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News Articles: Israel

Palestinians clash with Israeli forces following an army raid in the West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday.

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  • World

Here's what is driving the latest spiral of Israeli-Palestinian violence

A 10-month military crackdown, a half-century occupation, increasing Palestinian militancy and a far-right Israeli government could impact the chances for more violence.

January 28, 2023
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Larry Kaplow
Israeli security forces and emergency service personnel gather at a cordoned-off area in Jerusalem's predominantly Arab neighborhood of Silwan, where police say an assailant shot and wounded two people on Saturday.

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  • Middle East

A 13-year-old Palestinian wounded 2 people in an attack in East Jerusalem, police say

The attack on Saturday morning comes just a day after a Palestinian gunman opened fire outside of a synagogue in Jerusalem at the start of the Jewish sabbath, killing seven people.

January 28, 2023
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
Israeli emergency service personnel and security forces stand near a covered body at the site of a reported attack in Jerusalem on Friday.

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  • World

At least 7 people killed in a Jerusalem synagogue shooting

Israeli police say they shot and killed the gunman. The State Department condemned the "absolutely horrific" attack.

January 27, 2023
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
Fire and smoke rise above buildings in Gaza City as Israel launched airstrikes on the Palestinian enclave.

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  • World

Gaza militants fire rockets toward Israel after Israeli troops killed 9 Palestinians

Militants in the Gaza Strip fired rockets toward Israel and Israeli warplanes bombed Hamas sites in Gaza a day after the deadliest Israeli raid in the West Bank in years.

January 27, 2023
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
Palestinians clash with Israeli forces following an army raid in the West Bank city of Jenin, on Thursday.

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  • Middle East

Palestinians say 9 killed in the West Bank, the deadliest Israeli raid there in years

The Palestinian Authority condemned the raid and said it was cutting off security coordination between Palestinian police and Israeli forces.

January 26, 2023
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch.

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  • Education

Harvard restores fellowship for human rights advocate critical of Israeli policies

After outcry, Harvard restores fellowship for leading human rights advocate who criticized Israeli policies.

January 20, 2023
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By:
  • Simone Popperl
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) sits next to Interior and Health Minister Aryeh Deri during a weekly cabinet meeting on Jan. 8, 2023.

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  • Middle East

Journalist says Netanyahu's new government is a 'threat to Israeli democracy'

Journalist Anshel Pfeffer says the Israeli prime minister has a "strange detachment" when it comes to social issues — which opens the door for conservative members of his coalition to make changes.

January 12, 2023
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By:
  • Terry Gross
NPR's Steve Inskeep interviews U.S. President Joe Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 5, 2023.

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  • World

Biden's national security adviser is hopeful war over Taiwan can be prevented

In an exclusive interview at the White House, Jake Sullivan spoke with NPR's Steve Inskeep. They discussed China-Taiwan tensions, the war in Ukraine, and his upcoming trip to Israel.

January 06, 2023
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By:
  • H.J. Mai
GPB News NPR

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  • World

An Israeli far-right leader's Al-Aqsa visit sparks outrage and calls for U.N. meeting

Israel is lobbying against calls for an urgent session of the U.N. Security Council, following Tuesday's visit by far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to a sensitive holy site.

January 04, 2023
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Prime Minister and the head of Likud party, speaks to his supporters after first exit poll results for the Israeli Parliamentary election at his party's headquarters in Jerusalem on Nov. 2, 2022.

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  • Middle East

Benjamin Netanyahu's new Israeli government will make West Bank expansion a priority

The incoming Israeli ruling coalition agreements will make it the country's most religious and right-wing government in history, potentially putting it at odds with large parts of the Israeli public.

December 29, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Israel's Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in Jerusalem on Nov. 13 after being assigned the task of forming a government.

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  • Middle East

'They are joining me. I'm not joining them': Netanyahu defends far-right allies

Israel's longest-serving prime minister is poised to return to office, even while on trial for corruption charges. He spoke with Morning Edition about his comeback and controversial coalition.

December 15, 2022
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By:
  • Steve Inskeep and
  • Daniel Estrin
Visitors, including Dead Sea researcher Yael Kiro from Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science (second from left), examine salt formations on the shore of the Dead Sea in Israel on Nov. 5.

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  • World

The Dead Sea is dying. These beautiful, ominous photos show the impact

Its water level is dropping. Big sinkholes are swallowing up whole tracts of land around it. Here is why a disaster is unfolding at the Middle East's iconic salt lake.

December 11, 2022
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By:
  • Ofir Berman and
  • Daniel Estrin
A man walks past a banner of Bollywood movie <em>The Kashmir Files</em> outside a cinema in the old quarters of Delhi on March 21, 2022.

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  • World

An Israeli director sparks outrage in India over a film about Hindu persecution

Controversy has erupted at one of India's top film festivals over the screening of a movie with Hindu nationalist themes. Were the jury head's comments an artistic critique or political commentary?

November 30, 2022
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
Choreographer Polina Mitryashina, artist Victor Melamed, and jazz producer Evgenii Petrushanskiy, from left, in Tel Aviv on Nov. 2. All three are Russian artists who have recently fled Russia to live in Israel.

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  • World

Russia's biggest talents flee to Israel, seeking freedom from Putin's repression

Russia is losing creative talent. Some of its biggest artists have immigrated to Israel this year to rebuild their careers and safely voice their conscience about the war in Ukraine.

November 19, 2022
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
GPB News NPR

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  • World

As Netanyahu forms Israeli government, U.S. may boycott one of his far-right allies

As the former Israeli prime minister returns to power, he's expected to give a post to a politician once convicted of inciting racism — whom the Biden administration might choose not to engage with.

November 07, 2022
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
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