NY Times report outlines American eagerness to move ahead with plan to build ‘alternative safe communities’ of temporary structures on Israeli side of Yellow Line dividing Gaza
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Jordanian forces kill suspects in northern raid
Jordanian forces kill suspects in northern raid | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Middle EastRamtha is located in northern Jordan near the border with Syria. Over the last decade, it has been a transit area for many Syrian refugees and displaced…
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Vast trove of medieval Jewish records opened up by AI
By Hannah Confino
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Researchers in Israel are hoping to make new discoveries about Jewish history by loading a digital database of manuscripts stretching back a thousand years into a new transcription tool that uses artificial…
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UK ban on pro-Palestine group under scrutiny in court
LONDON (Reuters) -The British government’s decision to ban pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation will be challenged in court on Wednesday, with lawyers representing a co-founder arguing it is a misuse of…
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Palestinian-US teen held by Israel for nine months without charge due in court
Jon DonnisonCorrespondent, Jerusalem
Zaher IbrahimMohammed Ibrahim was 15 when he was arrested at his family’s holiday home in the occupied West Bank A Palestinian-American teenager is expected to appear in court in Israel later this week after…
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NY prosecutors to retry suspect in 1979 disappearance of Jewish boy Etan Patz
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office announced Tuesday that it will retry a suspect in the case of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old Jewish boy who as kidnapped and murdered in 1979.
The suspect, Pedro Hernandez, was convicted in 2017, but his…
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Moshav Yated stood alone on Oct. 7; local heroes, not IDF, stopped massacre, probe finds
The Israel Defense Forces failed in its mission to defend Moshav Yated during Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught, but fast and determined action by the local security team and residents ultimately prevented a massacre and halted further…
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Popemobile transformed into Gaza mobile children’s clinic
The popemobile used by the late pope Francis on his 2014 visit to Bethlehem re-emerged on Tuesday as a mobile children’s clinic to be deployed in Gaza.
The vehicle is still unmistakeable as a popemobile: pristine white inside and out, and with the…
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FBI probes congressional Democrats who warned military not to obey illegal orders
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The FBI has requested interviews with six Democratic members of the US Congress who in a video message told members of the military they can legally refuse to carry out unlawful orders, a Justice Department official…
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Saudi crown prince’s pushback on Israel normalization reportedly irked Trump
Report says US president was ‘disappointed and angry’ after MBS cited domestic opposition to normalizing ties with Jewish state * NY prosecutors to retry suspect in 1979 disappearance of Jewish boy Etan Patz
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