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Democratic nominee for US Senate Abdul El-Sayed, left, looks over to Republican nominee for US Senate Mike Rogers during a televised debate at WOOD-TV, on October 8, 2026, in Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP/Paul Sancya)
October 9, 2026, 11:06 am
Abdul El-Sayed won’t say Iran is bigger threat than Israel, in first Michigan debate
Lightning-rod Senate candidate claims Israel dragged US into Mideast war so it could annex southern Lebanon, as Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff, who is Jewish, says IDF committed war crimes in Gaza
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Comedian and actor Tiffany Haddish appears via Zoom during her DUI trial August 11, 2026, in Fayetteville, Georgia. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
August 12, 2026, 5:34 am
Tiffany Haddish pleads guilty to drunk driving in Georgia, avoiding more jail time
Other charges dropped against the actor and comedian, who is credited with the brief time she served in jail after 2022 arrest
By AP
US Senate candidate Mike Collins celebrates during an election-night watch party after winning the Republican nomination, June 16, 2026, in Jackson, Georgia. (AP Photo/Colin Hubbard)
June 18, 2026, 4:21 pm
What to know about Georgia’s Jewish senator calling newly minted GOP opponent an antisemite
Mike Collins snagged the Republican nomination, putting him across from Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff in November’s election. Here’s what the contest means for local Jews
By Andrew Lapin
A combo image of footage posted to X showing a Turkish military C-130 crashing in Georgia, November 11, 2025. (Screengrabs / X)
November 11, 2025, 7:25 pm
Turkish military plane breaks up mid-air, crashes in Georgia with 20 onboard
Ankara says C-130 cargo plane was traveling back to Turkey from Azerbaijan; Erdogan expresses sorrow for ‘martyrs,’ though no casualties announced
By Agencies
Mourners march with the bodies of the Al Jazeera journalists who were killed in an overnight Israeli strike on their tent in Gaza City, from Al-Shifa hospital to their burial at the Sheikh Radwan cemetery in Gaza City on August 11, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
October 22, 2025, 1:14 pm
Gaza aid workers, journalists among contenders for top EU rights prize
Victory for Gaza groups seen as unlikely due to EU’s divisions over Israel; other nominees are a Serbian student movement, and jailed journalists in Georgia and Belarus
By AFP and ToI Staff
'Tinder Swindler,' a true-crime documentary about Israeli con man Shimon Hayut, was released on Netflix, on February 2, 2022. (Courtesy: Netflix)
September 17, 2025, 9:00 am
‘Tinder Swindler’ victims describe relief at news of his arrest
Notorious fraudster Shimon Hayut nabbed in Georgia at Interpol’s request three years after Netflix documentary catapulted him to international infamy
By AFP and ToI Staff
Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid await permission on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip, August 3, 2025. (AFP)
August 4, 2025, 11:35 pm
Louisiana-based company reportedly hiring Eastern European truckers for Gaza aid group
Haaretz reports that Arkel International is bringing truck drivers from places such as Georgia and Serbia to ferry goods into Gaza under IDF protection
By ToI Staff
Beniamin Levishvili, 23, is the gabbai of the ancient synagogue in Akhaltsikhe, Georgia. His late father Simon and grandfather Ioseb Levishvili held the position before him. (Sofia Poznansky)
April 18, 2025, 8:23 am
In Georgia, a 23-year-old maintains a venerable synagogue, the last remnant of his community
Soviet repression caused most Georgian Jews to flee, leaving behind a 2,500-year-old history whose memory is beginning to fade. In his village, one young man seeks to preserve it
By Sofia Poznansky
Rabbi Shneor Segal speaks at a conference on Jewish heritage at the Azerbaijan University of Languages, August 30, 2023. (Screenshot/Dahan Center via YouTube/Peleg Levy)
April 5, 2025, 7:54 pm
Iran enlisted drug trafficker in failed plot to kill Azerbaijan rabbi — report
Washington Post says Rabbi Shneor Segal was target of Iranian plot, had $200,000 placed on his head; Segal says he only learned of matter through media, still feels safe
By ToI Staff
Anti-government demonstrators protest against the Georgian government's postponement of European Union accession talks until 2028, outside the parliament in central Tbilisi on December 31, 2024. (Giorgi ARJEVANIDZE / AFP)
February 27, 2025, 10:02 pm
Israel’s Cellebrite to sell Georgia data extraction tech amid protester crackdown
Firm selling tool that gives police ‘lawful’ access to phones despite expressing concerns about sales being held up as Tbilisi fights off anti-government demonstrators
By Lucy Papachristou
Mikheil Kavelashvili reacts after being elected as Georgian's new president at the parliament in Tbilisi on December 14, 2024. (Vano Shlamov/AFP)
December 14, 2024, 7:15 pm
Georgia lawmakers elect hardline critic of West as new president
Former soccer player Mikheil Kavelashvili leads pro-Russian splinter group, concerning protesters who have warned against attempt to ‘bring Georgia back to its Soviet roots’
By felix light
Kandiss Taylor, GOP Chair of Georgia's 1st Congressional District, in an episode of her podcast, "Jesus, Guns and Babies". (Screenshot)
August 28, 2024, 8:52 am
Republican party official in Georgia says Jewish lobby ‘controlling everything’
Kandiss Taylor, local party chair, makes comment in interview with Holocaust denier Stew Peters; Taylor says in statement she opposes antisemitism, does not address comments
By Jackie Hajdenberg
People pass by a flag on the wall in Baku, Azerbaijan, Monday, February 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
August 12, 2024, 10:34 am
IDF places limitations on soldiers’ travel abroad amid fears of Iranian attack
Air Force bars career officers, NCOs from traveling, as army said to order any servicemembers in Georgia, Azerbaijan to leave
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A Palestinian flag is displayed outside a tent at an anti-Israel protest encampment on the UCLA campus, April 26, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
August 8, 2024, 11:52 pm
University of Georgia panel upholds sanctions for 6 students over Gaza war protest
US students to remain suspended through fall semester, on probation until graduation; protesters ‘chose to be arrested’ by breaking the rules, admins said in May, drawing backlash
By AP
Illustrative: A man walks by school bus with Yiddish signage in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York City, January 1, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
July 17, 2024, 4:17 am
Neo-Nazi known as ‘Commander Butcher’ charged for plot to poison Jewish kids in NYC
US federal prosecutors accuse Georgian national who heads an extremist group called ‘Maniac Murder Cult’ of conspiring to hand out poisoned candy to minorities, including Jews
By Luke Tress
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