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Is HTS chief Sharaa going soft on Israel despite Golan incursions?

The Golan Heights ceasefire breach by Israel seems to have no impact on Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s chief Ahmad al-Sharaa who has said that the “general exhaustion” in Syria does not “allow” it to enter into new conflicts with Israel Israel has been Syria’s archnemesis since history can remember. Israel breaches Golan Heights ceasefire Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu …

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Israel plans to double population on occupied Golan, cites threats from Syria

The Hindu

Israel agreed on Sunday to double its population in the occupied Golan Heights while saying threats from Syria remained despite the moderate tone of rebel leaders who ousted President Bashar al-Assad a week ago. "The immediate risks to the country have not disappeared and the latest developments in Syria increase the strength of the threat — despite the moderate image …

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4 months ago

Israel recovers bodies of 6 hostages from Gaza Strip

LA Times

A protester in Tel Aviv holds a poster showing Shiri Bibas and her child, Kfir, hostages taken with their family by Hamas militants to the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military said Tuesday that it recovered the bodies of six hostages taken in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack that started the war in Gaza, as U.S. and Arab mediators failed to advance …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Pakistani man with ties to Iran is charged in plot to carry out political assassinations on US soil

ABC

A Pakistani man with alleged ties to Iran has been charged in the United States in connection with a foiled plot to assassinate a US politician or government officials, according to the Department of Justice. Asif Merchant sought to recruit people in the US to carry out the plot in retaliation for the US killing of Iran's Revolutionary Guards' top …

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7 months, 1 week ago

A Palestinian converted to Judaism. An Israeli soldier saw him as a threat and opened fire

Associated Press

JERUSALEM — At first, it seemed like the kind of shooting that has become all too common in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. AN ARREST In the year before his conversion, Ben-Avraham was detained by the Palestinian Authority’s intelligence unit in Hebron, according to Arnon and a local Palestinian activist, Issa Amro. Parag also said he met Ben-Avraham’s wife and some …

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7 months, 1 week ago

A Palestinian converted to Judaism. An Israeli soldier saw him as a threat and opened fire

LA Times

David Ben-Avraham at a supermarket in the Israeli town of Beit Shamesh in 2021, where he briefly worked. AN ARREST In the year before his conversion, Ben-Avraham was detained by the Palestinian Authority’s intelligence unit in Hebron, according to Arnon and a local Palestinian activist, Issa Amro. Parag also said he met Ben-Avraham’s wife and some of his children, and …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Israel’s religious right has a clear plan for Gaza: ‘We are occupying, deporting and settling’

LA Times

Carrying planks of plywood, a group of Israeli settlers pushed past soldiers guarding the barrier surrounding the Gaza Strip and quickly got to work. Reuven Gal, former chief psychologist for the military and a researcher at the Israel Institute of Technology, says that for many soldiers, the Gaza conflict that has killed more than 30,000 Palestinians is “not just a …

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2 years, 1 month ago

A Jewish detective bows on TV during a wave of antisemitism

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Viewers of “The Calling” will quickly learn it isn’t a typical TV police procedural. “I’m proud to play a Jewish detective that is religious,” says actor Jeff Wilbusch, who plays Avraham. And I think it’s an important story to tell.” Peacock’s “The Calling,” which co-stars Juliana Canfield as Avraham’s partner, is from celebrated showrunner, writer and executive …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Netanyahu’s moving out, but not soon enough for critics

Associated Press

JERUSALEM — Benjamin Netanyahu says he and his family will move out of Israel’s official prime minister’s residence by July 10, nearly a month after he was ousted from office following a record 12-year reign. In a joint statement released late Saturday, Netanyahu and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said they had agreed the Netanyahus would move out by July 10 …

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54 years, 11 months ago

North Korea Targets—and Dupes—a Slew of Cybersecurity Pros

Wired

One early January morning, security researcher Zuk Avraham got a nondescript direct message out of the blue on Twitter: “Hi.” It was from someone named Zhang Guo. Avraham wasn’t the only one who had this sort of conversation with the “Zhang Guo” Twitter account and its associated aliases, all of which are now suspended. They were the work of hackers …

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4 years ago

Israeli spy dramas fuel interest in joining secretive Mossad agency

The Telegraph

It is often considered the most secretive and ruthless of all spy networks, emerging briefly from the shadows to confront Israel's enemies before vanishing once more. But a wave of nail-biting spy thrillers on streaming websites, as well as last month’s high profile assassination of an Iranian scientist, have placed Mossad firmly in the public eye. “When people see the …

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4 years ago

A pandemic atlas: A virus widens Israel’s religious rifts

Associated Press

BNEI BRAK, Israel — When Israel went into its second nationwide coronavirus lockdown in September, most of the country quickly complied. “Many Israelis understand that there is a serious challenge and we cannot just sort of allow time to pass and hope that this issue will go away,” said Yohanan Plesner, president of the Israel Democracy Institute, a think tank …

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4 years ago

A pandemic atlas: A virus widens Israel's religious rifts

The Independent

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Is HTS chief Sharaa going soft on Israel despite Golan incursions?

Israel plans to double population on occupied Golan, cites threats from Syria

Israel recovers bodies of 6 hostages from Gaza Strip

Pakistani man with ties to Iran is charged in plot to carry out political assassinations on US soil

A Palestinian converted to Judaism. An Israeli soldier saw him as a threat and opened fire

A Palestinian converted to Judaism. An Israeli soldier saw him as a threat and opened fire

Israel’s religious right has a clear plan for Gaza: ‘We are occupying, deporting and settling’

A Jewish detective bows on TV during a wave of antisemitism

Netanyahu’s moving out, but not soon enough for critics

North Korea Targets—and Dupes—a Slew of Cybersecurity Pros

Israeli spy dramas fuel interest in joining secretive Mossad agency

A pandemic atlas: A virus widens Israel’s religious rifts

A pandemic atlas: A virus widens Israel's religious rifts