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Israeli minister calls for ban on loudspeakers in mosques
3 weeks ago

Israeli minister calls for ban on loudspeakers in mosques

India Today  

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir directed the police to ban the use of loudspeakers in mosques for broadcasting the azaan. In a post on X, Gvir claimed that the ban on loudspeakers in mosques would eliminate "unreasonable noise from mosques, which has become a hazard for Israeli residents". Knesset for the Democrats member Gilad Kariv called Ben Gvir's …

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Amid right-wing opposition, Israeli Cabinet to vote on Hezbollah ceasefire proposal today
4 weeks ago

Amid right-wing opposition, Israeli Cabinet to vote on Hezbollah ceasefire proposal today

Firstpost  

Even as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be onboard with the proposal for a ceasefire with Lebanon-based Hezbollah, there is growing opposition against the move among his extremist ministers and right-wing MPs of Likud party Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene the Israeli Cabinet on Tuesday evening to vote on the proposal for a ceasefire with Hezbollah. Despite …

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Analysis: Tumultuous weekend for Israelis leaves Netanyahu with fewer options than ever
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Analysis: Tumultuous weekend for Israelis leaves Netanyahu with fewer options than ever

CNN  

CNN — They were sons, daughters, brothers and sisters to a nation. These well-tested democratic tools of change have toppled governments before, but it’s best to remember that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a political survivor extraordinaire. Galvanized by growing frustration waiting for Netanyahu to cut a deal with Hamas to bring home from Gaza the 101 remaining hostages, including …

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Residents of West Bank town say deadly settler attack was ‘most vicious’ yet
4 months, 1 week ago

Residents of West Bank town say deadly settler attack was ‘most vicious’ yet

CNN  

Jit, West Bank CNN — When Moawya Ali saw a wave of Israeli settlers storm towards his house in the West Bank town of Jit, he grabbed his five children and rushed to his car, where he dropped them off at a nearby house for safety. “They told us to leave, to go to Sinai, to Jordan, to Syria,” Ali …

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Tel Aviv, Israel: Yemen’s Houthis claim deadly drone attack near US Embassy branch office
5 months ago

Tel Aviv, Israel: Yemen’s Houthis claim deadly drone attack near US Embassy branch office

CNN  

CNN — Israel authorities are investigating the circumstances and potential security lapses around a deadly drone blast in Tel Aviv that killed one man and injured at least 10 others on Friday. Jack Lew, the US Ambassador to Israel, said Friday he was “shocked by the brazen Houthi drone attack” and sent his condolences to the victims’ families. Ben Gvir …

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Israel-Hamas war: Developments in Gaza ceasefire talks raise hopes but challenges persist
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Israel-Hamas war: Developments in Gaza ceasefire talks raise hopes but challenges persist

CNN  

Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. But a statement by the Israeli prime minister’s office on Sunday cast doubt on whether the deal would progress, laying out several “principles” Israel is not prepared to abandon, including resumed fighting in Gaza “until all …

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Netanyahu may be forced to choose between his government’s survival and a ceasefire deal
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Netanyahu may be forced to choose between his government’s survival and a ceasefire deal

CNN  

Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. For months, Netanyahu has gingerly balanced these competing imperatives by refusing to even contemplate a permanent ceasefire as he blamed Hamas’s “delusional demands” for the collapse of previous rounds of negotiations. Netanyahu told the Knesset’s Foreign …

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Netanyahu may be forced to choose between his government’s survival and a ceasefire deal
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Netanyahu may be forced to choose between his government’s survival and a ceasefire deal

CNN  

Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. For months, Netanyahu has gingerly balanced these competing imperatives by refusing to even contemplate a permanent ceasefire as he blamed Hamas’s “delusional demands” for the collapse of previous rounds of negotiations. Netanyahu told the Knesset’s Foreign …

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Isfahan explosions: Israel has carried out a strike inside Iran, US official tells CNN
8 months ago

Isfahan explosions: Israel has carried out a strike inside Iran, US official tells CNN

CNN  

CNN — Israel has carried out a military strike inside Iran, a US official told CNN Friday, a potentially dangerous escalation in a fast widening Middle East conflict that Iranian government officials have so far sought to play down. Reports of Friday’s strike came hours after Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told CNN that if Israel takes any further military …

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Isfahan explosions: Israel has carried out a strike inside Iran, US official tells CNN
8 months ago

Isfahan explosions: Israel has carried out a strike inside Iran, US official tells CNN

CNN  

CNN — Israel has carried out a military strike inside Iran, a US official told CNN Friday, a potentially dangerous escalation in a fast widening Middle East conflict that Iranian government officials have so far sought to play down. Reports of Friday’s strike came hours after Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told CNN that if Israel takes any further military …

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On eve of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City offers little festivity as Gaza war rages
9 months, 2 weeks ago

On eve of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City offers little festivity as Gaza war rages

The Hindu  

On the eve of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City bears few of its usual hallmarks of festivity. “This will be the black Ramadan,” Abu Mousam Haddad said in front of his coffee stand near Damascus Gate, one of the Old City’s main entrances. The militants have urged Palestinians across Israel and the occupied West Bank to …

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On eve of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City offers little festivity as Gaza war rages
9 months, 2 weeks ago

On eve of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City offers little festivity as Gaza war rages

Associated Press  

JERUSALEM — On the eve of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City bears few of its usual hallmarks of festivity. “This will be the black Ramadan,” Abu Mousam Haddad said in front of his coffee stand near Damascus Gate, one of the Old City’s main entrances. The militants have urged Palestinians across Israel and the occupied West …

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On eve of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City offers little festivity as Gaza war rages
9 months, 2 weeks ago

On eve of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City offers little festivity as Gaza war rages

LA Times  

Muslim women walk through a market in the Old City of Jerusalem ahead of the holy Islamic month of Ramadan. “This will be the black Ramadan,” Abu Mousam Haddad said in front of his coffee stand near Damascus Gate, one of the Old City’s main entrances. The militants have urged Palestinians across Israel and the occupied West Bank to stream …

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Biden Has New Authority To Stop Israeli Settler Violence. His Choices May Shape Palestine's Future.
10 months ago

Biden Has New Authority To Stop Israeli Settler Violence. His Choices May Shape Palestine's Future.

