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Israelis attending anti-war protest take shelter in Tel Aviv's Habima parking lot as alert for Iranian missile sounds on April 4, 2026 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 6, 2026, 2:11 pm
Daily Briefing April 6: Court, MKs battle over wartime restrictions on protests vs. prayers
Political correspondent Sam Sokol discusses backlash to High Court’s order to allow an anti-war rally, and unexpected support for ultra-Orthodox educational funds during 2026 budget vote
By Jessica Steinberg and Sam Sokol
Leaders of a new movement of mothers and women to stop the war in Gaza and free the remaining Israeli march at at Nahal Oz, southern Israel, before setting up a camp near Kibbutz Sa'ad, August 10, 2025. (Naama Zeevi Rivlin)
August 11, 2025, 11:07 am
Women set up camp in south to launch mothers’ movement to end Gaza war, free hostages
Some 500 people take part, hoping to echo Four Mothers movement of late 1990s that helped push Israel to withdraw from southern Lebanon
By Sue Surkes
Ohad Naharin, center, teaching a Gaga class, the body movement concept that he created. (Courtesy Gaga)
June 5, 2025, 1:02 am
Montreal dance studio joins Israel boycott, drops classes in Ohad Naharin’s Gaga technique
The decision by Studio 303 has triggered debate among its attendees, including Israelis, who question whether boycotting the pro-Palestinian Israeli choreographer ‘misses the mark’
By Grace Gilson
Cpt. (res.) Ron Finer arriving at the Beit Lid military prison to serve a 20-day sentence, May 25, 2025. (Screen capture: Twitter used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 25, 2025, 4:24 pm
IDF reservist sentenced to 20 days in jail for refusing to serve in Gaza
Captain Ron Finer, who has served over 270 days since October 7, is a member of Soldiers for Hostages group; objects to ‘never-ending’ war in Gaza, ‘abandonment’ of hostages
By ToI Staff
Activists protest the war in Gaza, in Jerusalem, April 9, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 22, 2025, 2:09 am
Some pro-Israel advocates are now using words like ‘genocide’ to describe the Gaza war
Having backed Israel’s military action after Hamas’s October 7 atrocities, a growing number of Jews see the recent aid blockade, high death toll, and threats of annexation as a red line
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Israeli mothers call to end the war in Gaza and for the release of hostages outside the US Embassy Branch Office in Tel Aviv, May 15, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 17, 2025, 4:19 pm
11 thinkers from across the spectrum weigh in on what might end the Gaza war
Despite polls of Israelis, Palestinians and US Jews saying that all want a negotiated end to fighting, the conflict continues. Experts from each group give their vision of a way out
By Ben Sales
Activists with the group Standing Together hold a silent protest at the University of Haifa in April 2025. (Alma Barski/JTA)
May 3, 2025, 2:13 pm
Group suspended at University of Haifa for unauthorized 10-minute anti-war sit-in
Standing Together says quiet protest by around a dozen students did not violate school regulations; opponents call action ‘incitement’ against IDF
By Grace Gilson
Illustrative: Young Americans burn their draft cards during an anti-war demonstration, on November 7, 1965, in Union Square in New York, to protest against war in Vietnam. (AFP)
April 30, 2025, 3:45 pm
50 years after the end of the Vietnam War, meet an iconic but unknown Jewish activist
A visit to the New York-based American Jewish Historical Society provides a look at the unsung legacy of Robert Allen Simon through a treasure trove of artifacts
By Cathryn J. Prince
An anti-government rally outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 15, 2024 (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
January 19, 2024, 1:00 pm
Daily Briefing Jan. 19: Day 105 – Court allows Haifa anti-war rally; Karhi goes postal
Legal reporter Jeremy Sharon discusses anti-war rally in Haifa, Postal Authority issue as religion reporter Canaan Lidor looks at women in rabbinate council, and a post-Oct. 7 rave
By ToI Staff
Police officers detain a person during a protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine in central Moscow, on March 3, 2022. (AFP)
March 6, 2022, 3:36 pm
Russia detains more than 1,100 for protesting against Ukraine invasion
Total number of protesters arrested since war began last month tops 10,000, according to local monitors
By AFP
Illustrative: Senate Foreign Relations Committee members seen from behind in the foreground: (left to right) Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., Sen. Stuart Symington, D-Mo., Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, Sen. William Fullbright, D-Ark., Sen. Albert Gore, D-Tenn., and Sen. George Aiken, R-VT, on April 11, 1969. (AP Photo)
May 7, 2020, 6:05 pm
50 years ago, upstart rabbi used Jewish law to tell Senate to end Vietnam War
36-year-old Irving Greenberg was virtually unknown when he told US leaders the Vietnam War dehumanized victims created in the image of God. There are lessons to be learned today
By Josh Feigelson
French police officers run after a topless protester who rushes the motorcade of US President Donald Trump on the Champs Elysees in Paris, November 11, 2018 (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
November 11, 2018, 2:11 pm
Police tackle topless protesters who rush Trump motorcade in Paris
Radical feminist group Femen takes responsibility for protest ahead of event marking centenary of WWI’s end
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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