...

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Renee Ghert-Zand

2 US citizens among Jewish community members arrested in Iran – reports

The two men were visiting family when war with Israel broke out last month; efforts underway to secure their release, along with three local Jews...

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Toi Staff

Two more suspects named in connection with Milwidsky rape investigation

Lawyer Zvi Gelman and academic Eli Vinokur suspected of witness tampering in case that preceded Likud lawmaker’s alleged sexual offense

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Toi Staff

Former senior Mossad official questioned in Qatargate affair

Court permits publication of development, but issues gag order on all other details about person’s identity and nature of probe, citing security...

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Toi Staff

Smotrich signals he won’t bolt coalition despite objecting to Gaza humanitarian aid

Finance minister indicates to party members the increase in deliveries is a tactical step ahead of a broader military campaign against Hamas

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Toi Staff

Tom Lehrer, satirist who sang about ‘Hanukkah in Santa Monica,’ dies at 97

Songwriter and professor also penned the line ‘The Protestants hate the Catholics, And the Catholics hate the Protestants, And the Hindus hate the...

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Philissa Cramer

Ex-hostage: ‘When there’s less food, there’s also less for the hostages’ in Gaza

Iair Horn, who is still fighting for his brother Eitan’s freedom, says, ‘My life is frozen right now. I live in a nightmare that every day they are...

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Amanda Borschel-Dan

Daily Briefing July 28: Day 661 – Flood, not famine: Can Israel shift its Gaza aid strategy?

Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman on scrutiny of humanitarian efforts in the Strip, the ripple effects of France’s intended declaration of a...

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Amanda Borschel-Dan

Holon residents fume at event feting demolition of homes damaged by Iran

Locals heckle dignitaries, including Defense Minister Israel Katz, at site where missiles destroyed apartment buildings, accuse officials of...

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Toi Staff

Palestinians say settlers again attacked village of Taybeh in West Bank

Several cars reportedly torched, graffiti daubed onto walls in Christian village; German ambassador pans perpetrators as ‘criminals abhorrent to...

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Agencies

UN nuclear watchdog to visit Iran within two weeks, Tehran says

Spokesman says military capabilities not negotiable, after France called for a ‘comprehensive deal’ that covers country’s missile program and...

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Agencies

Rare intact 5,500-year-old Canaanite blade workshop unearthed in southern Israel

The Early Bronze Age site of Nahal Qomem near Kiryat Gat presents hundreds of artifacts, shedding new light on trade specialization in ancient Canaan

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Rossella Tercatin

US killer of Palestinian-American boy in Oct. ’23 hate crime dies in prison aged 73

JOLIET, Illinois — A landlord jailed for decades after he attacked a Palestinian American boy and his mother has died. Three months ago, Joseph...

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Toi Staff

Iran executes two members of banned opposition group for alleged armed operations

DUBAI – Iran executed two members of the outlawed Mujahideen-e-Khalq opposition group for targeting civilian infrastructure with homemade...

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Toi Staff

Aid trucks said moving from Egypt to Gaza, after Israel promised ‘humanitarian pauses’

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Sunday’s events as they unfold. Yemen’s Houthis say they will target any ships belonging to companies that do...

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Toi Staff

‘Return to the Land’: White supremacists building whites-only settlement in Arkansas

A group of white supremacists is founding a settlement in Arkansas that will only allow in white Christians. The 160-acre community in the Ozark...

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Toi Staff

‘Witch hunt’: Likud defends MK accused of rape, as accuser tells of alleged assault

The Likud party on Sunday accused Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, whom the government is trying to fire, of “ulterior motives” in the probe...

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Toi Staff

Two IDF soldiers killed when armored vehicle hit by explosive in Khan Younis

Two Israeli soldiers were killed and an officer was moderately wounded by an explosive device in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday evening, the...

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Emanuel Fabian

IDF airdrops aid into Gaza for 1st time, vows to implement ‘pauses’ for UN deliveries

Israel carried out its first airdrop of humanitarian aid into Gaza early Sunday, for the first time since the start of the ongoing war against...

