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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 561

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Israel's Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter (center) and US President Donald Trump's Middle East adviser Massad Boulos (right) at an iftar dinner at Israel's embassy, in Washington, DC, March 24, 2025. (Israel Embassy in the United States)
March 26, 2025, 10:07 am
Israel’s US embassy hosts interfaith Ramadan iftar dinner
Representatives from Gulf states glaringly absent amid ongoing war; Muslim leaders at event denounce Hamas and other extremist groups
By Lazar Berman
Participants in the Let My People Go march hold posters of all the dates that the hostages have been held in captivity by Hamas in Gaza, on April 12, 2024. (Tanya Zion-Waldoks)
April 12, 2024, 3:17 pm
Daily Briefing April 12: Day 189 – Tension mounts over Iran, question of surviving hostages
Political correspondent Tal Schneider discusses Iranian threats and numbers of surviving hostages, as Arab Affairs reporter Luca Pacchiani talks about Hamas and Hezbollah in Europe
By ToI Staff
An interfaith Ramadan Iftar organized by the Interfaith Encounter Association in Jerusalem, April 4, 2024 (Tali Webber, courtesy)
April 8, 2024, 8:12 pm
At interfaith Ramadan iftar in Jerusalem, breaking fast under the shadow of war
Members of the Interfaith Encounter Association share a meal and find common ground through religion in a bid to send a message of coexistence and unity
By Gianluca Pacchiani
File: US President Joe Biden speaks at an event in Raleigh, North Carolina, March 26, 2024. (Matt Kelley/AP)
April 2, 2024, 7:08 pm
Biden to host Muslim leaders for scaled-down Iftar dinner amid strains over Gaza war
President invites small group of community leaders to White House to join Harris and Muslim staffers as administration seeks to ease tensions over support for Israel
By AP and ToI Staff
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen speaks during an iftar meal hosted for diplomats from Muslim countries serving in Israel and local Muslim leaders, April 2, 2023. (Sivan Shachor/GPO)
April 3, 2023, 10:34 am
UAE, Bahrain ambassadors skip Foreign Ministry iftar meal for Muslim diplomats
Turkey, Egypt, Morocco send top envoys; amid tensions with new allies, FM Eli Cohen hails Abraham Accords as ‘Israel’s greatest achievement’ in recent years
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
IDF officers seen at an iftar event hosted by prominent Palestinian businessmen near the West Bank city of Hebron on April 1, 2023 (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 3, 2023, 8:26 am
Terror groups slam Palestinians who hosted iftar meal with IDF officers
Hamas, Islamic Jihad decry ‘betrayal of the resistance’ after prominent businessmen from Hebron area seen mingling with Israelis
By ToI Staff
A joint Iftar and Mimouna celebration in Beersheba on April 23, 2022. (Courtesy, Hagar Association)
April 25, 2022, 3:49 pm
Jewish-Arab feast marks coinciding of Passover and Ramadan
Arabs and Jews come together in Beersheba for Iftar and Mimouna event in effort to mark shared society and culture
By Jessica Steinberg
President Isaac Herzog (L) speaks with a religious leader at an Iftar dinner hosted at Herzog's official residence, April 13, 2022. (The President's Office)
April 14, 2022, 1:46 am
In shadow of terrorism and political crisis, Herzog stresses tolerance at Iftar meal
President hosts a traditional Ramadan dinner, reading from the Quran and praising the holiday, but violence and political tensions compete with his well-received goodwill message
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Chairman of the Samaria regional council, Yossi Dagan (second from left) pictured with local Palestinian figures at an Iftar meal, on April 5, 2022. (From the Facebook of Yossi Dagan/used under clause 27a of the copyright law)
April 7, 2022, 9:15 pm
Ramadan meal brings together unlikely group of Jewish settlers and Palestinians
Chairman of the Samaria Regional Council Yossi Dagan hosts local Palestinian leaders for Iftar break-fast in rare display of coexistence
By Michael Horovitz
Illustrative: Jews and Arabs sharing an Iftar (break-fast) meal together during the month of Ramadan, in the town of Tayibe, June 9, 2016. (Dov Lieber/Times of Israel)
April 24, 2021, 10:36 pm
Local authorities cancel Iftar meal amid row over UAE ambassador’s participation
Arab locals tell Federation of Local Authorities chair Haim Bibas they want to prevent ‘politicization’ of break-fast event
By ToI Staff
The entrance to the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, November 5, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 21, 2020, 10:41 am
4-year-old critically wounded, 3-year-old hurt in 2 East Jerusalem shootings
Relative of Rafif Karayeen says she was sitting at traditional Ramadan fast-breaking meal when bullet hit her head; in second incident, masked gunmen fire at shopkeeper and his son
By ToI Staff
Palestinians shop in the Zawiya market ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Gaza City, April 22, 2020. (AP/Khalil Hamra)
April 23, 2020, 1:49 pm
Muslims prepare for restrained Ramadan clouded by coronavirus
PA, Israel and other authorities make moves to ban communal nighttime feasts, keep mosques shuttered with holy month set to start Thursday evening
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (left) and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi meeting in Sharm al-Sheikh on November 3, 2018. (Credit: Wafa)
June 3, 2019, 1:00 pm
Sissi: Egypt will not accept any US plan rejected by the Palestinians
Egyptian president also appears to say Cairo won’t make territorial concessions under future peace proposal
By Adam Rasgon
In this Sunday, May 26, 2019 photo, a Palestinian athlete poses for a picture at Techno-Gym in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
May 31, 2019, 1:15 pm
During Ramadan, late-night gyms boom in the Gaza Strip
The routine of the month-long fast, with high-calorie fast-breaking ‘iftar’ buffets, sugary staples and hours of sedentary screen time, is a headache for fitness trainers
By Fares Akram
President Reuven Rivlin (right) with an Arab leader at an Iftar dinner, May 28, 2019 (Mark Neiman/GPO)
May 28, 2019, 4:12 am
Rivlin concerned over new elections’ potential to increase Jewish-Arab acrimony
President says most recent vote saw ‘negative records’ in attacks on Arab parties as well as Arab voter turnout
By ToI Staff
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