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A car seen with bullet holes at an intersection in the West Bank town of Huwara following a terrorist attack on March 19, 2023. Right: US-Israeli David Stern, a former US Marine, who was seriously wounded and managed to fire back. (Israel Defense Forces; courtesy)

Israeli, an ex-US Marine, badly wounded in West Bank shooting; terrorist caught

By Emanuel Fabian

Victim David Stern manages to shoot back; gunman initially flees scene on foot after opening fire at couple in car on Route 60 in Huwara

Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech, right, is accompanied by her spokesperson Elisha Yered as she arrives to testify at the Police Internal Investigations Department, in Jerusalem, after she was allegedly sexually assaulted by Border Police officers during the demolition of a vineyard in the West Bank, February 26, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Coalition lawmakers urge escalation against Palestinians following terror attack

By Michael Bachner

Palestinian protesters burn tires during a small protest called for by Hamas east of Gaza City by the border with Israel on March 19, 2023 against the regional summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Israel, PA renew vow to curb violence and halt unilateral moves at Egypt summit

Or Eshkar, 32, victim of a terror shooting in Tel Aviv on March 9, 2023. (Courtesy)

Victim of Tel Aviv shooting dies of wounds 11 days after terror attack

He ‘showered nothing but goodness, love and giving on everyone who crossed his path,’ says mother of 32-year-old Or Eshkar, after he succumbed to his injuries

Yair Lapid, Benny Gantz, Merav Michaeli and Avigdor Liberman meet in Jerusalem on March 13, 2023 to coordinate opposition strategy to judicial overhaul. (Yesh Atid)

‘Hostile political takeover’: Opposition leaders slam new judicial overhaul proposal

Lapid says changes to judge selection panel are ‘what they’ve planned from day 1’; Michaeli: ‘There’s no compromise here’; Sa’ar: Government ‘hasn’t learned anything’ from protests

Coalition party leaders meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, January 22, 2023. (Courtesy: Likud)

Coalition to bring judicial appointments bill for final votes before Passover

By Jeremy Sharon, Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Deputy Attorney General Avital Sompolinsky attends a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on March 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Significant politicization’: Deputy AG spurns coalition plan to appoint new judges

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With unbridled attack on security chiefs, Netanyahu shows he’s at point of no return

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was edgy and irritable. After a long weekend spent with the family, sans the soothing views of the Villa Borghese garden afforded by his luxury suite in Rome the previous weekend, he kicked off Sunday's weekly cabinet meeting in gusty fashion. His hands trembling and his face furious, Netanyahu equated the threat to Israel from protesters... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem Sunday, March 19, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

David Bitan, chairman of the Knesset Economic Committee, heads a committee hearing, March 16, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Likud’s Bitan says ‘at least five’ lawmakers in party back freezing overhaul bills

President Isaac Herzog, right, grants Likud party chairman MK Benjamin Netanyahu the mandate to form a new government, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on November 13, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Netanyahu said to slam Herzog, holding him responsible for potential civil war

The Palestinian village of Burqa is seen as an Israeli flag is placed in the Jewish West Bank outpost of Homesh, January 17, 2022. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

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Knesset passes bill to repeal Disengagement Law for northern West Bank in final vote

Law approved 31-18 in third reading; Levin warns High Court not to intervene against new bill on judicial appointments; coalition advances bill aimed at returning Deri to cabinet

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Knesset votes to repeal Disengagement Law for northern West Bank
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Likud MK threatens police chief over handling of anti-government protests
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Levin warns High Court not to intervene against new bill on judicial appointments

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-US vice president Joe Biden speak in front of media prior to a meeting on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

PM tells him: Israel will remain a strong, vibrant democracy

Biden voices concern over judicial overhaul in ‘candid’ phone call with Netanyahu

US president reiterates call for coalition to secure ‘broadest possible’ support for foundational changes to High Court, avoids extending White House invitation long sought by PM

Israeli Consul General to New York Asaf Zamir speaks at a New York City event with the Jewish Federations of North America on September 27, 2021. (Shahar Azran)

Israel’s envoy in NY summoned to Jerusalem over criticism of judicial overhaul

By Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

Architects of the government's judicial overhaul package Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothman and Justice Minister Yariv Levin speak during a debate in the Knesset plenum, February 22, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Pressured to compromise, coalition debates new proposal for judicial appointments

By Jeremy Sharon and Carrie Keller-Lynn

Smotrich says there’s no Palestinian people, declares his family ‘real Palestinians’

Far-right lawmaker Bezalel Smotrich said Sunday that the Palestinian people were "an invention" from the last century and that people like himself and his grandparents were the "real Palestinians." Speaking in Paris at a private memorial service for prominent right-wing Likud activist and Jewish Agency board member Jacques Kupfer, who passed away after... Continue Reading

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks in Paris on March 19, 2023. (Ynet screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh holds a briefing with foreign press at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, November 10, 2021. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Palestinian Authority PM pans Smotrich for saying his people doesn’t exist

German tourist Gerald Hetzel recounts a mob attack by Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus, March 19, 2023. (Screenshot: Channel 12; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘I felt the hate’: German tourist mobbed by Palestinians says he feared for his life

Gerald Hetzel says he felt his car was being ‘hunted’ by group in Nablus; Palestinian Authority spokesman says crowd thought they were IDF soldiers, were ‘wary’ of ‘foreign’ car

File: Palestinians hurl rocks at an Israeli army bulldozer, during clashes in the West Bank city of Jenin, January 26, 2023. (Zain Jaafar/AFP)

