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Iran says it successfully tested the Hoveizeh cruise missile on February 2, 2019 (Screen grab via Tasnim)

Iran says new cruise missile successfully fired on revolution’s 40th anniversary

Video shows test of ‘Hoveyzeh,’ allegedly a high-precision weapon capable of carrying a large payload for up to 1,200 kilometers

Attack on Iranian paramilitary base kills 1, wounds 5

Putin: Russia to design new missiles after US withdrawal from nuclear pact

By AFP

Trump blames Russia as US pulls out of nuclear arms treaty

By Deb Riechmann, Robert Burns and Matthew Lee

An Israel Air Force F-16, December 31, 2015 (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

Drones briefly halt Ben Gurion flights; civilian plane scrambles jets at Sderot

At Israel’s main airport, man arrested after drones cause short suspension of flights; army says police will deal with case of plane that failed to coordinate route near Gaza

Analysis

Eric Cortellessa

Once a refugee from Iran, a Jewish state senator ascends in New York politics

WASHINGTON -- Forty years ago, Anna Kaplan was separated from her family as a 13-year-old girl. But the circumstances were quite different from the stories from the US-Mexico border peppering world headlines. She was detached from her family of her parents' own volition. It was in the middle of the Iranian revolution in 1979 Tehran,... Continue Reading

Freshman Sen. Anna Kaplan, Democrat, Mineola, is introduced during opening day of the legislative session in Albany, NY on January 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

Rep Ilhan Omar at the Capitol in Washington, November 30, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

New Muslim congresswoman Omar says US should ‘call out’ Israel like it does Iran

By Eric Cortellessa

In interview with Yahoo! News, Minnesota Democrat says she ‘almost chuckles’ when Israel called a democracy

Lee Zeldin, left, and Ilhan Omar have been feuding on Twitter over Omar’s support of the boycott Israel movement. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Can a feud in Congress between Jewish and Muslim lawmakers be solved over tea?

Rats seen eating pizza at a branch of Domino's Pizza in Haifa on February 1, 2019. (Screen capture/Ynet)

Pizza rat

Domino’s Pizza shutters Haifa branch following video of rats on the loose

By JTA

Chain apologizes and shuts the branch for sanitary work, blames recent work on nearby subway system for influx of rodents

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives with then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit, second left, for a cabinet meeting at Netanyahu's Jerusalem office on December 20, 2015. (AFP/Pool/Gali Tibbon)

PM must be indicted for bribery, conviction is guaranteed, AG’s team said to say

Israeli TV publishes what it says are transcripts from discussions between Mandelblit and his prosecution team; Netanyahu condemns ‘criminal leaks’

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a State Control committee meeting in the Knesset on December 3, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

PM slams AG for ‘surrendering to the left’ on refusal to delay indictment call

By TOI staff and Raoul Wootliff

Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid (L) and Israel Resilience party chief Benny Gantz. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90, Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Gantz and Lapid in talks to unite, decision ‘within 2 weeks,’ says Yesh Atid MK

Likud MK says his party has ‘made a mistake’ in going after former IDF chief, calls him ‘worthy’; Labor head Gabbay rules out alliance with Meretz

Israel Resilience's Benny Gantz speaking to a Times of Israel journalist while campaigning in Tel Aviv, February 1, 2019 (Sraya Diamant/Israel Resilience)

Israel Resilience, Yesh Atid out in force as battle for the center heats up

By Raoul Wootliff

Head of the Joint (Arab) List party Ayman Odeh attends a special statement by MK Dov Khenin, at the Knesset, on January 1, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

MK Ayman Odeh unanimously reelected to head Hadash party

Havi Fisher, courtesy

What it’s like to be a transgender Jew in the US military now

By Josefin Dolsten

The Bratwurst Museum at its current location in Holzhausen (Facebook photo)

After outcry, German sausage museum nixes plans to move to former Nazi camp

Association behind museum says it had not been aware of Muehlhausen site’s history: ‘We definitely won’t build there’

Illustrative: German police officers on guard outside the regional court in Frankfurt, Germany, September 15, 2014. (Michael Probst/AP)

Passerby severely injured trying to stop assault on Jewish man in Germany

By JTA

Illustrative: In this photo from April 17, 2017, various cannabis oil products are displayed in the office of Georgia State Rep. Allen Peake, in Macon, Georgia. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Cannabis may help relieve Autism symptoms, Israeli study shows

