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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 468

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An Israeli soldier stands guard at the Hermon ski resort, bordering Syria and Lebanon, during a media tour organized by the IDF, January 8, 2025. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
January 8, 2025, 11:44 pm
IDF detains, then releases, French journalist in southern Syria buffer zone
Military says Sylvain Mercadier and his fixer ‘came too close to the soldiers, was questioned and then released,’ as Mercadier says he was humiliated, had his equipment stolen
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Italian journalist Cecilia Sala in undated footage from the Tg3 news program on Italy's state broacaster RAI. (Screen capture: X/Tg3, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 27, 2024, 7:53 pm
Italian journalist said detained in Iran for more than a week, no reason given
Cecilia Sala left for Iran December 12 with a journalism visa and was scheduled to return a week later, but went dark a day before; Italian defense minister calls arrest ‘unacceptable’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Al Jazeera's bureau chief in Gaza, Wael Al-Dahdouh (C) prays during the funeral of his son Hamza Wael Dahdouh, a journalist with the Al Jazeera television network, whom Israel killed in an airstrike in Rafah, saying he was a terrorist, January 7, 2024. (Mohammed Abed / AFP)
December 12, 2024, 5:04 pm
Media groups pan Israel with accusations of Gaza journalist ‘massacre’
Reporters Without Borders tallies 16 deaths, accuses IDF of trying to ‘eliminate’ reporters; Int’l Federation of Journalists claims ‘massacre’; Israel denies targeting journalists
By Agencies and ToI Staff
This picture provided by the Associated Press shows AFP cameraman Dylan Collins speaking on his mobile phone after being injured by Israeli shelling at the Alma al-Shaab border village with Israel in southern Lebanon on October 13, 2023. (Hassan Ammar/AP)
October 23, 2024, 10:03 am
US lawmakers call for probe into Israeli strike that injured US journalist in Lebanon
October 2023 incident saw shellfire kill videographer Issam Abdallah and hurt 6 reporters, including American Dylan Collins; IDF said it was responding to Hezbollah missile fire
By AFP and ToI Staff
Wounded Jewish boys in Hebron, August 1929 (Courtesy of The Hebron Archives)
October 9, 2024, 4:29 am
New book draws line from 1929 Hebron Massacre to horrific events of October 7
In ‘Ghosts of a Holy War,’ Yardena Schwartz investigates the lies and denials that have fueled the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for a century, pushing a solution further away
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Rabbi Dov Linzer and Abigail Pogrebin, study partners and co-authors of 'It Takes Two to Torah' (Lorin Klaris)
September 15, 2024, 4:33 pm
What happens when a seemingly odd couple becomes friends and Torah study buddies?
In their new book, Reform journalist Abigail Pogrebin and Orthodox Rabbi Dov Linzer show genuine warmth and respect for one another while not dancing around their differences
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Israeli journalist Amir Tibon's 'The Gates of Gaza' retells his family's experience on October 7 and his country's experience since. (Courtesy: Tibon via JTA)
September 7, 2024, 12:22 pm
Israeli journalist Amir Tibon survived the Oct. 7 massacre. He worries the country won’t
The story of a reporter’s family from Kibbutz Nahal Oz has gained traction as their rescue by father Noam, a retired major general, highlights some of the day’s lifesaving heroism
By Ben Sales
Israeli journalist Yehuda Schlesinger speaks on a Channel 12 news broadcast on August 7, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 8, 2024, 6:10 pm
Israeli journalist retracts call for ‘policy’ of sodomizing Palestinian terror suspects
Israel Hayom writer Yehuda Schlesinger says his comments on Channel 12 over suspected sodomy of Palestinian detainee at Sde Teiman detention facility were ‘wrong’ and a ‘mistake’
By ToI Staff
US journalist Evan Gershkovich, accused of espionage, looks out from inside a glass defendant's cage prior to a hearing in Yekaterinburg's Sverdlovsk Regional Court on June 26, 2024. (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP)
August 1, 2024, 1:50 pm
Major Russia-US prisoner swap, including Evan Gershkovich, could be underway
Jewish-American journalist could be released alongside artists, activists and former senior staffers of late dissident Alexei Navalny
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Head of Shalhevet High School Rabbi David Block speaks at the class of 2023 graduation. (Screenshot via Vimeo/via JTA)
June 13, 2024, 7:39 pm
LA Jewish day school censors two student newspaper articles on Israel-Hamas war
Young journalists from the Shalhevet High School’s periodical made to remove issues from neighborhood shops after principal retracts stories that included anti-Israel perspectives
By Jackie Hajdenberg
In the Chilean capital Santiago, Palestinian journalist Nasser Abu Baker receives the 2024 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize on behalf of all Palestinian journalists selected as this year's winners at the 31st World Press Freedom Conference. May 2, 2024 (AFP/UNESCO)
May 3, 2024, 8:21 pm
UNESCO awards world press freedom prize to all Palestinian journalists in Gaza
Jury says it wants ‘to share a strong message of solidarity and recognition to those Palestinian journalists who are covering this crisis in such dramatic circumstances’
By AFP and ToI Staff
A logo of the BBC is seen at the BBC Headquarters in London, Britain, on July 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
April 16, 2024, 8:20 pm
BBC urges UN experts to condemn Iran’s ‘harassment’ of its journalists
Lawyers accuse Tehran of abusing ‘national security and counter-terrorism laws’ against news organization to intimidate and silence independent reporting on regime
By AFP
Issam Abdallah, a videographer for the Reuters news agency, poses for a selfie while working in Maras, Turkey, on February 11, 2023. (Issam Abdallah/ Reuters via AP)
March 13, 2024, 7:53 pm
UN: Reporter killed by IDF tank in Lebanon on Oct. 13 was ‘clearly identifiable’
Peacekeepers say they did not record fire for nearly an hour before tank struck, though military insists it was responding to Hezbollah attack on northern community
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow, Russia, on September 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov)
March 2, 2024, 1:17 pm
‘We need to be strong’: Family of US reporter jailed in Russia yearns for his release
Parents, sister of journalist Evan Gershkovich, share joy, pain of seeing him in Moscow court hearings amid allegations of espionage: ‘Just seeing his little mannerisms’
By Maria Danilova
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks (left) as Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (center) and head of the National Unity party Benny Gantz (right) listen, during a joint press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv. October 28, 2023. (Dana Kopel/POOL)
October 30, 2023, 12:45 pm
Netanyahu is trying to avoid an accounting for October 7. This time, he won’t escape
The PM’s press conference was no genuine effort to answer potent questions during wartime, but a characteristic exercise in evasion. But even he can’t rewrite this story of failure
By Tal Schneider
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