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This figure include 209,000 Arabs (14% of the Israeli Arab population) in East Jerusalem, also counted in the Palestinian statistics, although 98 percent of East Jerusalem Palestinians have either Israeli residency or Israeli citizenship. (wikipedia.org)
Didn't that guy resign from the Israeli goverment a few days before complaining they were too soft on the Palestinians? (metafilter.com)
This is the first killing of an Israeli government personal at the hands of the palestinians since 1948. (metafilter.com)
Imagine the deceased minister resigning that the Israeli government is too "soft" on the palestinians. (metafilter.com)
Let the Palestinians and the Israelis have at one another and let the Good Lord sort them out. (metafilter.com)
Should Israelis and Palestinians pay with their lives for this mutual hatred? (foxnews.com)
There are some 3 million Palestinians and around 600,000 Israeli settlers living in the West Bank, an area which includes East Jerusalem.16 Israel captured the West Bank, as well as the Gaza Strip, duringa war with its Arab neighbours in 1967.17 These areas are known today as the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). (amnesty.org)
Movement restrictions imposed by the Israeli military, supposedly for security reasons, mean that over 400km of roads that connect the settlements are not accessible orare only partially accessible to Palestinians. (amnesty.org)
This surrounds many Israeli settlements and effectively bars thousands of Palestinians from their land. (amnesty.org)
Palestinians hope to establish their capital in East Jerusalem, as part of a two-state peace deal with the Israelis. (bbc.co.uk)
The Israeli military said it launched an air strike on Gaza Friday, following violence at a border rally in which health officials said multiple Palestinians were wounded. (yahoo.com)
Earlier Friday, an AFP journalist at the protest saw Palestinians throwing rocks and explosives towards Israeli forces, across the frontier, and two demonstrators with gunshot wounds. (yahoo.com)
At least 34 Palestinians and one Israeli were killed in five days of cross-border exchanges in May. (yahoo.com)
Israeli air strikes on residential areas in south Gaza have killed at least 47 Palestinians, medics said, after Israel again warned civilians to relocate as it girds for an onslaught against Hamas in the enclave's south after subduing the north. (rte.ie)
An Israeli offensive into south Gaza could compel hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled the Israeli storming of Gaza City in the north to uproot again, along with residents of Khan Younis, a city of more than 400,000, compounding a dire humanitarian crisis. (rte.ie)
A third Israeli air strike this afternoon killed 15 Palestinians in a house west of Khan Younis, close to a shelter for displaced people, witnesses and medics said. (rte.ie)
Palestinians under occupation are resisting, and so are many Israelis. (npr.org)
The Queens, New York-born real estate mogul will be inaugurated at a pivotal moment in Israel, when the American-backed idea of a two-state solution-that is, dividing land between the Israelis and Palestinians-is closer to being cast into Gehenna, the biblical word for hell, than ever before. (newsweek.com)
Israeli hard-liners would rather there be no Palestinian homeland at all, but if pressed, they might accept one in which Palestinians are crammed into Gaza. (newsweek.com)
Meanwhile, Palestinians say a baby died Saturday close to Bethlehem when the mother was forced to give birth near an Israeli checkpoint. (voanews.com)
In this, one of the most sensitive periods of time on the local calendar - Israelis celebrate Independence Day on Wednesday while Palestinians mark it solemnly as "Al Nakba," the Catastrophe - the greater state of affairs has looked deeply unpromising. (csmonitor.com)
The letter, dated Thursday, explains that 'as Israeli anti-colonial activists, we have joined our voices to the voices of Palestinians for decades warning on the dangerous course of action pursued by the Israeli state and repeatedly called for international intervention. (commondreams.org)
Since the war began, more than 1,500 Israelis and 9,400 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, along with at least 133 Palestinians in the West Bank, which has seen a surge in Israeli settler violence. (commondreams.org)
The Bush Administration has been working hard to reduce the violence between Israelis and Palestinians that has escalated over the past couple of weeks, afraid that it might jeopardize its alliance in the war on terrorism. (wbur.org)
Can Israelis And Palestinians Change Their Minds? (wgbh.org)
He says the high political stakes and emotional involvement make it hard for Israelis and Palestinians to change their minds. (wgbh.org)
Palestinians and Israelis used to interact with some regularity, often in the workplace or the marketplace. (wgbh.org)
16 August 2012 - A United Nations official today expressed serious concern over the more than 1,000 Palestinians living in the southern Hebron Hills region who have been forced to leave their houses after Israeli authorities designated the area as a fire zone for military training. (globalsecurity.org)
Since September 2000, the Israeli occupation forces have escalated their immoral and aggressive policy against Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory. (who.int)
During the past four years, the Israeli authorities continued their military campaign of arrest and detention against thousands of Palestinians of all age groups ranging between 12 and 75 years and of both sexes. (who.int)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Lukid party had encouraged voters to download the app to get news and information related to the upcoming election on 2 March. (asisonline.org)
Thus, the capture of a soldier represents a massive propaganda victory for Hamas and poses political challenges for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: It will be difficult to halt an operation in Gaza with a soldier in enemy hands. (thedailybeast.com)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a reported US request that a building project in Jerusalem be halted. (bbc.co.uk)
U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval office of the White House in Washington November 9, 2015. (newsweek.com)
Critics worldwide have accused Israel of committing 'a textbook case of genocide,' citing not only the bloodshed but also comments from Israeli leaders including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (commondreams.org)
FILE - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Nov. 3, 2019. (voanews.com)
While the U.S. disingenuously offers to broker a deal between Israel and Palestine, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu states categorically that Israel will never give up the West Bank. (counterpunch.org)

