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☆ China calls for Gaza peace conference; Hamas to disclose fate of Israeli hostages
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

China called for a large-scale and authoritative peace conference on the war in Gaza, while the militant group Hamas aired video of three Israeli hostages and said their fate would be disclosed on Monday. Hamas aired video on Sunday showing three Israeli hostages it is holding in Gaza and urged the Israeli government to stop the offensive against the Palestinian Islamist group and bring about their release. Of some 240 people seized by Hamas in a cross-border killing spree that sparked the war, around half were released in a November truce. Israel says 132 remain in Gaza and that 25 of them have died in captivity. The Gaza health ministry has said almost 24,000 people have been killed in the Israeli offensive that followed with more than 60,000 wounded.

Persons: Wang Yi, Noa Argamani, Yossi Sharabi, Itai Svirsky Organizations: Hamas Locations: Egypt, Israel, China, Gaza, Palestinian, U.S, Yemen

☆ Israel-Hamas War Israel and Hamas Say Cease-Fire Has Been Extended
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Ben Hubbard | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

Hostages and Missing Families, via ReutersRaz Ben-Ami was kidnapped by Hamas from the Be’eri kibbutz on Oct. 7. Her brother Lior, 16, who was hiding with her, was murdered, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. His uncle, Dror Or, and his cousins, Noam, 17, and Alma, 13, were taken hostage at the same time. Hostages and Missing Families Forum Headquarters, via Associated PressIrena Tati, a physician, and her daughter, Yelena Trupanob, immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union and are dual Israeli-Russian citizens, according to the hostages and missing families forum. Yelena’s son Sasha, 28, and his girlfriend, Sapir Cohen, 29, were also taken hostage and are still being held in Gaza.

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Here’s what we know about the Israeli hostages released on Wednesday. Hostages and Missing Families, via ReutersRaz Ben-Ami was kidnapped by Hamas from the Be’eri kibbutz on Oct. 7. Her brother Lior, 16, who was hiding with her, was murdered, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. Hostages and Missing Families Forum, via ReutersMoran Stela Yanai, a self-employed artist and jewelry designer from Be’er Sheva, had gone to the Nova music festival in Re’im to sell her handmade jewelry, according to the hostages and missing families forum. Hostages and Missing Families Forum, via Associated PressLiam Or, a kindergarten teacher in Kibbutz Be’eri, was taken hostage at the home of his uncle.

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☆ Opinion | What Israelis Fear the World Does Not Understand
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( The Ezra Klein Show | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Earlier this week, we heard a Palestinian perspective on the conflict. Today, I wanted to have on an Israeli perspective. You can listen to our whole conversation by following “The Ezra Klein Show” on the NYT Audio app, Apple, Spotify, Google or wherever you get your podcasts. View a list of book recommendations from our guests here. (A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)

Persons: Yossi Klein Halevi, Shalom Hartman, “, Ezra Klein Organizations: Shalom, Shalom Hartman Institute in, Palestinian, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google, Israeli Defense Forces, Times Locations: Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Gaza, Israel, Oslo

☆ Opinion | The War Between Israel and Hamas Is Splintering the Democratic Coalition
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Thomas B. Edsall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +17 min

These young voters faulted Israel’s response to the attacks, 52-32 percent. This wartime shift represents a fundamental break within a liberal coalition that has long powered the Democratic Party. Clearly, the most left-leaning young adults have the lowest rating of Israel. The Arab American Institute commissioned John Zogby Strategies to conduct a survey of 500 Arab Americans between Oct. 23 and Oct. 27. In this poll, 32 percent of Arab Americans identified as Republican as opposed to just 23 percent who identified as Democrats.

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Legislature will return to the Capitol for a special session Monday that will allow lawmakers to express their support for Israel, while giving Republican Gov. Lawmakers are expected to consider new sanctions against Iran, which has supported Hamas, as well as vote on resolutions expressing support for Israel's right to defend itself. After Hamas militants attacked Israeli citizens last month, a large, bipartisan group of Florida lawmakers met in the Capitol to express their horror and to stand with Israelis. Lawmakers were already scheduled to be at the Capitol for committee meetings and Republican leaders decided to use the time for the special session. Since the attacks, DeSantis has touted his support for Israel while on the campaign trail and using his official office to back up his words.

