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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 572

Washington DC

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and his wife Sara Netanyahu disembark from Wing of Zion on arrival in Washington DC on April 6, 2025 (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
April 7, 2025, 5:16 am
Netanyahu arrives in DC for hastily arranged talks with Trump on tariffs, hostages and more
PM travels from airport to meeting with US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick; flight takes convoluted route to avoid airspace of countries that could enforce ICC arrest warrant
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Fraidy Reiss is the founder and executive director of Unchained At Last, a non-profit that’s been battling arranged and forced marriages for the past 12 years. (Photo copyright Susan Landman via JTA)
March 28, 2025, 6:56 am
Child marriage banned in DC after push by Jewish advocates
Mayor signs legislation placing minimum age for marriage at 18, with no exceptions, as demanded by Unchained At Last, a Jewish-led organization that opposes underage marriage
By Grace Gilson
US President Donald Trump stands in the presidential box as he tours the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Monday, March 17, 2025. (Pool via AP)
March 21, 2025, 8:03 am
Trump, taking over Kennedy center, says ‘Fiddler’ one of his favs
US president has fired staff of Washington’s performing arts center, declaring its programming was too ‘woke’ and claiming he has unfulfilled musical talents himself
By PHILISSA CRAMER
A protester, with a sign that employs the inverted red triangle used in Hamas propaganda to indicate a target, stops to pet a dog as demonstrators rally outside the White House, after Israel resumes airstrikes in Gaza amid its war against Hamas, on March 18, 2025. (Andrew Harnik / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
March 19, 2025, 6:06 pm
Anti-Israel protests held at White House and across US after resumption of Gaza strikes
Demonstrations in New York, San Francisco, LA, Dallas and more, after Israel resumes attacks on terror targets
By Luke Tress and ToI Staff
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid presents a plan for the post-war Gaza Strip, in Washington DC, February 25, 2025. (Screenshot/FDD)
February 25, 2025, 11:13 pm
Lapid presents Gaza ‘day after’ plan in DC, urges extended Egyptian takeover
Opposition leader sees proposal, that envisages Egypt overseeing the Strip for at least eight years, as complementary to Trump’s vision; Egypt said to reject the idea
By Lazar Berman and Nava Freiberg
An American Airlines plane passes in the foreground as a member of a dive team and a US Coast Guard vessel with a crane work near the wreckage of a Black Hawk helicopter in the Potomac River, on January 31, 2025, in Arlington, Virginia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
February 1, 2025, 5:23 am
Flight attendant killed in DC plane crash was alumnus of Jewish youth group
BBYO says Ian Epstein, remembered for his passion for traveling and sense of humor, was ‘a proud member of our movement’
By Ben Sales
Part of the wreckage is seen as rescue boats search the waters of the Potomac River after a plane on approach to Reagan National Airport crashed into the river near Washington, DC, on January 30, 2025. (Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)
January 30, 2025, 5:34 pm
Likely no survivors in Washington plane crash as 28 bodies recovered, fire chief says
American Airlines passenger jet that crashed into US Army helicopter is confirmed to have been carrying figure skaters and coaches
By Agencies
The casket of former President Jimmy Carter is pictured during a state funeral at the National Cathedral, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, in Washington. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times via AP, Pool)
January 9, 2025, 11:09 pm
At Washington Cathedral funeral, Jimmy Carter remembered for humility and service
All living successors attend service for former president, which includes eulogies from two contemporaries he outlived; Biden hails fellow 1-term Democrat for fighting ‘abuse in power’
By Bill Barrow and CHRIS MEGERIAN
US Vice President Kamala Harris, right, holds a ceremonial swearing-in for Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Democrat of Michigan, in the Old Senate Chamber at the Capitol in Washington, January 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
January 5, 2025, 7:07 pm
Elissa Slotkin sworn into US Senate on Reform women’s Torah commentary
Newly elected Michigan senator joins 33 other Jewish members of the 119th Congress
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Attendees gather at Nationals Park in Washington DC for a pro-Israel rally organized by the Jewish Federations of North America on November 10, 2024. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)
November 11, 2024, 11:12 am
US politicians, hostages’ families address scant crowd at pro-Israel rally in Washington
Event to reaffirm Jewish unity, bipartisan support for Israel sees markedly low turnout in massive venue; Schumer: After Amsterdam, ‘rallies like this needed more than ever’
By Charlie Summers and JTA
Kosher restaurant Char Bar's windows, smashed on the eve of the Kristallnacht anniversary, in Washington DC, November 9, 2024. (YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 10, 2024, 10:14 pm
DC kosher restaurant has windows smashed on eve of Kristallnacht anniversary
Char Bar suffered similar incident in 2020; senior Newsweek editor says every Jew in political circles has been to restaurant, incident ‘disgusting and horrific’
By ToI Staff
This image from police-worn body camera, and provided and annotated by the US Justice Department, in the affidavit to support the criminal complaint and arrest warrant for Zachary Allen Kam, shows Kam during his arrest July 24, 2024, during protests in Washington against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to the US Congress. (US Department of Justice via AP)
October 11, 2024, 1:33 pm
Chicago man charged with assaulting police at anti-Netanyahu protests in Washington
Zachary Allen Kam, 24, is at least third person charged with crimes over July 24 protest as PM addressed US Congress; Kam said to have scraped, bruised officer
By AP
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters vandalize the Christopher Columbus fountain at Union Station in Washington DC, USA, on July 24, 2024. (Aashish Kiphayet/NurPhoto, via Reuters)
October 5, 2024, 1:22 am
Man charged over ‘Hamas is coming’ graffiti during July anti-Netanyahu protests in DC
Zaid Mohammed Mahdawi, 26, faces one count of destruction of federal property amid raucous protests that featured antisemitic messaging
By AP and ToI Staff
A man works next to a home destroyed by rockets fired by Hezbollah in Katzrin on the Golan Heights, August 21, 2024.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
September 10, 2024, 9:51 am
Top US official warns of ‘catastrophic consequences’ to war in Lebanon – reports
Unnamed official in Washington quoted as saying there’s ‘no magic solution’ to threat from Hezbollah; diplomatic agreement best way to prevent thousands of deaths, material damage
By ToI Staff
National Unity Party leader Benny Gantz (left) speaks at the Middle East America Dialogue (MEAD) summit in Washington, DC, September 8, 2024. (Itzik Balnitzki / Courtesy)
September 9, 2024, 11:50 am
Gantz says military focus should shift from Gaza to Lebanon: ‘We’re late on this’
At Washington summit, National Unity chair says ‘story of Hamas is old news,’ while hostage point man Gal Hirsch says terror group unmotivated to strike deal when pressure is on Israel
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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