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Democrats to weigh resolution against AIPAC, fueling concerns about ‘undercurrent of antisemitism’

Democrats to weigh resolution against AIPAC, fueling concerns about ‘undercurrent of antisemitism’

Amendment to be considered by DNC ‘condemns the growing influence’ of the pro-Israel US lobby and also decries role of ‘dark money’ in...

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Joseph Strauss

NASA Artemis II astronauts blast off to moon, the first crewed lunar mission in decades

NASA Artemis II astronauts blast off to moon, the first crewed lunar mission in decades

‘We have a beautiful moonrise, we’re headed right at it,’ says mission commander as rocket soars toward space, where the astronauts will travel...

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Marcia Dunn

West Bank Palestinians protest, go on strike against new death penalty law

West Bank Palestinians protest, go on strike against new death penalty law

Strike called by PA sees shops shut, universities closed as critics decry law mandating death penalty for Palestinians convicted of deadly terrorism...

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Nurit Yohanan

Yemen’s Houthis threaten potential closure of key Red Sea strait if Gulf states join war

Yemen’s Houthis threaten potential closure of key Red Sea strait if Gulf states join war

As Iranian proxies keep up attacks, senior official says the Yemeni rebels could also move to close Bab el-Mandeb ‘should the aggression against...

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Toi Staff

Trump declares US ‘nearing completion’ of ‘core strategic objectives’ in the Iran war

Trump declares US ‘nearing completion’ of ‘core strategic objectives’ in the Iran war

In national address, president says American forces will strike Islamic Republic ‘extremely hard’ over next 2-3 weeks * Iranian ballistic missile...

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Toi Staff

Suspect in foiled Paris bank attack hit with ‘terrorist criminal conspiracy’ charges

Suspect in foiled Paris bank attack hit with ‘terrorist criminal conspiracy’ charges

Source says man in early 20s remanded in connection to attack on Bank of America branch in Paris, which prosecutors say could be linked to an Islamist...

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Afp

Fourth soldier killed in southern Lebanon clash on Monday laid to rest in Modiin

Fourth soldier killed in southern Lebanon clash on Monday laid to rest in Modiin

Flowers sent by Staff Sgt. Gilad Harel to his girlfriend before entering combat arrive hours before funeral; family recalls driven, sensitive young...

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Toi Staff

Jewish ex-NBA star Amar’e Stoudemire set for Hall of Fame

Jewish ex-NBA star Amar’e Stoudemire set for Hall of Fame

An Israeli citizen and devout covert to Judaism after retirement, the 6-time NBA All-Star and Israeli league veteran reportedly to be inducted into...

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Jacob Gurvis

Trump claims Iran wants truce, but set to say war will last 2-3 more weeks

Trump claims Iran wants truce, but set to say war will last 2-3 more weeks

US leader, who will give TV address Wednesday night, says he’ll consider ceasefire offer ‘when Hormuz Strait is open’; Iran denies claim as...

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Jacob Magid

NY suspect indicted for ‘brutally assaulting’ Jewish man on subway

NY suspect indicted for ‘brutally assaulting’ Jewish man on subway

Neil Hurlock allegedly shouted antisemitic epithet at victim last month while punching and manhandling him on a Brooklyn train

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Luke Tress

SpaceX files for IPO, offering investors stake in Musk’s moon, Mars ambitions

SpaceX files for IPO, offering investors stake in Musk’s moon, Mars ambitions

Rocket and satellite company could be valued above $1.7 trillion; filing follows merger with xAI; listing may revive sluggish IPO market, draw retail...

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Echo wang

Artemis II ready for launch as NASA set to make 1st trip around moon in over 50 years

Artemis II ready for launch as NASA set to make 1st trip around moon in over 50 years

With the rocket fueled and the crew prepped for takeoff, NASA’s ambitious moon mission looks to take 3 Americans and 1 Canadian further from Earth...

