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The ancient jar smashed by a 4-year-old is back on display at an Israeli museum after repair
An Israeli museum has put back on display a rare Bronze-Era jar that a 4-year-old accidentally smashed.
House Republicans subpoena Secretary Blinken for testimony on US withdrawal from Afghanistan
House Republicans have issued a subpoena for testimony from Secretary of State Antony Blinken as they finish their investigation into the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Israel-Hamas war latest: Protesters gather in Tel Aviv again to pressure government to reach a deal
Large protests have continued in Tel Aviv, Israel, for a third consecutive night as locals called on the government to reach a deal to bring hostages home.
Israeli airstrikes kill dozens in Gaza on the eve of high-level cease-fire talks in Egypt
Health workers say multiple Israeli airstrikes have killed at least three dozen Palestinians in southern Gaza while officials including a Hamas delegation gather for high-level cease-fire talks in neighboring Egypt.
Blinken ends latest Mideast visit without a cease-fire, warning 'time is of the essence'
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has ended his latest visit to the Middle East without securing a cease-fire in Gaza.
Israel-Hamas war latest: Drone strike hits Tel Aviv, killing 1 and injuring at least 10
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for a drone strike that hit part of central Tel Aviv near the U.S. Embassy, killing one person and injuring 10.
Drone strike by Yemen's Houthi rebels kills 1 person and wounds at least 10 in Tel Aviv
An Iranian-made drone sent by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck Israel on Friday, leaving one person dead and at least 10 wounded.
UK Foreign Secretary visits Israel and West Bank and calls for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza
The new British foreign secretary has called for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza during a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories, his second international trip since Labour’s resounding victory in elections earlier this month.
Israel says it's taken control of key area of Gaza's border with Egypt awash in smuggling tunnels
Israel’s military says it's seized control of a strategic corridor that runs along the length of Gaza’s border with Egypt.
Senior Republican close to Trump criticizes Biden's arms holdup in speech to Israeli parliament
Elise Stefanik, a House Republican leader seen as a candidate to be Donald Trump’s running mate, delivered a speech before Israel’s parliament in which she criticized President Joe Biden’s approach to the war in Gaza.
Israelis mark a subdued Independence Day under the shadow of war in Gaza
Israel's Independence Day is normally a raucous affair, celebrated with day parties and barbecues in parks, but this year, celebrations — from Monday evening through Tuesday — were muted.
‘We were all on edge’: El Al plane takes off from Tel Aviv to Miami just before Iran’s attack
Yarden Ben-David said his cousin had dreamed of getting married since they were kids. The war in Gaza did not get in the way of his decision to travel to Israel to be with family. He celebrated her bachelorette on Wednesday in Hod HaSharon and her wedding on Friday at a kibbutz.
Israel finds the body of a hostage killed in Gaza, while talks will resume on a cease-fire
Israel’s military says it has recovered the body of a 47-year-old farmer who was held hostage in Gaza.
Israel dismisses 2 officers over deadly drone strikes on aid workers in Gaza
The Israeli military has dismissed two officers and reprimanded three others for their roles in drone strikes in Gaza that killed seven aid workers on a food-delivery mission.
Israel says it plans to direct Palestinians out of Rafah ahead of anticipated offensive
The Israeli military says it plans to direct many of the 1.4 million displaced Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip’s southernmost town of Rafah toward “humanitarian islands” in the center of the territory ahead of its planned offensive there.
Rape and sexual assault took place during Hamas attack, Israeli association says
The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel says it has found evidence of “systematic and intentional” rape and sexual abuse during the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that ignited the war in Gaza.
Families of hostages held in Gaza for 100 days hold 24-hour rally, beg government to bring them home
Thousands of protesters have poured into a square in downtown Tel Aviv, beginning a 24-hour rally to draw attention to 132 hostages still held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Defense Secretary Austin has been hospitalized since Jan. 1, but the Pentagon kept the news quiet
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been hospitalized since Monday, due to complications following a minor elective medical procedure.
Israel is pulling thousands of troops from Gaza in a possible precursor to a scaled-back offensive
The Israeli military has confirmed it's pulling thousands of troops out of the Gaza Strip.
