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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 567

Arab-Jewish relations

New York Bagel Bakery in Philadelphia has served kosher-keeping customers for decades. Its longtime owner was recently accused of antisemitism, a charge he denies. (Screenshot from Google Maps via JTA)
March 21, 2025, 12:42 am
Longtime Palestinian owner of Philly kosher bagel store schmeared over Oct. 7 posts
After 27 years serving the community, Nick Sammoudi is the subject of an online petition as customers ask for his certification to be revoked amid claims he’s leading a double life
By Ben Sales
A member of the Jahalin tribe receives food aid from Israeli activists in early 2024, in the Judean Desert. (Courtesy of Rabbis for Human Rights)
March 21, 2024, 1:55 am
Praying for peace, optimistic Israeli activists deliver Ramadan food aid to West Bank
Volunteers with organizations such as Rabbis for Human Rights brave the ire of fellow Jews as they reach out to help Palestinians in need amid the ongoing war in Gaza
By Eliyahu Freedman
File: Activists work together at a joint Arab-Jewish operations center in Rahat to assist Israelis affected by the war, October 2023 (Social media)
November 11, 2023, 8:59 pm
Amid war, poll finds Arab Israelis’ sense of kinship with state at a 20-year high
70% of Arabs, 94% of Jews say they feel a part of the country and its problems; but views on future diverge, with 72% of Jews and only 27% of Arabs optimistic
By ToI Staff
Jewish protesters try to break into dorms at the Netanya Academic College, after two Arab students allegedly threw eggs at worshipers earlier in the day, October 28, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 29, 2023, 11:11 am
Police break up angry protest outside Netanya dorm housing Arab students
Jewish residents claim students threw eggs at worshipers after nearby Shabbat service, played loud Arabic music; police disperse protesters outside dorm, no one hurt
By Michael Horovitz
Ra'am party leader Mansour Abbas arrives at a conference at the Reichman University in Herzliya, June 12, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
June 15, 2022, 10:22 am
Abbas to Kahana: Accepting coexistence out of necessity isn’t genuine tolerance
MK had said he would choose to ship Arabs to Switzerland if it were possible, but knows it’s not; Ra’am chief responds: ‘We must choose to live together’
By Michael Bachner
Israeli secular protesters shout slogans in Jerusalem on August 12, 2017, during a demonstration of ultra-Orthodox Jews against businesses that operate on Saturdays in the city. The slogan, which rhymes in Hebrew, says, 'We're not against the Sabbath, we're against religious pressure.' (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 )
May 2, 2022, 5:00 pm
Poll: In Israel, right-wing Jews now less likely to see shared future with Arabs
New survey from Jewish People Policy Institute shows deepening entrenchment of attitudes among different segments of Israeli society, likely due to recent political shifts
By Judah Ari Gross
Samekh Zakout, left and Uriya Rosenman of Dugri, the straight-talking rap pair who aim to find a different narrative for young Arabs and Jews in Israel (Courtesy Dugri)
November 26, 2021, 2:16 pm
Podcast: This Arab and Jew talk straight, in raps and in person
Rapper Samekh Zakout and educator Uriya Rosenman talk about the impetus for their Dugri rap project
By ToI Staff
A Blend.ar participant volunteering at a restaurant in Abu Ghosh, October 2021. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
November 6, 2021, 8:43 am
Immersive Arabic program invites Israelis to blend into life in Abu Ghosh
Chen Kupperman’s innovative courses at Blend.ar teach more than just language — they bring participants to live, work, eat and socialize with Israeli Arabs around the clock
By Aviva Bar-Am
File: Israel's Moanes Dabour, left, fights for the ball with Scotland's Liam Cooper during the Euro 2020 playoff semifinal soccer match between Scotland and Israel, at the Hampden stadium in Glasgow, Scotland, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)
September 6, 2021, 5:04 am
Arab soccer star’s brother on Al-Aqsa fracas: ‘He didn’t mean to hurt anyone’
National team’s Moanes Dabour was booed by fans Saturday, when he scored in win over Austria, in wake of a post he wrote on Jerusalem tensions during May’s unrest in the capital
By ToI Staff
A swirling vine painted on the walls of an apartment building entrance are part of traveling museum Zumu in Lod, August 24-28, 2021. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
August 26, 2021, 1:21 pm
After spring of strife, Lod opens its doors to artists of traveling museum Zumu
Curator Melina Gitzin Adiram saw her planned exhibit derailed by ethnic violence; she changed focus and now hopes to heal some rifts through art emplaced in residential spaces
By Jessica Steinberg
The aftermath of the fires caused at the site of the incident in Lod. (Israel Police)
July 15, 2021, 4:39 pm
8 Arab Israelis arrested for alleged role in Lod firebomb attack
Shin Bet says incident in late May was ‘planned over a period of several days,’ unlike ethnic violence that erupted simultaneously with Gaza fighting
By ToI Staff
Muhammad, 12, who was injured by a firebomb at his home in Jaffa, pictured in his bed at Sheba Medical Center (courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)
June 9, 2021, 7:25 pm
3 arrested over firebombing that seriously hurt 12-year-old Arab boy in Jaffa
Police and Shin Bet say suspects are Arab residents of city who mistakenly attacked Arab home during surge of violence in Israel’s ethnically mixed cities
By ToI Staff
Nurse Fadi Kasem (left) reunites with Mor Janashvil, who he saved after a lynching (courtesy of Galilee Medical Center)
May 25, 2021, 4:30 pm
In emotional reunion, Jewish victim of Arab mob thanks Arab nurse who saved him
Fadi Kasem accompanied a sheikh to a riot scene in Acre in an effort to calm ethnic tensions, ended taking care of badly beaten Mor Ganashvili
By Nathan Jeffay
Muhammad, the Jaffa boy seriously injured when his home was firebombed on May 14, 2021 (Channel 12 screenshot)
May 22, 2021, 11:23 pm
Further improvement in condition of boy badly hurt in Jaffa firebombing attack
12-year-old Muhammad Gintazi now in good condition, fully conscious and communicating, doctors say
By ToI Staff
Haviva Ner-David, rabbi and author whose first novel, 'Hope Valley,' tells the story of a friendship between two women, one Jewish Israeli and the other Palestinian (Courtesy Haviva Ner-David)
May 19, 2021, 10:39 am
Memoirist turns to fiction with tale of Arab, Jewish women’s unlikely friendship
Haviva Ner-David’s ‘Hope Valley’ weaves a story of Israeli and Palestinian histories in the verdant setting of the Galilee
By Jessica Steinberg
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