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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 66

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A sign for Moody's Corp. in New York, August 13, 2010. (AP Photo/ Mark Lennihan/ File)

Smotrich: 'No big drama'; ex-BoI head: Risk of 'giant drama'

Dismissing Moody’s downgrade, Smotrich says any economic damage is fault of protests

By Sharon Wrobel

Outgoing securities chief: ‘Ignoring risks undermines confidence in Israeli market’; economist warns: Israel set to be on investors’ and credit rating agencies’ ‘watch list’

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich give a press conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on January 11, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Economists: PM, Smotrich response to Moody’s downgrade ‘disconnected from reality’

In this handout photo, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich arrive for a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 23, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

PM’s associates reject Moody’s downgrade: ‘They aren’t well-versed on the issues’

Gantz: Plan places the IDF, our protective wall, in danger

Netanyahu in talks on new IDF draft law that would lower age for Haredi exemption

By Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a meeting on Sunday with some of his coalition partners to discuss potential new legislation on the military draft, weighing lowering the age at which members of the ultra-Orthodox community can get a formal exemption from service. The Israel Defense Forces indicated that it did not have an... Continue Reading

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men walk alongside Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem on December 5, 2019. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Israeli police surround protesters during a demonstration against the government's judicial reform bill, in Tel Aviv on April 15, 2023. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Lapid: Ben Gvir is afraid of protests

Hundreds of thousands rally against judicial overhaul plans for a 15th straight week

Protest organizers vow to push on until legislation shelved; smaller pro-overhaul rallies take place in 12 locations, with police minister Ben Gvir at Netanya counter-demonstration

Passengers look at a monitor displaying delayed flights at Ben Gurion airport, March 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Oren Ziv)

In deposition, airport workers union head says strike was coordinated with Netanyahu

Israeli police detain a protester during a demonstration against the government's judicial overhaul plans, in Tel Aviv on April 15, 2023. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Live updates (closed)Police disperse protesters blocking Ayalon Highway amid anti-overhaul rally

'David Ben-Gurion in his library in Sdeh Boker.' Envisioning Israel’s future hearkens back to the modern state’s roots — namely, the pioneering spirit of Ben-Gurion, writes Doug Seserman. Credit: National Photo Collection of Israel/GPO."

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) at the Knesset plenum, in Jerusalem, on March 27, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Rabbi Leo Dee, who lost his wife and two daughters in a terror attack, during a shiva visit to Efrat on April 16, 2023. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

‘They live on through you’: Netanyahu visits grieving Dee family at Efrat home

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Rabbi Leo Dee tells PM he doesn’t regret for one moment moving to Israel; daughter Tali asks PM how he dealt with pain of the death of his brother Yoni in 1976 Entebbe raid

Rabbi Leo Dee (left) talks with OC Central Command Yehuda Fox at his home in the West Bank settlement of Efrat, April 14, 2023. (Efrat Municipality spokesperson)

Visiting grieving family, general vows to catch terrorists who killed mom, daughters

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Saudis said set to host top Hamas delegation, further dimming Israeli hopes for ties

A senior delegation representing Palestinian terror group Hamas was set to visit Saudi Arabia on Sunday, according to multiple Arabic media reports, representing a major development as Israel's hopes of forging official ties with Riyadh appear to dwindle further. For many years, Saudi Arabia's relationship with Hamas has... Continue Reading

File: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh flashes the victory sign before he speaks to journalists after his meeting with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, in Beirut, Lebanon, on June 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Illustrative image: Hamas supporters wave green Islamic flags during a protest to show the solidarity with Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Jebaliya City, northern Gaza Strip, April 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

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File: Syrian President Bashar Assad (right) receives a delegation representing various Arab parliaments in Damascus, February 26, 2023. (SANA via AP)

No consensus among envoys on Syrian Arab League return

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A bright meteor is seen over Israel's skies, April 15, 2023. (Courtesy of Ofer Gabzo via the Israeli Astronomical Association; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

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Israeli Astronomical Association says bolide visible over country’s center and north for several seconds; unclear if any pieces survived fiery descent

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Many Jews eligible to marry via Rabbinate elect to do so abroad instead — survey

