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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 648

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An elderly couple crossing a street as smoke rises in the background at a site of a strike following a mass Russian drone and missile attack on the Ukraine's capital Kyiv, July 4, 2025. (Handout / STATE EMERGENSY SERVICE OF UKRAINE / AFP)
July 4, 2025, 2:15 pm
Israel to send clean water systems to Ukraine to replace those damaged by Russia
23 hurt in Kyiv after Moscow launches largest aerial attack since start of war; Trump says he’s ‘not happy’ with war, doesn’t think Putin wants to stop
By ToI Staff and AP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair arrives for a court hearing in Tel Aviv, on November 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
July 4, 2025, 1:57 am
Yair Netanyahu testifies to police major crimes unit in diplomatic passports affair
PM’s firebrand son isn’t himself a suspect in the investigation into illegal diplomatic passports allegedly issued by former foreign minister Cohen for Likud power players
By Jeremy Sharon
A Chinese paramilitary policeman guards the Israeli embassy near a poster calling for the return of hostages taken by Hamas during the one-year memorial for victims of the Hamas attack on Israel in Beijing, on Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
June 13, 2025, 4:10 pm
Foreign Ministry says embassies closed, urges Israelis abroad to register locations
After Israel launches military operation against Iran’s nuclear program, government tells citizens outside the country to avoid displaying Jewish, Israeli symbols
By Nava Freiberg and Reuters
An Israeli soldier offers activist Greta Thunberg water and a pastrami sandwich after the military intercepted and boarded the boat on which she and other activists were seeking to break Israel's blockade on Gaza, early on June 9, 2025. (Foreign Ministry)
June 9, 2025, 10:20 am
Israeli troops detain Gaza-bound activists including Greta Thunberg, tow boat to Ashdod
Group who sought to bust blockade to be sent home; no injuries reported as Madleen intercepted; Thunberg says she’s been ‘kidnapped’; Israel says ‘selfie yacht’ a provocation, aid onboard to be sent to Strip via ‘real humanitarian channels’
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio addresses the Foreign Ministry's international conference on combating antisemitism in Jerusalem in a recorded video message, May 28, 2025 (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)
May 28, 2025, 5:29 pm
Rubio: Murders of Israeli embassy staff a reminder of importance of ‘never again’
Delegates from 40 countries attend Foreign Ministry’s antisemitism conference in Jerusalem, first major event of Israel’s yearlong IHRA presidency
By Zev Stub
US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee pose for a picture during a memorial event honoring slain Israeli embassy employees in Jerusalem on May 26, 2025. (Alex Brandon / POOL / AFP)
May 26, 2025, 10:18 pm
Foreign Ministry hosts memorial service for embassy workers killed in DC shooting
Ceremony for Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim hosted by FM Gideon Sa’ar and attended by US Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem, US envoy to Israel Mike Huckabee
By ToI Staff
Israeli Ambassador the US Yechiel Leiter appears on the PragerU "Real Talk" broadcast in an interview released on May 22, 2025. (YouTube screenshot)
May 25, 2025, 5:35 pm
Envoy to US to be summoned for hearing over remarks bashing PM’s political opponents
Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, speaking to American outlet Prager U, accused the ‘extreme left’ of ‘blood libel’ for claiming Netanyahu is prolonging the Gaza war
By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen (left) and Israeli Ambassador to the EU and NATO Haim Regev (right) take part in a tribute to the victims of the October 7 attack, at the European Parliament in Brussels, October 11, 2023. (Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)
May 23, 2025, 12:20 am
Israeli envoy to EU warns of a ‘diplomatic erosion’ of ties as war drags on
Haim Regev tells reporters that diplomats worked hard to win sympathy and to highlight the plight of the hostages, but support for the campaign against Hamas ‘has faded’
By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
A firefighter looks on as a wildfire rages near Mevo Horon, near Modi'in, April 30, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 30, 2025, 8:57 pm
Israel scrambles for international aid as wildfires rage near Jerusalem
FM Sa’ar contacts over a dozen countries as flames threaten towns in one of the country’s worst blazes; Italy, Croatia, France, Spain and Romania to send planes
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
A man prays beside a photo of the late Pope Francis after the news of his death at age 88, at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the site where according to tradition Jesus was crucified and buried, in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
April 23, 2025, 5:51 am
Foreign Ministry deletes X post expressing sorrow over pope’s death
Senior ministry official claims statement went up ‘accidentally’ after report says Israeli diplomatic missions were ordered to take down similar posts, not sign condolence books
By Lazar Berman and Agencies
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar leads a faction meeting of his New Hope party, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 16, 2025, 11:41 pm
Activists file arrest warrant for Sa’ar during his London visit
Two NGOs seek warrant against FM over military action at Gaza Strip hospital in 2024 and detention of its director; Jerusalem says top diplomat will not cut short trip
By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
Hostage families and their supporters protest for the release of captives held in Gaza, outside the home of Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, in Jerusalem, on April 13, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 15, 2025, 12:30 am
Educators, reservists, ex-diplomats are latest to urge hostage deal, even by ending war
Petitions signed by thousands pan ongoing fighting for allegedly serving political interests, straying from war goals; warn operation endangers lives of hostages, Gaza civilians
By ToI Staff
An IDF soldier stands over a Palestinian suspect in Gaza in undated footage uploaded to social media on February 2, 2024. (Screen capture/X)
April 10, 2025, 8:42 am
Amassing troops’ own clips from Gaza, anti-Israel activists are keeping heat on soldiers
Databases exposing soldiers are being compiled using networks to ensure they can’t be squelched as alleged evidence for war crimes charges. Is Israel doing enough to protect its veterans?
By MILAN CZERNY and Shomrim
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar (R) and Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel inaugurate a “Media War Room” at the Foreign Ministry, March 11, 2025. (Mordechai Gordon/Foreign Ministry)
March 12, 2025, 6:41 am
Foreign Ministry opens ‘media war room’ to combat anti-Israel content
Ministry says diplomats and students will monitor news to ‘identify false or biased reports’ so spokespeople can then ‘debunk accusations and present Israel’s narrative’
By Nava Freiberg
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid line up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on March 2, 2025, after Israel suspended the entry of supplies into the Palestinian enclave. (AFP)
March 6, 2025, 6:43 am
France, Germany and UK call on Israel to ensure ‘unhindered’ aid flow to Gaza
Hitting back, Foreign Ministry says Hamas is using supplies to rebuild and that ‘the only humanitarian suffering in Gaza is that of the Israeli hostages’
By AFP and ToI Staff
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