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Controversy erupts over 2000-year-old Western Wall stone on display at Ben-Gurion Airport

Israel’s Chief Rabbinate has condemned the exhibit but the Israel Antiquities Authority claims it is ‘right and proper’

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Shelly Sarah, a 22 year old Israeli from Hadera, stops at the Western Wall stone on display at Israel's Ben-Gurion International airport before a trip to Thailand as her boyfriend looks on, March 25, 2025. (Image: Rina Castelnuovo)

Adi Jegna said she felt like a 'messenger from God' after helping to avert the attempted Tel Aviv bus bombings (Image: JNS)

‘I felt that I was the messenger from God’ – the commuter who stopped the Tel Aviv bus bombings

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The Biton's winery in Avivim, an Israeli village on the Lebanese border, was destroyed during the war with Hezbollah (Image: Rina Castelnuovo)

Picking up the pieces: the Israeli winery bridging the border with Lebanon

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Haifa readies world’s largest underground hospital in case of all-out war with Hezbollah

Haifa readies world’s largest underground hospital in case of all-out war with Hezbollah

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‘Why is Beirut still standing?’ Druze demand retribution for Hezbollah strike that killed 12

‘This was like our October 7’ said Haill Safadi, a Majdal Shams resident

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July 29, 2024 08:58

‘Why is Beirut still standing?’ Druze demand retribution for Hezbollah strike that killed 12

Arab-Israeli tourist assaulted after being mistaken for Jew in Crete

The 24-year-old Christian Arab from Nazareth was left hospitalized by the assault

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July 22, 2024 11:58

Arab-Israeli tourist assaulted after being mistaken for Jew in Crete

New Israeli airline eyes September launch for Haifa flights

The low-cost carrier will offer domestic and international short-haul flights to Mediterranean and Red Sea locations

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July 19, 2024 09:50

New Israeli airline eyes September launch for Haifa flights

Power struggle leaves Israel without chief rabbis

Politics, nepotism and the role of women have left the country's top rabbinical offices vacant for the first time in its history

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July 8, 2024 10:52

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau (left) and Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attend a ceremony selling hametz (food containing leavening) to Arab Israeli Mr Jaber before the upcoming Passover holiday in Jerusalem, April 4, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

I watched my wife and son bleed to death on that kibbutz – but I’m going back

A farmer does not leave his land, says Avida Bachar

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April 17, 2024 09:13

Bachar surveys the fields at Kibbutz Be'eri

Holocaust survivor tends graves of soldiers killed on Oct. 7

Yaakov Lubinewski’s entire family was murdered by the Nazis eight decades ago and now he spends his time helping others through their own loss

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March 27, 2024 12:04

Yaakov Lubinewski, 99, tends the graves of two Israeli soldiers from his town killed during Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre, March 26, 2024. (Credit: Rina Castelnuovo)

Bedouin policeman who saved lives at Nova festival to run Jerusalem Marathon

Police officer Remo Salman El-Hozayel ferried festival-goers out of harms way on October 7

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March 7, 2024 19:52

Bedouin policeman who saved lives at Nova festival to run Jerusalem Marathon

Netanyahu urges pressure on Qatar for hostage release

Hamas is dependent on the emirate financially, the prime minister said

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February 19, 2024 11:36

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, on February 18, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** ועידת הנשיאים נואם מדבר יהודים ועידה ראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו

Israel’s ‘falafel king’ donates 25,000 meals to IDF in Gaza

In the months since October 7, Shimon Biton has filled tens of thousands of orders for soldiers across the country

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February 12, 2024 11:08

Israel’s ‘falafel king’ donates 25,000 meals to IDF in Gaza

Argentina’s philosemite president Javier Milei heads to Israel, with his rabbi in tow

Milei is set to appoint Shimon Axel Wahnish, the head of the Argentine Moroccan-Jewish community, his country’s ambassador to Israel

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February 6, 2024 10:17

Argentina's President Javier Milei arrives at Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires to attend an event to commemorate International Holocaust Day, on January 26, 2024. (Photo by Luis ROBAYO / AFP) (Photo by LUIS ROBAYOLUIS ROBAYO/AFP via Getty Images)

Israeli intelligence minister says Iran is behind Hamas war

‘The fingerprints of Iran can be found on every conflict now underway in the Middle East, from Gaza to Lebanon to the Red Sea,’ said Gila Gamliel

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January 8, 2024 10:43

Women hold pictures of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during the funeral of a Hezbollah member during his funeral in a south Beirut suburb (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images)

Bible belt Cowboys fly out to farm while Israelis are away at war

A delegation of cowboys have travelled to Israel to help look after farms usually worked by Israeli reservists called up to fight

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November 24, 2023 14:26

Cowboys arrive to volunteer at a pepper harvest in moshav Hamra. November 9, 2023. Photo by Dor Pazuelo/Flash90

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