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TEL AVIV — The Israeli government failed in its “primary duty to protect its citizens” in the lead-up to and during the Oct. 7, terrorist attacks, according to an Israeli civilian report released Tuesday. Some 1,200 people were killed and 250 taken hostage during the attacks as Hamas fighters infiltrated Israel from southern Gaza and launched thousands of rockets. The Israeli report also identified a "major cause" of the Oct. 7 tragedy as a "glaring failure" by Israeli intelligence branches. It specifically pointed to Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security agency, and military intelligence for their inability to provide timely warnings or act on those that were issued. Israeli soldiers near houses that were destroyed during a Hamas attack on the kibbutz in Be'eri, Israel.

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Here are nine key senators to watch in the nomination battles. The incoming majority leader is nobody’s idea of an ultra-MAGA Republican, but he understands his assignment: advance the Trump agenda. Does he choose to be a heat shield for members who quietly want to buck Trump without doing so publicly? The answers will set the tone for a long-awaited new era facing the Senate GOP. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.McConnell is the ultimate free agent as he relinquishes the job of Senate Republican leader after a record 18 years.

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Chabad’s website says he was abducted from Dubai – one of the seven emirates that make up the UAE. Relations between the UAE and Israel have thawed in recent years. In 2020, the UAE became the most prominent Arab nation in decades to open relations with Israel, under the US-brokered agreement known as the Abraham Accords. But Reuters says the public presence of Israelis and Jews has receded since the October 7 attacks. Jewish community members told the agency that informal synagogues in Dubai were closed in the wake of the attacks due to security concerns.

Persons: ” Zvi Kogan, Chabad’s, Israel, ”, Abraham Organizations: United Arab Emirates, Dubai –, CNN, UAE, Abraham Accords, Reuters Locations: Israel, Dubai, UAE, Israeli, Gulf

☆ CNBC Daily Open: Investors endorse Trump’s Treasury secretary pick
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Yeo Boon Ping | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. In contrast to Wall Street, Asia-Pacific markets mostly fell on Tuesday. Wall Street likes BessentScott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for U.S. Treasury secretary, has got a big thumbs up from the stock as well as bond markets. Wall Street strategists heaped praise on Bessent; global analysts also think Trump's pick is favorable for markets. Investors are in a risk-on mood because of Bessent's perceived friendliness to Wall Street and reports of Israel and Hezbollah moving closer to a cease-fire.

Persons: Scott Bessent, Bessent Scott Bessent, Donald Trump's, Trump Organizations: Key, CNBC, Japan's Nikkei, U.S, Treasury, Wall, Trump, buybacks Companies, Barclays Locations: Washington ,, Street, Asia, Pacific, Hong Kong, Mexico, Canada, Israel

CNN —The Israeli security cabinet on Tuesday voted to approve a ceasefire deal in Lebanon, an Israeli official told CNN, potentially bringing an end to more than a year of cross-border skirmishes with Hezbollah and months of a full-scale war that has killed thousands. Resolution 1701 was adopted to end a 34-day war between Israel and Lebanon in 2006, and had kept relative calm in the area for nearly two decades. At least 10 people were killed in the strikes on central Beirut, the Lebanese Health Ministry said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a televised address Tuesday evening. In his address, Netanyahu stressed that Israel will respond “forcefully” if Hezbollah violates the agreement and attempts to rearm.

Persons: Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, ” Netanyahu, Itamar Ben Gvir, ”, Ben Gvir, Avihay Shtern, Shmona –, “, Shmona ”, ” Shtern, Netanyahu Organizations: CNN, UN, Lebanese, Lebanese Health Ministry, US State Department, National Locations: Lebanon, Israel, Beirut, –, Gaza, Israel’s