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Afp

AOC signals opposition to all Israel aid, including defensive spending

AOC signals opposition to all Israel aid, including defensive spending

Ocasio-Cortez says Iron Dome ‘critical’ to civilians, but Israel should pay for it; statement comes after she reportedly tells socialist party she...

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Jta

After attack, Michigan synagogue calls to add Lego to Seder plate

After attack, Michigan synagogue calls to add Lego to Seder plate

Detroit’s Temple Israel, the site of last month’s ramming attack, says suggested new ritual object symbolizes both vulnerability and rebuilding

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Grace Gilson

In latest warning, Zamir says IDF faces ‘severe harm’ if manpower crunch isn’t solved

In latest warning, Zamir says IDF faces ‘severe harm’ if manpower crunch isn’t solved

IDF chief says army could lose thousands of troops by January; he calls to extend service, reform reserves, push ‘relevant’ conscription law amid...

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Emanuel Fabian

Israeli lab decodes the building talents of a tropical ant

Israeli lab decodes the building talents of a tropical ant

Scientists at the Weizmann Institute use time-lapse tech and geometry to probe the collective cognitive unit of weaver ants

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Sue Surkes

Iran, Hezbollah launch attacks as Israelis host Passover Seders, sending millions to shelters

Iran, Hezbollah launch attacks as Israelis host Passover Seders, sending millions to shelters

IDF says at least 10 missiles fired in Iranian salvo at Israel, along with Hezbollah attacks, before and during holiday’s first night; no injuries...

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Emanuel Fabian

UK police arrest three more suspects in arson attack on Jewish community ambulances

UK police arrest three more suspects in arson attack on Jewish community ambulances

London-area Met police says 3 men aged 20, 19 and 17 nabbed in east London; police counter-terror chief says she hope arrests show Jewish community...

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Reuters

Top Hezbollah commander killed in Beirut as IDF presses deeper into Lebanon

Top Hezbollah commander killed in Beirut as IDF presses deeper into Lebanon

Lebanese officials report 7 dead in overnight strikes; rocket fire continues on northern Israel; Lebanese army withdraws from some border towns amid...

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Emanuel Fabian

Anti-government protesters boost rallies against war as support for fighting slips

Anti-government protesters boost rallies against war as support for fighting slips

Most still back offensive, but larger protests reflect effort by antiwar groups to garner backing of anti-Netanyahu moderates, even as missile threat...

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Charlie Summers

The war against Iran is anything but over, and Passover can be no complacent celebration of freedom

The war against Iran is anything but over, and Passover can be no complacent celebration of freedom

The nuclear danger, the missile threat, the potent proxies, the domestic oppression — none of these regime menaces has been definitively overcome....

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David Horovitz

How the Exodus story subverts pharaonic texts to mock ancient Egypt

How the Exodus story subverts pharaonic texts to mock ancient Egypt

According to Bar-Ilan University’s Joshua Berman, who curated the new hagaddah ‘Echoes of Egypt,’ the biblical narrative ‘culturally...

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Rossella Tercatin

For Passover, an interactive map brings the haggadah down to earth

For Passover, an interactive map brings the haggadah down to earth

Product management expert Alon Gildoni and Weizmann Institute professor Ron Milo turn a seder table question into an interactive tool that traces the...

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Grace Gilson

Slain soldier considered missing since 1948 found in mass grave in north — IDF

Slain soldier considered missing since 1948 found in mass grave in north — IDF

Pvt. Dov Parmet was killed in battle with Syrian-Lebanese forces near Kibbutz Malkia; special military probe finds he was buried in mass grave at Maoz...

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Emanuel Fabian

Israel strikes drug factory in Iran, says it made fentanyl for chemical weapons R&D

Israel strikes drug factory in Iran, says it made fentanyl for chemical weapons R&D

Iran says factory makes cancer drugs; top Quds force engineer killed in airstrike; IDF says all ‘critical’ assets of Iran’s arms industry will...

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Emanuel Fabian

Trump says seriously weighing bolting NATO over allies’ failure to join Iran war

Trump says seriously weighing bolting NATO over allies’ failure to join Iran war

US president casts alliance as ‘paper tiger,’ notes US came to Ukraine’s defense while Europeans ‘weren’t there for us’; Starmer defends...

