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Ron Yitzhak Kokia, an IDF soldier who was stabbed to death in a terror attack on November 30, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

Man stabbed to death in apparent terror attack named as IDF soldier

By Judah Ari Gross

Police search for two suspected assailants who fled scene after fatal assault on 19-year-old Ron Yitzhak Kokia next to a mall in southern city of Arad

Leaders vow to catch attacker who killed soldier amid large manhunt

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Manhunt after youth stabbed to death in apparent terror attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel razes home of suspected terrorist charged in October murder

By Judah Ari Gross

Then-US President Donald Trump visits the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in Jerusalem's Old City, on May 22, 2017. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

US officials: Trump mulls declaring Jerusalem Israel’s capital

By AP and ToI Staff

US president could offer recognition while delaying embassy move to city for another six months

UN marks Palestine Day with fresh slew of resolutions condemning Israel

In rare public remarks, Kushner to discuss peace push at DC confab

By Eric Cortellessa

AnalysisJerusalem ignores the UN’s forgotten partition plan of 2012 at its peril

By Raphael Ahren

Illustrative image of Israeli soldiers in the West Bank village of Qusra near the city of Nablus, on August 9, 2016. (Flash90)

Army: Hiking settlers were attacked first; soldiers took 20 minutes to find them

By Judah Ari Gross

Military says group didn’t coordinate trip that resulted in clash in which Palestinian killed, forbids future visits to the area without accompaniment

Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces following riots between Palestinians and a group of settlers traveling in the northern West Bank, on November 30, 2017. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Liberman says ‘self-defense’ as police probe manslaughter in Qusra clash

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces following riots between Palestinians and a group of settlers traveling in the northern West Bank, on November 30, 2017. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Renewed clashes between settlers, Palestinians following fatal shooting

Yisrael Katz, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, September 23, 2014. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Intelligence minister says he plans to succeed Netanyahu

By Edith M. Lederer

But Likud MK Yisrael Katz says he hopes corruption allegations against prime minister ‘will pass’

Netanyahu denies saying Reform Judaism will disappear by assimilation

By JTA

Aide to Israeli billionaire said to testify PM personally requested cigars

Hebrew media reviewRule of law, or rule of one?

By Adiv Sterman

Tony Hovater, the white nationalist profiled by the New York Times (YouTube screenshot)

With ‘GoyFundMe,’ white supremacists raise money for NY Times neo-Nazi

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with British Prime Minister Theresa May in the Oval Office of the White House on January 27, 2017. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump trip to UK reportedly pushed off after anti-Muslim tweet dust-up

By ToI Staff and AP

Deputy leader of the far-right organization Britain First Jayda Fransen gestures as she participates in a march in central London on April 1, 2017. (AFP Photo/Daniel Leal-Olivas)

Britain First: From far-right fringes to Trump’s Twitter account

By AFP

Nissim Guedj unpacking merchandise at a kosher meat shop in Amsterdam, October 26, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Why kosher butchers in Western Europe are preparing to close shop

By Cnaan Liphshiz

In this July 12, 2017 photo, Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn. arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Senate Ethics Committee opens inquiry into Al Franken groping charges

By JTA

Six women have accused the senator, a Democrat from Minnesota, of touching them inappropriately

This combination photo shows Geraldo Rivera left, and Bette Midler. (Photo by Richard Shotwell, left, and Rich Fury/Invision/AP, File)

With tweet, Geraldo Rivera revives claim he drugged, groped Bette Midler

By Gabe Friedman

Israel Horovitz (Screen capture: YouTube)

Playwright Israel Horovitz accused by 9 women of sexual harassment — report

Avraham Herzlich stands next to an ancient mikveh in the fields near his home in Kfar Tapuah. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Meandering from Brooklyn to Samaria, Avraham Herzlich shepherded a dynasty

By Jacob Magid and Video by Luke Tress

Things that go HEMP in the night

North Korea is fine-tuning its strike capability, and, with it, raises the global existential threat

Maya Haber and Bar Gissin

Power is built from below

Progressives will influence Israel’s political reality when they replace the ideologues in government

Are you a Mozart or a Beethoven?

Jacob’s life-long wrestling-match should reassure all who struggle for faith (Vayishlach)

Shammai Engelmayer

The Torah is no way to excuse abuse

A forthright look at how Jacob treated women and the Jewish law that makes it clear he did wrong

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This November 29, 2017, image provided by the North Korean government on Thursday, November 30, 2017, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, third from left, and what the North Korean government calls the Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile, in North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea’s new missile can hit Washington, Seoul warns

By AP

Illustrative photo (iStock)

Sneak a peek at your phone while driving, and you could face a NIS 500 fine

By Stuart Winer

Scallop eyes (Public domain, Wikimedia Commons)

SeefoodStudy: Scallops have 200 eyes which function like telescope

By AFP

A Syrian soldier walks past the remains of a statue in a heavily damaged street in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra on March 31, 2016 (AFP / JOSEPH EID)

UN says 17 World Heritage sites in Arab region are in danger

By AP

In this file photo taken on Nov. 12, 2015, a visitor walks past a photo showing Russia's last Czar Nicholas II with his family at the 1914-1945 Russia history exhibition in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Following uproar, Russian priest denies blaming Jews for killing tsar

Jordanian security forces stand on guard in front of protesters during a demonstration near the Israeli embassy in the capital Amman on July 28, 2017, calling for the shutting down of the embassy, expelling the ambassador, and canceling the 1994 peace treaty with Israel. (AFP PHOTO / KHALIL MAZRAAWI)

Jordan says replacing Israeli envoy not enough to mend ties

Israeli Shimon Biton (r), convicted of murder of another Israeli, Eliyahu Cohen, in Bangkok, Thailand on November 12, 2016. (Screen capture: Walla News)

Israeli sentenced to death in Thailand for murdering fellow expat

Illustrative: Smoke billows from a Palestinian Islamic Jihad position near Gaza City after Israeli aircraft bombed it on November 30, 2017, in retaliation for a mortar attack that targeted Israeli troops northeast of the Gaza Strip earlier in the day. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

IDF carries out fresh Gaza airstrikes, but says not looking for escalation

By Judah Ari Gross

Shamel Pitts (right) and Mirelle Martins in their work, 'Black Velvet,' which features some nudity and is being performed as part of Jerusalem International Dance Week (Courtesy Shamel Pitts and Mirelle Martins)

As Culture Ministry tsks at nudity, Jerusalem’s Dance Week takes off

By Jessica Steinberg

Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda sits in the International Criminal Court in The Hague, September 27, 2016. (AFP/ANP/Bas Czerwinski)

International Court prosecutor reaffirms she won’t open Gaza flotilla probe

By AP

An El Al flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport. February 26, 2015. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Planned weekend strike at Ben Gurion Airport called off

Musician Roger Waters performs during his 'Us + Them' tour at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA, on June 20, 2017. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images/AFP)

German broadcasters drop Roger Waters concerts over anti-Semitism accusations

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