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Philly-born fermentation fan. Go Terps! Managing editor of @EJPhil . Previously at @TimesofIsrael . judah @ejewishphilanthropy .com
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Americans causing problems:
An American family who visited the Golan Heights decided to bring back a souvenir: An unexploded artillery shell.
When they went to the airport to fly home, they showed their... actual bomb to security, prompting the guards to evacuate the terminal.
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BIG NEWS:
The Wexner Foundation announces that it is cutting ties with
@Harvard
over "the dismal failure of Harvard’s leadership to take a clear and unequivocal stand against the barbaric murders of innocent Israeli civilians by terrorists last Saturday."
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What's sure to be an iconic photo by AFP's Anas Baba.
Hamas rockets from Gaza on the right, Israeli Iron Dome interceptors on the left.
Beautiful and horrifying.
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A sapper who was called in eventually ensured there was no threat of the shell exploding, and everyone was allowed back in.
Moral of the story: DON'T TRY TO BRING A FUCKING BOMB ON AN AIRPLANE.
📷: Israeli Airports Authority
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The type who thinks labeling good Jews and bad Jews is toxic and is ultimately just doing a favor for antisemites
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It's not, actually. You just have to wait five fucking minutes for a modicum of evidence to come out before making your hot take. It's not that hard.
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I think one of the most depressing things for me, and I imagine most Jews right now, is the knowledge (not fear or concern, but verified knowledge) that if my family and I were murdered, you ghouls would debate if we had it coming.
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UPDATE:
According to the Israeli Airports Authority, after the family was questioned, they were allowed to get on their flight (without the bomb).
Also, a man who fell during the emergency evacuation was lightly injured and taken to a hospital for treatment, the authority says.
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Rachel Goldberg, whose son, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, had his arm blown off and was then taken hostage on Oct. 7, shows a video of the attack to
@Pontifex
during a meeting he had with families of hostages in the Vatican this morning.
"This is my son. No arm — his arm was cut off."
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Hundreds of rioters burned down the el-Hamma synagogue in Tunisia last night, posting videos of themselves doing it on TikTok and Facebook.
More overt, violent antisemitism in a country where a deadly terror attack took place against its Jewish community earlier this year.
En Tunisie, la synagogue d'El Hamma a été détruite et incendiée hier soir par des centaines d'émeutiers, sans la moindre intervention policière. De nombreuses vidéos sur TikTok et Facebook. Et pas la moindre mention dans les médias nationaux
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Justin Bieber, who's apparently still a thing, decided to goose-step and do a sieg Heil at a concert in Finland yesterday.
The Conference of European Rabbis denounced his actions and demands an explanation.
Will he repeat the performance when he comes to Israel this fall?
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That's 600 Israelis so far. The number will surely be higher.
This is the largest number of Jews murdered in a single day since the Holocaust. I don't even know how to process that.
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I'm at Ben Gurion Airport where in a few minutes a special rescue flight with 9 Holocaust survivors on board has just landed, moments before Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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IDF releases footage of its Patriot missile intercepting what the army says was a Syrian drone that was flown into Israeli airspace.
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Could you imagine if Iran had attacked a US Embassy? What would that even look like? I guess we'll never know as that exact type of event has no historical precedent whatsoever.
If a country attacked a US embassy, what would we expect the US to do in response? And would that be legitimate? Are Iranians permitted to do the same when their own embassy is attacked? Or do we adopt one standard for ourselves and another for "enemies"?
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Please do not think this is just "another" round of fighting in Gaza.
This is the worst attack that Israel has seen in decades, bar none. When the final numbers come in, this may be the worst single attack on Israeli civilians in the country's history.
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Wild survey results:
A new poll by
@IDIisrael
found that 70% of Arab Israelis say they feel a part of the State of Israel. In June, it was 48%.
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Hamas has a gun to her husband's head right now.
"Each person had a guard watching him or her. They took care of all the needs. They talked about all kinds of things, they were very friendly."
Yocheved Lifshitz details what it was like while being held hostage by Hamas.
🔗
📺 Sky 501 and YouTube
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The head of the Luftwaffe, Generalleutnant Ingo Gerhartz, donating blood in Israel's Sheba Medical Center today.
History is weird.