☆ Why an 18-year-old UN resolution is critical to ending the Lebanon-Israel war
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Nadeen Ebrahim | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —With a Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire on the horizon, an 18-year-old United Nations resolution has resurfaced as a blueprint for ending the war. The 60-day cessation of hostilities aims to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1701, with the hope that it could form the basis of a lasting truce. Resolution 1701 was adopted to end a 34-day war between Israel and Lebanon in 2006, and had kept relative calm in the area for nearly two decades. Here’s what we know about the resolution and why it is critical to a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. In 2000, the UN established the so-called Blue Line, a “line of withdrawal” for Israeli forces from Lebanon.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu’s, Israel, United States –, State Condoleezza Rice, Cesar Mayoral, Stephen Chernin, “, ”, Rabih Daher, Chris McGrath, Bezalel Smotrich, Najib Mikati, Nabih Berri, Amal, Matthew Miller Organizations: CNN, Nations, UN, Lebanese, United, UN Interim Force, State, UNIFIL, Hamas, Getty Locations: Israel, Lebanon, United States, Beirut, Palestinian, Iran, Syria, ”, New York City, Gaza, Lebanese, Marjeyoun, AFP, Aadaysit, Kafarkila

☆ Independent Inquiry Blames Israeli Leaders for Oct. 7 Failures
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Johnatan Reiss | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For more than a year, the Israeli government has avoided holding itself to account for its failure to prevent the deadliest event in Israel’s history: the Hamas-led raid on Oct. 7, 2023. An independent commission, founded by survivors of the raid and relatives of Israelis who were killed and kidnapped, tried to fill that void on Tuesday, releasing a scathing report that blamed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top military commanders for years of faulty decisions that made Israel more vulnerable to invasion. Based on three months of interviews and public hearings, the commission’s 90-page report criticized the government’s decision to funnel money to Hamas, which allowed the group to entrench itself in the Gaza Strip in the decade before the attack. The commission, formally known as the Civil Commission of Inquiry of the Oct. 7 Disaster, condemned Mr. Netanyahu for sidelining high-level decision-making forums that might have stirred greater internal debate about the wisdom of such a policy.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr, Netanyahu Organizations: Civil Commission, sidelining Locations: Israel, Gaza

☆ Israeli Ministers Plan to Vote on Truce With Hezbollah
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Patrick Kingsley | More About Patrick Kingsley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel was expected to meet on Tuesday afternoon with senior cabinet ministers to decide whether to approve a cease-fire with Hezbollah, potentially setting the stage for an end to Israel’s 13-month war with the Lebanese militia. The proposal, mediated by American and French diplomats, would start a 60-day process during which both sides would stop fighting and withdraw from southern Lebanon. Israeli forces would return south of the Israel-Lebanon border, while Hezbollah would retreat north of the Litani River, allowing the Lebanese Army — which is not a party to the Israel-Hezbollah conflict — to fill the vacuum. But many questions about the proposal remain unanswered, including how the Lebanese Army would exert authority over the powerful militia. Israel has sought guarantees from the United States that it would have U.S. support to send troops back into southern Lebanon if Hezbollah violated the arrangement.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel Organizations: Lebanese Army Locations: Tel Aviv, Lebanon, Israel, United States

☆ Gold plunges 3% as Trump Treasury pick and potential Israel-Hezbollah truce fuel risk-on mood
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Lee Ying Shan | In Ying-Shan-Lee | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Gold prices lost about 3% after President-elect Donald Trump picked Scott Bessent as his Treasury secretary, with reports of Israel and Hezbollah nearing a ceasefire deal also eroding the safe-haven metal's appeal. A potential Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire agreement and Bessent's appointment were the key contributors to the bullion selloff amid a risk-on sentiment, Shiels added. Higher interest rates tend to erode the appeal of non-interest bearing gold compared to Treasuries — a competing safe-haven asset. Gold prices fell to a two-month low right after Trump's victory before rebounding to the $2,700 levels. Similar to when the Middle East conflict first broke out, gold prices tend to react very sharply initially before correcting over time as economic factors come back into focus, Eckford added, maintaining that gold prices were still set to advance toward $3,000 in 2025.

Persons: Jerome Powell, Donald Trump, Scott Bessent, Nicky Shiels, Danny Danon, Israel, John Kirby, it's, Bessent, Daniel Ghali, Shiels, Ghali, Donald Trump's, Trump, Robert Eckford, Rua Gold, Eckford Organizations: Federal, New York Mercantile, MKS, House, Key, Shanghai Gold Exchange, Federal Reserve, CNBC Locations: Israel, Key U.S, Canada, Mexico, Russian, Ukraine

☆ West Bank: Palestinians fear more evictions under Trump presidency
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-25 | by ( Nic Robertson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Where the high hills of the occupied West Bank tumble into the Jordan valley, half a dozen heavy Israeli diggers pound the ancient rocks around the Palestinian village of Bardala. Such evictions are common in the West Bank, according to the United Nations. During a visit to Israel in 2017, the former governor of Arkansas told reporters: “There is no such thing as a West Bank. The eviction notice Israeli officials handed to a Palestinian farmer near the village of Bardala in the occupied West Bank, ordering him to leave his land. The hard reality in Bardala, as elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, is that even before Trump’s approaching inauguration, the Palestinian state had become a distant dream.

