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Iranian students protest at the University of Tehran during a demonstration driven by anger over economic problems, in the capital Tehran on December 30, 2017. (AFP/ STR)

Amid protests, social media access restricted on Iran cellphones

An Iranian woman raises her fist amid the smoke of tear gas at the University of Tehran during a protest driven by anger over economic problems, in the capital Tehran, December 30, 2017. (AFP/STR)

2 confirmed killed in Iran, where official warns protesters will ‘pay’

Iranian students scuffle with police at the University of Tehran during a demonstration driven by anger over economic problems, in the capital Tehran on December 30, 2017. (AFP/ STR)

Iranians target Tehran’s support for Palestinians amid massive protests

By Joshua Davidovich

An Iranian woman raises her fist amid the smoke of tear gas at the University of Tehran during a protest driven by anger over economic problems, in the capital Tehran on December 30, 201(AFP PHOTO / STR)

Trump says Iranians tired of having wealth stolen, ‘squandered on terrorism’

By Stuart Winer and Agencies

Iran minister warns Tehran’s enemies not to gloat over the mass protests, ‘as if something were happening in Iran’

Dr. Shirin Ebadi participate in the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, in Chicago. in an interview with the Associated Press November 5, 2013. (Charles Rex Arbogast/AP)

Iran unrest ‘start of a big movement,’ says Nobelist Iranian

By AFP

Iranian pro-regime protesters hold anti-Israeli placards at a rally in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, December 30, 2017 (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Hebrew media reviewWhat’s the matter with Iran?

By Joshua Davidovich

Analysis

Eric Cortellessa

A new Iran protest, a harsher US response, yet it may end the same

Trump has stood with the demonstrators, marking a reaction ‘180 degrees apart’ from Obama in 2009, but the real test will come once the regime starts cracking skulls

Iranian anti-riot police officers confronting people during an anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009. (AP)

Iranian students scuffle with police at the University of Tehran during a demonstration on December 30, 2017. (AFP/STR)

Backing Iran protests, Trump says ‘oppressive regimes cannot last forever’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during an interview in the PMO on December 29, 2017. (Screen capture/YouTube)

PM: Trump may defy world consensus on Iran as he did on Jerusalem

Iranian students protest at the University of Tehran on December 30, 2017.
Students protested in a third day of demonstrations, videos on social media showed, but were outnumbered by counter-demonstrators. (AFP PHOTO / STR)

Live updates (closed)

Minister wishes Iran protesters luck, says ‘murderous regime’ will fall

Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz says Israel will ‘exist forever’ while Islamic Republic’s leadership will ‘disappear’

7:29 pm

Abbas warns Israel: Rethink your 'aggressive' policies 'before it's too late'
7:12 pm

WhatsApp down around the world, users say
7:02 pm

Police boost forces ahead of New Year's celebrations

An IDF vehicle drives along the road parallel to the border fence separating the Israeli and Syrian regions of the Golan Heights, July 19, 2017. (AFP/MENAHEM KAHANA)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Assad may have retaken the Syrian Golan, but Iran is pulling the strings

The Syrian president is more beholden than ever to the IRGC and Hezbollah, which have no interest in keeping things quiet along the border with Israel

In this photo released on Friday, December 29, 2017 by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian government forces stand next to a bus which is waiting to evacuate Syrian rebels and their families from Beit Jinn village, in the southern province of Daraa, Syria. (SANA via AP)

Assad regains control as Syrian rebels abandon area bordering Golan Heights

By AP and ToI Staff

From a wave of bomb threats at JCCs to a neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville to Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, 2017 was not a quiet year for Jews. (JTA collage)

525,600 news minutes

The top 10 moments that mattered to Jews in 2017

By Josefin Dolsten

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, center, and other progressive Jews clashing with security guards in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, November 16, 2017. (Noam Rivkin Fenton/via JTA)

Sibling Rivalry

Four ways Israel and American Jews grew apart in 2017

Elhanan Miller, a rabbinical student and former Times of Israel reporter who speaks fluent Arabic, sees his videos as a way to bridge a religious divide. (Bruria Hammer)

Rabbinical student explains Judaism to Muslims in Arabic

Firing back at critics, PM says Israel struck Hamas 40 times recently

Netanyahu’s comments come after Labor leader Avi Gabbay slams government’s failure to halt Gaza rocket fire

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opens the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office on December 31, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / POOL / GALI TIBBON)

Illustrative: Palestinians run for cover as sand and smoke rise following an Israeli airstrike on a Hamas post in the northern Gaza Strip on February 6, 2017. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Israeli jets strike Hamas post in Gaza in response to shelling

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 24, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Defense minister: Mortar shells fired at Israel on Friday were supplied by Iran

The city of Ma'ale Adumim, one of the largest Israeli settlements in the West Bank. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud’s top body set to urge annexing parts of West Bank

Netanyahu, long an opponent of similar declarations by the party, ‘didn’t try to delay or cancel the meeting,’ say activists

Israelis prepare for the weekly protest against the corruption of the government in Tel Aviv on December 30, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Tel Aviv protester raps PM as ‘Traitor-Yahu’ as 5th rally draws thousands

Former defense minister Moshe Ya'alon speaks at Hebrew University, on January 18, 2017 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Justice officials deny PM kept out of sub probe for fear of sinking deal

A new year, an old me

When I look in the mirror, I see a ,young woman; I don’t see the wrinkles and the gray hair

Do you get tons of year-end solicitations?

I run a non-profit organization and I’m convinced that there’s a better way

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A general view of the Ministry of finance in Jerusalem, November 26, 2006. (Flash90)

In protest, Jerusalem dumps garbage at Finance Ministry’s door

By Stuart Winer

Extreme right-wings demonstrators gather prior to a neo-Nazi rally on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the death of Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess in Berlin Spandau on August 19, 2017. AFP/Tobias SCHWARZ)

Jewish leader decries ‘commonplace’ anti-Semitism in Germany

Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud and Jordanian King Abdullah II sit in a vintage car during a welcome ceremony at the airport in the Jordanian capital Amman on March 27, 2017 ahead of the 28th Summit of the Arab League. / AFP PHOTO / Khalil MAZRAAWI

Jordan denies arresting king’s brothers over Saudi contacts

Youth Aliya members from Germany dancing the hora at Kibbutz Ein Harod, 1936 (Kluger Zoltan/GPO)

Claiming to be Israel’s first startup ventures, kibbutzim jump on tech bandwagon

By Shoshanna Solomon

An anti-violence protest in the Druze village of Yarka, Israel, December 30, 2017 (Twitter video screenshot)

Hundreds rally against violence in Druze town after failed assassination attempt

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries employees protest in front of the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem against the company's plan to lay off hundreds of workers, December 17, 2017.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Teva agrees to delay some layoffs at Jerusalem plant

By Shoshanna Solomon

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot on November 14, 2017. (Flash90)

IDF announces commando training school for special units

Pedestrians look on as workers remove a large penis mural from a building in New York City, December 2017 (YouTube screenshot)

Member of the tribeJewish landlord removes artist’s giant penis mural from NY building

By JTA

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