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In Israel, unlike the US, a privilege — but no right — to bear arms
By
Mitch Ginsburg
As America grapples with gun control after the Connecticut shootings, Israeli experts note that only 2.5% of civilians here are licensed to carry a firearm. Yet mandatory training, and a profound sense of shared responsibility, says one scholar, have seen those civilians frequently intervene to foil murderous attacks
Obama addresses a grieving nation
Jewish politicians lead chorus calling for tighter gun laws
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Questions of ‘Why’ and ‘How’ fill pews in Newtown
88 percent of Palestinians believe armed struggle is the best way to achieve independence
By
Elhanan Miller
For first time since 2006, more West Bank Palestinians favor Hamas’s political strategy over Fatah’s, poll finds
Palestinian PM calls for boycott of Israeli goods
Palestinians hurl Molotov cocktails at settlement guard post
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ToI Staff
IDF shoots Palestinian fisherman near Ashkelon
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Surprise! Israeli discovers her long-lost Christian cousin — in Oklahoma
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Hillel Kuttler
How a bogus laxative, a century-old advertisement and a little luck connected an Auschwitz survivor with her previously unknown American family
Turkey investigating at least five local Jews it claims aided IDF in Mavi Marmara affair
By
Asher Zeiger
Representative of Turkish immigrants accuses Ankara of using Jewish community as leverage against Israel
Turkey suggests new plan on Syrian leadership transfer
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Stuart Winer
Liberman’s legal proceedings to be expedited, lawyer says
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Yoel Goldman
Parties discuss plea bargain, but nothing decided
Israel 2012: More children resort to begging, or quit school to enter workforce
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Stuart Winer
Needy families are sliding into still harsher times, report shows; public sees dealing with poverty as more urgent than national security
Jewish residents to be evicted from disputed Beit Ezra building in Hebron
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Asher Zeiger
Settlers lash government after state attorney announces eviction, accuse it of adopting Peace Now’s policies
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