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☆ For Israel, a War Unlike Any Other
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Yossi Klein Halevi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Israeli psyche resembles an archaeological site of layers of unresolved traumas, ordinary life interrupted by history. This is the first war I’ve experienced that seems existential. Not in an immediate sense: Israel will not disappear tomorrow if it fails to meet its stated goal of destroying Hamas. But Israelis intuitively understand that if this round of fighting ends with one more stalemate, then our military deterrence—shattered by the mass but intimate butchery of Oct. 7—could be irretrievable. Without credible deterrence, we have “nothing to look for,” as Israeli slang puts it, in the Middle East.

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☆ Netanyahu swipes at intel chiefs over Hamas, then apologizes
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/3] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Cabinet minister Benny Gantz, speaks during a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel, 28 October 2023. He has only said that there would be time to ask tough questions, including of himself, after the war. Netanyahu's now-deleted post had said: "At no time and no stage was a warning given to Prime Minister Netanyahu regarding war intentions of Hamas. Gantz said on X that Netanyahu should retract what he said and let the matter go. Opposition leader Yair Lapid, who was formerly prime minister, said Netanyahu "crossed a red line" with the overnight post.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, Benny Gantz, Netanyahu, Shin, Gantz, X, Yair Lapid, Yossi Cohen, Ari Rabinovitch, Bernadette Baum Organizations: REUTERS Acquire, Rights, Sunday, Shin, Israel Defense Forces, Israel, Thomson Locations: Tel Aviv, Israel, ABIR, Gaza, Iran

☆ Israel’s body collectors encounter horrors beyond their worst nightmares
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Weeks on, as the war continues to rage, ZAKA volunteers are still collecting remains. The aftermath of the attack is so gruesome that only the most experienced ZAKA volunteers are allowed to take part in body collection. On Friday, he and other ZAKA volunteers were combing through homes in Be’eri for the second time, finding more victims and collecting remains left behind during their first visit. As ZAKA volunteers worked in Be’eri, several busloads of foreign journalists arrived, escorted by the IDF. Most ZAKA volunteers say that they haven’t begun to process the trauma, and when they can step away, they don’t want to think.

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☆ Opinion | Israel: From the Six-Day War to the Six-Front War
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Thomas L. Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

Back then, Israel defeated the armies of three Arab states — Egypt, Syria and Jordan — in what became known as the Six-Day War. Today, if you look closely, you’ll see that Israel is now fighting the Six-Front War. But one thing is crystal clear to me: Israel cannot win this six-front war alone. This is the first Israeli government ever to make annexation of the West Bank a stated objective in its coalition agreement. Be advised: If Israel does invade Gaza, corporations everywhere will be facing competing demands from employees to denounce Israel or Hamas.

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☆ A ground offensive by Israel into Gaza now seems inevitable. The big question is what comes next
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Sam Meredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Israeli soldiers listen to Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant as he meets them in a field near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel October 19, 2023. Do you replace it with the Palestinian Authority, which has extremely low levels of popularity in the Gaza Strip?" Thomas Coex | Afp | Getty ImagesMeanwhile, the Palestinian Authority is likely to be reluctant to look like they are collaborating with Israel, Ramani said. The Gaza Strip is a narrow portion of land sandwiched between Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea. Smoke billows after an Israeli strike on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on October 22, 2023 amid the ongoing battles between Israel and Palestinian groups.

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☆ Israel-Hamas war: There needs to be a more 'sophisticated' approach to Hamas, analyst says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailIsrael-Hamas war: There needs to be a more 'sophisticated' approach to Hamas, analyst saysYossi Mekelberg, associate fellow at Chatham House, says "killing thousands and thousands of Palestinians is not the solution."

Persons: Yossi Mekelberg Organizations: Israel, Chatham House

☆ Peace, a Forgotten Word, Renews its Claim in the Holy Land
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Roger Cohen | More About Roger Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Awad Darawshe, shot in the abdomen, bled to death under the stage at the trance music festival that Hamas gunmen transformed into a killing field. A Palestinian Israeli paramedic, he died in a desperate attempt to save the lives of Jews at the Tribe of Nova peace-and-love gathering that marked the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. The peacemakers are in the minority as a devastating invasion of Gaza looms. That state of drift, in which peace had become a forgotten or even risible word, now feels untenable. The notion that the Palestinians would drift passively off into the ether as Israel normalized relations with Arab states like Bahrain or Morocco looks more misplaced than ever.