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Emanuel Fabian

Report links US anti-Israel groups to Beijing-backed network aiding China

In November 2023, just weeks after the Hamas invasion of Israel, thousands of anti-Israel protesters rallied in Washington, DC, to call for a halt...

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Luke Tress

Australian PM: Israel has ‘quite clearly’ breached international law in Gaza

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in an interview aired Sunday that Israel has “quite clearly” breached international law during the...

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Toi Staff

IDF announces 10-hour Gaza ‘humanitarian pauses’ amid mounting famine concerns

The Israel Defense Forces announced Sunday that it will conduct daily “local tactical pauses of military activity” in densely populated areas of...

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Emanuel Fabian

Gaza flotilla seized by IDF towed to Ashdod, activists taken into custody upon entry

Israeli forces brought Handala, the latest aid flotilla to attempt to breach the IDF blockade of the Gaza Strip, into the port of Ashdod on Sunday,...

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Agencies

Hundreds of rabbis demand Israel stop ‘using starvation as a weapon of war’

Hundreds of rabbis worldwide have signed a letter calling for Israel to stop using starvation as a “weapon of war,” bring home the hostages and end...

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Ben Sales

ZAKA volunteers help guide search for victims of Texas Hill Country flooding

In the sweltering summer heat, search teams are still scouring the Guadalupe River in central Texas for the bodies of dozens of people who have...

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Zev Stub

Turkish embassy staffer nabbed photographing girls in Tel Aviv beach locker room

An employee of the Turkish embassy has been arrested for photographing underage girls in a Tel Aviv beach locker room. According to Hebrew media and...

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Toi Staff

Israel accuses UN of failing to pick up aid in Gaza, says working to ease its entry

The state on Friday, over two months late, submitted its response to a petition to the High Court of Justice that demanded an “extensive” supply of...

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Jeremy Sharon

Israeli says man screamed ‘F*ck Israel, I’m Hamas,’ bit part of his ear off in Greece

An Israeli tourist said a man bit off part of his ear on an Athens beach on Saturday after yelling, “Free Palestine, fuck Israel, I am Hamas.” Stav...

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Toi Staff

Israelis with disabilities help the environment and themselves at unique recycling hub

MISGAV — Dani Kogan once led what many would say was a perfect life. After immigrating from the former Soviet Union in 1990, he pivoted from...

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Sue Surkes

Ex-hostage warns that captives ‘pay the price’ for breakdowns in Gaza truce negotiations

Tens of thousands took to the streets in cities across Israel on Saturday night to take part in the weekly protests to call for the return of the...

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Noam Lehmann

Daily Briefing July 27: Day 660 – Israel does a 180 and begins aid airdrops into Gaza

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world....

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Amanda Borschel-Dan

Man killed in bus fire in Bat Yam parking lot; police investigate arson suspicion

A Sudanese national was found dead inside a bus that went up in flames Saturday in Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv, as part of a larger fire that broke out...

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Charlie Summers

Iran-born Israeli charged with giving Tehran sensitive info on Israel’s war plans

State prosecutors filed espionage charges last week against an Israeli citizen suspected of passing sensitive information about Israeli war plans...

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Charlie Summers

IDF takes over pro-Palestinian activist boat attempting to break Gaza blockade

Israeli forces took over a boat that was attempting to break Israel’s maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip on Saturday night, and began towing it...

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Emanuel Fabian

IDF reservist succumbs to wounds sustained last week in roadside explosion in Gaza

A reservist combat engineer seriously wounded by a roadside bomb in the southern Gaza Strip last week succumbed to his wounds on Saturday, the...

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Emanuel Fabian

Ex-US contractor says he saw IDF commit war crimes at aid sites; GHF rejects ‘false claims’

An American former contractor for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said in an interview that aired Friday that during his time working in...

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Toi Staff

Woman found dead in village near Umm al-Fahm; 5 arrested

Police arrested five people for questioning Saturday night after a woman was found dead in an apartment in the village of Musheirifa in northern...

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Toi Staff

Officials duel over conflicting accounts of 50 Jewish youth forced off Spanish plane

Four days after more than 50 Jewish summer camp participants from France were forcibly removed from an airplane at an airport in Spain, it is still...