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As an Israeli couple with a straightforwardly Jewish pedigree, Yoni Zierler and Yochi Rappeport could have easily gotten married through the Chief Rabbinate. But instead, Zierler, whose father Lawrence is an Orthodox rabbi, and his wife officially tied the knot abroad in a US civil ceremony, conducted by a justice of the peace... Continue Reading

Illustrative: A Jewish wedding with chuppah in Vienna 2007. (CC BY SA 2.5 Gryffindor)

Relatives and friends of Holocaust survivors place flowers on names of concentration camps seen on the floor of the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem on Holocaust Remembrance Day April 12, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Ahead of annual memorial day, 147,199 Holocaust survivors living in Israel

Figure includes 521 survivors who immigrated from Ukraine after Russian invasion; around 15,000 died over previous year; average age of survivors is 85

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Czech toothpaste found near interim refuge of Holocaust survivor orphans in England

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Clinton-produced ‘How Saba Kept Singing’ tells story of cantor’s Auschwitz survival

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Illustrative: Israel Police investigate the scene of a crime on June 2, 2021. (Israel Police)

‘I slaughtered her’: Woman from Kuseife is killed, brother said to confess

26-year-old Azhar Abu Rabia is 10th woman murdered by someone known to her, 49th person killed in the Arab community this year; reports say her throat was slit

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Likud’s Amsalem calls to put Supreme Court chief, protest leaders on trial

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Likud minister David Amsalem on Meet the Press, April 15, 2023. (Channel 12 screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Illustrative: Uri and Mika Banki light a torch during the 74th anniversary Independence Day ceremony, held at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, on May 4, 2022 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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‘Never seen anything like it’: 56 killed as Sudanese army battles rival paramilitary

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Fighting goes on between leader Burhan’s military forces and his deputy’s Rapid Support Forces, with officials saying over 600 have been injured

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, arrives for his weekly news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center, March 30, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images via JTA)

Pro-Israel Rep. Jeffries penned defense of uncle’s antisemitism and Farrakhan in 90s

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4 Israelis remain critical after deadly South Korea bus accident

Moldova's then parliamentary candidate Ilan Shor, mayor of the town of Orhei, arrives to meet with supporters during a campaign event in the city of Comrat on February 15, 2019. (Daniel MIHAILESCU/AFP)

Israeli-born Moldovan oligarch sentenced in absentia to 15 years over $1b bank theft

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Iranian women, wearing headscarves, walk in a street in Tehran on April 10, 2023. (ATTA KENARE/AFP)

Iran begins crackdown against violators of mandatory hijab laws

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Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop speaks to reporters at the scene of the shooting at a kosher market, December 11, 2019. (Jennifer Brown/City of Jersey City via JTA)

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A truck drives on the flooded runway at Fort Lauderdale- Hollywood International Airpor, April 13, 2023, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Historic flooding complicates journey home for Passover vacationers in South Florida

A volunteer gesticulates on top of a partially destroyed residenial building after a shelling in Sloviansk, Donetsk region on April 14, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by ANATOLII STEPANOV / AFP)

Russian strike kills 11 civilians in east Ukraine; Moscow claims gains near Bakhmut

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A photo taken on April 14, 2023 shows the nuclear power plant Isar in Essenbach near Landshut, southern Germany. (Photo by Christof STACHE / AFP)

‘End of an era’: Germany shuts down its last 3 nuclear reactors

By Sebastien ASH

French President Emmanuel Macron looks on as he attends a tribute ceremony to veterans of the Algerian War, at the Hotel National des Invalides, in Paris on October 18, 2022. (Mohammed Badra/Pool/AFP)

Defying protests, Macron signs France pension law raising retirement age to 64

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Louisville Metro Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey speaks to reporters at the scene of a mass shooting in the city on April 15, 2023 (screenshot: Twitter used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

2 dead in second mass shooting in Louisville in under a week

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Archaeologist Aqeel Mansarawi searches for the remains of an ancient structure at the Umm al-Aqarib archaeological site, frequently buried by sandstorms due to desertification, in the district of al-Rifai in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province, March 31, 2023. (Asaad NIAZI/AFP)

Sandstorms driven by climate change slowly burying Iraq’s ancient treasures

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