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• Don't dismiss talk of Israel occupying Gaza. This time, Netanyahu means what he says

  Haaretz - 22:09 May 19, 2024
  

  The Israeli prime minister is consistent in demanding security control of Gaza. While Israelis tend to treat his remarks as political chicanery, he is leading the process to 'Judaize Gaza' – and Benny Gantz, Yoav Gallant, and the U.S. won't stop him

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• Three Israeli hostages whose bodies were retrieved from Gaza laid to rest

  Haaretz - 21:50 May 19, 2024
  

  Amit Buskila, Shani Louk, and Itzhak Gelerenter were buried on Sunday, two days after their bodies were returned to Israel from Gaza

  Tags: Gaza

• Israeli settlers torch cars in West Bank village, raid truck carrying aid for Gaza

  Haaretz - 21:40 May 19, 2024
  

  Scores of settlers gathered at two junctions in the West Bank and threw stones at Palestinians earlier Sunday while others raided a truck near the settlement of Eviatar, claiming it was delivering aid to Gaza

  Tags: Gaza West Bank

• Massive anti-government Jerusalem protests planned as Israel's Knesset opens for summer session

  Haaretz - 21:28 May 19, 2024
  

  Israeli protest groups, joined by families of hostages, are trying to increase the pressure and carry out a full day of protests in the spirit of the pre-October 7 pro-democracy movement

• U.S. national security adviser presents Netanyahu with plans to end Israel's war in Gaza

  Haaretz - 20:38 May 19, 2024
  

  Jake Sullivan, one of Biden's top advisers, expressed the American and Saudi position on ending the war in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and war cabinet minister Benny Gantz

• Students arrested at Harvard and UPenn pro-Palestinian protest encampments

  Haaretz - 19:31 May 19, 2024
  

  Several University of Pennsylvania students await felony charges after they tried to take over a campus building, while two Harvard students have been charged with assault and battery amid a new wave of arrests

  Tags: Harvard

• Israel's Shin Bet security service brings in anti-Netanyahu activists for meeting

  Haaretz - 19:20 May 19, 2024
  

  The activists were called to appear at a police station for a 'voluntary meeting,' with a source saying that it wasn't intended to threaten them, but to 'clarify legal boundaries' and ask if they were being threatened for protesting

• Trump-backed GOP front-runner for Wisconsin Senate seat has history of invoking antisemitic slurs

  Haaretz - 18:11 May 19, 2024
  

  Eric Hovde, who has secured the backing of the Republican presidential candidate ahead of his August GOP primary, has used the term 'shysters' on numerous occasions and promoted the Great Reset conspiracy theory

• Israel's Diaspora Minister praises Spain's far-right for 'aligning with Israel' at Madrid Vox conference

  Haaretz - 17:37 May 19, 2024
  

  Joining far-right peers Marine Le Pen, Georgia Meloni, Viktor Orban, Javier Milei and Vox's Santiago Abascal, Israel's Amichai Chikli declares the Gaza war 'is an existential battle for the future of Western civilization against radical Islam'

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• 'Pro-Israel' conspiracy theorist Elise Stefanik came to Israel to court Trump

  Haaretz - 17:30 May 19, 2024
  

  Like Stefanik, the vast majority of the names publicly floated as potential candidates to be Trump's running mate have leaned into full-throated support for Israel's war while attacking Palestinians and their advocates

• Israeli and Palestinian peace activists meet with Pope to share their dream of a shared future

  Haaretz - 16:47 May 19, 2024
  

  Maoz Inon, whose parents were killed on October 7, and Aziz Abu Sarah, who lost his brother in the second Intifada, addressed Pope Francis in front of a crowd of 13,000. The pope said their work is 'not only a testament to wanting peace but a project for the future'

• How queer and trans converts are saving America's red state synagogues

  Haaretz - 16:38 May 19, 2024
  

  A new trend emerged in recent years: Lapsed Christians from the LGBTQ community in the U.S. heartland converting to Judaism after discovering a religion that actually welcomed them. They are quickly becoming the lifeblood of previously ailing non-Orthodox congregations

• Israel at war, day 226: IDF orders residents in north Gaza's Beit Lahia to evacuate

  Haaretz - 16:35 May 19, 2024
  

  U.S. National Security Adviser Sullivan is in Israel to meet with PM Netanyahu and war cabinet minister Gantz ■ Far-right minister Smotrich calls on Israel to occupy Gaza and invade southern Lebanon if Hezbollah refuses to withdraw from border ■ Jordan's foreign minister calls for investigation into what he claims were war crimes committed during Israel's campaign in Gaza ■ Here's what you need to know 226 days into the war

  Tags: Israel

• Bad weather hampers search for Iran's President Raisi and FM after helicopter crash

  Haaretz - 15:59 May 19, 2024
  

  An Iranian official speaking on condition of anonymity said that 'information coming from the crash site is very concerning,' as rescue teams attempt to reach the crash site in poor weather conditions

• After cancellation and outcry, Israeli Jerusalem quartet plays Amsterdam concert

  Haaretz - 15:56 May 19, 2024
  

  Over 13,000 people, including leading musicians, signed a petition calling on the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam to allow the Jerusalem Quartet to perform, which it did on Saturday. The concert and small pro-Palestinian protest outside the venue passed without incident

  Tags: Amsterdam

• Palestinian sources are making it clear that no Israel-backed local entity can govern Gaza

  Haaretz - 15:45 May 19, 2024
  

  'Anyone who dares to undertake the mission will be a contractor who cannot withstand pressure at best or under Israeli patronage at worst,' a prominent figure in Gaza told Haaretz. A proposal for a multinational force and diplomatic process, however, is finding more support

  Tags: Gaza

• At this rate, Israel won't make it to its 100th birthday

  Haaretz - 14:15 May 19, 2024
  

  The Israeli elite will flee the country once they see that the various 'tribes' can't agree on a social contract, government-administration experts Eugene Kandel and Ron Tzur warn in a new paper

• With new government, Dutch extremist Wilders achieves the once-impossible: legitimacy

  Haaretz - 14:10 May 19, 2024
  

  Even though Geert Wilders will not be the next Dutch prime minister and his governing coalition is built on shaky foundations, the far-right populist is at the center of power in the Netherlands. For Netanyahu, this means another European ally

  Tags: Dutch

• How Iran is trying to punish Jordan for helping Israel

  Haaretz - 13:28 May 19, 2024
  

  After Jordan helped thwart Iran's attack, Tehran warned Amman would be its next 'target' should it aid Israel again. Meanwhile, Iran is using proxies and propaganda to cast Abdullah II as a 'sellout' to the Palestinian cause, amid already high tensions in Jordan over Gaza

  Tags: Israel Jordan

• Israel's far-right minister Smotrich calls to occupy Gaza, take over south Lebanon

  Haaretz - 12:42 May 19, 2024
  

  Bezalel Smotrich says only a permanent presence in the Gaza Strip would stop the rockets in Israel's south ■ Hezbollah, he said, should be presented with an ultimatum – withdraw from border or face Israeli incursion

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