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Four Arabs have been indicted in the Jerusalem District Court for an assault on a Haredi man in the city some two weeks ago, as Israel was in the throes of massive Arab-Jewish unrest in the capital and throughout the country. The four, aged 17 and 18, are accused of mobbing the Jewish man near the Old City’s Damascus Gate and repeatedly beating him before policemen intervened and chased them away. Palestinian protesters hurl stones at Israeli security forces amid clashes in Jerusalem’s Old City on May 8, 2021. (EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP) I'm proud to work at The Times of Israel I’ll ...

0 shares US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says the United States will notify Israel of its intention to reopen its Jerusalem consulate to the Palestinians, during a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. “As I told both Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu and President Abbas, the United States will go forward with the reopening of its consulate in Jerusalem. This is an important step,” Blinken says. Blinken says the United States opposes unilateral actions which could undermine the prospects for a just, durable peace, “whether that is settleme...

0 shares Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat down in his office in Jerusalem with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who landed in the country about an hour and a half ago for talks with regional leaders on bolstering the Gaza ceasefire and beginning work on repairing the damage caused by the latest round of fighting. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in his office in Jerusalem, May 25, 2021. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Jerusalem) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Jerusalem, May 25, 2...

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0 shares Ebrahim Raisi, head of Iran's judiciary waves to media as he attends at the Interior Ministry to register his candidacy for the June 18 presidential elections at the elections headquarters of the Interior Ministry in Tehran, Iran, May 15, 2021. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP) DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran named the hard-line cleric running its judiciary and six others Tuesday as approved candidates in its June 18 presidential election, barring prominent candidates allied to its current president amid tensions with the West over its tattered nuclear deal. The announcement carri...