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Lazar Berman

British gunners are first to get ‘ace’ title for downing UAVs

British gunners are first to get ‘ace’ title for downing UAVs

Four servicemen earn honor dating back to WWII by destroying at least 5 Iranian drones each in Mideast operations

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Toi Staff

Daily Briefing April 1 – Is the war heading to a Trump no-deal ‘victory’?

Daily Briefing April 1 – Is the war heading to a Trump no-deal ‘victory’?

Ahead of American president’s address tonight, US bureau chief Jacob Magid analyzes how the war is going so far, where the US could take an off-ramp...

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Amanda Borschel-Dan

Girl, 11, critically hurt by Iranian cluster bomb as repeated salvos target center

Girl, 11, critically hurt by Iranian cluster bomb as repeated salvos target center

Ahead of Passover Seder, Iranians launch 4 barrages at Israel, with cluster bomb attack causing 14 injuries; 6-year-old moderately hurt after being...

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Emanuel Fabian

Four Palestinians said wounded by settler assailants in West Bank village of Tayasir

Four Palestinians said wounded by settler assailants in West Bank village of Tayasir

No comment by Israeli authorities on latest violence; three injured are cousins of Abdullah Daraghmeh, 75, beaten by extremist settlers last week

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Jeremy Sharon

UAE said pushing for military op to reopen Strait of Hormuz, is willing to take part

UAE said pushing for military op to reopen Strait of Hormuz, is willing to take part

Wall Street Journal says Abu Dhabi wants US to occupy islands held by Iran in waterway, is also pushing UN Security Council resolution to green-light...

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Reuters

As US weighs putting troops in Iran, realities on ground keep Israeli boots closer to home

As US weighs putting troops in Iran, realities on ground keep Israeli boots closer to home

Some Americans question bearing the burden of war, but experts say Jerusalem’s role in setting the stage for US troops on Iranian soil has been...

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Stav Levaton

Say bye-bye to bitter herbs: Israeli researchers’ work aims to pass over tart tastes

Say bye-bye to bitter herbs: Israeli researchers’ work aims to pass over tart tastes

Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists’ compendium of 2,200 bitter molecules and their research on TAS2R14, a bitter receptor, can help make...

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Diana Bletter

English mayor resigns after boosting claim Jewish ambulance arson was ‘false flag’

English mayor resigns after boosting claim Jewish ambulance arson was ‘false flag’

Bath’s Bharat Pankhania apologizes ‘unreservedly’ for engaging with posts about torching of four Hatzola vehicles in London; police treating...

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Jackie Hajdenberg

After meeting in the ICU, these bereaved mothers of IDF troops reunite via new initiative

After meeting in the ICU, these bereaved mothers of IDF troops reunite via new initiative

Hazel Brief and Taly Drori met for the second time while on their way to a health retreat provided by OneFamily, a nonprofit that supports families of...

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Deborah Danan

Kentucky governor: Gaza ‘genocide’ claims shouldn’t be a litmus test for Democrats

Kentucky governor: Gaza ‘genocide’ claims shouldn’t be a litmus test for Democrats

Andy Beshear, a 2028 presidential hopeful, says Israel ‘has the right to exist as a democratic country, as a Jewish country’ while bashing Trump...

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Grace Gilson

US judge says Trump administration can demand list of Jews at Penn for antisemitism probe

US judge says Trump administration can demand list of Jews at Penn for antisemitism probe

Ruling finds that the federal government’s request for the information, which the university and Jewish groups at the school denounced, is normal...

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Luke Tress

Trade war meets tradition: Canadian Jews confront a Manischewitz-free Passover

Trade war meets tradition: Canadian Jews confront a Manischewitz-free Passover

The ban on American booze, which came in response to the country’s tariffs, has ‘created a meaningful opening’ for Israeli wineries in Canada,...

