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Yamina Chairman Naftali Bennett on the march, April 21, 2021. Yamina party chairman Naftali Bennett said Thursday after a private meeting between his faction and that of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud that a “Shinui – government of change” for Israel is finished. Given the current security situation in the country, and particularly the “state of emergency” that has developed in mixed Jewish-Arab cities, Bennett said the Israeli government with Yesh Atid chai...

As a resident of Lod, the conflict between my mission as a journalist and my desire to live in peace in my own city, generated an impossible dissonance I t was one of those moments when your life flashes rapidly before your eyes. It was late at night. From early evening, Lod’s Arab residents had been protesting in the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood and in the city center. We couldn’t hear their shouting in the neighborhood where I live, and I figured — I don’t know what I based this on — t...

‘It looks dire but I’m hopeful’: Jewish and Arab coexistence activists respond to the violence in Israel’s streets May 13, 2021 2:20 pm Three women walk in a demonstration for coexistence in northern Israel on May 11, 2021. The sign in the middle says "Love your neighbor as yourself." (Jalaa Marey/AFP) Advertisement (JTA) — This has not been an easy week for Lama Abuarqoub, a Palestinian from the West Bank who has worked for years to build understanding betw...

This has not been an easy week for Lama Abuarqoub, a Palestinian from the West Bank who has worked for years to build understanding between Israelis and Palestinians. A teacher and mother of five, Abuarqoub speaks regularly with Jews through Encounter, a group that brings Jewish Americans on tours of the West Bank to meet Palestinians. She also been active in efforts to bring Jewish and Palestinian women together to push for peaceful coexistence. Yet on Wednesday, she was thinking not about p...

He called for the Israeli military to restore order. “An intifada [uprising] erupted in Lod, you have to bring in the army,” he said. Commenting on the deaths of the father and daughter, he added: “Hamas missiles do not differentiate between Jews and Arabs.” Shiloh Fried, a resident of Lod, told Israel’s Channel 12: “Gangs of Arab youths are going street to street, burning stores, smashing windows … Jewish families are huddled at home, terrified of going out �...

An Arab-Israeli Lod resident climbs up a pole to replace and Israeli flag with a Palestinian one, May 10, 2021. Photo: Twitter/Screenshot. JNS.org – Arab Israelis took to the streets of Lod and neighboring Ramle in the center of the country on Monday night, hurling rocks and firebombs and setting fires to trash cans, tires, a synagogue and a pre-military academy. “Lod is burning,” an Israel Police official said of the riots, held in solidarity with the recent anti-Israel uprising of eas...

While the Israeli Air Force parried rocket attacks from Gaza, violent clashes on the ground with Palestinian rioters continued as well on Tuesday. The police station in the Old City of Akko was burned to the ground by a mob of hundreds of Arab rioters. Large numbers of police were deployed there and in other northern

34 shares Ismail Haniyeh gestures to supporters before delivering a speech during a visit to the Ein el-Hilweh camp, Lebanons largest Palestinian refugee camp, near the southern coastal city of Sidon on September 6, 2020. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP) Hamas terror chief Ismail Haniyeh said in a speech on Tuesday night that the Palestinians have set a new “balance of power” with Israel after a day of massive rocket attacks on Israel, including an unprecedented 130 rockets fired at central Isr...

Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst joins Special Report with the latest from Jerusalem Israel saw intense rioting in several cities Tuesday evening – days into an intensifying military confrontation between Palestinian groups and the Israeli military. It was some of the most unsettling, if not the worst, unrest since the early 2000s, according to journalist Amotz Eyal, who likened the atmosphere in the mixed Arab and Israeli city of Lod to a warzone. Mayor Yair Revivo made a televised plea fo...

Israel’s military continues airstrikes on Gaza as it prepares for an “indefinite” operation On Tuesday, Israel launched a massive aerial bombardment of 140 airstrikes on Gaza, killing a further two Palestinians. This brings the death toll to 33 , including nine children and one woman. At least 122 people have been injured, 41 of them children. More than 12 percent of all injuries were “serious,” according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. One of Israel’s targets, a 13-storey re...