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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 622

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People arrive with their luggage before the departure of a bus slated to evacuate foreign passport holders, mainly Europeans, out of Israel, at a meeting point in Tel Aviv on June 17, 2025. The operation, coordinated by the Polish embassy, aims to evacuate several hundred people who will board buses headed to Sinai in Egypt, and from there continue to Warsaw, Poland. (Photo by Menahem Kahana / AFP)
June 17, 2025, 11:53 pm
Evacuees from Israel arrive in Slovakia, Czech Republic as foreigners flee conflict
Poland says it’s planning to evacuate citizens via Jordan, as Taiwan did Sunday, while Germany tells nationals to sit tight; Iran spirits foreign envoys and families across border
By Agencies and Sharon Wrobel
Lebanese soldiers stand next to a damaged building at the site of an Israeli strike a day earlier on a residential building in Lebanon's Barja town, on November 6, 2024. (JOSEPH EID / AFP)
November 19, 2024, 11:52 pm
Squeezed by Hezbollah and US, Lebanese army would struggle to implement truce – sources
Nation’s military, scraping by on limited resources, could find itself overwhelmed by task of keeping powerful terror group in check and maintaining peace along volatile border
By Reuters
Illustrative: A woman holds her cell phone with an Israeli flag cover at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem, February 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 11, 2024, 7:19 pm
Israel drops 10 spots in ranking of best countries based on global perception
US News & World Report list for 2024 is topped by Switzerland, with Jewish state plunging from 36th to 46th position amid its grueling war against Hamas in Gaza
By ToI Staff
Adam Hajaj speaks during a rally for hostages in Gaza in Tel Aviv on August 10, 2024. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
August 12, 2024, 3:54 pm
October 7 trauma reconnects Israelis with a 2,000-year-old Jewish day of mourning
Thousands of synagogues prepare to feature lamentations about the Hamas atrocities, on Tisha B’Av, a fast day that commemorates historical – and now contemporary – tragedies
By Canaan Lidor
Anti-Israel protesters rally in Edmonton, Canada, February, 25, 2024, (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images, via JTA)
May 22, 2024, 6:46 am
Meta Oversight Board to decide whether users can post ‘all Israelis are criminals’
Independent body for Facebook, Instagram and Threads asks for public input as it reviews recent posts accused of using hate speech against whole nationalities
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
File: A woman standing under a McDonald's sign, in central Jerusalem, February 2, 2023. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
April 5, 2024, 8:43 am
McDonald’s to acquire franchised restaurants in Israel amid boycott calls
Fast food firm to purchase Alonyal, which has run 225 restaurants in Israel for 30 years, as war prompts slump in company’s performance
By AFP
Israel Police examine UN employees kits wrongly suspected of containing liquid cocaine, that were allegedly part of an attempt to smuggle drugs into Israel from Jordan on June 25, 2023. (Israel Police)
June 25, 2023, 8:03 pm
Police detain 3 UN employees for smuggling liquid cocaine into Israel from Jordan
Customs officers at border crossing catch workers who allegedly hid drug inside kits for preparing perfume
By ToI Staff
A vessel that sank on Lake Maggiore in Italy with four fatalities, May 28, 2023. (Italian fire and rescue services)
May 31, 2023, 1:42 pm
Israel: Retired Mossad agent, still ‘devoted to state security,’ died on capsized boat
Prime Minister’s Office says ‘impossible to elaborate’ on ‘dedicated’ service of Erez Shimoni, who was one of 4 people who drowned on Italy’s Lake Maggiore; body returned to Israel
By ToI Staff
A vessel that sank on Lake Maggiore in Italy with four fatalities, May 28, 2023. (Italian fire and rescue services)
May 30, 2023, 10:55 pm
Report: Israeli, Italian secret agents were on ill-fated party boat to swap intel
Italian media claim yacht that capsized was not on simple birthday cruise, as authorities probe why vessel with capacity for 15 had over 20 on board; Israeli victim named
By ToI Staff
Israelis celebrating the new year at a pub in Tel Aviv, December 31, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
January 2, 2023, 3:15 pm
Israel ranks among 10 most powerful countries in annual list; 4th strongest military
US News & World Report finds Israeli military behind only US, China Russia; country is world’s 6th most politically influential and 10th strongest power; but ranks only 37th ‘best’
By ToI Staff
New Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, left, shakes hands with outgoing minister Avigdor Liberman at a handover ceremony at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, January 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
January 1, 2023, 5:05 pm
At treasury handover, Smotrich vows to stick to Liberman’s free-market policy
New finance minister commits to tackling rising cost of living, maintaining budgetary discipline and fiscal restraint; says not all decisions will be popular
By Sharon Wrobel
Hapoel Tel Aviv basketball is now known as Hapoel Vegan Friendly Tel Aviv, with the vegan organization as the main sponsor for the team (Courtesy Hapoel Tel Aviv)
November 27, 2022, 7:35 pm
Israel’s vegan revolutionary now spreading word on plant-based food in New York
Vegan Friendly nonprofit founder Omri Paz to launch campaign in the US to promote veganism, dietary change
By Sharon Wrobel
Jerusalem's Chords Bridge lights up with the Japanese and Israeli flags as a sign of solidarity with the Japanese people following the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, July 10, 2022. (Screenshot/Twitter)
November 22, 2022, 3:02 pm
Israel and Japan advance toward free trade agreement
Move is expected to lower tariffs and bring down prices of Japanese-made cars, toys
By Sharon Wrobel
An 'Enlightenment' scene with guests in the home of Moses Mendelssohn, by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, 1856. (Public domain)
July 16, 2022, 2:40 pm
Epic historical novel digs deep into Zionism’s less probed Western European roots
In ‘The Wealthy,’ Israeli author Hamutal Bar-Yosef uses 200-year saga of fictional German-Anglo Jewish family to highlight different take on how the Jewish state came to be
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Technicians work at the Iranian Arak heavy water reactor, 150 miles southwest of the capital Tehran, on December 23, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)
June 1, 2022, 8:54 pm
Iran warns UN watchdog of ‘consequences’ over report on undeclared nuclear sites
Tehran vows to ‘respond firmly and appropriately to any unconstructive action’ taken by the IAEA, which says it still has questions regarding presence of nuclear material
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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