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A Palestinian man climbs the security barrier at the West Bank town of al-Ram to cross into Israel illegally, on September 15, 2024. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean/ File)

July 19, 2025, 11:21 am

Barred from working in Israel, West Bank Palestinians pay a price for Gaza’s war

With permits down to 11% of pre-October 7 levels, laborers once dependent on Israel for decent wages are drowning, even as robust trade ties keep the intertwined economies afloat

By Nurit Yohanan

Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan talks while waiting for former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to appear via video link before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool)

July 19, 2025, 10:30 am

US Federal judge blocks enforcement of Trump’s sanctions on ICC for targeting Israel

Judge calls Trump order against prosecutor Karim Khan and 900 ICC staff appeared too broad and was an unconstitutional infringement on free speech

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Singer Connie Francis during a press conference in Los Angeles on Nov. 27, 1978. (AP Photo/Wally Fong)

July 19, 2025, 9:26 am

Connie Francis, 20th-century star, recorded album of Jewish songs in 60s

Francis, who dies this week, was not Jewish, but released ‘Connie Francis Sings Jewish Favorites’ in 1960, which included Yiddish, Hebrew songs

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Jewish educator Yiscah Smith in her garden in Jerusalem on May 22, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

July 19, 2025, 9:09 am

Veteran educator charts new spiritual path rooted in her Jerusalem garden

Yiscah Smith’s new book, ‘Planting Seeds of the Divine,’ blends Hasidic wisdom, personal transformation and contemplative practice

By Rossella Tercatin

Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, right, meets with US Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack, at the People's Palace in Damascus, Syria, July 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

July 19, 2025, 8:58 am

Syria believed it had green light from US, Israel to deploy troops to Sweida

Despite months of Israel warning not to deploy forces south, Syrian military official says correspondence with US led Damascus to believe it could without Israel confronting them

By Timour Azhari, Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Maya Gebeily

Illustrative: An Israeli soldier on a tank salutes in front of an Israeli flag at an IDF gathering point in a field near the Israeli border with Gaza, 2014. (Edi Israel/FLASH90)

July 19, 2025, 8:09 am

Alone in uniform: Israel’s overlooked sabra lone soldiers come from broken or Haredi homes

Thousands of native-born Israelis serve in the IDF without family support — but unlike immigrant volunteers, their struggles rarely make headlines

By Stav Levaton

A message calling on US President Donald Trump to release all files related to Jeffrey Epstein is projected onto the US Chamber of Commerce building, across from the White House in Washington, on July 18, 2025. (Alex Wroblewski/AFP)

July 19, 2025, 6:44 am

Trump sues Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal for $10B over Epstein sex bombshell

Publisher of newspaper vows to ‘vigorously defend against any lawsuit’ as US president rages over report on ‘bawdy’ birthday letter to Epstein

By Sebastian Smith

People hold pictures of victims during a ceremony to commemorate the 31st anniversary the Mutual Israelite Association of Argentina (AMIA) terror bombing, which killed 85 and wounded more than 300, in Buenos Aires on July 18, 2025. (Luis Robayo/AFP)

July 19, 2025, 5:52 am

‘Impunity persists, terrorism too’: Hundreds in Argentina commemorate AMIA bombing

Demonstrators, including President Javier Milei, demand justice as they mark 31 years since deadly terror attack on Jewish center that court found Iran and Hezbollah carried out

By Martín RASCHINSKY

Left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to staff at a Shin Bet facility, June 29, 2025. (Maayan Toaf/GPO); Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa attends the signing of an agreement for a regional energy project, in Damascus, Syria, May 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

July 19, 2025, 4:49 am

Israel and Syria have agreed to ceasefire, announces US envoy

Syrian presidency confirms start of ceasefire, says it is deploying forces to Druze area; Envoy Tom Barrack urges end to ethnic clashes inside Syria after attacks on Druze

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Benjamin Netanyahu as pictured in his high school yearbook at Cheltenham High School in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania. (JTA)

July 19, 2025, 3:36 am

Students at Netanyahu’s Pennsylvania high school seek to remove PM from hall of fame

Petition backed by some 15% of students at Cheltenham says prime minister should be removed from wall honoring alumni because of ICC war crime charges

By JTA and ToI Staff

Yemenis lift placards and Palestinian flags during a rally against Israel and the United States, in the Houthi-run capital Sanaa on July 18, 2025. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP)

July 19, 2025, 2:54 am

IDF downs Houthi missile that triggered sirens in central Israel, Jerusalem area

No injuries or damage reported in attack that the Iran-backed rebels in Yemen claim targeted Ben Gurion Airport

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

A Palestinian man said to have been injured during a food distribution at a center run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US- and Israel--backed organization approved by Israel, is carried into Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, July 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga)

July 19, 2025, 1:47 am

Palestinians say 26 killed in shootings near Gaza aid sites; IDF ‘looking into’ reports

Trump says hoping ceasefire deal freeing 10 more hostages will be ‘finished quickly’ * IDF: Druze residents of Israel were violent toward troops as they broke through border to Syria overnight

By ToI Staff

Demonstrators from the anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace group protest inside Trump Tower in support of Mahmoud Khalil, on March 13, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

July 19, 2025, 1:31 am

Unsatisfied with protests, anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace aims to sway US elections

With support at a high after Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities, group asks members to donate to a new entity not bound by current restrictions on partisan activity

By Andrew Lapin and Asaf Elia-Shalev

This picture taken from Israel's border with the Gaza Strip shows smoke billowing over destroyed buildings during an Israeli strike on July 17, 2025. (Jack Guez/AFP)

July 19, 2025, 1:15 am

More deaths reported near aid sites; Mossad chief, Witkoff said to discuss relocating Gazans

Hamas-run agency reports 10 killed, IDF says unaware of any fatal incidents; Barnea reportedly tells Trump envoy Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Libya could take in Gazans if incentified

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and AFP

Rioters at the airport in Makhachkala, Dagestan, October 30, 2023, shout antisemitic slogans as they protest the arrival of an airliner coming from Tel Aviv. (AP)

July 19, 2025, 12:05 am

Russian courts sentence 135 people linked to 2023 antisemitic airport riot

Mob attacked plane landing from Israel in first weeks of war with Hamas; Dagestan region has seen uptick of antisemitism since war began

By Reuters and ToI Staff