First funerals held for victims of Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre: ‘Our own Oct. 7′

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First funerals held for victims of Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre: ‘Our own Oct. 7′

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Bondi Beach Hanukkah killer charged with 59 offenses including terror, 15 counts of murder

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Agencies

US presses Pakistan to join Gaza force, testing powerful military chief’s authority at home

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Reuters

Prosecutors to indict 20-year-old Israeli for ISIS membership, contact with foreign agent

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As Israeli families kindle Hanukkah lights, fire safety awareness is a burning issue

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Lighting the Darkness: Chanukah Courage After Bondi Beach

One of my most formative experiences as a rabbi occurred early in my career, during a shiva call. I went to visit a young woman who had lost a...

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Jonathan Muskat

20-Point Peace Plan Must Put Dismantling Iran’s Next-Gen H3 Playbook First

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Tanveer Zamani

Israel and America’s “Genesis Mission”

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Eitan Yudilevich

Dancing with Dreidel Man on the National Mall

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Jolie Bain Pillsbury

Time to Starve the Monsters

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Rena Cohen

Turnbull’s Hollow Lectures

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Nathan Krapivensky

Bondi and Australia get swept into a violent world

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David Fickling

What’s left of Japan’s pacifism meets reality

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Gearoid Reidy

Oscars international shortlist features 4 films on Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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Toi Staff

Bennett denies his phone was hacked after Iranian group claims to leak its contents

After an earlier denial, the office of former prime minister Naftali Bennett acknowledged Wednesday that while his cellphone itself was not hacked,...

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Toi Staff

Relatives of Muslim man who disarmed Sydney terrorist say Syria is ‘proud of him’

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Reuters

UK police plan crackdown on antisemitic chants, including ‘Globalize the intifada’

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Reuters

In Australia, alarm over neglected gun control laws after Bondi Hanukkah terror attack

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Reuters

Israel says famine monitor did not seek aid facilitators’ input for upcoming Gaza report

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Jeremy Sharon

Daily Briefing Dec. 17: Day 803 – Inside the most complex Hamas tunnel network in Gaza

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Norman Podhoretz, influential and contentious Jewish neoconservative, dies at 95

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Study shows 76% of people raised as Jews continue to be Jewish as adults

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Journalists union demands Netanyahu allow press on his upcoming flight to Washington

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Using the slain: Israel exploits the Bondi Beach shootings

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Toi Staff

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Agencies

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Toi Staff

Bennett denies his phone was hacked after Iranian group claims to leak its contents

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Relatives of Muslim man who disarmed Sydney terrorist say Syria is ‘proud of him’

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UK police plan crackdown on antisemitic chants, including ‘Globalize the intifada’

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Journalists union demands Netanyahu allow press on his upcoming flight to Washington

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Brain drain: 12% of Israelis with PhDs lived abroad last year, finds state report

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Half-empty and scarred by war, Kiryat Shmona sees protests – and grassroots rejuvenation

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4 Hidden Resentments That Can Ruin a Relationship

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From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East fault lines now run through American tech

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