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As Knesset returns from recess, Israelis rally against judicial coup for 18th week
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Israelis set to rally against Netanyahu's judicial overhaul for the 18th consecutive week
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Looking at what's happening in Israel, ditching the British monarchy right now might not be the best of ideas. At least not just yet, writes #Coronation
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"Vishniac," a Roman Vishniac retrospective film, is also the story of the daughter who grew up in her father's shadow, sought to break free of his grip and eventually embraced his legacy
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The U.K. chief rabbi, a Jewish baroness and three Jewish composers are all taking an active part in this #Coronation – a far cry from 1189, when Jewish dignitaries were beaten for daring to show up
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The two are not so different: Britain in the not-too distant past claimed to be a democracy while ruling over millions of subjects without rights. Israel does so today, writes #Coronation
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Iran hangs Swedish-Iranian it convicted over attack that killed 25 people
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Rare photos attest to the calm that preceded the bloodbath aboard the Altalena
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Two Palestinians killed by IDF in West Bank, Palestinian Health Ministry says
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The controversy around Netflix's Cleopatra project has sparked an online petition against its alleged “Afrocentrocism.” It has garnered nearly 10,000 signatures
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Umar was heading to a picnic when an Israeli soldier threw a stun grenade, blinding him
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Netanyahu’s messaging is soft and conciliatory during his American media appearances, Yossi Verter writes. His river of rhetoric can be summarized in three words: Joe, invite me
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The deadly incident near Nazareth comes one day after a 31-year-old was killed after his motorcycle exploded, and after five people were murdered – four of whom were Arabs – on Wednesday
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An Egyptian lawyer has taken the campaign against Netflix a step further and sued to get it shuttered in Egypt for the “crime” of “forgery” in misrepresenting Cleopatra’s race
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The proposal aims to provide Israel's ultra-Orthodox population with electricity that wasn’t generated during Shabbat
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An envoy of one of the European countries in Israel told Haaretz that he and his colleagues prefer not to meet with Ben-Gvir and Smotrich or work with their offices
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“Perhaps it’s not just that I’ve directed a series that portrays Cleopatra as Black, but that I have asked Egyptians to see themselves as Africans, and they are furious at me for that. I am okay with this”
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The unreasonable expectations set by the ultra-Orthodox as the government was sworn in have encountered a complex Israeli reality, and their frustration is only mounting
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Pessimist, austere, 'bespectacled snake': Who is Israel's Justice Minister Yariv Levin?
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“Ultimately getting to full normalization is a declared national security interest of the United States. We have been clear about that,” White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says
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“Obsessing over how a powerful woman looked is ironically reductionist and objectifying in itself"
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His political future in doubt, Erdogan shoots in all directions
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What it means when a Palestinian starves himself to death
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Spokesperson for the Arab League said that Arab ministers will meet in Cairo on Sunday to discuss Syria, amid the regional push to normalize ties with Assad
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Israel's past experience is “fully full” of crises a la “beginning of the end,” Israel Harel writes
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“To claim that Egypt had no dark-skinned people in it, or that the origins of Egyptian civilizations were fundamentally sub-Saharan African, are essentially both forms of erasure”
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The Wagner Group's message to the army and Putin is a new sign of tension among Russian armed forces as Ukraine readies a huge push to try to end Moscow's invasion
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17 Democrats present bill targeting Israeli rights abuses in litmus for U.S.-Israel ties
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17 Democrats, led by , introduce bill detailing actions Israel can't finance with U.S. funding, while calling for additional oversight of how aid is distributed. While it won't pass, it provides a litmus test for Democrats' views on Israel
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An iconic political organization, losing contact with its base, is dying of a self-inflicted wound | Lev Stesin | Opinion
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"I hope they will let people live with dignity": A Sudanese migrant watches the violence roiling his native country in Israel as an unrecognized asylum-seeker, where he has few protections
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Outside his Tel Aviv home, right-wing Moroccans denounced Aharon Barak – who has become a lighting rod in Israel's judicial battle – as 'racist' while anti-government protesters showed solidarity with the former chief justice
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The security situation plaguing the Netanyahu gov't should warrant special attention as to what he may do to alter the public agenda, Amos Harel writes
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This week at the Tel Aviv airport: An Israeli mom who has just chaperoned a teen robotics team during a championship in Texas, and a German artist who paints portraits of Israelis with trees
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While the Israeli prime minister would do anything to secure an invitation to visit Washington, Yariv Levin keeps popping up to put a spoke in his wheels, Yossi Verter writes
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British Jewry’s relationship with royal coronations hasn’t always been so rosy. Read about it here 🔽🔽🔽
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A common denominator links a spate of terror attacks, a spike in criminal murders and arms smuggling into Palestinian hands, Amos Harel writes
