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University commencement season in New York City starts on Friday, in a climate that is anything but normal. At N.Y.U., dozens of graduate student workers are threatening to withhold grades if the university does not remove police officers from campus. Nemat Shafik, Columbia’s president, announced on Monday that the school was canceling its main commencement ceremony, largely for security reasons. will hold its large commencement ceremony at Yankee Stadium next Wednesday. The New School will hold its commencement at Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens next Friday.

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☆ Biden’s threat to halt weapons deliveries sparks anger and infighting among Israeli officials
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The comment from Biden to CNN is a major setback for Israel’s war. The US is by far Israel’s most important and most powerful ally, and without its support, Israel’s firepower and ambitions in Gaza would be weakened. Despite mounting international pressure, the Biden administration has stood firmly with Israel, delivering weapons and other forms of support. Biden comments have sparked significant anger among some Israeli politicians. Other top Israeli officials also criticized Ben Gvir.

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☆ The big push for AI, TikTok bans, and spaces for influencers of color: Here are 3 takeaways for creators from SXSW.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Shriya Bhattacharya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AI was very popular, but most panels failed to discuss the consThe harmful impacts of AI dominated the conversation among creators at SXSW. Related storiesIn a session titled "AI in Video: Revolutionizing or Replacing Creators," Vimeo product executive Zohar Dayan's presentation similarly focused on the technology's benefits. Talk of a TikTok ban? Employees and creators are 'bored' of itOutside SXSW, the conversation has picked up about a potential TikTok ban in the US , but there was radio silence about it in Austin among the TikTok employees and creators I met. "We're so bored of that topic, honestly," said two TikTok employees, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of concern about facing repercussions from their employer.

Persons: Cassey Ho, OpenAI's, Peter Deng, Deng, Zohar, Dan Whateley, they've, Kahlil Greene, he's, Jerry Won, Justin Nguyen, Mylen Yamamoto Tansingco, Sam Li, Sean Kim, Sam Yam, Austin Hilton, Tumi Brooks Organizations: Southwest, Delta Air Lines, Business, IBM, SXSW, Snapchat, Pershing House, Talent, Austin, Austin Hilton Hotel, Convention Locations: Austin, Australia, China, member's, TikTok, Netflix's, Singapore

☆ The Juggernaut promised to revolutionize South Asian news. But insiders say the company's founder misled investors, struggled to raise money, and left workers 'heartbroken.'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Katie Warren | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +33 min

They were gathered for the inaugural summit of The Juggernaut, a digital South Asian news startup that launched in 2019. The Juggernaut spokesperson told BI that "multiple employees have equity in the company," but BI was unable to identify any such employees. "Twenty years ago, you might've struggled to mention a South Asian actor that you've seen in a movie," he said. As of January, the site had about 10,500 subscribers, Sur told investors in an email viewed by BI. Some feel that the publication has strayed from its mission of delivering "untold, smart South Asian stories and news you won't find anywhere else."

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☆ Israel's Six-Week Drive to Hit Hamas in Rafah and Scale Back War
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Feb. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +10 min

Gaza's ruling group can keep fighting and is prepared for a long war in Rafah and Gaza, said the official, who requested anonymity. A senior regional security official said Israel believed some Hamas commanders and hostages were in Rafah. UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron also told lawmakers that Britain and its allies "will look at the issue of recognising a Palestinian state, including at the United Nations". Yet for Netanyahu and many other Israeli officials, talk of a two-state solution amounts to a betrayal of the people killed on Oct. 7. "I say clearly to anyone still stuck in October 6: We will never lend a hand to the creation of a Palestinian state," Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar said on social media last month.

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☆ The Elusive Challenge of De-Escalating Gifts
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Jason Gay | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Illustration: Zohar LazarLike a secret diplomat passing an envelope in neutral territory, I have carefully approached my family with a sensitive proposal: a Christmas gift de-escalation. This proposal has come up before, and it always gets met positively, even enthusiastically, only to crumble in a sea of wrapping paper at the negotiating table. Soon I am right back where I began, panicking in deep December, stuck in the maddening holiday arms race.

Persons: Lazar

☆ Hostage families put pressure on Israel's government
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Janis Laizans | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"We cannot wait any longer, so we are demand(ing) them to do that now, to pay any price to bring the hostages back." Many relatives and friends of the missing fear they will come to harm in Israeli attacks on Gaza designed to destroy Hamas. Also on the march was Adriana Adri, whose 85-year-old mother-in-law was among those taken by Hamas. "We are marching to Jerusalem to bring her back, to shout and to say that she must be here," Adri said. "We don't have time, we don't have one hour more, we don't know if she is alive."

