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Zvika Foget, a member of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party, spoke approvingly of Sunday's settler violence against Palestinians as 'deterrence'.

If it feels like there’s an overload of news out of Israel — a sea of flags at a Jerusalem protest, police sirens outside of a synagogue —

Police have taken a number of measures to compensate for their lack of numbers, including installing sensors and cameras.

Jerusalem has emerged as a second front in Israel’s counterinsurgency strategy, prompting Itamar Ben-Gvir to ramp up the Israeli state’s never-ending war on the city and its people.

Ben-Gvir and Shabtai reportedly clashed earlier this week after Ben-Gvir demanded that police step up the pace of home demolitions in east Jerusalem.

JERUSALEM AFFAIRS: In interviews and statements on that question, the keyword being repeated by defense experts in Israel is “incitement.”

One might have thought that with such a narrow victory in the popular vote, the government would have wanted to take things slow, to build bridges.

Israel is simultaneously contending with two things. It’s not exactly a coincidence that they’re happening together. Allow us to explain:

Eran Ortal, commander of the General Staff's Dado Center, argues in new book that Israel's military must transform to meet threats by Hezbollah and Hamas, and points at way ahead

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