Senior Hamas official says Gaza should keep quiet to boost West Bank ‘resistance’

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Anti-lessons from another divided country

Israelis must avoid the Brexit trap: Talk and listen to each other. Not because it’s pleasant but because it’s necessary

Looking for freedom, equality, and peace in 2023

In need of a new civil pact, Israel can speak to its women to find out just what’s wrong with the current one

Travelers walk with their luggage in Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, November 28, 2021. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Israel warns Passover travelers of Iranian plots to harm them abroad

By Lazar Berman

Gulf countries, Turkey, Sinai represent heightened risk as Jewish holiday coincides with Muslim holy month of Ramadan, says National Security Council

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi addresses lawmakers while defending his next year's budget bill at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, January 22, 2023. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iran’s Raisi welcomes invitation by Saudi king to visit Riyadh

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Israelis enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv on a hot winter day, January 21, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel soars to 4th place in global happiness list, highest since ranking started

UN-sponsored index, based on data from 2020-2022, predates government’s divisive judicial overhaul plan; list is again topped by Finland, with US 15th, Britain 19th and France 21st

People on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem, September 26, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Almost half of small business owners are sure judicial overhaul will harm them: poll

A potsherd discovered in Tel Lachish with an Aramaic inscription 'Year 24 of Darius.' It was announced by the IAA as the first written evidence of Persian king Darius the Great discovered in Israel, but on March 3, 2023 was declared to not be authentic. (Yoli Schwartz/IAA)

Archaeology'It's a one-in-a-million story'

Too-good-to-be-true Darius ostracon mix-up teaches a public lesson etched in pottery

By Melanie Lidman

While archaeologists worry about forgeries, the IAA vows to implement more rigorous testing after a highly touted potsherd thought to be from 498 BCE was found to be inauthentic

Deep dive: Archaeologists uncover oldest Gulf pearling town in UAE

By Jon Gambrell

Archaeologists search for signs of Jewish past in Morocco’s southern oases

By Kaouthar Oudrhiri

Likud MK Eliyahu Revivo attends a special committee meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 25, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MK files, quickly withdraws bill to politicize Central Elections Committee

Eliyahu Revivo suggests a political appointee as key body’s chair instead of a Supreme Court justice; backtracks after strong rebuke, including from coalition

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks to police officials ahead of a protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, outside the Knesset, February 20, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Top court says police don’t take orders on protests from Ben Gvir, who slams ‘coup’

By Jeremy Sharon

Ruling follows incidents in which far-right minister instructed police commanders on crowd dispersal methods, highways to be cleared

Students walk around the campus at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, on May 8, 2013. (Dudu Greenspan/ Flash90)

Ben-Gurion University Senate encourages students to protest judicial overhaul

MK Simcha Rotman, Head of the Constitution Committee, at a committee meeting at the Knesset March 19, 2023 (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 15, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ministers again delay bill to monitor domestic violence abusers, drawing anger

By Michael Bachner

Worshippers stand with a monk outside the closed entrance to the tomb of the Virgin Mary in Jerusalem following the alleged assault of a priest, on March 19, 2023. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

Greek Church condemns ‘terror attack’ after clerics targeted at Jerusalem holy site

By AFP and ToI Staff

Protesters march during a protest in Jakarta, Indonesia, March 20, 2023. Dozens of conservative Muslims have marched in Indonesia's capital to protest against the Israeli team's participation in the FIFA World Cup Under-20 in Indonesia. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Dozens in Indonesia protest Israel’s planned presence at Under-20 soccer World Cup

By ANDI JATMIKO

Illustrative: An empty classroom in the Beit Hakerem neighborhood of Jerusalem on February 10, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Parents association calls middle, high school strike in anger at ministry, teachers

By Stuart Winer

The cover of the new book by Rabbi Haviva Ner-David and Rachel Stock Spilker. (Bedazzled Ink Publishing)

Deep diveMysterious mikveh fish helps educate kids about ritual bath

By Canaan Lidor

Jonny Daniels stands beside the Israeli and Polish flags atop a residential building overlooking what used to be the Warsaw Ghetto in Warsaw, Poland on March 19. (From the Depths)

Ahead of ghetto uprising anniversary, Polish and Israeli flags again fly over Warsaw

By Canaan Lidor

Participants including Greece's President Katerina Sakellaropoulou (C) march behind a banner with the words 'Never Again' in Thessaloniki, on March 19, 2023, as they proceed towards the old railway station to mark the departure of the first train deporting Greek Jews from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on March 15, 1943. (AFP stringer/AFP)

Greece marks 80th anniversary of first deportation of Greek Jews to Auschwitz

By AFP

Israel's offshore Leviathan gas platform. (Albatross)

Leviathan group, in push to boost gas output, updates reservoir value to $12.5b

By Sharon Wrobel

Workers on Tel Aviv's Ayalon Highway work to examine and fill up a hole in the road after observing sinking asphalt, March 19, 2023. (Ayalon Highways Co.)

Lanes in Tel Aviv highway blocked due to sinking asphalt, causing traffic

Iraq's National Security Advisor Qasim al-Araji (R) welcomes the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani in Baghdad on March 19, 2023. (IRAQI SECURITY MEDIA CENTRE/AFP)

Iran, Iraq ink deal for security cooperation over Kurdish border region

By AFP

Picture of the ŠKODA sign at a car dealership in New Belgrade (BalkansCat; iStock by Getty Images)

Car importer announces massive recall due to airbag concern

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