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        <title>Ex-Likud official warns party app could be used to illegally monitor polling stations</title>
		<link>https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-likud-official-warns-party-app-could-be-used-to-illegally-monitor-polling-stations/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 07:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a sworn affidavit to the High Court, a former campaign tech chief claims the ruling party’s new app can bypass the law and secretly transmit voter data in real time using AI<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2026/10/F221101DC09-1024x640.jpg" title="Ex-Likud official warns party app could be used to illegally monitor polling stations" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>State exploited October 7 to silence Arab citizens systematically, report says</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Left-wing Zulat Institute argues police used the war to suppress free expression unlawfully via false arrests, protest bans, and the persecution of academics<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2026/06/F240530FFF005-1024x640.jpg" title="State exploited October 7 to silence Arab citizens systematically, report says" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>Report submitted to AG warns Ben Gvir may use police to meddle in upcoming election</title>
		<link>https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-submitted-to-ag-warns-ben-gvir-may-use-police-to-meddle-in-upcoming-election/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 14:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Itamar Ben Gvir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2026 Israeli election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zulat Institute urges Baharav-Miara to issue guidelines limiting national security minister’s ability to intervene in police operations, warning of potential harm to integrity, freedom and fairness of campaign<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2026/05/F260514YS601-1024x640.jpg" title="Report submitted to AG warns Ben Gvir may use police to meddle in upcoming election" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>Israel&#8217;s newest, British-born international spokesperson is raising some eyebrows</title>
		<link>https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-newest-british-born-international-spokesperson-is-raising-some-eyebrows/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2023 06:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[2023-2025 Israel-Hamas war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eylon Levy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hasbara]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between his mic drop moments and fiery rebuttals of skeptical interviewers, Eylon Levy is learning to master TikTok and confronting Hamas supporters on social media<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2023/12/20231129-PXL_20231129_154840298.MP_-1024x640.jpg" title="Israel&#8217;s newest, British-born international spokesperson is raising some eyebrows" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>Burial worker circumcises body in northern Israel without family&#8217;s consent</title>
		<link>https://www.timesofisrael.com/burial-worker-circumcises-body-in-northern-israel-without-familys-consent/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colleague claims manager told religious volunteer to perform ritual 'without thinking twice'; head of burial society denies incident occurred<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2023/01/iStock-1311444014-1024x640-1-1024x640.jpg" title="Burial worker circumcises body in northern Israel without family&#8217;s consent" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>WZO marks 125th anniversary of 1st Zionist Congress with lavish, costly Swiss affair</title>
		<link>https://www.timesofisrael.com/wzo-marks-125th-anniversary-of-1st-zionist-congress-with-lavish-costly-swiss-affair/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theodor Herzl]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organization says its confab in Basel is meant to send a message to 'millions of Jews' about Zionism, but they can't even watch most of the invite-only event online<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2012/10/herz-2-1024x640.jpg" title="WZO marks 125th anniversary of 1st Zionist Congress with lavish, costly Swiss affair" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>Man probed over death threats to lead prosecutor in Netanyahu trial</title>
		<link>https://www.timesofisrael.com/man-probed-over-death-threats-to-lead-prosecutor-in-netanyahu-trial/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2021 10:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Liat Ben-Ari]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suspect identified using DNA samples from August 2020 letter to Liat Ben-Ari saying her life will be made so miserable she'll die by suicide; he denies charge<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2021/04/F210407YS01-1024x640.jpg" title="Man probed over death threats to lead prosecutor in Netanyahu trial" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>Citing discrimination, court orders KKL-JNF to rehire fired Palestinian workers</title>
		<link>https://www.timesofisrael.com/citing-discrimination-court-orders-kkl-jnf-to-rehire-fired-palestinian-workers/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2021 18:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[10 employees will be reinstated and compensated after ruling, which says organization signed agreements that effectively discriminated against workers from Palestinian areas<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2021/03/Untitled-40-1024x640.jpg" title="Citing discrimination, court orders KKL-JNF to rehire fired Palestinian workers" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>Vitriolic Bardugo turns Army Radio into Netanyahu weapon against the rule of law</title>
