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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 593

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Leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV) Geert Wilders waves as he arrives at a post-election meeting at the Nieuwspoort conference center in The Hague on November 23, 2023. (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP)
May 16, 2024, 12:32 pm
Emerging hardline Dutch coalition to look for right ‘time’ to move embassy to Jerusalem
Unprecedented language follows electoral gains of the anti-Islam, pro-Israel Party for Freedom of firebrand Geert Wilders; Holocaust education to be included in citizenship test
By Canaan Lidor and AFP
Illustrative: A worker at the Teva Pharmaceuticals logistics center in Shoham, where coronavirus vaccines are stored, on January 7, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/ Flash90)
March 14, 2021, 8:52 pm
Israel to ship COVID vaccines to US for diplomatic staff
Pfizer shots will be sent to New York, where emissaries and their families will be vaccinated; another shipment already planned for second doses
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi at a joint press conference in the president's house in New Delhi, India, on January 15, 2018. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
February 1, 2021, 5:22 pm
Netanyahu speaks with Indian leader Modi after blast near Israel’s Delhi embassy
PM thanks his Indian counterpart for protecting Israeli representatives in country; the two discuss mutual recognition of certification for coronavirus vaccinees
By ToI Staff
FM Ashkenazi, right, welcomes Bahrain's Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani to the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, November 18, 2020 (Miri Shimonovich/MFA)
November 18, 2020, 2:45 pm
As Bahrain FM visits Israel, countries agree to open embassies by year’s end
Gulf kingdom’s Foreign Minister Al-Zayani compares his ‘historic’ one-day trip to Jerusalem with Anwar Sadat’s breakthrough visit to Israel in 1977
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with former communications minister Ayoub Kara at a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset, on May 7, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 12, 2019, 4:32 pm
Former ambassadors to Egypt urge PM not to tap Likud minister as envoy
In 3rd public appeal to government in a week, ex-envoys say Ayoub Kara should not be given sensitive post over professional diplomat Amira Oron
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and then-transportation minister Israel Katz attend the inauguration ceremony for a new train station in the southern town of Kiryat Malachi, September 17, 2018. (Flash90)
June 7, 2019, 5:03 am
Foreign Ministry staff urge minister to block PM’s pick for Egypt envoy – report
Staffers ask Israel Katz to back their choice of veteran diplomat Amira Oron over PM’s possible appointment of controversial ex-Likud lawmaker Ayoub Kara
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A pro Israel rally in Atlanta on July 25, 2014 (AP Photo/Ron Harris)
January 12, 2018, 5:54 pm
Israel said planning to close consulate in Atlanta, 6 other missions amid cuts
Embassies in Ireland, Belarus, Eritrea, Dominican Republic, consulate in Bengaluru, and embassy in either Latvia or Lithuania reportedly on chopping block
By ToI Staff and JTA
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Conference of Israeli ambassadors at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on January 3, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 12, 2018, 12:55 pm
In cost-cutting measure, Foreign Ministry to close 7 missions over three years
But ministry backtracks on plans to fire workers; budget agreement will see injection of some NIS 175 million to boost programs in 100 diplomatic postings
By ToI Staff
British emergency services hold a chemical attack drill at the Israeli Embassy in London, December 10, 2017 (Daily Mail screenshot)
December 10, 2017, 10:49 pm
Emergency chemical attack drill carried out in Israel’s London embassy
Metropolitan Police, fire brigade and paramedics take part in large exercise to deal with ‘noxious substance’
By ToI Staff
File: US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (left) and MK Nachman Shai at a meeting of the caucus for US-Israel relations at the Knesset, July 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 25, 2017, 1:23 pm
Meeting lawmakers, envoy hails US role in ending Temple Mount crisis
Rebuffing claims that administration entered too late, David Friedman says work between US, Israel, Jordan helped defuse situation ‘very quickly’
By Raphael Ahren
Downtown Nairobi in 2015. (CC BY Ninara, Flickr)
December 14, 2016, 6:55 pm
Kenya drops charges, deports Iranians thought plotting attack on Israelis
Deal reached with Tehran over suspects in diplomatic car arrested last month while filming Israeli Embassy
By AP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) meets Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi on July 5, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
December 2, 2016, 3:07 pm
Iran urges Kenya to free 2 charged in plot to attack Israeli Embassy
Tehran official says men are lawyers, arrested due to misunderstanding; implies Israel trying to harm bilateral ties
By AP and ToI Staff
Nairobi, capital of Kenya (Flickr/CC BY-2.0/Demosh)
December 1, 2016, 6:09 pm
2 Iranians charged with plan to attack Israeli Embassy in Kenya
Suspects were caught in diplomatic vehicle in Nairobi with video footage of Israeli facility on their phones
By AP and ToI Staff
Gil and Jenna Lewinsky feed the sheep at their farm in Abbotsford, Vancouver, Canada, in this undated photo from 2016. (courtesy Mustard Seed Imaging)
June 7, 2016, 12:57 am
Making aliyah this summer from Canada: A flock of sheep
A Canadian couple wants to restore a Biblical breed of sheep to the Holy Land. All they need is a plane and a farm
By Melanie Lidman
A Jacob sheep named Rachel, with what the Lewinskys call her 'happy face,' on their rental farm in Abbotsville, BC, Canada, in December 2015. (courtesy Gil Lewinsky/Mustard Seed Imaging)
December 28, 2015, 4:29 pm
Baa, baa, biblical sheep, have you an Israeli passport?
A couple’s quest to bring a breed of biblical sheep back to Israel butts heads with veterinary guidelines for importing livestock
By Melanie Lidman
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