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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 424

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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
A Palestinian Muslim woman walks by ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, on June 18, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
March 27, 2018, 8:59 pm
Expert confirms Jews and Arabs nearing population parity
Hebrew University demographer defends military’s census figures for Israel and Palestinian territories that sparked backlash from right-wing lawmakers
By Aron Heller
Naomi Chazan
March 26, 2018, 1:36 pm
Naomi Chazan
Israel’s Passover responsibility
Most Israelis are united in their desire to treat those who have nowhere to go with basic human decency
Illustrative: A woman places her vote in a ballot box for the Israeli general elections for the 19th parliament, January 22, 2013, in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 17, 2017, 4:14 pm
More Israelis satisfied with their democracy than Americans, survey finds
Pew research also finds only 10% support in Israel for military rule — less than in America, France and Britain
By Stuart Winer
A Bluebird Airways plane. (Screen capture/YouTube)
August 15, 2017, 11:18 pm
Plane forced to make emergency landing due to drunk, unruly Israeli
Witnesses on Budapest to Tel Aviv flight say passenger attacked flight crew, had to be strapped to his seat
By ToI Staff
A screenshot from a video of an Israeli family being removed from a JetBlue flight to New York from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on June 21, 2017. (Screen Capture: YouTube)
July 20, 2017, 1:24 pm
Ex-Israeli family says it was booted from plane over toddler kicking seat
JetBlue rejects Mandy Ifrah and Tamir Raanan’s version of events, says they were ejected for ‘physical threats and profanities’
By ToI Staff
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