Persons: Noam Alon, Yair Lapid, Benjamin Netanyahu, Miki Zohar, Ronen, Netanyahu's, Stevie Kerem, Adriana Adri, Adri, marcher, Meirav, Romi, Dan Williams, Crispian Balmer, Mike Harrison Organizations: Palestinian, Hamas, REUTERS, Qatari, Thomson Locations: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Gaza, Israel

☆ Israel's Government Faces Pressure as Hostage Families March on Jerusalem Seeking Answers
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Nov. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +3 min

"We cannot wait any longer, so we are demand(ing) them to do that now, to pay any price to bring the hostages back." Many relatives and friends of the missing fear they will come to harm in Israeli attacks on Gaza designed to destroy Hamas. The government says the offensive improves the chances of recovering hostages, perhaps via a mediated prisoner exchange. "We are marching to Jerusalem to bring her back, to shout and to say that she must be here," Adri said. "We don't have time, we don't have one hour more, we don't know if she is alive."

Persons: Janis Laizans JERUSALEM, Noam Alon, Yair Lapid, Benjamin Netanyahu, Miki Zohar, Netanyahu's, Stevie Kerem, Adriana Adri, Adri, marcher, Meirav, Romi, Dan Williams, Crispian Balmer, Mike Harrison Organizations: Qatari Locations: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Gaza, Israel

☆ Israel's Wix.com posts Q3 beat, says business as usual
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Steven Scheer | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The logo of website-designer firm Wix.com is seen at a high-tech park in Beersheba, southern Israel August 28, 2017. The Israeli company posted earnings of $1.10 per diluted share, excluding one-time items, compared with 6 cents per share a year earlier. Analysts expected Wix to earn 67 cents per share excluding one-time items on revenue of $383 million, LSEG data showed. The company projected fourth-quarter revenue of $400 million to $405 million, representing annual growth of as much as 14%. Citing an "outperformance in the first three quarters" Wix raised its 2023 revenue estimate to $1.558 billion to $1.563 billion - growth of 12-13% - from a range of $1.543 billion to $1.558 billion.

Persons: Wix.com, Amir Cohen, Wix, Nir Zohar, Zohar, Lior Shemesh, Steven Scheer, Jason Neely, David Evans Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Hamas, Revenue, Nasdaq, Thomson Locations: Beersheba, Israel, Gaza

☆ Hunted by Hamas: reconstructing the attack on Israel’s Kibbutz Be’eri
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

Rescue missionIt was around 4 p.m. when Menachem Klemenson got a four-word WhatsApp message from his brother Elhanan: “Packing, going down south,” it read. As the Klemensons and their nephew drove around extracting families, kibbutz residents jumped out of their hiding places. I am a father.”In the girl’s case, as with the bodies of other kibbutz residents the trio found, they did not know their identities, nor was Reuters able to identify them. “Either you leave the dog or I shoot it,” Menachem recalls his brother Elhanan saying. Politicians and the military had violated a fundamental compact with the residents of Be’eri, said kibbutz secretary Pauker.

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After the violent struggle with his attacker, Kunwong was left for dead, heavily bleeding from the wound in his throat. He was eventually found and cared for by other migrant workers. ‘Business as usual’ for Thai workers, aid groups sayThe Thai government has called for the release of all remaining citizens being held in Gaza. So far at least 33 Thai nationals have been killed, according to figures shared by Thai authorities with CNN – with 18 Thai nationals still being held hostage as of October 26. Families told CNN that, despite the conflict in Israel, Thai migrant workers were under pressure to honor contracts specifying minimum five years of labor – a heavy price to pay to support their families back home.

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☆ The deadly Hamas rampage across southern Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( David Clarke | Sophie Meyer | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +11 min

The deadly Hamas rampage across southern IsraelUnder a barrage of rockets, hundreds of Hamas gunmen stormed into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Oct. 7, on motorbikes, paragliders and four-wheel drives, unleashing death, destruction and despair on nearby towns and villages. Major Hamas attacks Map showing location of five communities in southern Israel attacked by Hamas gunmen – from north to south, Ashkelon, Sderot, Kfar Aza, Be’eri and Re’im, the site of the Nova music festival. Video footage shows Hamas gunmen manhandling Be’eri residents and pulling them along. What the video shows Hamas fighters pulling people along the street at gunpoint, several with their hands bound. What the video shows Israeli police inspect rocket damage to a civilian building in Ashkelon on Oct. 7, 2023.