Researchers record sharp improvement in measures such as quality of life, ability to dress and shower independently after 6 months of cannabis oil treatment

Palestinians sit waiting at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip, on January 8, 2019. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Hamas said to agree to rein in border clashes for reopening of Egypt crossing

Offer reportedly relayed to terror group’s leader during meeting with Egyptian and UN officials, ahead of weekly ‘March of Return’ protests

10,000 Palestinians protest on Gaza border, 24 said injured

Countries behind Hebron observer force slam Israeli move to shut it down

Turkey calls on Israel to renew Hebron observers’ mandate

By AFP and TOI staff

When settlers’ flocks graze in Palestinian fields

It’s a heavily penalized biblical crime, yet there are Bedouin shepherds who have lost all they planted (MISHPATIM)

Astronauts with disabilities?

The question of who is fit to fly to space raises the question of who God considers fit to live on earth

Tovah Feldshuh, left, and Meryl Streep star in 'Holocaust,' the 1978 series that changed how Germany perceived its disturbing history. (Screenshots)

Analysis

TV series ‘Holocaust,’ which changed how Germans saw their history, airs again

Though watered-down by today’s standards, the 1978 US-made miniseries starring Tovah Feldshuh, Meryl Streep and James Wood is credited for a shift in German consciousness

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) speaks with his Lithuanian counterpart Saulius Skvernelis in Vilnius, Lithuania, on August 23, 2018. (AFP/Petras Malukas)

Lithuania rejects Israeli request for remains of Vilna Gaon

By AFP

Rabbi Capers Funnye, left, and Martha Leah Williams, at the Jewish Africa Conference in New York, January 29, 2019. (Josefin Dolsten)

Jewish Africa

African Jewish communities get more recognition after years on the margins

By Josefin Dolsten

More Headlines

Then New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, center, is hugged by US Sen. Cory Booker, right, after speaking to a crowd at the Kaplen Jewish Community Center on the Palisades during a rally against recent bomb threats made to Jewish centers, Friday, March 3, 2017, in Tenafly, N.J. Also seen is U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, left, during the rally. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

5 Jewish things to know about Cory Booker

Tear gas canisters are fired by Israeli troops at Palestinians during clashes with Palestinians after the funeral of Hamdi Na'asan in the village of Mughayyir near the West Bank city of Ramallah, January 27, 2018 (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinians, Israeli army clash at West Bank site of deadly incident

By TOI staff and AP

Jussie Smollett participates in the "Empire" panel during the FOX Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on August 8, 2017, in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

Gay, black, Jewish actor says account of attack has been consistent

A crowd of opposition supporters listen to Venezuela's National Assembly head and the country's self-proclaimed "acting president" Juan Guaido (out of frame), at Bolivar Square in Chacao, eastern Caracas, on January 25, 2019. (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP)

Venezuelan Jews accept Israeli recognition of opposition leader: Chief rabbi

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Rabbi Asher Faith carries a new Torah scroll being dedicated alongside the new congregation at the dedication of the prayer space in the Medieval Jewish Prayer House in Budapest, September 6, 2018. (Márton Merész)

First bar mitzvah in centuries celebrated at reopened Budapest shul

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Robert and Clara Schumann, the married composers whose relationship was tried by mental illness and a mutual affection for Johannes Brahms, are the subject of 'Love Letters,' a Valentine's Day concert performed on February 14, 2019 by The New Israeli Opera (Courtesy PR)

LovesickIsraeli Opera to perform a concert of ‘love letters’ for Valentine’s Day

By Jessica Steinberg

Steven Spielberg speaks onstage during the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Governors Awards in Hollywood, California, November 18, 2018. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images via JTA)

Hollywood rebootSteven Spielberg’s family to reopen kosher restaurant

Shoppers at a 'Seasons' store (YouTube screenshot)

US kosher supermarket chain relaunching under new ownership

Jerry Seinfeld speaks onstage during the 2017 New Yorker Festival at New York Society for Ethical Culture in New York City on October 6, 2017. (Craig Barritt/Getty Images for The New Yorker/AFP)

Not funnySeinfeld sued over sale of Porsche alleged to be fake

By Larry Neumeister

Kafr Manda, file (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Amid riots in northern village, police arrest two with 100 Molotov cocktails

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