Also Tuesday, Israel's interior minister threatened to revoke the citizenship of Israeli Arabs involved in carrying out attacks on Israelis, and Sharon called it a "correct, judicious and balanced decision. (foxnews.com)
Turkish hackers launched a DNS attack on 350 Israeli websites in what experts believe was a test run for attacks on Israeli domains. (israelnationalnews.com)
The last Israeli soldier captured was Gilad Shalit, who was taken in 2006 and held for five years before finally being swapped for more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, some of whom went on to stage attacks against Israelis. (thedailybeast.com)
Sinai is a popular budget vacation spot for Israelis, despite repeated warnings of terror attacks as well as a string of bombings that have claimed the lives of 125 people since October 2004. (jpost.com)
Yossi Mekelberg, an associate fellow at Chatham House who specializes in writing about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, says that while many Israelis want the hostages returned home, they are also worried that releasing Palestinian prisoners will lead to more attacks like the one perpetrated on Oct. 7. (yahoo.com)
Mekelberg says that this is because many Israelis felt that the Palestinian Authority did not condemn the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks strongly enough, and attempts to explain the context came across as justification to many Israelis. (yahoo.com)
Support for a two-state solution also went down slightly among Jewish Israelis, dropping from 37.5% in favor of a two-state solution in September to 28.6% supporting the idea in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attacks, according to the Peace Index polls. (yahoo.com)
Meanwhile, Israeli Deputy Defence Minister Zeev Boim said that Yassin deserved to die, warning that more attacks would come. (chinadaily.com.cn)
The Israeli minister hinted that more attacks on Palestinian militant leaders were possible, saying that "no terrorist leader will be immune. (chinadaily.com.cn)
Past Israeli governments were reluctant to target Yassin, fearing a firestorm of revenge attacks. (chinadaily.com.cn)
Al Aqsa, a secular group responsible for dozens of attacks on Israelis, said in a statement faxed to The Associated Press, "An eye for an eye, and the retaliation will be in the coming hours, God willing. (chinadaily.com.cn)
A number of militants from the town have carried out attacks against Israelis since the Palestinian uprising began in September 2000. (voanews.com)
Palestinian militants have vowed to continue their uprising, despite a demand by Mr. Arafat that attacks on Israeli civilians be stopped. (voanews.com)

On an April 27, 2023 show that was posted online by OTV (Lebanon), Lebanese politician Omar Harfouch responded to criticism against him for having spoken at a European Parliament symposium which was attended by several Israelis. (memri.org)
An injured child is brought to the al-Aqsa Hospital after an Israeli attack on Maghazi Refugee Camp in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza on November 3, 2023. (commondreams.org)