Persons: Khalid Sawafta, –, Benjamin Netanyahu’s, Donald Trump’s, Mike Huckabee, ”, Nic Robertson, CNN “, Yishai Fleisher, Huckabee, Mike, ” Fleisher, David Friedman, Friedman, Fleisher, “ David Friedman, He’s, Alon Pinkas –, Shimon Peres, Trump, ” Donald Trump’s, Pinkas, Biden, “ He’s, ” Pinkas, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Israel, Mohammad Shtayyeh, it’s, Huckabee who’ll, Shtayyeh, Belazel Smotrich, God’s, Ibrahim Sawafta, Wadi Salman, Ibrahim, they’d, Khalid, “ Organizations: CNN, Bank, Israel Defense Forces, West Bank, United Nations, Jewish, Gali Tibbon, Getty, Abraham Accords, United Arab, Saudi, Former Palestinian Authority Locations: Jordan, Bardala, Israel, Arkansas, Judea, Samaria, Palestinian, Jerusalem, Israeli, Beit El, Ramallah, Gali, AFP, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, Gaza, Saudi Crown, Saudi Arabia, Wadi

☆ UAE Arrests 3 in Connection With Murder of Israeli Rabbi
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-25 | by ( Ismaeel Naar | More About Ismaeel Naar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The United Arab Emirates on Monday announced the arrests of three Uzbek nationals in connection with the kidnapping and murder of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi, an attack that raised alarm over the safety of the small Jewish community in the country. A statement from the U.A.E.’s interior ministry named the suspects in the abduction and death of Zvi Kogan as Olimboy Tohirovich, Makhmudjon Abdurakhim, both 28, and Azizbek Kamilovich, 33. and included photos of them blindfolded and handcuffed. Emirati authorities said they were still working to uncover the circumstances and motives of the crime. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the murder “an abhorrent antisemitic terrorist attack.”Image Zvi Kogan, an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi whose body was found on Sunday, was part of the small Jewish community in the United Arab Emirates. Israeli news outlets have reported that his car was found abandoned in Al Ain, a city in the adjacent emirate of Abu Dhabi, on the border with Oman.

Persons: Zvi Kogan, Olimboy, Makhmudjon Abdurakhim, Azizbek Kamilovich, Benjamin Netanyahu, Rabbi Kogan Organizations: United, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Moldovan, Credit, UGC Locations: United Arab, Israeli, Dubai, Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, Oman

☆ Haaretz: Israeli cabinet sanctions country’s oldest newspaper over critical coverage, publisher’s comments
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-25 | by ( Lucas Lilieholm | Eugenia Yosef | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Israel’s cabinet unanimously voted to sanction the nation’s oldest newspaper, Haaretz, on Sunday citing its critical coverage of the war following the October 7 Hamas attacks and comments by the outlet’s publisher calling for sanctions on senior government officials. The proposal, put forward by communications minister Shlomo Kar’i, will end government advertising in the newspaper and cancel all subscriptions for state employees and employees of state-owned companies. It dismisses the costs of both sides for defending the settlements while fighting the Palestinian freedom fighters that Israel calls terrorists,” he reportedly said. Following widespread criticism of the comments in Israel, Schocken clarified his comments saying that he did not believe Hamas militants were freedom fighters. Haaretz slammed the move in a statement on Sunday, calling it “another step in Netanyahu’s journey to dismantle Israeli democracy.”“Like his friends Putin, Erdoğan, and Orbán, Netanyahu is trying to silence a critical, independent newspaper,” the statement said.

