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Israel to Examine Reports of Decades-Old Grave for Buried Egyptian Soldiers

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said on Sunday that his office would investigate reports of a mass grave in central Israel containing the bodies of Egyptian commandos who were killed during the 1967 Middle East war. Lapid's office said Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi brought up the issue in a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Parents of slain Israeli-American girl seek Biden meeting

The family of an Israel-American girl killed in a 2001 Palestinian suicide bombing in Jerusalem is seeking a meeting with President Joe Biden this week when he visits Israel

The Independent UK

Biden to announce $100 million for Palestinian hospitals on Middle East trip

Biden will visit one of the hospitals in East Jerusalem.

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Israeli PM Says Iran Will Top Biden Visit Agenda

Expanding joint action to counter Iran will top the agenda during US President Joe Biden's upcoming visit to Israel, Prime Minister Yair Lapid said Sunday, demanding sanctions against Tehran. The premier urged a "decisive" response to Tehran's nuclear ambitions, ahead of Biden's arrival in Jerusalem on Wednesday. The visit "will…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israeli PM says Iran will top Biden visit agenda

Jerusalem (AFP) - Expanding joint action to counter Iran will top the agenda during US President Joe Biden's upcoming visit to Israel, Prime Minister Yair Lapid said Sunday, demanding sanctions against Tehran.

AFP

Slain Al Jazeera reporter's kin ask to meet Biden on Mideast trip

Jerusalem (AFP) - The family of prominent Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, shot dead in the occupied West Bank, asked US President Joe Biden on Friday to meet during his visit next week.

AFP

Objectified, derided, demeaned: sexism is still rampant on stage in the era of #MeToo

From Jerusalem and Pretty Woman to a 70s Alan Bennett farce, unreconstructed attitudes and old-fashioned smut still permeate British theatre. And irony is not much of a defence

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Shtayyeh Demands Lapid Hands over ‘Villa Hanna Salameh’

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh demanded that Israeli Caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid to hand over Villa Hanna Salameh, a Palestinian house in Jerusalem whose owners were expelled during the 1948 Palestinian Nakba. Lapid was planning to live in the villa. At a weekly cabinet meeting held in Ramallah on…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israel says will examine bullet that killed reporter with US experts

Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel is to conduct a ballistics test on the bullet that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, the Israeli army said Sunday, a day after the Palestinian Authority handed the bullet to US experts.

AFP

Israel army says downed 3 Hezbollah drones headed to offshore gas field

Jerusalem (AFP) - The Israeli army said Saturday it had intercepted three drones launched by Hezbollah that were headed towards an offshore gas field in the Mediterranean, amid rising tension between Israel and Lebanon.

AFP

Yair Lapid's unlikely rise from TV star to Israeli prime minister

Jerusalem (AFP) - Some in Israel dismissed Yair Lapid as just another media star when the former news anchor, ad pitchman and soap actor launched his bid for political power a decade ago.

AFP

Israel's Bennett says won't run in next election as parliament set to dissolve

Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Wednesday he would not stand in upcoming elections, as parliament postponed a vote to dissolve itself and force the country's fifth vote in less than four years.

AFP

Israel's Bennett says won't run in next election, Lapid poised to be PM

Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Wednesday that he would not stand in upcoming elections, hours before parliament was set to dissolve, triggering the country's fifth vote in less than four years.

AFP

Ben & Jerry's to officially return to Israeli settlements after Unilever decision

Jerusalem (AFP) - Unilever announced Wednesday it has sold its Ben amp; Jerry's interests in Israel to a locally based licensee, clearing the way for renewed ice cream sales in West Bank settlements.

AFP

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The Independent UK

Ben & Jerry's Israel business sold; sales to resume

Unilever says it has reached a new business arrangement in Israel that will effectively end Ben & Jerry’s policy of not selling ice cream in annexed east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank

AFP

Israel heads towards snap election, Lapid poised to be PM

Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel's parliament is expected to dissolve Wednesday, ending Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's year-long tenure and triggering a fifth election in less than four years that could see ex-premier Benjamin Netanyahu reclaim power.

AFP

Israeli parliament passes vote to dissolve, hold new elections

Jerusalem (AFP) - Israeli lawmakers on Tuesday unanimously approved a bill to dissolve parliament, a key legislative step that pushes the country closer towards its fifth election in less than four years.

The National (Scotland)

Rodge Glass on growing up Jewish in Manchester and coming to Glasgow

ALASDAIR Gray once famously – or notoriously – referred to incomers to Scotland as “settlers” or “colonists” and his biographer,

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Israel's Bennett thanks cabinet with end of tenure looming

Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett hosted what was almost certainly his final cabinet meeting Sunday, commending his government as "short-lived with great achievements", ahead of parliament's expected dissolution this week.

Al Jazeera

Suriname backtracks on building Jerusalem embassy

The Latin American country had said it does not have the funds to build the controversial embassy.

The Independent UK

US envoy to Israel lives in a luxe rental, a Trump legacy

The U.S. envoy to Israel has moved into a new rental property in Jerusalem

AFP

Christian-born female rabbi shakes up Jewish Orthodoxy

Jerusalem (AFP) - A woman born in France to a Christian family was not an obvious candidate to become a trailblazing Orthodox rabbi in Israel, but 40-year-old former journalist Eliora Peretz has done just that.

Reuters

Suriname backtracks on Jerusalem embassy citing budget

Suriname's president said on Thursday the South American country did not have the funds to build an embassy in Israel, reversing an announcement made last month.

Asharq Al-Awsat

ICESCO Stresses Keenness to Preserve Jerusalem's Heritage, Identity

Director General of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), Dr.

AFP

Israel's 'change' government brought down by Palestinian conflict

Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel's unlikely coalition government, the first ever backed by an Arab party, was forged a year ago to oust right-wing premier Benjamin Netanyahu, but ultimately collapsed over the Palestinian conflict.

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