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Zev Stub

3 IDF soldiers dismissed and jailed for refusing to return to Gaza fighting

The military announced on Sunday that three soldiers serving in the Nahal Infantry Brigade were dismissed from combat duty and jailed for...

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‘So much pain in this war’: Two soldiers killed in Gaza blasts laid to rest

Toi Staff

Netanyahu didn’t tell Ben Gvir, Smotrich about Gaza aid boost, IDF ‘humanitarian pauses’

Toi Staff

Government plans to boycott AG after it dismisses her but before High Court ruling on case

Jeremy Sharon

Syria says first parliamentary elections under new regime to be held in September

Agencies

Houthis say they’ll target all ships linked to firms dealing with Israeli ports

Agencies

Trump: Israel will ‘have to make decision’ on Gaza war, images of starvation ‘terrible’

Jacob Magid

Upping threat, Houthis say they’ll target any ships that do business with Israeli ports

Toi Staff

Outnumbered and unprotected, Kibbutz Sufa was left to fight Hamas alone on Oct. 7 — probe

Stav Levaton

Ex-US humanitarian envoy pans Israeli claim that UN allowing aid to amass on Gaza border

Jacob Magid

Ministers gather at United Nations for delayed meeting on Israel, Palestinians

Reuters

Once again, Israel tried to restrict Gaza aid. Once again, it failed miserably

Lazar Berman

The sole Jewish-Japanese family in American WWII internment camps faced antisemitism

Renee Ghert-Zand

2 US citizens among Jewish community members arrested in Iran – reports

Toi Staff

Two more suspects named in connection with Milwidsky rape investigation

Toi Staff

Former senior Mossad official questioned in Qatargate affair

Toi Staff

Smotrich signals he won’t bolt coalition despite objecting to Gaza humanitarian aid

Toi Staff

Tom Lehrer, satirist who sang about ‘Hanukkah in Santa Monica,’ dies at 97

Philissa Cramer

Ex-hostage: ‘When there’s less food, there’s also less for the hostages’ in Gaza

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Daily Briefing July 28: Day 661 – Flood, not famine: Can Israel shift its Gaza aid strategy?

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Holon residents fume at event feting demolition of homes damaged by Iran

Toi Staff

Palestinians say settlers again attacked village of Taybeh in West Bank

Agencies

UN nuclear watchdog to visit Iran within two weeks, Tehran says

Agencies

Rare intact 5,500-year-old Canaanite blade workshop unearthed in southern Israel

Rossella Tercatin

US killer of Palestinian-American boy in Oct. ’23 hate crime dies in prison aged 73

Toi Staff

Iran executes two members of banned opposition group for alleged armed operations

Toi Staff

Aid trucks said moving from Egypt to Gaza, after Israel promised ‘humanitarian pauses’

Toi Staff

‘Return to the Land’: White supremacists building whites-only settlement in Arkansas

Toi Staff

‘Witch hunt’: Likud defends MK accused of rape, as accuser tells of alleged assault

Toi Staff

Two IDF soldiers killed when armored vehicle hit by explosive in Khan Younis

Emanuel Fabian

IDF airdrops aid into Gaza for 1st time, vows to implement ‘pauses’ for UN deliveries

Emanuel Fabian

Report links US anti-Israel groups to Beijing-backed network aiding China

Luke Tress

Australian PM: Israel has ‘quite clearly’ breached international law in Gaza

Toi Staff

IDF announces 10-hour Gaza ‘humanitarian pauses’ amid mounting famine concerns

Emanuel Fabian

Gaza flotilla seized by IDF towed to Ashdod, activists taken into custody upon entry

Agencies

Hundreds of rabbis demand Israel stop ‘using starvation as a weapon of war’

Ben Sales

ZAKA volunteers help guide search for victims of Texas Hill Country flooding

Zev Stub

Turkish embassy staffer nabbed photographing girls in Tel Aviv beach locker room

Toi Staff

Israel accuses UN of failing to pick up aid in Gaza, says working to ease its entry

Jeremy Sharon

Israeli says man screamed ‘F*ck Israel, I’m Hamas,’ bit part of his ear off in Greece