Cigarette smoking is a popular habit among Arab Israelis. (who.int)

As of 2013, Israel's population is 8 million, of which the Israeli civil government records 75.3% as Jews, 20.7% as non-Jewish Arabs, and 4.0% other. (wikipedia.org)
Nearly half of all Israeli Jews are descended from immigrants from the European Jewish diaspora. (wikipedia.org)
Defined as non-Jews and non-Arabs, they make up about 3.5% of Israelis (350,000), and were eligible for Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return. (wikipedia.org)
Among the Israeli-born Jewish population, most are descended from Ashkenazi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, Sephardic Jews, Ethiopian Jews, and other Jewish ethnic divisions. (wikipedia.org)
better source needed] The CBS traces the paternal country of origin of Israeli Jews as of 2010 is as follows. (wikipedia.org)
For years, Ethiopian-Israelis have complained of being treated like second-class citizens - black Jews in a white country - unfairly targeted by police and facing systemic discrimination. (cnn.com)
Despite thousands of protesters gathering in Tel Aviv to demand the release of the hostages held by Hamas, only 10% of Israeli Jews in the Israel Democracy Institute poll said they would support a pause in fighting in order to exchange hostages. (yahoo.com)
Meanwhile, 44.3%, the plurality of Israeli Jews, said they want the government to negotiate for the hostages immediately without pausing the fighting. (yahoo.com)
Support for peace negotiations with the Palestinian Authority among Israeli Jews fell from 47.6% in favor in September to just 24.5% in favor in the survey conducted between Oct. 23 and Oct. 28. (yahoo.com)
ESTRIN: Jews, wake up, a religious Jewish Israeli proclaims at a Jerusalem intersection. (npr.org)
Obviously the immigration authorities are not thinking very highly of Israelis these days, and I hate to see that because it reflects on Jews and Israel," Friedman said. (jweekly.com)
Not just Israelis but Jews in general. (jweekly.com)

Israel and Islamist group Hamas have agreed to swap hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for the lone captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. (telegraph.co.uk)
Oct. 2011 - Israel agreed a deal with Hamas that around 1,027 prisoners would be freed in exchange for Israeli soldier and tank crewman, Gilad Shalit , who has been held since 2006. (telegraph.co.uk)
The Israeli helicopters fired three missiles at a spare parts factory in Gaza City's Zeitouni neighborhood, which is known as a Hamas hub. (foxnews.com)
On the deadliest day so far in the rapidly widening Gaza-Israel conflict, the militant group Hamas claimed to have captured an Israeli soldier. (thedailybeast.com)
Of Israelis who responded to the Israel Democracy Institute poll, 26.6% said that Israel should not negotiate with Hamas for the release of the Israeli hostages at all. (yahoo.com)
Israelis have had enough of pro-Hamas MK's antics, poll reveals, as legal noose around Zoabi begins to tighten. (israelnationalnews.com)
Zoabi has been linked to Hamas on multiple occasions, and is infamous for provocative speeches, including one in which she said that Israel has " no right to a normal life " and a later address claiming that "the Israeli occupation" was behind the murder of Israelis in Bulgaria. (israelnationalnews.com)
Israeli forces, which seized Al Shifa hospital in their offensive across north Gaza earlier this week, saying it concealed an underground Hamas command centre, denied the accusation, saying evacuations were voluntary. (rte.ie)
Israel vowed to annihilate the Hamas militant group that controls the tiny, coastal enclave after its 7 October rampage into Israel in which its fighters killed 1,200 people and dragged 240 hostages into the enclave, according to Israeli tallies. (rte.ie)
A senior aide to Israel's prime minister urged Palestinian civilians on Friday to relocate away from Khan Younis as Israeli forces would have to advance into the city to oust Hamas fighters dug into underground tunnels and bunkers, suggesting an Israeli ground offensive into the south was imminent. (rte.ie)
Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the founder and leader of the Hamas militant group that targeted Israelis in suicide bombings, was killed by missiles fired from Israeli helicopters as he left a mosque at daybreak Monday, witnesses said. (chinadaily.com.cn)
Hamas confirmed the death in an announcement broadcast over mosque loudspeakers and vowed revenge against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. (chinadaily.com.cn)
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon personally supervised the attack on Hamas Shiekh Ahmed Yassin, an Israeli radio reported. (chinadaily.com.cn)
Sharon's government has gone after militant leaders using Israeli helicopter gunships in a controversial policy that has resulted in a number of civilian casualties in addition to the deaths of senior figures in Hamas and other groups. (chinadaily.com.cn)
In announcing Yassin's death, Hamas said, "(Israeli Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon has opened the gates of hell and nothing will stop us from cutting off his head. (chinadaily.com.cn)
Israel, which blamed him for inspiring Hamas bombers and attackers who killed hundreds of Israelis, tried unsuccessfully to kill him in a September missile strike that injured 16 people. (chinadaily.com.cn)
Hamas vowed revenge against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. (chinadaily.com.cn)
Officials believe Palestinian militants took around 240 hostages in a Hamas-led surprise attack on Israel October 7, which sparked Israeli forces' retaliatory air and ground assault of Gaza. (commondreams.org)
The prosecutor spoke about both the Hamas-led attack on Israel, including hostage-taking, and the Israeli war on Gaza, where civilians have been cut off from essentials like food, water, electricity, and medicine. (commondreams.org)
BEIRUT (Reuters) -Separate Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed eight people, including two journalists working for a Lebanese TV channel and a senior Hamas official, according to Lebanese state media and official sources. (yahoo.com)
Hamas releases 11 more Israeli hostages. (yahoo.com)
Eleven more Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 33 Palestinian prisoners on Monday as part of the four-day truce between Israel and Hamas, Qatari officials said. (yahoo.com)

