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White House deputy spokesperson said it's 'despicable' to echo rhetoric of terrorist organizations; Israel's president labeled the protest at the university as 'atrocious antisemitic actions'

Israel's war cabinet continues to look for solutions to the stalemate in talks with Hamas ■ A deal with Saudi Arabia could potentially lead to a deal to release the hostages

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara said she cannot defend in court the gov't's position that ultra-Orthodox Israelis should be exempt from service in the Israel Defense Forces

Decision makers and media outlets around the world view the annual report by Swedish think tank SIPRI as a comprehensive, reliable source of information on global arms trade. The data it presents, however, has far too many holes

A U.S. source said the far-right ministers were considered for sanctions themselves, but the White House feared impacts on bilateral relations. Some U.S. figures object to the use of the term 'sanctions,' and say that the U.S. is simply holding Israel to the standard it holds all aid recipients

As Jews around the world prepare for Passover, the festival of freedom, while Israeli hostages from October 7 are still captive, Gaza lays in ruins, and antisemitism is on the rise. Four writers speak to navigating new conversations and unprecedented political differences about Israel at the seder table

Voting against providing Israel with emergency military aid deep into its most existential crisis in its history sends an undeniable message about Israel's standing among much of the Democratic Party. And Republicans shouldn't claim the vote proves that they are the undisputable "pro-Israel" party

Here's to an unpretentious Passover seder

Different people wrote different portions at different times, for instance - the ancient 'Four Questions' changed when Jews eschewed sacrifice.

27-year-old Dor Zimel was wounded in Hezbollah's attack on Arab al-Aramshe ■ 17 additional Israelis, including 13 IDF reservists, were wounded in the incident

PM Netanyahu says Israel will increase military and political pressure on Hamas in the coming days, as 'this is the only way to free the hostages and achieve victory' ■ U.S. House votes to provide Israel with $26 billion in emergency aid ■ Israel's military police investigating death of Red Crescent ambulance driver shot Saturday during confrontation between settlers and Palestinians ■ Here's what you need to know 198 days into the war

The Netzah Yehuda Battalion has a long history of bad behavior, driven by an ideology imbibed from the settler movement

'This is a pro-Palestinian march ... I am worried about the reaction to your presence,' a police officer told Gideon Falter, who was wearing a yarmulke. The police's apology, initially deleted, drew accusations of victim blaming

Although a court ordered Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian released, the message sounded in her arrest for suspicion of incitement, especially to my fellow Arab academics, is clear: Israel's crackdown against dissent is only intensifying

After over 100 students were detained and many arrested at Columbia University last week, protests sprung up at universities across the country in solidarity with those arrested. University of Pennsylvania banned a protest group for harassing Jewish students and faculty

'We Were the Lucky Ones' covers nearly a decade in the lives of a Jewish family during the Shoah, while 'Shōgun,' a remake based on James Clavell's epic set in 17th-century Japan, has critics salivating, somewhat surprisingly, and sci-fi series '3 Body Problem' looks stunning

In response to expected sanctions by the U.S. on the Netzah Yehuda Battalion – widely opposed by Israeli leaders – war cabinet minister Eisenkot called it 'proof of the importance of independent legal and law enforcement systems in Israel'

Yusuf Zaarur was one of the most prominent musicians in Iraq. His great-grandson tells about how his fame dimmed after he left for Israel and how friends of his from Arab countries are preserving his memory

The pro-Israel lobby is looking to spend its hefty war chest in other primaries, leaving one GOP megadonor with an explicit interest in Israeli politics to bankroll efforts against the Pittsburgh progressive

Sabah Haniyeh, a resident of a town in southern Israel, is accused of sharing a prayer following the October 7 attack that read, 'kill them and do not leave any one of them. O God, do in their slaughter and keep us away from their evil'

Despite the claims made about the treatment of Gazans at the Sde Teiman military base, doctors there put their patients first

Like all Palestinians in Gaza, hundreds of Christians living in the Strip found themselves with nowhere to hide once the war with Israel began after the October 7 Hamas attack. Though the disconnection from the wider Christian community - close and far - started long before

One Israeli lightly wounded in separate incident when a planted explosive device was set off as he kicked down a Palestinian flag; Kibbutz Meirav, on the West Bank's northern border, was hit by gunfire from the direction of a nearby Palestinian village

Why Persia's Xerxes armed his soldiers with images of fruit on their spears, rather than spikes, and other pomegranate facts