By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service (JTA) -- Until this latest war, if you asked most Israelis about the threat from Gaza, they would probably s
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JERUSALEM (JTA) -- A United Nations agency condemned the discovery of rockets discovered in one of its schools in the Gaza Strip.The United Nations Re
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(JTA) — Israel launched a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip to destroy tunnels it says are used for terrorist activities. “A large IDF for
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WASHINGTON (JTA) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry ripped Hamas for ignoring a cease-fire call and affirmed Israel’s right to defend itself.“I can
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By Linda Gradstein The Media Line Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is in Egypt today in an attempt to push forward a cease-fire betwee
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(JTA) — Israel and Hamas are fighting their third major conflict in six years, and while some things have stayed the same, the battle lines have also
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NEW YORK (JTA) – A Jewish woman was ejected from a JetBlue flight after arguing about the Israel-Hamas conflict with a Palestinian passenger. The J
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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound During a lunchtime conference call today with members of Seattle’s Jewish community, Andy David, Israel
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By Sean Savage, JNS.org With the launch of the Israeli army’s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, much of the public’s attention has appropriately f
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service TEL AVIV (JTA) -- A national ordeal here ended in tragedy as three Israeli teenagers kidnapped earlier this mo
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JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Two West Bank Palestinian men affiliated with Hamas have been identified as the alleged abductors of three Israeli teens. Israel
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JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel's Cabinet agreed to reduce the presence of the country's military in the West Bank and limit its incursions into Palestinian
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By Felice Friedson, The Media Line “Most Palestinians want the [kidnapped Israeli] kids to be alive and to be found,” says Dr. Nabil Kukali, the fo
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By Ben Sales, JTA World NewsTEL AVIV (JTA) -- Since the three teenagers were abducted last week, Israel's goals have been simple: Find them and punish
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By JNS.org As the days pass following the abduction of three Jewish teenagers near Hebron, the boys’ families are refusing to succumb to despair de
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The new Palestinian unity government brought together rivals Hamas and Fatah, but it has opened a
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(JNS.org) Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas swore in a new unity government on Monday following an agreement between Abbas’s Fatah p
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By Abdullah H. Erakat, The Media Line [RAMALLAH] — Dr. Hanan Ashrawi was the first woman elected to the Executive Committee of the Palestine Libera
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