280,000 Israeli settlers live in settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, 190,000 in East Jerusalem, and 20,000 in the Golan Heights. (wikipedia.org)
The importance of establishing these "facts on the ground" - which means rapidly building settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem - is not lost on the Israeli government. (ipsnews.net)
Between 1993 and 2010, the Israeli settler population in the West Bank and East Jerusalem more than doubled , going from 241,000 to over 500,000, according to Israeli human rights group Btselem. (ipsnews.net)
A masked Israeli member of the Ethiopian community runs past a burning barrier blocking the main entrance to Jerusalem on July 02, 2019, to protest the killing of Solomon Tekah, a young man of Ethiopian origin who was killed by an off-duty police officer. (cnn.com)
JERUSALEM - Israeli troops killed the suspected mastermind of a Tel Aviv suicide bombing and a second Palestinian militiaman during a West Bank chase Tuesday, and Israel's Supreme Court upheld the practice of demolishing homes of Palestinian terror suspects without warning. (foxnews.com)
In Jerusalem, Israel's Supreme Court rejected a petition by Palestinian relatives of terror suspects whose homes are slated for demolition by the Israeli military. (foxnews.com)
Amid the current diplomatic impasse between Ankara and Jerusalem, Turkish hackers hijacked some 350 Israeli websites on Sunday evening, launching a Domain Name System (DNS) attack on dozens of other websites as well. (israelnationalnews.com)
In 1967 Israel unilaterally annexed East Jerusalem and included these Palestinian parts of the city, as well as a surrounding area of over 70km2, within the boundaries of the Israeli municipality of Jerusalem. (amnesty.org)
These established the Palestinian Authority (the PA, now known as the State of Palestine) and divided the West Bank excluding East Jerusalem into Areas A, B and C. The Oslo Accords transferred partial jurisdiction of some areas to the PA, while overall security remained under Israeli control. (amnesty.org)
FILE - Likud party member Gideon Saar attends the swearing-in of the new Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, Oct. 3, 2019. (voanews.com)

