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Hundreds of demonstrators call for an end to PA President Mahmoud Abbass 16-year rule during a rally in Ramallah on Saturday, July 3, 2021 (Aaron Boxerman/The Times of Israel) Hundreds of Palestinian demonstrators called for an end to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s 16-year reign on Saturday in the latest demonstration sparked by the death of PA critic Nizar Banat. “Abbas, dissolve the PA, and get out of our way!” protesters called as they wound their way through Ramallah�...

Palestinians and Arab Israelis protest against the 2003 Citizenship and Entry Law into Israel outside the Knesset on Tuesday, June 29, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Anas al-Qadi sees his children only occasionally. He is married to an Arab Israeli woman from the northern Arab town of Wadi Ara, but as a Palestinian resident of Jericho, only has a commercial permit to enter Israel in the morning and leave at night. “It’s hard, only seeing them once a week, every two weeks, not knowing what th...

Reports say Said al-Harumi unhappy over planned Negev demolitions, as he is said to face pressure from Netanyahu to oppose prospective coalition and deny it a 61-seat majority

Knesset Arrangements Committee to vote Monday on bills setting term limits, barring criminal defendants from being tasked to form government; Ra'am party said set to back them

220 shares The live Behind the Headlines webinar will take place on May 12, 2021, at 7 p.m. Israel Daylight Time. (Times of Israel) Join The Times of Israel Community today to access a live Behind the Headlines webinar featuring ToI Editor David Horovitz and two of ToI’s senior reporters, on Wednesday, May 12. As rockets rain down on southern and central Israel, causing death and devastation, and violent riots continue to spread throughout the country, The Times of Israel is dedicated t...

8,380 shares Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces on the Temple Mount/al-Aqsa mosque compound on May 10, 2021. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP) Fire billows from Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, on May 10, 2021. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP) Israeli security forces clash with Palestinians on the Temple Mount/al-Aqsa mosque compound on May 10, 2021. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP) Israels Iron Dome aerial defense system intercepts rockets launched...

“We will respond with a heavy hand to all violent disturbances, riots and attacks on our forces.” Demonstrators had called for more people to try and reach the compound, but police blocked roads leading to the site. Footage on social media appeared to show police officers on the roof of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. عاجل| شرطة الاحتلال تعتلي سطح المصلى القبلي في المسجد الأقصى الآن pic.twitter.com/sr6cQmNucY The Red Crescent also said that its atte...

2 shares BIR HADAJ, southern Israel — Five months of government campaigning to vaccinate Israeli citizens against the coronavirus have left little trace in the southern Bedouin town of Bir Hadaj. Bir Hadaj has the dismal honor of being the country’s least-vaccinated municipality. Just 2 percent of the town’s 2,000-odd residents are vaccinated; in the median Israeli city, some 56% of total residents are immunized. “There are people here who would rather die than be vaccinated,” s...

55 shares Palestinians and left-wing activists protest against the expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood Sheikh Jarrah, April 16, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) In a few weeks, Abdelfattah Eskafi may be forced out of his home of 65 years in the East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. “It’ll be the destruction of our lives, of our memories here, of our children’s lives,” said Eskafi, 71, who has lived in the neighbor...

A host of mainly liberal US Jewish groups have welcomed yesterday’s guilty verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with his knee on the Black man’s neck in a case that touched off worldwide protests, violence and a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the US. Many of the Jewish groups made a point of stating that the Chauvin’s conviction is not enough on it...