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Joseph Strauss

11-year-old girl critically wounded by Iranian cluster bomb as repeated salvos target center

11-year-old girl critically wounded by Iranian cluster bomb as repeated salvos target center

At least 13 others hurt in strike in Bnei Brak, including seriously injured boy * IDF downs Houthi projectile targeting south * White House says Trump...

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Toi Staff

Angela Buchdahl: This Passover, have faith in the story of the Exodus

Angela Buchdahl: This Passover, have faith in the story of the Exodus

Head rabbi of NYC’s Central Synagogue and author of ‘Heart of a Stranger’ discusses the challenges of a Zionist rabbinic leader in North...

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Jessica Steinberg

Funerals held for 3 of the 4 soldiers killed fighting Hezbollah in southern Lebanon

Funerals held for 3 of the 4 soldiers killed fighting Hezbollah in southern Lebanon

‘My son is a hero, but I don’t want a hero for a son. I want my son at home,’ says father of Staff Sgt. Maxsim Entis, 21; Cpt. Noam Madmoni, 22,...

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Toi Staff

Lapid: Netanyahu incapable of reaching victory, is dismantling Israel from within

Lapid: Netanyahu incapable of reaching victory, is dismantling Israel from within

Opposition leader rejects PM’s claim that Israel has inflicted ’10 plagues’ on Iran-led axis, noting that Hamas still rules Gaza, Hezbollah...

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Toi Staff

American journalist kidnapped in Baghdad; Iraq says manhunt underway, one detained

American journalist kidnapped in Baghdad; Iraq says manhunt underway, one detained

Footage appears to show freelancer Shelly Kittleson being shoved into car by unknown assailants; US says it ‘fulfilled its duty’ by warning her of...

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Agencies

UN probe shows roadside blast killed 2 UNIFIL troops; IDF: Hezbollah planted bombs

UN probe shows roadside blast killed 2 UNIFIL troops; IDF: Hezbollah planted bombs

UN security source says 3rd Indonesian peacekeeper killed this week was hit by Israeli tank fire, says debris from shell found nearby; IDF...

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Toi Staff

US feds charge 6 with attacking Jewish man, conspiring to cover it up

US feds charge 6 with attacking Jewish man, conspiring to cover it up

Suspects attacked Jew in Pittsburgh in 2024, corroborated their stories, misled grand jury and investigators, complaint says

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Luke Tress

Trump: No deal needed to end the war, Iran won’t be able to obtain a nuke ‘for years’

Trump: No deal needed to end the war, Iran won’t be able to obtain a nuke ‘for years’

President set to address the nation on Wednesday night in US; says war ‘coming to an end’ even as he keeps amassing troops for potential invasion,...

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Jacob Magid

US academic’s tirade calling Jewish professor ‘colonizer’ found to be antisemitic harassment

US academic’s tirade calling Jewish professor ‘colonizer’ found to be antisemitic harassment

CCSF investigation finds Maria Salazar-Colon’s outburst at Abigail Bornstein was discrimination based on her religion; victim stopped coming to...

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Michael Bachner

On last day in office, UNRWA head urges probe into alleged IDF killing of nearly 400 workers

On last day in office, UNRWA head urges probe into alleged IDF killing of nearly 400 workers

Lazzarini blasts what he calls ‘extraordinary level of impunity’ for Israeli actions in Gaza; he leaves behind an agency facing ‘collapse’...

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Afp

Iran’s regime remains defiant despite absorbing massive blows from Israel and the US

Iran’s regime remains defiant despite absorbing massive blows from Israel and the US

While the US insists Tehran is ‘effectively neutralized,’ experts say the regime is entrenched, looks to ’cause sustained pain and to drive up...

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Isabel Debre

Frustrated with allies, Trump tells countries needing fuel to go to Hormuz and ‘just take it’

Frustrated with allies, Trump tells countries needing fuel to go to Hormuz and ‘just take it’

US president also accuses France of refusing access to Israel-bound US planes carrying arms; Netanyahu reportedly says some Arab countries ‘talking...

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Jacob Magid