Persons: CNN — Israel’s, Shlomo Kar’i, Kar’i, “, ” Amos Schocken, Netanyahu, ”, Schocken, Putin, Orbán, Al, CPJ Organizations: CNN, Israel Defense Forces, Haaretz, West Bank, ”, Israel, United Nations, Protect Journalists Locations: Gaza, Lebanon, State, Israel, London, Palestinian, ”, of Israel, Ramallah

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has indicated he is open to a cease-fire in the yearlong conflict with Hezbollah, as U.S. officials pressured him to finalize a deal before Thanksgiving, according to two Israeli officials briefed on his thinking. Mr. Netanyahu was scheduled to meet with his cabinet on Tuesday to discuss a proposed deal to end the war in Lebanon, two other Israeli officials said. Mediators have made significant progress toward a cease-fire over the past week, but a key sticking point has been Mr. Netanyahu’s insistence on securing some assurance that Israel could restart the fighting if Hezbollah broke the truce, Israeli officials said. But negotiations have been starting and stopping for weeks, and the two sides may not come to terms. All of the officials who described his thinking spoke on the condition of anonymity, in order to discuss the sensitive, private negotiations.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Netanyahu, Netanyahu’s Organizations: Hezbollah Locations: Lebanon, Israel

☆ Nan Goldin Challenges Germany on What Artists Can Say About Israel
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-25 | by ( Alex Marshall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The artist and activist Nan Goldin makes no secret of her views about Israel and the wars in Gaza and Lebanon. She has signed high-profile protest letters calling Israel’s actions in Gaza “a genocide.” She has marched with pro-Palestinian protesters and was arrested at a demonstration in New York. In a magazine interview last year, she said she had “been on a cultural boycott of Israel for my whole life.”So a major exhibition of Goldin’s photo slide shows and films that opened over the weekend at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin seemed like a high-profile anomaly in Germany, where lawmakers have said that support for boycotting Israel is antisemitic, and where artists who have taken positions like Goldin’s have had museum shows canceled, prizes suspended and talks shut down.

Persons: Nan Goldin Organizations: Neue, Israel Locations: Israel, Gaza, Lebanon, New York, Berlin, Germany

☆ Gunman shot dead, 3 police injured in shooting near Israeli embassy in Jordan
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-24 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

AMMAN, Jordan — A gunman was dead and three policemen injured after a shooting near the Israeli embassy in neighbouring Jordan, a security source and state media said on Sunday. Police shot a gunman who had fired at a police patrol in the Rabiah neighbourhood of Amman, state news agency Petra reported, citing public security, adding investigations were ongoing. Jordan’s government communications minister, Mohamed Momani, described the shooting as a terror attack that targeted public security forces in the country. Jordanian police had earlier cordoned off an area near the heavily policed embassy after gunshots were heard, witnesses said. Police had called on residents to stay in their homes as security personnel searched for the culprits, a security source said.

Persons: Jordan —, Petra, Mohamed Momani Organizations: Sunday . Police, Israel, Police Locations: AMMAN, Jordan, Rabiah, Amman, Israel, Gaza

The Israeli soldiers grabbed his arms on each side, Nasir Damaj recalled, marching him through the streets to the blown-out shell of a mosque. A shaft led to an old underground cave. As they ordered him to climb down, Mr. Damaj said he realized why: He was being used as a human shield. “They wanted me to scout what was downstairs, to protect them,” Mr. Damaj said. It’s expensive.”

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☆ Israel announces that West Bank settlers no longer face detention without trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-23 | by ( Freddie Clayton | Freddie Clayton Is A Freelance Journalist Based In London. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Israel’s new defense minister has said security forces would no longer apply administrative detention orders to Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, and thus only Palestinian suspects can be held indefinitely without trial. Israel Katz, a long-time ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was appointed defense minister earlier in November and announced the decision on Friday. In 2019, Trump abandoned the long-held U.S. position that West Bank settlements are illegal before it was restored by President Joe Biden. Settler immunity from administrative detention coincides with heightened rhetoric from Israeli ministers calling for the West Bank to be annexed. The U.N. said four Palestinian children have been killed every week in the West Bank on average since the current conflict began, a three-fold increase from the first nine months of 2023.

