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This week at Ben-Gurion Airport: An Argentinian-Israeli who swears friends will save you and money will set you free, and an American-Israeli who finds freedom on a solo trip home

The project, called Barcelonaz, was launched by an unidentified group that describes itself as composed of “journalists, professors, and students.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani revoked an executive order adopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism, including provisions linking some anti-Zionist rhetoric to antisemitism.

When it comes to Supreme Court President Isaac Amit, the Netanyahu purists suddenly care about conflicts of interest ■ The prime minister has adopted the same terminology used by the Kahanists in his coalition ■ And Avi Dichter hid behind a single word to justify breaking his promise

The Hebron Municipality, which is run by Palestinians, petitioned Israel's High Court of Justice challenging both the expropriation of the site of the future roof and the limited transfer of planning authority. A hearing is expected to be held in the case next week

Israel is on track to a violent civil war. We must embark on a firm, democratic and nonviolent civil protest

Tension between Jews and Arabs in Jaffa has intensified after a pregnant Arab woman was attacked with pepper spray early last month

Gonen - who spent 471 in captivity in Gaza - told Channel 12 that Izz al-Din al-Haddad, currently the head of Hamas' military wing in the Strip, spoke with her about the sexual assaults she experienced. 'I don't know how if he really intended to get me out,' she said

The Shovals began their project of turning antisemitic murals into pro-Israel messages about two months ago in Amsterdam. 

Oppositin leaders belonging to 'the left' like Naftali Bennett, Avigdor Lieberman and Yair Lapid are afraid to cooperate with Israeli-Arab parties not because they fear right-wingers, but because they fear Arabs

"The newly sprayed graffiti on a road in Louth, Ireland, repeats one of the most disturbing antisemitic caricatures deployed by the Nazis in prewar Germany," said Holocaust Awareness Ireland.

'Where else could a Muslim kid like me grow up eating bagels and lox every Sunday?' the new mayor quipped. As New Yorkers braved freezing temperatures to celebrate his entry into office, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez celebrated: 'Choosing this mayor and this vision is an ambitious pursuit'

Mamdani's inauguration signifies an American embrace of breaking from political convention to take a risk on someone inexperienced, but large in ambition. And on Israel, he's now created a new precedent for policy

Kerzner said that an anti-Israel Eaton Centre Boxing Day protest last Friday and near-weekly marches through the Bathurst and Sheppard residential neighborhoods were completely unacceptable.

Only 33 percent of Jewish New Yorkers voted for Mamdani, but the fears of a hostile mayor should now be put to rest. It is crucial to establish good faith ties with his administration – and not to characterize every disagreement as an existential emergency

Responding to petitions arguing that Ben-Gvir must be ousted from his position as national security minister, Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara wrote that it is currently 'impossible to protect the public from his systematic efforts to undermine the police's independence'

The assessment was included in support of an indictment against four residents of Bedouin villages in the south who are accused of smuggling weapons by drone and espionage offenses. The head of the Shin Bet recently called the weapon smuggling by drone an 'ongoing catastrophe' and warned that it poses a 'strategic threat to the State of Israel'