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When I tell people I'm Jewish, I also pro-actively say I'm anti-zionist I do so because I'm one of the good ones please don't hurt me please like me like me like me I'm one of the good ones please don't hurt me
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While we're talking about Whoopi Goldberg anyway, can we talk about how and why she changed her last name to 'Goldberg'?
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This is wild.
It's the manager of one of the buildings that the IDF destroyed yesterday on the phone with the Israeli military discussing the amount of time needed to remove everyone from the building and keep them out before the airstrike.
תיעוד די מדהים שנותן מבט אחר על הפצצות רבי הקומות בעזה: שומר בניין שהותקף משוחח בטלפון עם נציג ישראלי ושואל אותו: "כמה זמן אתה צריך? הכי מעט שעתיים שלוש? ללכת לבניין ולהגיד לאנשים לא להגיע? המל"ט יתקיף פעם אחת ("הקש בגג") ואז את המגדל?" אחרי זה אומר שכל האנשים בבניין כבר יצאו
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The fact that after Zelensky's speech to the Knesset most Israeli politicians are currently putting out statements about the roles of Ukrainians in the Holocaust instead of the role Israel should play in Ukraine's defenses is a pretty clear sign of this.
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Just got a Happy Hannukah email from the Greek Embassy in Israel, which feels a little on the nose.
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It is unfortunate that the headlines are that Israel is resuming fighting after the ceasefire/pause expired and not that Israel is resuming the fighting after Hamas violated the ceasefire/pause with a barrage of rockets aimed at southern Israel.
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What a woman.
Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, who was taken hostage on Oct. 7 and whose husband is still held by Hamas, says she met Sinwar in Gaza and criticized him.
"I asked him how is he not ashamed to do a thing like that to people who have always supported peace? He didn't answer"
יוכבד ליפשיץ סיפרה אתמול בהפגנה להשבת החטופים שפגשה את יחיא סינוואר: "הוא היה אצלנו 4-3 ימים אחרי שהגענו. שאלתי אותו איך הוא לא מתבייש לעשות דבר כזה לאנשים שכל השנים תמכו בשלום? הוא לא ענה"
@NOFARMOS
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I'm speaking aesthetically, not politically, when I say that nothing screams "failed state" like a politician who literally never served a day in his life donning an ill-fitting paramilitary uniform to inspect the troops.
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What is this thing that people keep doing comparing the location of Israel's Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv to Hamas's launching rockets from Gaza schools? Does any country not have its defense ministry inside a city?
That's not the same as actively waging war from civilian areas.
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Almost every speaker so far has mentioned Palestinians
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The hand on the Artists4Ceasefire pin is orange. The background is red. A raised hand is a universal symbol for stop, which is why it's being used to call for a ceasefire.
It has nothing to do with the Ramallah lynching, and it's obscene and counterproductive to claim otherwise.
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Pro tip: If you want to peddle in antisemitic tropes without being accused of antisemitism, just move to Israel.
You can say that the government is run by Jews; you can say the banks are run by Jews; you can say the media is run by Jews, and no one will bat an eye.
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The IDF seems to be willfully misleading foreign press about tonight's assault on northern Gaza, making it seem as though it launched a ground invasion into Gaza.
It seems that some IDF troops entered just beyond the border, so technically inside Gaza. But not a ground invasion.
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The wildest thing about the paternity leave conversation is that America doesn't have maternity leave
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This appears to be the largest number of Israelis killed in terror attacks in one week since 2006.
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Correction: Additional footage of the incident appears to show that the fireworks were fired from the Temple Mount toward the Western Wall below (where thousands of Jews were gathered for Jerusalem Day celebrations).
The trees were just in the way.
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The world is complicated and amazing.
That's a Qatari military transport plane next to an Israeli plane next to an Iranian military plane. All of them in Gaziantep to provide aid to Turkey.
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Israeli authorities are treating the blast outside the Israeli embassy in New Delhi as a suspected attack, I have learned.
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Israel's over-reliance on administrative detentions and its (often wildly) unfair military courts are serious issues and they both need to be addressed desperately.
That does not mean that every person who goes through those systems is innocent.
This isn't that complicated.
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That's not what kvelling means, you fucking morons.