On the Peace Index poll, Netanyahu did even worse, with 75.8% of Israelis rating the prime minister's performance as "not so good" or "poor" in regards to the war. (yahoo.com)
In Israeli Voice Index Polls conducted between Oct. 24-26, 49.5% of respondents said that they trusted the IDF more than Prime Minister Netanyahu, while just 7.3% said they trusted Netanyahu more than the IDF. (yahoo.com)
Knesset members on the right and left flew in from Tel Aviv, along with Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, a hard-liner sometimes described as a potential challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, who beamed in by satellite. (newsweek.com)
Israeli politics is very personalized and the partners of Benny Gantz are not willing to operate with Netanyahu personally and therefore there is no real future I believe in unity government if the parties will stay as they are now," said Yedidia Stern of the non-partisan Israel Democracy Institute. (voanews.com)

The problem for the Arabs is an almost total lack of options in responding to the Israelis' antics. (csmonitor.com)
Only anti-Israel violence is newsworthy for the media that casually ignores the distinction between "the Palestinian Arabs" in the territories and "Arabs" who have been Israeli citizens since 1948. (newenglishreview.org)

On the Israeli Voice Index conducted on Nov. 5 and Nov. 6, Israelis also expressed dissatisfaction with the Netanyau administration, with 61.4% of all Israelis giving Netanyahu's performance during the war a negative rating. (yahoo.com)
As Netanyahu's July 1 target date approaches, Israelis are bombarded with warnings. (npr.org)
Palestinian Central Committee member Muhammad Dahlan expressed pessimism regarding the chances of achieving any progress in light of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's demands to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, to focus on security issues, and to restrict the refugees' right of return to the demilitarized Palestinian state. (memri.org)

January 2004 - Israel releases 436 Palestinian and other Arab prisoners in a deal with Hizbollah for the return of Elhanan Tannenbaum, an Israeli businessman, and three dead Israeli soldiers abducted on a border patrol in 2000. (telegraph.co.uk)
Since September 2000, 474 people the majority of them Israelis have been killed in 112 Palestinian suicide bombings. (chinadaily.com.cn)

Israeli authorities have sought to block Al Mayadeen's websites and seize equipment linked to the station. (yahoo.com)
Lustig said the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been working with authorities in Washington, but has refrained from attempts to impose any influence on behalf of the detainees. (jweekly.com)
Approximately 18 per cent of the West Bank has been designated by the Israeli authorities as a "firing zone. (globalsecurity.org)
He had an appointment on 15 June 2020, but since the suspension of permit processing and coordination between Palestinian and Israeli authorities he has been unable to obtain a permit to exit. (who.int)
However, following the suspension of permit processing and coordination between Palestinian and Israeli authorities, Azmi was unable to find any means to apply for a permit to exit. (who.int)
Azmi's son Alaa commented, "We went to the Coordination Office to apply for my father, but I was told they stopped contact with Israeli authorities. (who.int)
In the past year the Palestinian people witnessed the sad loss of President Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian national leader of liberty, who passed away on 11 November 2004 at a military hospital near Paris, having endured the long, restrictive siege imposed by Israeli occupation authorities on his compound in Ramallah, Palestine. (who.int)

As Israeli and Palestinian leaders resume negotiations Aug. 14 towards a peace agreement, Israel has untaken several steps to strengthen and expand its settlements. (ipsnews.net)
The Israeli government has also added several West Bank settlements to its list of so-called priority communities that are eligible for government funding. (ipsnews.net)
This includes three settlements that were originally considered outposts - built in violation even of Israeli law - that earned retroactive recognition last year . (ipsnews.net)
Israeli army radio reported that the Israeli population in West Bank settlements grew more than the population inside Israel proper in the first half of 2013, with the settlement population growing by 2.1 percent, compared to just a two percent increase in Israel. (ipsnews.net)
Housing start-ups in West Bank settlements also increased during the first quarter of 2013 by an astonishing 355 percent compared to the last quarter of 2012, according to data from the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. (ipsnews.net)
These ongoing and seemingly accelerated efforts to expand Israeli settlements as negotiations re-start show that the Israeli government has no intention of uprooting its sprawling settler population, estimated to number more than 600,000 today. (ipsnews.net)
While some have argued that recent promises to build in the settlements are meant to appease right-wing factions within the ruling Israeli coalition government that oppose a return to negotiations, the reality is that negotiations have, since their inception 20 years ago, only facilitated the continuation of Israeli colonial policies. (ipsnews.net)
Since 1967, it has been Israeli government policy to promote the creation and expansion of Israeli settlements in the OPT. (amnesty.org)
Israeli settlements in the OPT are meant to be permanent places of residence or economic activity for Jewish Israelis and are built with the sole purpose of serving their needs. (amnesty.org)
An independent fact-finding mission, mandated by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate the human rights implications of the Israeli settlements in the OPT, reported in 2013 on how a range of business activities, involving both Israeli and foreign companies, sustains settlements. (amnesty.org)
The State of Israel should bear full responsibility and obligation to cooperate closely by informing the Palestinian National Authority and the international community about the location of landmines and chemical waste collection areas in the settlements which the Israelis plan to evacuate. (who.int)