In a rare action against Israel, US says extremist West Bank settlers will be barred from America
In a rare punitive move against Israel, the State Department says it will impose travel bans on extremist Jewish settlers implicated in a rash of attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Blinken urges Israel to comply with international law and spare civilians in war against Hamas
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is urging Israeli leaders to respect international law as Israel wages its war against Hamas in Gaza.
In march on Jerusalem, thousands press Israeli government to free hostages held in Gaza
Thousands of family members and supporters of some 240 hostages held in Gaza have streamed into Jerusalem on foot to castigate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his handling of the war with Hamas.
Blinken warns Israel that humanitarian conditions in Gaza must improve to have 'partners for peace'
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is warning Israel that it risks destroying an eventual possibility for peace unless it acts swiftly to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza for Palestinian civilians as it intensifies its war against Hamas.
Tears, hugs, sighs of relief: Flyers fleeing Israel get emotional welcomes at FLL, MIA
Flyers arriving to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport from Israel received a warm welcome Tuesday as they escaped the war zone.
Israeli-American reservists living in South Florida respond to call to serve during war
Baraq Harrison said his family begged him not to volunteer to fight in Israel, so he attempted to explain his sense of duty after the surprise attack by Hamas on Saturday.
‘Buildings were shaking’: More survival stories from Israel at Miami International Airport
A mother with her children from Broward County was on her way back home from Israel to Hollywood on Monday at Miami International Airport.
Airlines halt flights in and out of Israel after a massive attack by Hamas ignites heavy fighting
Major airlines are suspending flights to Israel after it formally declared war following a massive attack by Hamas.
‘This is not about Israel any more’: Miami woman survives attack in Tel Aviv
An Israeli-American woman from Miami described what it was like to survive the Hamas attack that killed hundreds and injured thousands in Israel.
Israel's Netanyahu says he wants Eritrean migrants involved in violent clashes to be deported
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he wants Eritrean migrants involved in a violent clash in Tel Aviv to be deported immediately and has ordered a plan to remove all of the country’s African migrants.
Rival Eritrean groups clash in Israel, leaving dozens hurt in worst confrontation in recent memory
Hundreds of Eritrean government supporters and opponents have clashed with each other and with Israeli police in Tel Aviv.
Israeli troops kill a Palestinian militant in a gunbattle outside a West Bank bakery
Israeli forces raided a home above a bakery in a militant stronghold in the occupied West Bank, killing a Palestinian militant in a gunbattle.
Israel's Netanyahu doubles down on judicial plan, rejects criticism and moves ahead toward key vote
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to press ahead with his contentious judicial overhaul, despite unprecedented mass protests at home, growing defections by military reservists and appeals from the U.S. president to put the plan on hold.
Israeli protesters block highways, train stations as Netanyahu moves ahead with judicial overhaul
Thousands of protesters have blocked highways and train stations and massed in central Tel Aviv during a day of countrywide demonstrations against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned judicial overhaul.
Israel's governing coalition presses ahead with plan to overhaul courts ahead of expected protests
Israel’s governing coalition is pushing ahead with a contentious plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary.
Israelis block highways and throng airport in protest at government's plan to overhaul the judiciary
Protesters in Israel have blocked highways and thronged the country's main international airport in a day of countrywide demonstrations against the government’s divisive plan to overhaul the judiciary.
Protests grow as Israel's far-right government advances with its judicial overhaul
Israel’s anti-government protest movement is gaining new momentum as tens of thousands of people spill into the streets of cities across the country to oppose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul plan.
Israelis protest at international airport against judicial overhaul plan
Thousands of Israelis blocked traffic and snarled movement at the country’s main international airport, in the latest mass demonstration over Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious planned judicial overhaul that has divided the nation.
Dozens of Israeli air force vets threaten not to serve after Netanyahu resumes judicial overhaul
Dozens of Israeli air force say they won't show up for duty if the right-wing government moves ahead with a contentious plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary.
Netanyahu says he's opposed to any interim US-Iran deal on nuclear program
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he opposes any interim agreement reportedly being negotiated between the U.S. and Iran over its nuclear program.
Red Sea corals threatened by mass sea urchin die-off, Israeli researchers say
Scientists say that sea urchins in Israel's Gulf of Eilat in the Red Sea are dying at an alarming rate, threatening the sea's prized coral reef ecosystems.