		<link>https://www.timesofisrael.com/vitriolic-bardugo-turns-army-radio-into-netanyahu-weapon-against-the-rule-of-law/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2021 07:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[jacob bardugo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shimon Elkabetz]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The prime minister's mouthpiece unloads scorn and conspiracy theories on the nation daily, but for the past year has been dangerously obsessing over the attorney general<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2021/02/bardugo-rk-1024x640.jpg" title="Vitriolic Bardugo turns Army Radio into Netanyahu weapon against the rule of law" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>Gay conversion therapy to fix &#8216;reverse inclinations&#8217; is alive and well in Israel</title>
		<link>https://www.timesofisrael.com/gay-conversion-therapy-to-fix-reverse-inclinations-is-alive-and-well-in-israel/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2020 01:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[gay conversion therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBTQ Jews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The controversial 'treatment' hasn't gone away -- it's just changed its name and branding<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2020/06/F181216TN13-1024x640.jpg" title="Gay conversion therapy to fix &#8216;reverse inclinations&#8217; is alive and well in Israel" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>Deadly Nahariya flooding caused by river diverted to build a mall &#8211; official</title>
		<link>https://www.timesofisrael.com/deadly-nahariya-flooding-caused-by-river-diverted-to-build-a-mall-official/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2020 15:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chief engineer of northern city says a concrete canal built by former mayor to replace a section of Ga'aton River was the reason for the extreme inundation<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2020/01/Untitled-1-3-1024x640.jpg" title="Deadly Nahariya flooding caused by river diverted to build a mall &#8211; official" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>Deficit soaring, Hadassah will require years&#8217; more bailout payments to survive</title>
		<link>https://www.timesofisrael.com/deficit-soaring-hadassah-will-require-years-more-bailout-payments-to-survive/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2019 13:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hadassah Medical Center]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yaakov Litzman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facing collapse in 2014, famed Jerusalem medical center was rescued and thrown a NIS 1.5b lifeline. Having strayed from recovery framework, its financial plight is again dire<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2014/02/F140209YS07-1024x640.jpg" title="Deficit soaring, Hadassah will require years&#8217; more bailout payments to survive" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>Liberman: Future peace deal with Palestinians must include Arab Israelis</title>
		<link>https://www.timesofisrael.com/liberman-future-peace-deal-with-palestinians-must-include-arab-israelis/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2019 13:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Avigdor Liberman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gideon Sa'ar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2019-2020 Israeli elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former defense minister calls Jewish state's 'conflict' with minority more difficult to resolve than reconciliation with Palestinians, Arab world<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2019/07/WhatsApp-Image-2019-07-09-at-13.04.48-1-1-1024x640.jpeg" title="Liberman: Future peace deal with Palestinians must include Arab Israelis" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>How the IDF let a rabbinical mystic search for border tunnels, then spurned him</title>
		<link>https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-the-idf-let-a-rabbinical-mystic-search-for-border-tunnels-then-spurned-him/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2019 03:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[attack tunnels]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Officers who went with him claim Galilee-based Rabbi Yehuda found 6 tunnels on Lebanon border, and 31 on Gaza border, years before IDF exposed them. Today, the army is dismissive<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2019/05/AP_260158727833-1024x640-1557325757.jpg" title="How the IDF let a rabbinical mystic search for border tunnels, then spurned him" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>Head of union calls on KKL-JNF to roll back plans to fire minority employees</title>
		<link>https://www.timesofisrael.com/head-of-union-calls-on-kkl-jnf-to-roll-back-plans-to-fire-minority-employees/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2019 23:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The layoff of some 60 laborers, many of them Arab-Israeli or Palestinian forest workers, has been postponed, perhaps indefinitely, after a recent report by The Times of Israel<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2019/03/israel_goldstein-e1552894680950-1024x640.jpg" title="Head of union calls on KKL-JNF to roll back plans to fire minority employees" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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