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0 shares Israeli police say that over the past 24 hours they arrested 74 Israelis suspected of involvement in ethnic rioting across Israel in recent days. The arrests are part of Operation Law and Order, a crackdown against violent gangs and rioters who took part in inter-ethnic violence in mixed Arab-Jewish towns over the past two weeks. Around 1,550 arrests have been made and about 150 indictments filed by police since the riots began two weeks ago, police say. According to Hebrew media reports, most of those arrested have been Arab Israelis, reflecting the larger scale of violence fr...

0 shares Speaking to Mossad officers this evening at an awards ceremony just hours before US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to arrive in the region for talks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggests Israel may take an “independent” tack on Iran. “I appreciate our friend the United States very much. It has stood by us for many years,” Netanyahu says. “That’s a vital part of our national security. “But,” he adds, “there could come a situation where our principal goal — to ensure the ayatollahs don’t end the millennia-long existence of the Jewish people �...

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0 shares House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the third-highest ranked elected official in the United States, joins President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in condemning the wave of antisemitic attacks targeting Jewish communities since the start of the latest round of Gaza fighting. “The recent spike in antisemitic attacks against Jews around the country and the world is horrific, heartbreaking & demands action,” Pelosi writes on Twitter. “Antisemitism cannot be tolerated. We must come together as Americans to condemn and combat this appalling bigotry and hatred.” The recen...