admin | June 16, 2021
GAZA CITY The Israeli military said early Wednesday that it had conducted airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, after officials said that the militant group Hamas had sent incendiary balloons into southern Israel from Gaza, in the first eruption of hostilities since an 11-day air war between Israel and Hamas ended last month. The Israeli military said that it struck military compounds belonging to the Hamas terror organization, which were used as facilities and meeting sites for terror operatives in Hamas Khan Yunis and Gaza Brigades
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admin | June 16, 2021
Minks in a cage at a mink farm in Pushkino, Russia, more than 20 miles from Moscow. Yuri Tutov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption Minks in a cage at a mink farm in Pushkino, Russia, more than 20 miles from Moscow. The Israeli government has banned the sale of fur in the fashion industry, becoming the first country to outlaw the controversial clothing material that opponents say leads to the slaughter of millions of animals each year.
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admin | May 27, 2021
Under the shadow of the clashes in Jerusalem, the operation in Gaza and the sirens in much of the country this month, Or Segal, a fourth-year visual communications student at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, decided to do something about it. I wanted to work in a way thats quiet and strong, that wouldnt inflame things even more, she tells Haaretz. I chose to do so through brotherhood, using the tools that Im familiar with illustration and design.
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admin | May 27, 2021
Politicians call for our citizenship to be revoked, or worse like the former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, who said our heads should be chopped off, or the former education minister Naftali Bennett, who declared that he had killed many Palestinians and had no problem with it. Since 2019, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has twice made electoral pacts with the overtly racist Jewish Power party, which is made up of followers of the notorious Meir Kahane, whose Kach party and offshoots were labeled terrorist organizations by the United States. Jewish Power is led by Itamar Ben Gvir, who says his hero is Baruch Goldstein, who gunned down 29 Palestinians as they prayed in Hebron in 1994
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admin | May 27, 2021
In the 1950s, Israels internal security service, the Shin Bet, was spying on immigrants from North Africa.
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admin | May 27, 2021
ASHKELON, Israel The worst fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in seven years intensified on Tuesday night, as Israeli airstrikes began targeting Hamas offices in Gaza City and militants in Gaza fired rockets at the metropolis of Tel Aviv, the southern city of Ashkelon and Israels main airport. In Gaza, at least 35 Palestinians, including 10 children, had been killed by Tuesday night, and 203 others were wounded, according to health officials. In Israel, five people were killed in strikes on Tel Aviv, Ashkelon and Lod, and at least 100 were wounded, according to medical officials
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admin | May 27, 2021
New Hope chairman Gideon Sa'ar has renewed on Thursday the coalition talks with Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid who is working relentlessly to form a government before his mandate expires on June 2. Both parties' negotiating teams met on Thursday for the first time since talks between Yesh Atid and New Hope were halted amid Israel's latest operation in Gaza.
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admin | May 27, 2021
This architecture is, however, just one of the ways in which Iron Dome is unique. In fact, its very strengths and weaknesses reflect those of the country that developed it, epitomizing Israels interminable conflict with the Palestinians. On the one hand, Iron Dome is the perfect example of Israeli ingenuity and improvisation, the journalist Yaakov Katz, who co-wrote The Weapon Wizards, a book about Israels arms industry, told me
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admin | May 27, 2021
The first group of foreign tourists in more than a year touched down in Israel on Thursday after the government began opening its borders following a steep drop in COVID-19 infections. Small groups of vaccinated foreign tourists - up to 30 people - have been allowed to enter as of last Sunday and the Tourism Ministry expects 20 such groups to come from countries, including the United States, Britain and Germany, under a pilot programme until June 15
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admin | May 27, 2021
Any violations of Jerusalem will cause a regional war, warned Hezbollah secretary-generalHassan Nasrallahon Tuesday night, in his first speech since before Operation Guardian of the Walls began over two weeks ago.During the operation, Nasrallah did not make any statements, and Hezbollah officials remained relatively quiet, with only one or two statements made besides for an official statement issued by the terrorist movement after the ceasefire.Nasrallah stated on Tuesday that he had not made any statements in recent weeks because he had been sick. The Hezbollah leader delivered the speech in a quiet, raspy voice and appeared to have difficulty keeping his head up. The IDF believes that the speech on Tuesday night was a mistake by Hezbollah, as Nasrallah was attempting to broadcast threatening messages, but looked weak and sick
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