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Opinion Trading a Palestinian Flag for a Kid’s Freedom?
IDF soldiers order Shadi Sidr to remove his Palestinian flag in Hebron. / YouTube Last week I wrote about that wacky video of a Hebron settler climbing onto a Palestinian’s roof to steal his flag, getting stuck, and calmly telling the Palestinian that the roof, house, and everything within shouting distance actually belonged to the…
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Culture Israeli Sniper’s Anguished Look Into Crosshairs
The team — two of us snipers, a spotter, the lieutenant, and a driver, sit around a table in the small office of Major W, commander of this special infantry unit. I examine a grainy black-and-white photo that’s being passed around — a chubby middle-aged man in a jacket with white sleeves standing in a…
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Breaking News Al Qaeda-Linked Group Claims Responsibility for Border Attack on IDF Jeep
A terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for an attack on an Israel Defense Forces jeep on Israel’s border with Lebanon. No soldiers were injured in Friday’s attack, in which the terrorist group, called The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, fired shots at the IDF patrol, according to the Times of Israel….
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Breaking News IDF Air Force Strikes 29 Gaza Sites After 40 Rockets Hit Southern Israel
Israel’s Air Force attacked 29 sites in the Gaza Strip after more than 40 rockets and mortars were fired from Gaza at communities in southern Israel. The Israel Defense Forces responded to Wednesday evening’s rocket attacks, hitting what it called in a statement 29 “terror locations” in Gaza with artillery fire. “This retaliation was precise…
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Israel News IN PHOTOS: Ultra-Orthodox Jews Protest Israeli Draft Bill in New York
It must have been a confusing sight for tourists. Some 50,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews crammed onto Water Street in lower Manhattan on Sunday afternoon, showing their support for their Haredi brethren in Israel. This week, the Knesset will vote on a bill to make conscription into the Israel Defense Forces mandatory for Haredi men. Sunday’s “Great…
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Breaking News Student Groups Boycott Sabra Hummus at Canadian University
Pro-Palestinian student groups at the University of Ottawa have launched a campaign to ban Sabra hummus from campus. Sabra is partly owned by the Strauss Group, a foods manufacturer that the students allege financially supports the Golani Brigade of the Israeli Defense Forces, according to The New York Times. The students say the Golani Brigade…
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Breaking News Israeli Troops Unload Iranian Weapons Ship Bound for Gaza
Israeli military forces began unloading and searching the cargo of an Iranian ship captured in the Red Sea carrying weapons bound for Gaza. The civilian vessel the Klos C, which was carrying the weapons, including medium-range missiles capable of hitting major Israeli cities, hidden amid commercial cargo, arrived in the Eilat port on Saturday afternoon,…
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Breaking News Amputee Soldier Proposes to Girlfriend on Stage of IDF Gala
An Israeli soldier who lost his arm in a Hamas terror attack proposed to his girlfriend from the stage of a Friends of the IDF event in Florida. Capt. Ziv Shilon proposed on Thursday in front of about 1,000 people at the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces’ Greater Miami Chapter Solidarity Gala in Hollywood….
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