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Israel & the Region
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Kids take cover under umbrellas on a rainy day in Kibbutz Sarid in northern Israel, April 25, 2018. (Anat Hermony/Flash90)
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Youth dies in Negev flash flood as powerful storm batters Israel
TOI staff
Flooding seen in streets of major cities; authorities searching for Palestinian girl said missing in flood east of Hebron
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, May 29, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 6, 2017, 5:05 pm
Netanyahu to right-wing leaders: No settler will be uprooted in peace deal
In plea for backing amid peace efforts, PM vows to protect settlements; indicates, unhappily, that Trump sticking to traditional peacemaking formulas
By Marissa Newman
US President Donald Trump, right, holds a bilateral meeting with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, Sunday, May 21, 2017, in Riyadh. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
June 6, 2017, 4:58 pm
Trump says his Middle East visit prompted Qatar crisis
US president claims that in response to his call to cut off funding for extremism, Arab rulers pinned blame on Doha
By AP
In this June 4, 2017, photo, a father and his children ride their donkey cart past the idled Gaza power plant at Nusseirat, in the central Gaza Strip (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
June 6, 2017, 4:49 pm
After decade of Hamas rule, Gaza short on freedom, jobs, power
Unable to offer a remedy, terror group has been doubling down on oppression. For the local population, life is bound to get worse
By AP and TOI staff
Abu Dis seen next to the security barrier. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
June 6, 2017, 4:49 pm
Border guards bust West Bank cell that made pipe bombs
Police say explosives workshop one of the largest discovered in the past year; 2 suspects arrested
By TOI staff
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner speaks with Mathew Kalman on Sunday, June 4 at the Hirsch Theater in Jerusalem in the latest installment of The Times of Israel Presents. (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)
June 6, 2017, 4:48 pm
At ToI event, Israeli attorney shows how ‘lawfare’ could smite terrorists’ warfare
A student trial set Shurat HaDin founder Nitsana Darshan-Leitner on the path to seek justice for victims of terror
By Yaakov Schwartz
Illustrative image of technicians handling a RTG battery, February 2, 2007. (Public domain, Wikimedia commons)
June 6, 2017, 4:47 pm
US Jewish scientist gave Israel spy tech before Six Day War – report
Mossad said to have listened in on secret Egyptian transmissions using radioactive batteries supplied by Zalman Shapiro of NUMEC
By TOI staff
Screenshot T-shirts with the slogan 'Free Palestine' available for sale on the Sears website, June 6, 2017. (Sears.com via JTA)
June 6, 2017, 4:43 pm
Sears website offers anti-Israel ‘Free Palestine’ range of clothes
US retailer selling items marketed by 2 other clothing companies, one based in Germany, the other in Minnesota
By JTA and TOI staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov in Moscow, Russia, April 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
June 6, 2017, 4:21 pm
Kremlin ‘resolutely’ denies Russia hacked US vote
Putin spokesman says leaked NSA document pinning election interference on Russian intelligence 'does not conform to reality'
By AFP
The attackers in London Bridge terror attack in June 2017. From left to right: Youssef Zaghba, Rachid Redouane and Khuram Butt (London Metropolitan Police)
June 6, 2017, 4:13 pm
Third London attacker named amid anger over security flaws
Britain observes minute of silence; Corbyn backs calls for May to resign for having cut police numbers
By Richard Ingham
This image released by Islamic State-affiliated Aamaq news agency in March 2017 shows a general view of Raqqa, Syria. (Aamaq news agency via AP)
June 6, 2017, 4:08 pm
US-backed Syrian force attacks IS-held capital of Raqqa
IS has long been preparing for battle, setting up hanging sheets of cloth over main roads to provide cover from warplanes
By Bassem Mroue
The Hebrew University team at the ICC Moot Court Competition in The Hague, May 2017 /Rotem Bavli)
June 6, 2017, 4:05 pm
Palestinians pass up chance to debate Israelis at ICC moot court
Although PA chief Abbas says he rejects boycotts of Israel, Birzeit University, which calls itself 'Palestine's leading academic institution,' quits mock trial competition at international court to avoid facing Hebrew U
By Raphael Ahren
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley gestures prior to address a session of United Nations Human Rights Council on June 6, 2017 in Geneva. (AFP PHOTO / Fabrice COFFRINI)
June 6, 2017, 3:48 pm
Haley: UN rights council must halt ‘anti-Israel bias’ to stay credible
In key address, US envoy warns Washington is 'looking carefully at this council and our participation in it'
By TOI staff and AP
File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Zionist Union leader MK Isaac Herzog in the Knesset, January 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
June 6, 2017, 3:29 pm
Marking 50 years of rule, Netanyahu says Golan will ‘forever’ be Israeli
Opposition leader Herzog, speaking after the PM at Katzrin conference, agrees northern plateau is inseparable part of Jewish state
By TOI staff
Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, second left in front row, receives the released Qatari hostages at the Doha airport in Doha, Qatar, April 21, 2017. (Qatar News Agency via AP)
June 6, 2017, 3:10 pm
Qatar’s billion-dollar ransom was ‘last straw’ that led to Gulf crisis – report
Vast payment by Doha to Iran and al-Qaeda for release of royal hunting party said to have pushed Saudi Arabia and allies to cut ties
By TOI staff and Agencies
Antonio Guterres, newly confirmed as incoming UN secretary-general, with Israel's envoy to the UN Danny Danon, soon after the appointment of Guterres was endorsed, October 13, 2016 (Courtesy)
June 6, 2017, 2:40 pm
Israelis cry foul as UN leaders lament 50 years of ‘occupation’
UN envoy Danon blasts António Guterres' 'preposterous' statement as 'Palestinian misinformation'; deputy FM urges him to 'correct the distortion'
By Raphael Ahren
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