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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 622

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People jog in Tel Aviv, as the country braces for a potential retaliatory attack from Iran on Israel, after a wave of Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic. June 13, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)
June 14, 2025, 5:28 pm
Flights canceled. Parties scrapped. Bomb shelters full: Israelis reel in war’s first hours
Even as Iran’s missiles streaked across the sky, families, rabbis, and tourists clung to routine — and to each other
By Grace Gilson and Deborah Danan
Israelis shop for food in Tel Aviv, as the country braces for an Iranian response to Israel's attacks on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, on June 13, 2025. (Michael Giladi/FLASH90)
June 13, 2025, 3:14 pm
Israelis wake to new uncertainty after overnight attack on Iran’s nuclear program
As military strikes targets a thousand miles away, citizens on the homefront are roused by emergency alerts and return to sleep in shelters ahead of Iran’s expected response
By Agencies and Stuart Winer
Illustrative: Hacker using laptop on abstract binary code map background. (Peshkov/ iStock, by Getty Images)
April 16, 2025, 12:44 am
US lawyer says UK intel firm paid Israeli hacker to target him during court battle
Daniel Feldman says Vantage Intelligence hired Aviram Azari, convicted in an earlier hacking case, to intercept private conversations with his lawyer, tipping trial in opponents’ favor
By Raphael Satter
People in costumes party in the Nahlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem, during the Jewish holiday of Purim, on March 16, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
March 20, 2025, 1:47 pm
Israel ranks as 8th-happiest nation in global survey, down from 5th last year; US is 24th
Despite ongoing war and political turmoil, Israeli young adults rank highest in self-reported quality of social connections; in the ‘freedom’ section, Israel only placed 87th
By AP and ToI Staff
A large billboard with US President Donald Trump encouraging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the war, in Jerusalem, January 13, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 4, 2025, 4:45 pm
By large majority, Israelis say Trump secured hostage deal, may pressure Israel
Survey finds most Israelis think US president will punish Jerusalem if it doesn’t fall in line with his Mideast policy goals, such as normalization with Saudi Arabia
By ToI Staff
Members of the Jerusalem Youth Chorus perform on "America's Got Talent" in an episode that aired July 16, 2024. (Screenshot via JTA)
July 17, 2024, 8:35 pm
Israeli-Palestinian youth chorus wows ‘America’s Got Talent’
Outfit gets standing ovation, advances past audition stage with performance of ‘Home,’ an anthem of hope in difficult times, while members deliver message of equality, inclusion
By PHILISSA CRAMER, JTA and ToI Staff
Barbara Zwillick waits to board an evacuation vessel arranged by the US Embassy from Haifa, Israel, on October 16, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
October 16, 2023, 12:47 pm
At Haifa port, evacuating Israeli-Americans feel torn between family and country
Personal circumstances, safety concerns and family obligations are among a mix of factors pushing dual citizens to board a ship to Cyprus
By Canaan Lidor
Workers at ACCESS, the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, help with meals for the Arab community in Dearborn, Michigan, on May 1, 2020. (Carlos Osorio/AP)
January 29, 2023, 1:31 pm
Israelis could be affected by proposed changes to US census categories
Working group suggests updating 1997 federal government standards to add Middle Eastern and North African category; Hispanic race, ethnicity would be combined into one
By Mike Schneider
Departing travellers at Ben Gurion Airport ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover, April 14, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)
April 14, 2022, 1:02 pm
‘It’s a madhouse’: Ben Gurion Airport reports record traffic ahead of Passover
Approximately 73,000 passengers making their way through packed airport on Thursday — highest daily number since COVID began; Sinai crossing also expects rush
By ToI Staff
A man checks his damaged home due to Typhoon Rai at Dinagat islands, southern Philippines on December 19, 2021. The death toll continues to rise following the strongest typhoon to batter the Philippines this year, with several central towns and provinces still grappling with downed communications and power outages and pleading for food and water, officials said Monday. (Office of the Vice President via AP)
December 20, 2021, 11:51 pm
Israelis in Philippines call for urgent aid as typhoon death toll climbs to over 375
At least 8 israeli citizens said to be stranded on Siargao Island, a popular surfing spot, as storm rages; friends say they are okay, need water, supplies
By Glenn Cloarec, Ricky Ben-David and Agencies
Illustrative: People wear face masks at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on September 30, 2020, during a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
December 4, 2021, 11:11 am
To grasp modern Israeli-Palestinian melting pot, author advises: Tribe, tribe again
Ethan Michaeli’s ‘Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel’ goes beyond the headlines to reveal the everyday lives of the Jews and Arabs who call the Holy Land home
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, New York, April 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
June 15, 2021, 2:09 am
Israeli and American Jews know little about each other, new study finds
AJC poll also shows 60% of US Jewish community find being connected to Israel important to their identity, 75% of Israelis see Diaspora as vital to future of Jewish people
By Shira Hanau
Israeli model Yael Shelbia, named the most 'beautiful face' in the world in 2020 by TC Candler (YouTube screenshot)
December 29, 2020, 8:27 pm
Israeli model named world’s ‘most beautiful face’ of 2020
Yael Shelbia, 19, tops TC Candler’s ‘100 Most Beautiful Faces’ list; currently serving in the IAF, she’s represented Kim Kardashian’s KKW Beauty makeup line; Gal Gadot ranks 21
By ToI Staff
(Lior Zaltzman via JTA)
November 16, 2018, 11:04 am
Israelis are blunt and rude. You got a problem with that?
While startling to many immigrants and visitors, the aggressive arguing and disdain for lines is part of Israel’s cultural DNA
By Sam Sokol
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chairs a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee at the Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah July 28, 2018. (ABBAS MOMANI/AFP)
August 29, 2018, 4:01 pm
Abbas says he opposes solution to refugee issue that would ‘destroy Israel’
Palestinian official confirms substance of remarks, though he says Abbas used different wording — that he does not want ‘to drown’ Israel with Palestinian refugees
By Adam Rasgon
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