Persons: Awad Darawshe, Darawshe, Yossi, “, ”, Mohammad Darawshe, peacemaking, Benjamin Netanyahu’s Organizations: Palestinian Authority, West Bank Locations: Palestinian, Gaza, Israel, Bahrain, Morocco

☆ Hamas militants ate family's lunch as they tortured and mutilated parents and 2 young children, says an Israeli emergency responder
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An Israeli emergency responder said he found a young family of four mutilated in their home. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . They have uncovered evidence of torture and rape among the victims of last week's Hamas terrorist attacks on communities surrounding the Gaza Strip. The unprecedented Hamas attacks on October 7, dubbed "Operation Al-Aqsa Flood" by Hamas' military leadership, killed at least 1,400 Israelis, per Reuters.

Persons: —, Yossi Landau, Kibbutz Be'eri, Landau, Fingers, Be'eri Organizations: Service, Kibbutz, CNN, Hamas, Reuters Locations: Israel, Gaza

☆ Former Israeli justice minister says a cease-fire in Gaza is 'not an option'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailFormer Israeli justice minister says a cease-fire in Gaza is 'not an option'Yossi Beilin, former Israel justice minister, discusses the Israel-Hamas war and says there's no option but a counterattack to "oust Hamas."

Persons: Yossi Beilin Locations: Gaza, Israel

In another case, a video showed a billboard in the central Israeli city of Holon displaying images of rockets and a burning Israeli flag. Israeli information security professionals are banding together to provide free cybersecurity services to Israeli companies amid a spike in hacktivist activity sparked by the war in Gaza, volunteers said. Ohad Zaidenberg, an Israeli IT specialist, is leading a group of volunteers to help Israeli companies that are being actively targeted. The organizers of the volunteers are drawing the line on members taking vigilante action against Hamas, said Omri Segev Moyal, the chief executive of the Israeli cybersecurity firm Profero. Moyal, who runs a popular Facebook group for Israeli cybersecurity professionals, said he had already removed a couple of posts calling for digital action against the Palestinian group.

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☆ Israel Sees Cyber Incursions Across Digital Systems
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Cyber aggression in Israel escalated Wednesday night. Hackers infiltrated Israel’s smart billboards, posting pro-Hamas messages and images, according to cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies. Israelis are receiving threatening texts on their phones and WhatsApp messages from numbers in Yemen and Afghanistan, Check Point said. Attempts to access Israel’s industrial systems have jumped in the last day or so, said Yossi Appleboum, chief executive of cyber company Sepio. The activity, so far unsuccessful in penetrating the networks, has come from Iran, Syria and pro-Russia hacktivist group Killnet, Appleboum said.

Persons: Yossi Appleboum, Appleboum Organizations: Software Technologies Locations: Israel, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Russia

☆ Bloodshed, destruction and a far-off peace? There are several possible outcomes of the Israel-Hamas war
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

An Israeli army self-propelled howitzer fires rounds near the border with Gaza in southern Israel on Oct. 11, 2023. Israel's border communities have since been evacuated and the military said Tuesday it had regained control of the Gaza-Israel border, through which Hamas had launched its surprise offensive. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak told CNBC's "Squawk Box" Wednesday that Israeli ground forces would take over the Gaza Strip in a matter of days. Israeli soldiers gather near Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) near Israel's border with Lebanon, northern Israel, October 9, 2023. For now, however, a cease-fire looks nigh-on impossible, with the conflict likely about to enter a "hot" phase of active operations on the ground.

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☆ IDF says it won't back up its claim that Hamas decapitated babies in Israel because it is 'disrespectful for the dead'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The IDF said it won't investigate its claim that Hamas killed and decapitated babies at a kibbutz. AdvertisementAdvertisementA spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces told Insider that the military won't seek further evidence for its claim that Hamas decapitated babies in Israel. On Tuesday, Dinar told Insider that babies' bodies had been found at the Kfar Aza kibbutz, and that some had been decapitated. AdvertisementAdvertisementHe said then that the IDF would not confirm the exact number of babies killed or how many had been beheaded. CBS News later reported that Israeli body-recovery teams had discovered beheaded babies and children in kibbutzim in southern Israel.

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☆ Head of Israeli council killed by Hamas while defending his community, as Palestinian fighters pour into southern Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The mayor of a southern Israeli council was killed while defending his community. Ofir Liebstein, the head of Sha'ar Hanegev Council, died in an exchange of fire with Hamas militants. AdvertisementAdvertisementOfir Liebstein, the head of Sha'ar Hanegev Council was killed during fighting with Hamas militants this morning, The Times of Israel reports. Liebstein was killed in an exchange of fire with Hamas militants as a barrage of rockets pounded southern Israel and reports of Palestinian fighters pouring across the border from Gaza. The rocket bombardment struck southern Israel, but sirens are reaching as far north as Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, per CNN.

