Category: 1. Israel

A Yom Hazikaron and Yom Haatzmaut Reflection

We attended a very moving and tearful IDF Widows and Orphans Yom Hazikaron memorial event last night at the Museum of Tolerance, to honor the memory of Israel’s fallen soldiers and victims of…

An extremist rabbi known for razing civilian homes in Gaza will light a torch at Israel’s independence day celebration on Tuesday, a role human rights campaigners said marked the embrace of genocide as the official “spirit of the nation”.

Israel opened its 78th Independence Day on Tuesday night with a state torch-lighting ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, formally transitioning from Memorial Day and launching national celebrations with 12 torch lighters…

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Germany and Italy have blocked the European Union from suspending the bloc’s association agreement with Israel, despite previous determinations that the country breached the deal’s human rights conditions. Al Jazeera’s Abdullah…

Police are investigating a suspected double murder after an engaged couple was shot dead in northern Israel’s Yarka on Tuesday, as a wave of violence across Arab communities in Israel left four people dead within 24 hours.

According to Haaretz…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers were seen singing the Israeli national anthem on the ruins of a demolished town in southern Lebanon for ‘Memorial Day’. Israeli flags were also planted amidst destroyed buildings, as the military continues…