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A picture taken on July 20, 2018 shows explosions from Israeli bombardment in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Israeli aircraft and tanks hit targets across the Gaza Strip on July 20 after shots were fired at troops on the border, the army said, with Hamas reporting several members of its military wing killed in the latest flare-up in months of tensions.( AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)
IDF soldier killed by fire on Gaza border, sparking wide-scale Israeli strikes
By TOI staff
Soldier wounded by sniper fire dies of his wounds; IDF releases information after his family is notified; two dozen Hamas targets hit by air force in ongoing response
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban prays at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City during his visit to Israel on July 20, 2018. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)
Hungary’s Orban visits Western Wall to wrap up Israel trip
By AFP and TOI staff
Illustrative image of 'offline' computer screens. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Reporter's notebookHow Israel nearly destroyed freedom of speech online, without even knowing it
By Raoul Wootliff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on July 11, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)
As Syria troops near border, PM tells Putin he won’t tolerate Iranian presence
By TOI staff
A picture taken on July 20, 2018 shows explosions from Israeli bombardment in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Israeli aircraft and tanks hit targets across the Gaza Strip on July 20 after shots were fired at troops on the border, the army said, with Hamas reporting several members of its military wing killed in the latest flare-up in months of tensions.( AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)
July 20, 2018, 10:48 pm
IDF soldier killed by fire on Gaza border, sparking wide-scale Israeli strikes
Soldier wounded by sniper fire dies of his wounds; IDF releases information after his family is notified; two dozen Hamas targets hit by air force in ongoing response
By TOI staff
A picture taken on July 20, 2018 shows a fireball exploding in Gaza City during Israeli bombardment. Israeli aircraft and tanks hit targets across the Gaza Strip on July 20 after shots were fired at troops on the border, the army said, with Hamas reporting several members of its military wing killed in the latest flare-up in months of tensions. ( AFP PHOTO / BASHAR TALEB)
July 20, 2018, 8:26 pm
IDF strikes deep in Gaza after troops come under fire, amid talk of 4th Gaza war
Netanyahu arrives at defense headquarters amid fresh airstrikes on Gaza targets following sniper fire at IDF soldiers; 4 Hamas fighters dead; Minister: 'The gloves are coming off'
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on July 11, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)
July 20, 2018, 5:25 pm
As Syria troops near border, PM tells Putin he won’t tolerate Iranian presence
Netanyahu speaks with Russian president as Assad forces prepare to take control of Golan Heights border area with Israel; defense ministers also speak on Syria coordination
By TOI staff
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban prays at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City during his visit to Israel on July 20, 2018. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)
July 20, 2018, 1:10 pm
Hungary’s Orban visits Western Wall to wrap up Israel trip
Ending brief, controversial visit, Hungarian prime minister places note in cracks of Jerusalem holy site, learns history of Temple Mount
By AFP and TOI staff
Illustrative image of 'offline' computer screens. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
July 20, 2018, 11:47 am
How Israel nearly destroyed freedom of speech online, without even knowing it
An effort to end Palestinian incitement on social media morphed into a bill that would have granted the state the most extensive internet censorship powers in the Western world
By Raoul Wootliff
IDF soldiers take part in an exercise simulating warfare in the Gaza Strip in July 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
July 20, 2018, 10:18 am
Dragged into Gaza: 7 things to know for July 20
The military, Israel's leaders, southerners and Gazans themselves seem to not want to go to war over some balloons and kites. Yet here we are
By Joshua Davidovich
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, centre, listen to Head of the Russian Federation of Jewish Communities and the museum's director Alexander Boroda, right, during their visit at the Jewish Museum and Center for Tolerance in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Jan. 29, 2018. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo/AP)
July 20, 2018, 3:56 am
A nationalist streak runs through Putin’s love for Jews and Israel
Experts say pragmatism and an understanding of Russia's multi-ethnic indigenous culture drive the Kremlin's close ties with both rabbis and Jerusalem
By Charles Dunst
Right-wing Jewish activists protest outside a joint ceremony for families of Israeli and Palestinian victims on Israeli Memorial Day, in Tel Aviv on April 21, 2015. The flag reads 'The land of Israel only for the people of Israel'. (Tomer NeubergFlash90)
July 20, 2018, 12:44 am
ADL raises alarm over Israeli democracy after nation-state bill
Watchdog joins other US Jewish groups in concern over Jewish state's treatment of minorities, but backs law's determination of state symbols
By Eric Cortellessa and TOI staff
Segregated-gender Orthodox prayer in the Robinson's Arch pluralistic prayer platform at the Western Wall, July 13, 2018. (Courtesy)
July 19, 2018, 3:22 pm
Western Wall egalitarian area used daily for gender-segregated Orthodox prayer
Students from two Old City yeshivas bring in temporary 'mehitza' dividers for Orthodox crowds of up to 100 at site set aside for pluralistic prayer
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with cabinet ministers at the Knesset plenum on July 18, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90 )
July 19, 2018, 2:55 pm
The State of Israel is born again: 9 things to know for July 19
The nation-state bill, a Conservative rabbi being detained, Viktor Orban's arrival and Facebook defending Holocaust denial are all condemned; the government doesn't seem to care
By Joshua Davidovich
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a joint press conference with his Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orban, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on July 19, 2018 (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)
July 19, 2018, 12:01 pm
In Israel, hard-right Hungarian PM hails himself and Netanyahu as ‘patriots’
Meeting with the premier, Viktor Orban celebrates 'excellent ties,' vows 'zero tolerance' for anti-Semitism, claims Jew-hatred declining in Eastern Europe while rising in the West
By Raphael Ahren
Reform leader Rabbi Rick Jacobs (Robert A. Cumins/JFNA via JTA)
July 19, 2018, 8:13 am
Reform and AJC leaders bitterly criticize Israel’s nation-state bill
AJC 'deeply disappointed' by new legislation; Reform's Rick Jacobs bemoans 'sad and unnecessary day for Israeli democracy'
By Eric Cortellessa
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Knesset plenary session ahead of the vote on the National Law, July 18, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
July 19, 2018, 7:47 am
Netanyahu cheers Jewish state law as a ‘pivotal moment’ in Zionist history
Opposition lawmakers blast contentious legislation passed overnight, say it is designed to divide Israeli society
By TOI staff
A warehouse in Shorabad, south Tehran, where Mossad agents discovered and extracted tens of thousands of secret files pertaining to Iran's nuclear weapons program (Prime Minister's Office)
July 19, 2018, 5:45 am
Iran says notion of Mossad raiding Tehran warehouse ‘laughably absurd’
After US reporters view documents from captured archive on nuclear weapons program, Islamic Republic insists Jerusalem's claims are 'outlandish'
By TOI staff
Members of the LGBT community demonstrate in Tel Aviv against a Knesset legislation that denies surrogacy rights for same-sex couples on July 18, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 18, 2018, 9:44 pm
Netanyahu denies about-face on surrogacy rights for gay men, as anger grows
After voting against measure, reportedly due to ultra-Orthodox pressure, PM says he'll support bill backing change in next Knesset session; hundreds rally in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
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