Israel's official census includes Israeli settlers in the occupied territories (referred to as "disputed" by Israel). (wikipedia.org)
News reports (in the Israeli newspaper Globes , in the NANOJV defense intelligence blog , and elsewhere) say that on Wednesday, December 22, Israel's army is going to test a new tank-defense system by firing live anti-tank missiles at a tank that contains two of its own soldiers . (improbable.com)
Recently Germany, France, Portugal, and Britain condemned the Israeli government's decision to renew construction in the territories as well as Israel's inability to prevent price-tag actions. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
But there have been certain shifts - in public opinion and in individual beliefs - during the 68 years of Israel's existence and almost half-century of the Israeli military control over Palestinian territories. (wgbh.org)
In the context of Israel's closure of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian patients must apply for Israeli permits to access healthcare in other parts of the occupied Palestinian territory. (who.int)
In the context of Israel's closure of the Gaza Strip, Osama needed an Israeli-issued permit to exit. (who.int)

it is estimated that almost 10 percent of the general Israeli population lives abroad, particularly in Russia (with Moscow housing the single largest Israeli community outside of Israel), India, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and throughout Europe. (wikipedia.org)
The official Israel Central Bureau of Statistics estimate of the Israeli Jewish population does not include those Israeli citizens, mostly descended from immigrants from the Soviet Union, who are registered as "others", or their immediate family members. (wikipedia.org)
Los Angeles is home to the largest community of Israelis outside Israel. (wikipedia.org)
1983 - Israel frees 4,600 Arab detainees in return for six Israeli soldiers held in Lebanon. (telegraph.co.uk)
June 1984 - Israel swaps 291 Syrians captured in battle and the remains of 72 Syrians for six Israelis and five bodies, only two of which are positively identified as Israelis. (telegraph.co.uk)
July 1996 - Hizbollah and Israel carry out a German-brokered swap when the bodies of 123 guerrillas are returned to Lebanon in exchange for the remains of two Israeli soldiers. (telegraph.co.uk)
Members of the Ethiopian community of Israel face policemen during clashes in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya on July 2, 2019. (cnn.com)
Israeli troops on Sunday demolished nine homes of terror suspects, a controversial practice that Israel abandoned several years ago but has recently revived. (foxnews.com)
The Stuxnet virus that downed systems at Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor to a halt for over six months is widely believed to have been the result of an Israeli cyber-attack, although Israel has not admitted it. (israelnationalnews.com)
N ew opinion polls just released from Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University's Peace Index indicate that Israeli attitudes towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are more hawkish than at any point in recent memory. (yahoo.com)
The Israeli government has built 85% of its 700km-long "Separation Barrier", which it presents as separating Israel from the West Bank, within the West Bank. (amnesty.org)
The Israeli public has finally had enough, Israel Hayom revealed Thursday: over 85% of Israelis polled have voted to see Zoabi ejected from the Knesset. (israelnationalnews.com)
The strike was the first since early July, when Israel responded to rocket fire from Gaza launched after its deadliest Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank in years. (yahoo.com)
In 2016, the billionaire emerged as the most influential Israel donor to Hillary Clinton, and most of the Israeli-American policy world turned out for his 13th annual Saban Forum: think tank policy wonks, ribbon-decked retired generals and diplomats who had sweated over the intractable peace process. (newsweek.com)
It is the worst violence at the border since Israel and Hezbollah fought a war in 2006 and has so far killed more than 70 Hezbollah fighters, 13 Lebanese civilians, seven Israeli troops and three Israeli civilians. (yahoo.com)
From providing perinatal care to treating HIV, cancer, malnutrition and other NCDs, the Israeli volunteers are saving lives, contributing to a better healthcare system in rural Uganda and advocating the diplomatic relations between Israel and Uganda. (who.int)
Israeli control over the supply of water, fuel, electricity and gas will remain, however, and this means that Israel will continue to control movement to and from the area. (who.int)
mean age at follow-up 57.7 years) from a nonprofit Israeli healthcare maintenance organization that provides national health care coverage to 14% of the population of Israel. (medscape.com)
The Israeli Ministry of Health is reporting an outbreak of leptospirosis in persons with exposure to natural water sources in the Golan Heights region of northern Israel after July 1, 2018. (cdc.gov)
She has published the monograph Israeli identity, thick recognition and conflict transformation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013), and coauthored the text-book War and Peace in Israel-Palestine (Krig och Fred i Israel/Palestina) with Professor Karin Aggestam and Ph D Anders Persson (Studentlitteratur, 2014). (lu.se)

