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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 623

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An IDF officer is seen speaking to a group of international journalists near Masafer Yatta, West Bank, June 2, 2025. (X screenshot used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 2, 2025, 6:43 pm
IDF bars reporters from visiting W. Bank villages on tour based on ‘No Other Land’ film
Officer seen telling group of journalists they cannot be let into Masafer Yatta — subject of Oscar-winning documentary — due to need ‘to keep the order in the area’
By AP and ToI Staff
Then-Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, left, walks with US president John F. Kennedy at the residence of the US ambassador in Vienna, Austria on June 3, 1961. (AP Photo, File)
March 4, 2025, 2:32 pm
Journalist who had Khrushchev’s ear as nuclear war loomed says Putin wouldn’t have caved to US
When 94-year-old veteran foreign correspondent Marvin Kalb speaks, world leaders should pay attention. His new memoir, ‘A Different Russia,’ serves as both warning and plea
By Mordechai I. Twersky
Mourners attend the funeral of Gazans killed in an Israeli strike, at the al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on December 26, 2024. Israel denied claims that the five were journalists, saying they 'posed' as reporters but were Islamic Jihad fighters. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
February 12, 2025, 8:25 pm
Watchdog: Israel behind most reporter deaths in 2024; IDF: Many were terror operatives
Jerusalem responsible for 85 of record-setting 124 journalists killed last year, Committee to Protect Journalists claims; IDF rejects accusation, says it doesn’t target journalists
By Agencies and Emanuel Fabian
Journalists film in front of destroyed buildings in Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip, on October 9, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)
January 23, 2025, 5:40 pm
Foreign Press Association urges Israel to lift ban on Gaza access for journalists
Citing the halt in fighting, the group says restriction has ‘severely hindered independent reporting,’ and that there is now ‘no justification’ for it
By ToI Staff
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
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