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☆ Israel’s spy veterans take on their government over judiciary overhaul
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Jonathan Saul | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

But he's a very unusual protester - a former Mossad spy who never before questioned the state for which he once risked his life on foreign missions. Amir, who declined to be fully named due to his sensitive previous secret roles, is among former veterans of Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence service, who are taking to the streets in protest at their government's judiciary overhaul. Reuters spoke with two other former Mossad officials who are also involved in the protests and more fearful of the impact the legislation will have on Israel's security system. Yossi Cohen, another former Mossad chief, spoke of his concerns for "Israel's immediate national security". "At a time when the Iranian threat looms over us from multiple fronts, we must ensure Israel's security remains unharmed," Cohen wrote in a July 23 commentary in the Yedioth Ahronoth daily.

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☆ Does Israel Need So Much Aid? - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Nicholas Kristof | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

One sign of changed times: Almost a quarter of Israel’s arms exports last year went to Arab states. Aid to Israel is now almost exclusively military assistance that can be used only to buy American weaponry. In reality, it’s not so much aid to Israel as it is a backdoor subsidy to American military contractors, which is one reason some Israelis are cool to it. “Israel should give up on the American aid,” Yossi Beilin, a former Israeli minister of justice, told me. “Israel’s economy is strong enough that it does not need aid; security assistance distorts Israel’s economy and creates a false sense of dependency,” Kurtzer said in an email.

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☆ Britain's Orthodox Haredi Jews wary of state intrusion in education
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Jonathan Saul | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

This special faith-based education is profoundly important to Hamilton's strictly Orthodox Haredi Jewish community, which numbers 80,000 in Britain. All children in Britain from the age of five must be in full-time education. "Every child has the right to a safe and suitable education," said a spokesperson for the Department of Education. Underlying the tensions at play between the community and secular state, the government's educational standards office Ofsted, which inspects schools, said in 2021 the school's secular curriculum was too narrow. "Hear our pain and our deep request to leave us alone to allow us to keep our identity," said Rabbi Herschel Gluck, a Haredi community leader.

Persons: Yossi Hamilton, Asher Gratt, Randall Hardy, Flick Drummond, Elyon, Peter Cziborra Hamilton, Hamilton, Shakeel, Rabbi Herschel Gluck, Jonathan Saul, Alexandra Hudson Organizations: Jewish, Conservative, Department of Education, REUTERS, Ofsted, Alexandra Hudson Our, Thomson Locations: London, Britain, England, Israel, British, Birmingham

☆ Leviathan partners in Israel to invest $568 million in third gas pipeline
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

JERUSALEM, July 2 (Reuters) - Partners in the Israeli offshore gas project Leviathan said on Sunday they would invest $568 million to build a third pipeline that will allow increased natural gas production and exports. Leviathan, a deep-sea field with huge deposits, came online at the end of 2019 and produces 12 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas per year for sale to Israel, Egypt and Jordan. In the longer-term, Leviathan production is expected to reach about 21 bcm a year. The group has announced plans for a floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal off the Israeli coast with an annual LNG capacity of about 4.6 million tons, or 6.5 bcm. "We are currently exploring the option of upgrading transmission infrastructures in Jordan to transport additional gas quantities to markets in Jordan and Egypt," Landau said.

Persons: Yossi Abu, Yigal Landau, Landau, Ari Rabinovitch, Elaine Hardcastle Organizations: Partners, Chevron, Energy, Thomson Locations: Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Europe, Tel Aviv

☆ Israeli forces kill Palestinian officer in clashes, WAFA says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/3] Israeli settlers walk past structures that were erected for a new Jewish seminary school, in the settler outpost of Homesh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank May 29, 2023. REUTERS/Ronen ZvulunJENIN, West Bank, May 29 (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed a Palestinian security officer during clashes in the occupied West Bank flashpoint city of Jenin on Monday, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa said. In another part of the West Bank on Monday, Jewish settlers inaugurated a seminary in an area that has been a focus of U.S. scrutiny, drawing Palestinian condemnation. "With God's help ... there will be many more new settlements in northern Samaria," he said, referring to the West Bank by its biblical name. "Statements of condemnation are no longer enough in the face of the (Israeli) extremist right-wing government," said his spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh.

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