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Did you morons forget that you call BDS a nonviolent form of protest?
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My mom works at
@AshevilleJCC
, which got a bomb threat this week. With her OK, I'm sharing a message she sent to our family WhatsApp group.
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What an absolute, grotesque hillul hashem
Settlers taking a break from carrying out a pogrom in Huwara to daven maariv (evening prayer).
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In which the authors condemn Jews for comparing Oct. 7 to the Holocaust and pogroms and then insinuate a comparison of Israeli leaders to Nazis.
There's a way of legitimately taking issue with Holocaust comparisons. This ain't it.
An Open Letter on the Misuse of Holocaust Memory
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If what happened at Cooper Union horrified and enraged you, this should too
בנתניה לא מתכוונים לוותר עד שיעיפו את הערבים שנמצאים במכללת נתניה! לא המשטרה תעצור אותנו לא העירייה לא המדינה! אנחנו דורשים את הביטחון של עצמנו מייד!
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The Committee to Protect Journalists has not put out any information about any Israeli journalist killed, injured or missing, and there absolutely have been.
Absolutely shameful conduct.
Three Palestinian journalists have been shot dead, two are missing and one was wounded since the war began on Saturday, according to
@pressfreedom
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IDF says some 300 rockets and mortar shells have been fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip today.
This is the largest number of projectiles fired from Gaza in a single day ever, including during the 2014 war, according to Shin Bet statistics.
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"Israeli couscous" isn't couscous; it's a toasted pasta that was meant to mimic rice when Israel struggled to produce/import it.
Removing Israeli from the name makes the label inaccurate.
At Yale, the years-old, popular "Israeli couscous salad with spinach and tomatoes," has been renamed in our dining halls as the same exact dish but without the word "Israeli."
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Sorry to be that guy, but...
Despite some 200 rockets being fired at Israel over the past day, there have been minimal Israeli casualties, in large part because the Iron Dome shot down 90% of those heading toward populated areas.
Now's a good time to say: Thanks, Obama.
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I have an amazing update to this:
The woman (Noa Hanuka)'s husband, Noam, woke up from his coma, and a few days later, on Oct. 18, she gave birth to their son.
We met a resident of Mefalsim who's 38 weeks pregnant. Her husband was shot on Saturday while driving. He is unconscious, now undergoing his 3rd surgery.
She hid for 10 hours before being rescued without water. She said she doesn't want to give birth until he wakes up.
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Counterpart: There is Jewish American consensus about the conflict in Israel and Gaza.
The overwhelming majority of Jewish Americans support Israel and are horrified by the Hamas attacks.
Yes, there are exceptions but just because some tiny groups are loud doesn't make them big
There’s no Jewish American consensus about the conflict in Israel and Gaza
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This tweet is accidentally one of the best arguments for Zionism.
TIL that the Bund and the World Zionist Congress were formed in the exact same year, 1897.
In that moment, just like today, there were competing ideas about the path to Jewish safety. The Bund chose solidarity with their neighbors. The World Zionist Congress chose nationalism.
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I am in no way minimizing yesterday's terror attack when I say that the claims it was a violation of the ceasefire are just false.
The IDF operated heavily in the West Bank throughout the ceasefire. If that wasn't a violation, neither was this.
Doesn't make it any less terrible
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.
@PresidentRuvi
Rivlin continues to be good at his job.
"You don't know what it means to me that you came here," said the son of Zaid al-Hamamdeh, who was killed in a Gaza rocket attack in Ashkelon yesterday.
"Why wouldn't I come, aren't you an Israeli citizen?" Rivlin replied.
״אתה בכלל לא מבין מה זה בשבילי שהגעת לכאן״ אמר הבן של זאיד אלחמאמדה שנהרג מפגיעה ישירה של רקטה ��עזה לנשיא. ״למה שלא אבוא, אתה לא אזרח ישראלי?״, ענה ריבלין
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I'd like to report a cultural appropriation. Those are Bisli.
fritos are probably the worst chip out there. but these???? oh these are IMMACULATE
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Security officials confirm Israel has passed classified intelligence to the Pentagon regarding Hamas's activities in the al-Jalaa tower used by the AP and other international media outlets, which the IDF destroyed on Saturday.