Thousands of Israelis protest government legal change plans
Tens of thousands of Israelis are demonstrating against a contentious government plan to overhaul the judiciary, demanding the changes to be scrapped rather than delayed.
Israelis rally for 17th week against judicial overhaul plans
Tens of thousands of Israelis are protesting judicial overhaul proposals in the 17th weekly rally against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition.
Israel celebrates 75 years while enduring inner turmoil over political proposal
Israel is celebrating 75 years of independence and people have traveled from across the globe to take part in the festivities.
Israelis protest legal changes before nation's 75th birthday
Tens of thousands of protesters have flocked to Tel Aviv and cities across Israel to vent their opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government and its divisive plan to overhaul the country’s judicial system.
Israeli protests of legal overhaul show no signs of slowing
Israeli demonstrations against the government’s plan to overhaul the judiciary have continued, despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to pause the contentious proposals.
Israelis protest judicial overhaul despite violence surge
Thousands of Israelis gathered for a weekly demonstration against the government’s contentious judicial overhaul plans despite security concerns stemming from a surge in Israeli-Palestinian violence.
Israelis still protest legal overhaul despite suspension
Tens of thousands of Israelis are protesting a controversial plan to revamp the country’s legal system, despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s suspension of the changes earlier in the week.
Massive protests, strike erupt in Israel over court reforms
For nearly three months, hundreds of thousands of people have taken to Israel’s streets weekly to demonstrate against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary.
Mass protests erupt after Netanyahu fires defense chief
Tens of thousands of Israelis have poured into the streets across the country in a spontaneous outburst of anger after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abruptly fired his defense minister for challenging the Israeli leader’s judicial overhaul plan.
Elite officers in Israel's military plan Sunday walkout
Hundreds of elite officers in Israel’s military reserves say they will not show up for duty starting on Sunday in protest over the ruling coalition’s planned overhaul of the judicial system.
Israeli fire kills Palestinian attacker, teen in West Bank
The Israeli military says a Palestinian man who entered a settlement in the occupied West Bank armed with knives and explosive devices was shot and killed by an Israeli settler.
Netanyahu airlifted to airport after protesters block road
Israel's prime minister has been airlifted to the country's main international airport for an official overseas trip after throngs of protesters prevented him from driving there as they demonstrated against his contentious plan to overhaul the judiciary.
Israelis protest legal overhaul plans for 9th week
Tens of thousands of Israelis are protesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious plan to overhaul the legal system in the country, as the government pressed on with the proposed changes despite the mass opposition.
Netanyahu denounces protesters after salon siege of his wife
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies say protesters are “anarchists” after they gathered outside a Tel Aviv salon where his wife was getting her hair done.
Mass protests in Israel as controversial overhauls advanced
Tens of thousands of Israelis are protesting their far-right government’s plans to overhaul the legal system, three days after parliament advanced a bill that would enable lawmakers to overturn a Supreme Court decision with a simple majority.
Fort Lauderdale airport getting first-ever flights to Israel; here’s when they start
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is set to get its first-ever nonstop flights to Israel later this year.
Thousands of Israelis rally against Netanyahu government
Tens of thousands of Israelis have gathered in central Tel Aviv to protest plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government to overhaul the country’s legal system and weaken the Supreme Court.
President of Israel's Supreme Court attacks judicial changes
The chief justice of Israel’s Supreme Court has sharply attacked the sweeping changes to the country’s justice system planned by the new conservative government, lending her voice to a growing outcry against the proposed overhaul.
EXPLAINER: Why Putin uses WWII to justify war with Ukraine
Vladimir Putin has again painted his enemies in Ukraine as “neo-Nazis,” even though the country has a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust and who heads a Western-backed, democratically elected government.
Israeli PM to speed up rollout of lasers for missile defense
Israel's prime minister says the country is speeding up the rollout of a “new generation” of missile defense technology to help protect the country from rocket attacks.
Israel approves 4th vaccine dose for most vulnerable
Israel has approved a fourth vaccine dose for people most vulnerable to COVID-19, becoming one of the first countries to do so as it braces for a wave of infections fueled by the omicron variant.
Israeli court orders boy returned to Italy within 15 days
An Israeli appeals court says a 6-year-old boy who survived a cable car crash in Italy must be returned to his relatives there within 15 days, upholding an earlier ruling in a bitter custody battle with family members in Israel.