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Israel Prize winner Miriam Peretz speaks during the ceremony at the International Conference Center (ICC) in Jerusalem on April 19, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
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Israel, a new year: 7 things to know for April 20
By Adiv Sterman
The country officially turns 70, and local events offer a look at the good and the bad surrounding the Jewish state
The outgoing Coordinator of the Government’s Activities in the Territories, Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, is seen (right) alongside other senior IDF commanders through the crosshairs of a sniper in a video released on April 19, 2018, by the Gaza-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group. (Screen capture: Twitter)
Israel threatens to kill Hamas leaders in response to Islamic Jihad video
By TOI staff
Israel Prize winner Miriam Peretz speaks during the ceremony at the International Conference Center (ICC) in Jerusalem on April 19, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 20, 2018, 1:54 pm
Israel, a new year: 7 things to know for April 20
The country officially turns 70, and local events offer a look at the good and the bad surrounding the Jewish state
By Adiv Sterman
The outgoing Coordinator of the Government’s Activities in the Territories, Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, is seen (right) alongside other senior IDF commanders through the crosshairs of a sniper in a video released on April 19, 2018, by the Gaza-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group. (Screen capture: Twitter)
April 20, 2018, 11:25 am
Israel threatens to kill Hamas leaders in response to Islamic Jihad video
Iran-backed group shows footage of IDF's head of Southern Command and top liaison to the Palestinians in crosshairs on Gaza border
By TOI staff
Palestinian protesters set up tents at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Thursday, April 19, 2018 (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)
April 20, 2018, 8:32 am
Israel drops leaflets warning Gaza protesters to keep away from fence
'Hamas is using you to carry out terror activity,' army tells Palestinian demonstrators ahead of expected clashes, as protest tents moved closer to border
By TOI staff and Agencies
Palestinian protesters hurl stones at Israeli troops at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Friday, April 13, 2018. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)
April 20, 2018, 1:48 am
Greenblatt: Gazans have right to protest, but at ‘safe distance’ from fence
Organizers urged 'not to stoke more violence' as they move sit-in tents closer to border with Israel ahead of Friday demonstrations
By TOI staff and Agencies
The outgoing Coordinator of the Government’s Activities in the Territories, Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, is seen (right) alongside other senior IDF commanders through the crosshairs of a sniper in a video released on April 19, 2018, by the Gaza-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group. (Screen capture: Twitter)
April 19, 2018, 8:44 pm
Islamic Jihad sets sniper sights on top IDF commanders in threatening new video
Iran-backed Gaza-based terror group shows footage of IDF's head of Southern Command and top liaison to the Palestinians filmed on Gaza border
By Michael Bachner
Palestinian children ride bikes near the border with Israel on the outskirts of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, as they take part in a cycling race demanding a 'Right of Return' for millions to Israel on March 26, 2018. (AFP/Said Khatib)
April 18, 2018, 11:35 pm
Gaza protests to move closer to border with Israel
Despite reports Egypt trying to stem the March of Return for fear of war, Hamas vows to continue 'with full force'
By Khaled Abu Toameh
IDF soldiers Oron Shaul (left) and Hadar Goldin (right) (Flash90)
April 18, 2018, 7:48 pm
Egypt, Hamas agree on proposal for prisoner swap with Israel — report
Ostensible deal said part of a larger agreement that would pave the way for the reconstruction of the Strip
By Khaled Abu Toameh
Palestinians fly a kite as they gather at the border fence with Israel, east of Jabalia in the central Gaza city, during a protest on April 13, 2018. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)
April 18, 2018, 7:28 pm
Kite from Gaza sets fire to wheat field in Israel
For fifth time in as many days, Palestinians send airborne Molotov cocktails across border
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: Israeli forces next to the security fence on the border between Israel and southern Gaza Strip. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
April 18, 2018, 7:29 am
IDF fires at 5 Palestinians, one of them armed, at Gaza border
Gazans said injured by Israeli artillery fire; group was reportedly trying to plant an explosive device on security fence
By Stuart Winer
Palestinians hold portraits of relatives jailed in Israeli prisons as they protest to demand for their release during a demonstration to mark the Prisoners' Day in the northern West Bank city of Nablus on April 17, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / JAAFAR ASHTIYEH)
April 17, 2018, 7:41 pm
Palestinians rally in support of prisoners held by Israel
Thousands hold protests in West Bank, Gaza on Prisoners' Day, demanding release of Palestinians held for terror-related offenses
By AFP and TOI staff
Smoke and flames rise from fields near the Kibbutz Be'eri on the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip east of Gaza City, after Palestinians flew a kite laden with a Molotov cocktail over the border before cutting the string leaving the burning material to fall in Israeli territory on April 17, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)
April 17, 2018, 6:12 pm
Israel struggles to handle latest threat from Gaza: Fire-starting kites
Blaze breaks out near Kibbutz Be'eri after a container of burning liquid is flown over the border on a kite, in fourth such attack in as many days
By Judah Ari Gross
Hamas's new deputy leader Salah al-Arouri (seated, left) and Fatah's Azzam al-Ahmad (seated, right) sign a reconciliation deal in Cairo on October 12, 2017, as the two rival Palestinian movements work to end their decade-long split following negotiations overseen by Egypt. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)
April 17, 2018, 6:36 am
Egypt invites Hamas leaders for talks on Gaza protests, reconciliation
Cairo pressuring terror group to stop weekly disturbances along Israeli border as part of wider efforts to help implement unity deal with Fatah
By Khaled Abu Toameh
Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) addresses J Street's 2018 national conference at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC on April 16, 2018 (Screen capture).
April 17, 2018, 12:51 am
Bernie Sanders to J Street: Israel has ‘massively overreacted’ to Gaza protests
'To oppose the reactionary policies of Prime Minister Netanyahu does not make us anti-Israel,' Vermont senator declares
By Eric Cortellessa
Illustrative: Palestinians paramedics evacuating an injured protester near the border fence with Israel, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza city, on April 13, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Thomas COEX)
April 16, 2018, 10:12 pm
Court orders injured Gaza protester be transferred to West Bank for treatment
Delay in ruling leads to amputation of one leg because doctors in coastal strip did not have ability to save it
By TOI staff
Illustrative: Buses received on July 13, 2016, on the Palestinian side of Israel's Erez border crossing with the Gaza Strip in the first such delivery since 2007. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)
April 16, 2018, 9:14 pm
Israel punishes Gaza bus companies for ferrying protesters
Military liaison says sanctioned firms 'aided in transporting Hamas terrorists and violent rioters to the border' during recent riots
By Jacob Magid
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