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Statement from President Gay: I have consulted our attorneys and found a more palatable way to answer the question while still not saying explicitly that calls for genocide of Jews violate Harvard's code of conduct.
Statement from President Gay: There are some who have confused a right to free expression with the idea that Harvard will condone calls for violence against Jewish students. Let me be clear: Calls for violence or genocide against the Jewish community, or any religious or ethnic…
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@shadihamid
How many times a week are you called "insufferable?" I'm assuming it's at least more than three.
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Israel fought an 11-day battle with Hamas in Gaza, and every international outlet had people on the ground here, sometimes in addition to the teams they already had here.
Meanwhile, no one gives half a shit about Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Just talked with another foreign freelance journalist here about how completely impossible it's been to sell a story on Armenian POWs. 200 still captive in Azerbaijan, 19 confirmed executed, and not one outlet will take a piece.
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Galit Distel Atbaryan quit as public diplomacy minister, saying it's because the Diaspora Affairs Ministry was leading the public diplomacy effort.
Friends, the Diaspora affairs minister left his office to join the reserves.
This doesn't bode well for Israel's public diplomacy.
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My take away from tonight (not that I didn't know already): The Mossad has truly incredible capabilities.
Smuggling some 55,000 pages of documents, 183 CDs, with 55,000 files, from Tehran to Tel Aviv -- the mind boggles.
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Tell me "I was too lazy to look at the list of Palestinian prisoners and research their cases but still wanted to tweet about it" without telling me "I was too lazy to look at the list of Palestinian prisoners and research their cases but still wanted to tweet about it."
How many of the detainees released by Israel received a fair trial in a civilian court, as opposed to some kind one-sided administrative proceeding or "trial" before a military court. I would hazard a guess: ZERO. "Captive" isn't a bad choice of words.
@WashingtonPost
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There is a cognitive dissonance required to believe that both the IDF is so good that during active combat it knows the precise location of every man, woman and child in Gaza AND that it fucked up so bad that it did not anticipate the Oct. 7 attacks.
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Time, The Atlantic, now the Evening Standard
Growing numbers of Jewish families are considering fleeing London for abroad because of rising antisemitism in the capital
#frontpage
The Campaign Against Antisemitism says some Jewish residents have even left already over fears for their safety
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In the span of roughly one hour, the IDF says it has struck three Hamas anti-tank guided missile teams preparing to fire at targets in Israel from Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip.
Appears to be an impressive display of intelligence and firepower.
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The Temple Mount is now literally ablaze as a tree catches fire at the holy site.
Police say it appears to have been started after people launched fireworks at it.
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lol, they think it's a thermometer, but really it's the Shin Bet reading her mind.
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Israel again reopened the Kerem Shalom Crossing to humanitarian aid shipments (this time from Jordan) and terrorists in the Strip again fired mortar shells at the terminal.
No one was injured in the attack, but Israel has again decided to close the crossing, COGAT says.
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A group of far-right Jewish nationalists viciously beat a man they apparently believed was an Arab Israeli in the Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam, hitting him repeatedly as he lay on the ground.
The brutal attack is captured in real-time by a film crew from the Kan broadcaster.
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After six and a half years covering the military and defense, I am excited to announce that I am changing beats and will begin reporting on religious affairs and Israel's relationship with Jewish communities abroad for The
@TimesofIsrael
.
>>
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I can't think of a headline more likely to unite Israelis and Palestinians than this one.
Just because you all lost interest doesn't mean everything's been hunky-dory here!
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This will get buried because of Ukraine, but it's a big deal
Live update: High Court says Palestinians can remain in Sheikh Jarrah homes pending ruling
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"When [Emily] has recovered enough, I'm going to find out where and if Beyonce is touring — I don't care where it is in the world — she's going. She adores her."
Nu,
@Beyonce
, make this.
"The plan is to fix my broken child, fix my broken baby"
אמילי בת ה-9 חזרה הביתה אחרי 50 ימים בשבי חמאס, ולאבא שלה יש כבר הרבה תוכניות. קטע מהכתבה ששידרנו אמש:
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Neat tip for bad actors: If you use enough human shields, no army can legally attack you.
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OK Google: Sum up Israeli politics for me in one photo.