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING On Feb. 1, the U.S. imposed sanctions on Israeli settler Yinon Levi, locking him out of the international economic system and spurring Israeli banks to freeze his accounts. “There are many more violent settlers than the four sanctioned, and there are groups and leaders who should have to take responsibility for their contribution and enabling settler violence.” …

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Biden reportedly foul-mouthed Netanyahu; White House reacts as Blinken heads to Middle East
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Biden reportedly foul-mouthed Netanyahu; White House reacts as Blinken heads to Middle East

Hindustan Times  

US President Joe Biden referred to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “bad ****ing guy” in the midst of escalating tensions between the two leaders over the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. U.S. President Joe Biden with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu As the war entered its fifth month, Biden became wary of Netanyahu and privately called him a "bad ****ing …

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Israel’s far-right wants to move Palestinians out of Gaza. Its ideas are gaining attention
11 months, 1 week ago

Israel’s far-right wants to move Palestinians out of Gaza. Its ideas are gaining attention

CNN  

Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Social Media Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the idea of establishing Jewish settlements, but has said only that neither Hamas nor the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority should govern the territory, and that Israel will keep “full …

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Israeli minister proposes post-war plan for Gaza as government divisions burst out into open
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Israeli minister proposes post-war plan for Gaza as government divisions burst out into open

CNN  

Tel Aviv and Jerusalem CNN — Rifts in the Israeli government emerged publicly on Friday as members of the cabinet argued over plans for the post-war future of Gaza and how to handle investigations into the security failings around Hamas’ October 7 attacks. In northern Gaza, he said the Israel Defense Forces’ campaign would encompass “raids, the destruction of terror …

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Israeli Officials’ Calls For ‘Voluntary’ Migration Of Palestinians Alarm Human Rights Experts
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Israeli Officials’ Calls For ‘Voluntary’ Migration Of Palestinians Alarm Human Rights Experts

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING As the reported death toll of the Israeli invasion of Gaza tops 22,000, senior Israeli politicians have grown more explicit in their goal for the Palestinian enclave: the movement of a large number of Gazans out of Gaza entirely. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said Monday that the current war presented an “opportunity to concentrate on …

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Release of Palestinian prisoners sheds light on controversial Israeli justice system in the occupied West Bank
1 year ago

Release of Palestinian prisoners sheds light on controversial Israeli justice system in the occupied West Bank

CNN  

Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. The Israel Prison Service told CNN that the prisoners who were released as part of the deal “were serving time for serious crimes, such as attempted murder, assault, and throwing explosives.” But information provided by the …

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‘A lot of discontent’: Netanyahu alone as Israel turns on wartime PM
1 year, 1 month ago

‘A lot of discontent’: Netanyahu alone as Israel turns on wartime PM

Al Jazeera  

From families of Hamas captives to politicians in his own government, Netanyahu’s popularity is at an all-time low. “Prime ministers have fallen for far less than that.” Ever since he won elections last November and installed the most right-wing government in the country’s history, Netanyahu has battled criticism. “Demands for a ceasefire are increasing in the United States but in …

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Netanyahu in a rare apology says he was wrong in criticising security apparatus
1 year, 1 month ago

Netanyahu in a rare apology says he was wrong in criticising security apparatus

The Hindu  

Faced with sharp criticism from allies and opposition alike, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on October 29 apologized for an earlier statement in which he blamed the security services for failing to prevent the Hamas attack on October 7. Late Saturday night, Mr. Netanyahu in a post on X said that he never received any warnings of Hamas' “war intentions” …

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Israel is facing a choice, once again, between renewal and ruin — what will we choose?
1 year, 4 months ago

Israel is facing a choice, once again, between renewal and ruin — what will we choose?

ABC  

It is 3am in Jerusalem. And yet, given the overwhelming silence within the religious Zionist community toward Smotrich — and toward Itamar Ben Gvir, head of the extremist Jewish Power party — I realised that this wasn’t a hostile takeover after all. The condition of Israeli society today is grim testimony to the inability of religious Zionism, together with the …

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From now on, terror prisoners will bathe less in Israel after found wasting water in shower
1 year, 10 months ago

From now on, terror prisoners will bathe less in Israel after found wasting water in shower

Firstpost  

Jerusalem: Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has ordered the country’s Prison Service to reduce shower time for security inmates. Prisoner group reacts As per Times of Israel, Palestinian prisoners threatened “disobedience” following Ben Gvir’s order. We can no longer tolerate the daily abuse against us since Ben Gvir came to power.” President of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club Qadura …

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Explained: The who's who in Benjamin Netanyahu's new government
1 year, 11 months ago

Explained: The who's who in Benjamin Netanyahu's new government

Firstpost  

Top ministers in Israel’s new right-wing government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, include a politician who admitted to tax evasion late last year and a slew of far-right figures, including one who kept a portrait of a man who massacred scores of Palestinian worshippers in his home Jerusalem: Led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who returns to power after …

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