Islamic Jihad Fires 20 Rockets at Israel
Islamic Jihad fired a fresh volley of rockets and mortars from Gaza toward Israel Monday, after a flareup that triggered school, road and train closures in southern Israel.
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Israel Probes Benny Gantz’s Failed Company
Israeli prosecutors on Thursday announced the opening of a criminal investigation of the failed startup of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s challenger Benny Gantz, shaking up the final days of n a bitter and tumultuous election campaign.
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Netanyahu Criminal Trial Set for 2 Weeks After Election
The criminal trial for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will begin March 17, court officials said Tuesday, shaking up the final stretch of a contentious election campaign and hurting the longtime Israeli leader’s hopes of forming a new government after the vote.
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Israel’s Gantz Says He’ll Govern Without Netanyahu
Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz is vowing to form a government that will include neither indicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor the predominantly Arab parties in Parliament.
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UN Rights Council Releases List of Israeli Settlement Firms
After repeated delays, the U.N. human rights office Wednesday released a list of more than 100 companies it says are operating in Israel’s West Bank settlements — a first ever attempt to name and shame businesses that has drawn fierce criticism from Israel and the U.S.
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Journalist Abby Martin sued the University System of Georgia and the president of Georgia Southern University in federal court, claiming they unconstitutionally conditioned an invitation to speak at an academic conference on her agreeing in writing to abandon her speech about the rights of Palestinians.
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Dozens of cars in an Israeli Arab village were vandalized overnight, police said Tuesday, with slogans sprayed on a mosque indicating the involvement of Jewish extremists.
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Israel Accused of Torturing Palestinians
One man was hospitalized with kidney failure and 11 broken ribs. Another was nearly unrecognizable to his wife when he was wheeled into a courtroom. A third was stitched up after being attacked by a security dog. Then the three Palestinians were returned to their Israeli interrogators.
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Israel Kills 3 Palestinians; Trump Plan Widely Rejected
Palestinians on Friday rejected U.S. allegations of incitement after a day of clashes left three Palestinians dead and more than a dozen Israelis wounded.
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EU’s Top Diplomat Rejects US Middle East Plan
The European Union’s foreign affairs chief is condemning a pro-Israeli plan pushed by President Donald Trump in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Israel’s Planned Annexation Will Violate International Law
Annexation, at its heart, is a byproduct of conflict. Almost never is it an act of peace, though it has been cast that way at times throughout history.
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Israel Postpones Annexation of West Bank
Israel has postponed a move to annex large parts of the West Bank, a government minister said Wednesday, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to act quickly on the Trump administration’s Mideast plan despite fierce opposition from Palestinians and other countries.
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Israel Clashes With ICC Over West Bank Settlements
Emboldened by the White House, Israel is barreling toward a showdown with the international community over its half-century-old settlement crusade in the West Bank.
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Trump Unveils Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plan
In a White House room with no Palestinian representatives, and with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his side, President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a Middle East peace plan supporting a two-state solution.
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Palestinian Factions Unite Against Trump
Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah will join forces Tuesday in a rare meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah against President Donald Trump’s long-awaited Middle East peace plan, officials said.
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Netanyahu and Trump Claim to Have a Peace Plan
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington Sunday night vowing to “make history” at a meeting with President Donald Trump for the unveiling of the U.S. administration’s much-anticipated plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Netanyahu Picks a Fight With International Criminal Court
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is calling on the world to take “concrete actions” against the International Criminal Court before a possible war-crimes case against Israel.
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Eighth Circuit Hears Fight Over Arkansas Anti-Boycott Law
An Arkansas newspaper argued before the Eighth Circuit on Wednesday that a state law requiring businesses that contract with the state to pledge not to boycott Israel is unconstitutional.
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An attorney’s claims against Arizona relating to a state law that prohibits public entities from contracting with companies that “engage in a boycott of Israel” are moot, the Ninth Circuit ruled. The law was amended in 2019 so that it now applies only to companies with 10 or more full-time employees and contracts valued at $100,000 or more.
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Israel Targets Even Peaceful Palestinian Protesters
Abdullah Abu Rahma has been arrested by Israeli soldiers eight times in the last five years, spending months in prison and paying tens of thousands of dollars in fines for organizing protests.
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