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☆ Hezbollah Said to Be Using Copy of Israeli Missile Against Israel
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-23 | by ( Lara Jakes | Ronen Bergman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has been using an advanced missile against Israel that was reverse-engineered from an Israeli weapon it captured in a past war, according to Israeli defense officials. Hezbollah fighters are believed to have seized the original Israeli Spike anti-tank missiles during the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah war in Lebanon and shipped them to their main state backer, Iran, for cloning, Israeli and Western defense officials and weapons experts say. Eighteen years later, Hezbollah is firing the rebranded Almas missiles at Israeli military bases, communication systems and air-defense launchers with enough precision and power to pose a significant challenge for Israeli military forces. The missiles have a range of up to 10 miles and carry advanced guidance seekers to track and lock onto targets. That Iran and its proxy forces have cloned weapons systems to use against the very adversaries who designed them is not new.

Organizations: Hezbollah Locations: Lebanese, Israel, Lebanon, Iran

In a joint statement Sunday, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Kogan’s body had been located by UAE authorities. “The murder of Tzvi [Zvi] Kogan, of blessed memory, is a heinous antisemitic terrorist act. The State of Israel will use all means at its disposal to bring the perpetrators of this crime to justice,” the statement said. Kogan worked alongside other Chabad emissaries to establish and expand Judaism in the UAE. Relations between the UAE and Israel thawed in recent years.

Persons: ” Zvi Kogan, Tzvi, Zvi, Kogan, Israel Katz, “, Zvi Kogan, Rivky, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, Israel thawed, Abraham Organizations: CNN, United Arab, Moldovan, Prime, Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UAE, Israel’s Defence, Abraham Accords, Reuters Locations: United Arab Emirates, Dubai, State, Israel, UAE, Mumbai, Gulf

☆ At least 11 killed after Israeli strike flattens building in central Beirut, Civil Defense says
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-23 | by ( Mohammed Tawfeeq | Charbel Mallo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —At least 11 people have been killed and several others injured after an Israeli strike flattened a multi-story residential building in central Beirut overnight, Lebanese officials said. At least 23 other people were injured in the strike, according to a toll provided by Lebanon’s Civil Defense. Saturday’s attack marks the latest in a string of Israeli strikes on central Beirut in recent weeks, following the killing of a Hezbollah spokesperson in an airstrike last Sunday. Most Israeli airstrikes have targeted the Lebanese militant group’s stronghold in Beirut’s southern suburbs since hostilities ramped up early last month. On Friday, the director general of Dar Al Amal University Hospital near Baalbek in eastern Lebanon was killed along with six of his colleagues in an alleged Israeli strike, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.

Persons: Dar Organizations: CNN, National News Agency, Lebanon’s Civil Defense, Israel Defense Forces, Dar Al Amal University, Health Ministry Locations: Beirut, Lebanon, Beirut’s, Baalbek

An Israeli airstrike on a residential building in central Beirut killed at least 11 people on Saturday, the Lebanese Health Ministry said, part of an intensifying Israeli military campaign that appears aimed at pressuring Hezbollah into a cease-fire deal. The strike was an attempt to assassinate a top Hezbollah military commander, Mohammad Haidar, according to three Israeli defense officials who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive military operations. Hezbollah officials on Saturday afternoon said that none of the group’s leaders were at the site of the airstrike, and later in the day, one of the Israeli officials said Mr. Haidar was not killed. The strike came just after 4 a.m., jolting Beirut residents awake with thundering explosions that left much of the city enveloped in acrid smoke. It was the third strike this week in central Beirut, an area that had largely been spared since the war between Hezbollah and Israel escalated.

Persons: Mohammad Haidar, Mr, Haidar, Firass Abiad Organizations: Lebanese Health Ministry, Health Ministry Locations: Beirut, Lebanon, Israel, Basta

Under the Rome statute that created the ICC, its signatories are obliged to carry out arrest warrants, no matter the rank of the accused. Mohammed Deif was accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including for his role as a mastermind of Oct. 7. Some European countries have not said whether they would arrest Netanyahu if he visited, including a number of Israeli allies. Britain respects the independence of the ICC, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s spokesperson said, but did not say whether Britain would arrest Netanyahu. Netanyahu and the other two Israelis facing the arrest warrants join a group that includes Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has been subject to an ICC arrest warrant over alleged war crimes in Ukraine since last year.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, —, Yoav Gallant, Mohammed Deif —, Netanyahu, Viktor Orbán, Hungary, ”, Joe Biden’s, “, Gallant, Mohammed Deif, Keir Starmer’s, Petr Fiala, Alexander Schallenberg, Omar Al, Israel, Pope Francis, Vladimir Putin Organizations: Israeli, U.S, Criminal Court, Government Press, AFP, Getty, ICC, World Health Organization, Austrian, International Court of Justice Locations: Gaza, Ireland, Netherlands, Hungary, U.S, Tel Aviv, The Hague, Rome, Israel, Britain, France, Paris, Sweden, Norway, Czech, Austrian, Gaza City, AFP, South Africa, Ukraine