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That people at the Flag March know they are being filmed and don't even try to hide their faces as they scream/sing "death to Arabs" and "the village should be burnt" is a pretty damning indication of how much they believe Israeli law enforcement cares about anti-Arab incitement.
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#BREAKING
The IDF says air defense soldiers just shot down a drone that was flown into Israeli airspace from the Gaza Strip.
This is the first such use of drones in this round of conflict.
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I had assumed this tweet was sarcasm/exaggeration so I watched. I was wrong.
CNN: A survivor of Hamas captivity said he was held hostage by an UNRWA teacher. What's UNRWA's response?
UNRWA: I can speak about the flour that UNRWA delivers.
CNN: Does it bother you that an UNRWA teacher held somebody hostage?
UNRWA: Every bag of flour is cross-referenced.
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If you hear sirens, go to a bomb shelter.
Don't do what Richard Engel and his cameraperson are doing.
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The actual raiders of Entebbe brought a copy of Idi Amin's car to protest against Netanyahu at the airport.
Wild.
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Preparing to head to southern Turkey with a
@UnitedHatzalah
delegation and a team of Israeli search-and-rescue operators for
@TimesofIsrael
to report on the rescue efforts after the devastating earthquakes that hit the country yesterday. I will be sending back reports as I can.
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Babi Yar chairman Natan Sharansky: “Putin seeking to distort & manipulate the Holocaust to justify an illegal invasion of a sovereign democratic country is utterly abhorrent. It's symbolic he starts attacking Kyiv by bombing the site of Babi Yar, the biggest of Nazi massacre"
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HOW THE FUCK ARE ISRAEL AND LEBANON NOT FRIENDS WE ARE BASICALLY THE SAME COUNTRY
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Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen: "I have to say the truth: Netanyahu's strategy is preventing the 2-state solution, and so he turned Hamas (the PA's rival) into his closest partner. Outwardly, Hamas is the enemy, covertly it's an ally."
אלוף במיל' גרשון הכהן במשדר המיוחד באולפן ynet: "צריך לומר האמת: האסטרטגיה של נתניהו היא למנוע את אופציית 2 המדינות, ולכן הוא הפך את חמאס לשותף הכי קרוב שלו. במימד הגלוי חמאס אויב, במימד הסמוי הוא בן ברית"
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I am so happy for her that it was.
I hope this will be the last Shabbat I spend without Dafna and Ela. It's been seven in a row.
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Tonight has seen both the largest-ever rocket fire on central Israel, killing at least 1 woman and injuring dozens more, and the worst riots in over 20 years, with a 56y/o man seriously hurt after he was hit with rocks and synagogues burned.
This does not bode well for tomorrow.
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Thank God we don't have to do this for brit milahs yet
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Calling the party המחנה הממלכתי represents a direct assault on English-language journalists
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This is a cheap, grotesque, cynical use of a horrific tragedy. It would be ridiculous and farcical, if it weren't so disgusting.
Shameful shit.
Ben & Jerry's
You picked the wrong side.
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The Egyptian foreign minister putting out a photo of the Israeli foreign minister hosting him and the foreign ministers of Bahrain, UAE and Morocco in Israel.
Every part of that sentence would have been completely and utterly unimaginable a few decades ago.
Official dinner banquet for the foreign ministers, hosted by FM Yair Lapid.
@MoFAICUAE
@bahdiplomatic
@Marocdiplo_EN
@IsraelMFA
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This is the first time IDF officers in uniform have been in Morocco, Israel's Defense Ministry says.
Two of the officers, the defense minister's military secretary Yaki Dolf and Col. Noam Arbel, are if Moroccan extraction.
"It's very exciting, very exciting," Arbel tells me.
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I appreciate that what's happening in the Knesset is a shit show, but it's far from the unprecedented disaster people are painting it as on this website of scant historical recollection.
The Knesset has always been, uh, what's a more pointed way of saying "rowdy"?
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I'm old enough to remember when the Obama administration decided to not intervene in Syria despite Assad violating an explicit American red line
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Conference of Presidents CEO William
@Daroff
says there are 290,000 people at the rally. That would make it the largest in U.S. history.
If the 200,000 estimate is correct, it's the biggest rally of Jews in Washington since 1987 (for Soviet Jewry)
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