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“We have no evidence or proof” that Iran was behind the attack, Maj. Nir Dinar, a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces, told Politico on Monday. More recently, Tehran has stepped up the training assistance it provides Hamas inside Iran, according to a former Western defense official. Hamas received Iranian weapons and military technology, and learned from the Iranians about planning operations. “Everything we have seen in the last four days, we can’t say it’s an Iranian plan or an Iranian effort,” Milshtein said. “It’s a Hamas plan that got Iranian help.”Searching for a motivationUS intelligence officials are also working to understand Hamas’ immediate motivation for launching the attack.

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☆ Abandoned cars underline panic at Israeli music festival where Hamas gunmen killed hundreds
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

JERUSALEM, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Hundreds of cars abandoned in the scramble to flee a massacre at an Israeli music festival where Hamas gunmen killed 260 people and took captives back into Gaza underline the scale of the deadliest attack on Israel in decades. Video footage circulating on social media shows the gunmen descending in paragliders on the gathering in the Negev Desert. Israeli emergency services said 260 bodies had been recovered from the site of the festival. Other social media footage shows some of those taken captive from the party being led away by jubilant gunmen. "I live on the Gaza border and I've seen things in my life, but I've never felt it this close," Maariv said.

Persons: Arik Nani, Maariv, I've, James Mackenzie, Mark Heinrich Our Organizations: Hamas, Reuters, Nature Party, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Israel, Kibbutz Re'im, paragliders

☆ I’m the Hottest Man Alive
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Jason Gay | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Illustration: Zohar LazarI recently read an item about a presidential candidate who reportedly likes his campaign office to be chilled to 64°, a temperature that irks his numb, fleece-seeking staffers. To be fair, he was not the first candidate I’d read about making such a request. Last election, there was a report of a would-be president who wanted his hotel thermostat dropped to a near-arctic 60°.

Persons: Zohar Lazar, I’d

☆ A Survival Guide For Sad New York Yankee Fans
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Jason Gay | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Illustration: Zohar LazarThe New York Yankees are not a good baseball team this year. They have yet to be mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, but they currently rest on the ocean floor of the American League East, like a wreck, full of eels. Wednesday’s win over Washington snapped a streak of nine straight defeats, their worst losing streak since Reagan’s first term. They went right back to losing on Thursday. Depending on how you feel about the Yankees, this news is either terribly sad or quite funny.

Persons: Zohar Lazar The Organizations: Zohar Lazar The New York Yankees, American League East, Washington, Yankees

☆ Website creator Wix.com raises 2023 estimates after large Q2 beat
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Steven Scheer | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The Israeli company said on Thursday it had earned $1.38 per share excluding one-time items in the April to June period, compared with a loss of 14 cents per share a year earlier. Wix was forecast to earn 60 cents excluding one-time items on revenue of $383 million, according to Refinitiv I/B/E/S data. Wix projected third-quarter revenue of $386 million to $391 million, representing annual growth of up to 13%. It also raised its full-year 2023 revenue estimate to $1.543 billion to $1.558 billion - 11-12% growth - from $1.522 billion to $1.543 billion. "We're proud of being an Israeli company," he said.

Persons: Refinitiv, Lior Shemesh, Wix, Shemesh, Nir Zohar, Zohar, Steven Scheer, Jane Merriman, Jan Harvey Organizations: Revenue, Nasdaq, Thomson Locations: Israel, Delaware, Israeli

☆ Israeli military threatens arrest of reservists in judicial protest
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

JERUSALEM, July 20 (Reuters) - The Israeli military may arrest reservists who have pledged not to report for duty as part of protests at the government's judicial overhaul plans, Army Radio reported on Thursday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded a crackdown. But Army Radio, a popular Israeli broadcaster managed by the Defence Ministry, said "a few hundred" reservists had announced they would refuse call-ups. Most of these are from the air force, Army Radio said. Sanctions being considered include arrest, suspension and dismissal, Army Radio said - but noted that, because air force reservists are designated as volunteers, they may be treated differently to reservists whose call-ups are obligatory. According to military data published by Globes newspaper in March, 4% of Israelis aged 22 to 45 are called up as reservists.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Miki Zohar, Zohar, Netanyahu, Dan Williams, William Maclean Organizations: Army Radio, Israel Defence Forces, Twitter, Army, Defence Ministry, Protesters, Globes, Thomson Locations: Israeli