☆ Hungary's Orban breaks with neighbors to dismiss ICC's arrest warrant for Netanyahu
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-22 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban said Friday he would invite Benjamin Netanyahu to visit his country and that he would guarantee that an International Criminal Court arrest warrant against the Israeli prime minister would "not be observed." Ireland's prime minister Simon Harris said Friday that his country would be prepared to arrest the Israeli prime minister if he came to the country. The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The ICC issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Netanyahu and his former defense chief Yoav Gallant, as well as Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif, for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza conflict. Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Viktor Orban at the parliament in Budapest, Hungary, on July 18, 2017.

Persons: Viktor Orban, Benjamin Netanyahu, Simon Harris, Yoav Gallant, ” Harris, Netanyahu, Harris, Mohammed Deif, Orban, Israel’s, ” Orban, Karoly Arvai, Josep Borrell, Petr Fiala, ” Organizations: Israeli, Getty, RTE, International Law, ICC, Fidesz, Czech Foreign Ministry Locations: Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Rome, Gaza, Hungary, “, Budapest, Czech Republic, Czech, Prague

☆ Israelis unite behind their prime minister as Netanyahu faces an international arrest warrant
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-22 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —A decision by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for Israeli officials was met with anger and annoyance at Jerusalem’s bustling Mahane Yehuda Market. Gil Siegal, a legal scholar at the Ono Academic College in Israel, said The Hague-based court’s decision has united Israelis. Most Israelis still support the war in Gaza, he said, seeing it as a just fight and the only means to keep their country safe. The ICC “is saying that Gallant and Netanyahu are equal to Mohammed Deif… this is something that Israelis truly cannot comprehend, truly, truly cannot comprehend,” Siegal said. “Israel’s war machine does not only destroy Gaza but also hurts Israelis – in body and in spirit,” he told CNN.

Persons: ” Sarita Katzin Sarfati, Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, “ Netanyahu, Bibi, ” Sarita, Netanyahu, Netanel Yehuda, “, ”, Gil Siegal, Netanyahu –, Gallant, Mohammed Al, Masri, Mohammed Deif, Israel, ” Siegal, Yael Vias Gvirsman, Deif, Dreyfus, Alfred Dreyfus, Yair Lapid, Shurat HaDin, Behar Organizations: CNN, International, Court, Putin, Ono Academic College, ICC, Hamas, Israel Defense Forces, West Bank Locations: Mahane, Gaza, Israel, Hague, Tel Aviv, The Hague, Israeli

☆ Israel Rallies Around Netanyahu Over I.C.C. Warrant, for Now
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-22 | by ( Isabel Kershner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The more Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is cast as an international pariah, the more many Israelis appear to embrace him. The arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court on Thursday for Mr. Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant, on accusations of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip spurred a wave of outrage and condemnation across Israel’s political spectrum. “It is embarrassing to see Netanyahu and Gallant in the same place as Muammar el-Qaddafi, Slobodan Milosevic, Ratko Mladic and several African dictators,” wrote Sima Kadmon, a political columnist and longtime Netanyahu critic, in the Friday editions of the popular Yediot Ahronot newspaper. Still, she added, “the allegations of anti-Israel-ism are understandable. Perhaps even antisemitism.”Despite deep domestic polarization, analysts said, most Israelis were likely to rally around Mr. Netanyahu’s repudiation of the court’s decision, which he denounced as “antisemitic" for “falsely accusing” the democratically elected prime minister of Israel.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, Gallant, Muammar el, Slobodan Milosevic, Ratko Mladic, ”, Sima Kadmon, “ Organizations: International, Mr Locations: Gaza, Israel

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