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Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:06:04 GMT
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US President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference on the day of a NATO leaders
The report follows the newest bout of attacks between the US and Iran over the Strait of Hormuz. 
Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:46:21 GMT
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Gadi Eisenkot, head of the Yashar party, holds a press conference with the party’s new member Yoram Cohen in Tel Aviv, May 5, 2026. (photo credit: FLASH90)
Additionally, the new party led by Chili Tropper and Yoaz Hendel failed to cross the electoral threshold, but pulled voters from Religious Zionist Party, knocking them from five seats to four.
Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:54:05 GMT
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Yisrael Beytenu leader MK Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, July 6, 2026 (photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)
“Trump wants to distance himself from him [Netanyahu]. The relationship has become a burden, and it is already hurting him in the upcoming US midterm elections," Liberman said.
Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:59:55 GMT
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FORMER WHITE HOUSE chief of staff Rahm Emanuel speaks during a conference at Tel Aviv University on Wednesday. What was billed as an honest conversation about the US-Israel relationship ended up closer to an indictment of Israel.  (photo credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/FLASH90)
US AFFAIRS: In an interview with the Post, the 2028 prospective US presidential hopeful says he won’t take AIPAC money, backs a Palestinian state, and stands by sanctions on the Jewish state.
Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:43:20 GMT
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Andy Burnham, British member of parliament (MP) for Makerfield, delivers a speech at the People
"We’ve got to do more to put pressure on the Israeli government ... Yes, we have taken some important steps ... But let’s be honest, the UK was too slow to call for a ceasefire," said Burnham.
Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:00:20 GMT
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US President Donald Trump gestures as he steps off Air Force One to board the new Qatari-gifted Boeing plane, enroute to the United States following his participation in the NATO Summit at Royal Air Force Mildenhall on July 08, 2026 in Mildenhall, England. (photo credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
“We did not ask anyone’s permission to enter Lebanon, and we do not need permission to stay in Lebanon,” Israel Katz said, adding that Israeli forces would remain until Hezbollah is disarmed.
Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:00:55 GMT
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US President Barack Obama (C-R), escorted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C-L), view battery of Iron Dome, short-range missile defence system during a welcome ceremony at Ben Gurion International Airport on March 20, 2013 near Tel Aviv.  (photo credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via GETTY IMAGES)
Israel should stop talking like a needy recipient. America should stop pretending this is philanthropy. Both governments have decided the aid era is over, and that something new must come next.
Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:22:49 GMT
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Former US Marine Robert Gilman, who serves a prison sentence for assaulting a Russian police officer in 2022, attends a court hearing in Voronezh, Russia April 6, 2026. (photo credit: REUTERS/Vladimir Lavrov)
A source close to the Kremlin told Reuters last year that Gilman was one of nine people on a list of Americans jailed in Russia that Washington wanted to be released and returned to the US.
Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:58:10 GMT
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Smoke rises during a wildfire near Azuebar, Spain July 6, 2026.  (photo credit: Eva Manez/Reuters)
Spaish Presidency, Health, and Emergencies Minister Antonio Sanz called the fire "the most devastating fire to date in our region" and described the situation as an "unprecedented tragedy".
Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:42:22 GMT
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US President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky alongside the NATO leaders summit at the Bestepe Presidential Compound, in Ankara, Turkey, July 8, 2026. (photo credit: JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS)
Zelensky has long pleaded for faster supplies of interceptors capable of bringing down Russian ballistic missiles, a need accentuated by recent assaults on the Ukrainian capital and other cities.
Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:21:37 GMT
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FILE PHOTO: Sudanese refugee women walk at the Tulum refugee camp, amid ongoing conflict in Sudan between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army, in Wadi Fira province, eastern Chad, November 30, 2025. (photo credit: REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo)
The army demand for broad RSF withdrawal has been a repeated stumbling block in previous peace efforts.
Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:44:55 GMT
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Joseph Adest for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (photo credit: Joseph Adest for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Before Israel became a state, HUJI was already helping shape the home it would become.
Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:55:43 GMT
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DF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir attends the graduation ceremony of an IDF officers’ course in southern Israel, June 25, 2026. (photo credit: FLASH90)
The return of the American coordinator signals progress in attempts to deploy the Lebanese Army and expel Hezbollah from some areas in southern Lebanon.
Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:05:30 GMT
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Ultra-Orthodox (haredi) Jewish men rally against the imprisonment of yeshiva students who failed to comply with IDF draft orders, on June 18, 2026; Illustrative. (photo credit: CHAIM GOLDBERG/FLASH90)
A rally is planned in the city for Thursday amid escalating tensions, arrests, and accusations of selective police enforcement.
Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:37:56 GMT
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US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks during the Jerusalem Summit, a conference on antisemitism and Christian support for Israel, at the Israel
“President Trump’s been incredibly clear that he’ll stay with his commitment that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon,” Huckabee said. “They’re not going to be able to be a continued threat."
Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:16:35 GMT
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 Members of the Azeri Jewish population. (photo credit: COURTESY/Rabbi Shneor Segal)
Rabbi Shneur Segal, Chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazi Jewish Community of Azerbaijan, sent the letter to Ofir Katz, Chairman of the Likud Faction, on Monday following the Israeli government's vote.
Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:44:01 GMT
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Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa
The moral question, however, never changed. If recognizing the Armenian tragedy is a moral imperative today, why was it not one in 2006, or in 1996?
Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:33:30 GMT
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Smoke rises from explosions at an unknown location, following what US Central Command (CENTCOM) said were strikes on Iranian military targets, in this screen grab from a video released on July 8, 2026.  (photo credit: US CENTRAL COMMAND/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS)
US officials told The Jerusalem Post that America was not responsible for the explosions. However, a Bushehr official told IRNA that a military site in the region was hit by a US-Israeli projectile.
Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:48:13 GMT
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US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and former Gaza hostage Yarden Bibas at the My Tree in Israel event in Moshav HaYogev. July 9, 2026. (photo credit: SAM HALPERN)
"The sacrifice that your family made for the people of Israel is one that obviously is not being forgotten," Huckabee told Yarden and Ofri during the dedication. 
Fri, 10 Jul 2026 02:22:35 GMT
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The "Tinder Swindler" Simon Leviev arrives for a court hearing at the Magistrate
The agreement was submitted for approval to the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court after more than four years of legal proceedings.
Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:35:52 GMT
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Shas head Arye Deri is seen in the plenum of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, July 14, 2025 (photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)
The agreement is expected to allow the bill to advance in the Knesset's House Committee ahead of its final second and third readings after previous coaltion objections to wording.
Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:45:51 GMT
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 U.S. President Donald Trump points his finger towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they shake hands during a press conference after meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, US, December 29, 2025.  (photo credit: JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS)
Netanyahu also warned Trump against approving the F-35 deal with Turkey during the conversation.
Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:14:53 GMT
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A welcoming sign at Palm Beach International Airport, as it is renamed as "President Donald J. Trump International Airport," in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., July 9, 2026. (photo credit: REUTERS/MARCO BELLO)
"I don't think there's anybody more synonymous with Palm Beach than Donald Trump in maybe all of Florida," said the president's son, Eric Trump.
Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:23:40 GMT
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 Hapoel Jerusalem
Throughout his coaching career, Obradovic has won numerous titles, including two French championships, the French Cup, the German championship, four German Cups and a Russian Cup.
Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:51:49 GMT
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Members of Armenia’s Russian-speaking Jewish community, along with invited Muslim guests from Egypt and Lebanon, attend a Shabbat dinner July 3, 2026, in Yerevan. (photo credit: LARRY LUXNER/JTA)
Both Turkey and its ally, Azerbaijan, immediately condemned the Cabinet vote; the chief rabbi of Azerbaijan’s Ashkenazi congregation in Baku, Shneur Segal, has already urged Israel to reverse it.
Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:49:25 GMT
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A 9,000-square-foot Chabad center has opened in a former nightclub in downtown Reykjavik, Iceland. (photo credit: Courtesy Beit Shvidler Jewish Center of Iceland/JTA)
The Beit Shvidler Jewish Center of Iceland includes a synagogue, a seminar room seating nearly 80 people, a kosher shop, a community kitchen, a youth center, a library lounge, and a security center.