☆ Israeli minister says protests may affect judicial overhaul drive
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] People demonstrate on the 'Day of National Resistance' in protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his nationalist coalition government's judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, Israel July 18, 2023. REUTERS/Nir EliasJERUSALEM, July 19 (Reuters) - The Israeli government could rethink its polarising drive to overhaul the judiciary if there is a major escalation in protests, a cabinet minister said on Wednesday, in a signal of pliability as Washington tries to close ranks with its ally. Netanyahu confidant Culture Minister Miki Zohar offered rare acknowledgement of the impact of six-month-old demonstrations, which surged in March after the premier fired Israel's defence minister for openly voicing worry at the impact on the military. He declared those fruitless last month, and revived the bill limiting Supreme Court powers to void some government decisions. Proponents of the change pursued by Netanyahu's religious-nationalist coalition say the Supreme Court has become too interventionist and that the change will facilitate effective governance.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Nir Elias JERUSALEM, Joe Biden, Tzachi Hanegbi, Netanyahu, Miki Zohar, Yoav Gallant's, Zohar, Kan, Israel Hayom, Ari Rabinovitch, Alexandra Hudson Organizations: of, Israeli, REUTERS, Washington, U.S, National Security, Netanyahu's, Ben Gurion, Israel, Defence Ministry, Alexandra Hudson Our, Thomson Locations: Tel Aviv, Israel

☆ What is a Childhood Without ‘Indiana Jones’?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Jason Gay | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Illustration: Zohar LazarIt was movie night at home, just the other weekend, when my son made an unsolicited announcement:He would no longer watch any movie made before 2006.

☆ How Can My Son Not Want to Watch Indiana Jones?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Jason Gay | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Illustration: Zohar LazarIt was movie night at home, just the other weekend, when my son made an unsolicited announcement:He would no longer watch any movie made before 2006.

☆ The Joy of a Totally Empty Brain
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Jason Gay | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Illustration: Zohar LazarTo write this humor column, I had to empty my brain. I mean empty it even more than its usual echoing, empty state. Let me explain. Modern life has clogged my skull to the limit. Technology has delivered an avalanche of options to preoccupy me at any hour; the notion of idle time that can’t be filled with some form of digital distraction is foreign to me, almost unnerving.

☆ Israelis rally in three cities against Netanyahu legal reforms
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-14 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/6] Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new right-wing coalition and its proposed judicial reforms to reduce powers of the Supreme Court in a main square in Tel Aviv, Israel January 14, 2023. Among those opposed are the Supreme Court chief justice and the country's attorney-general. Channel 13 TV last week found 53% of Israelis were opposed to changing the court appointments' structure while 35% were in support. Critics of the Supreme Court say it is overreaching and unrepresentative of the electorate. "We promised the people change, we promised governance, we promised reforms - and we will make good on that."

☆ Israeli far-right's demand for defence post hinders Netanyahu's coalition bid
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Maayan Lubell | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

JERUSALEM, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu's efforts to swiftly form a government faltered on Sunday as a prospective far-right coalition partner demanded the cabinet role of defence minister. But fissures have emerged between Likud and the powerful Religious Zionism party whose hard-line settler leaders oppose Palestinian statehood and want the occupied West Bank annexed - views in direct opposition to successive U.S. administrations. I hope this will be worked out soon," Likud lawmaker Miki Zohar told Kan radio, adding that defence was "the most important portfolio" for Likud. Even the finance role would present problems for Netanyahu, who had said before the election that Likud would keep the big three portfolios: defence, finance and foreign affairs. Whichever portfolio Religious Zionism lands, the incoming government looks to be the most right-wing in Israel's history, forcing Netanyahu into a diplomatic balancing act between his coalition and Western allies.

☆ NASA's Artemis I moon rocket is flying through space for the first time. Meet the mannequins, Snoopy, and 'Shaun the Sheep' dolls along for the ride.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Mannequins and mementos are hitching a ride aboard NASA's Orion capsule — without people. Fitted with more than 5600 sensors, Zohar and Helga will measure the amount of radiation astronauts could be exposed to in future missions. "When it comes to biological effects, different organs have different susceptibility to space radiation. Shaun, of British TV show "Shaun the Sheep" fame, is flying aboard the Artemis I mission in plush doll form. Snoopy will ride in the Orion capsule and serve as a zero gravity indicator.

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