Persistent impunity has created the conditions for the consolidation of the Israeli apartheid regime, which is intent on committing ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Indigenous Palestinian population,' says the open letter. (commondreams.org)
Israelis Against Apartheid, a group representing more than 1,500 citizens, this week urged the International Criminal Court's prosecutor 'to take accelerated action against the escalating Israeli war crimes and genocide of the Palestinian people' in Gaza. (commondreams.org)

Early Israeli culture was largely defined by communities of the Jewish diaspora who had made aliyah to British Palestine from Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. (wikipedia.org)
Later Jewish immigration from Ethiopia, the states of the former Soviet Union, and the Americas introduced new cultural elements to Israeli society and have had a profound impact on modern Israeli culture. (wikipedia.org)
For generations, their ancestors had lived in the east African country, but as the political situation deteriorated in the region, Israeli leaders felt a need to bring the Jewish community out. (cnn.com)
They have also provided subsidies, tax incentives and lowcost utilities and resources to encourage Jewish Israelis to live in these places and to support the settlement economy. (amnesty.org)
He said that it is unreasonable and antisemitic to expect him to inquire whether each person he meets abroad is Jewish or Israeli, and he said that in France, where he lives, and elsewhere in Europe, he would even be susceptible to criminal charges for such inquiries. (memri.org)
I will not ask anyone whether he is Jewish or Israeli, because international law, and the law in France, where I live, forbids me from asking this. (memri.org)
I would be antisemitic to the point that I suspected him because his name or the way he looks indicated that he was Jewish, and I asked him whether he was Jewish in order to find out whether he is an Israeli citizen. (memri.org)
He was strongly opposed by Israeli and Jewish interests. (rense.com)
Israeli archaeologists have discovered coins they believe date back to a failed second-century Jewish rebellion against Roman rule. (bbc.co.uk)
Oded Revivi, the mayor of a Jewish settlement, speaks with Israeli and U.S. officials regularly. (npr.org)
Israeli Prime Minister-designate Ehud Olmert finished cementing a government Monday, bringing together a mix of parties with a center-left bent and a willingness to make territorial concessions in hopes of minimizing - if not settling - the century-old Arab-Jewish conflict. (csmonitor.com)
They've turned the workers into witnesses," said chaplain Gary Friedman, executive director of Seattle-based Jewish Prisoner Services International, which provided services to the Israelis while they were in custody. (jweekly.com)
Friedman said he worries about the way the Israelis' actions reflect on the Jewish community. (jweekly.com)

The Syrians were fully aware of this attitude on the Israelis' part. (csmonitor.com)

Witnesses said Israeli helicopters fired three missiles at the wheelchair-bound Yassin and two bodyguards as they left the mosque, killing them instantly. (chinadaily.com.cn)

A new era happened when the Israelis elected Sharon as their prime minister. (metafilter.com)
In Egypt, meanwhile, President Hosni Mubarak complained that Ariel Sharon has no peace plan and suggested the Israeli prime minister was being driven by a strong dislike of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. (foxnews.com)
Arafat doesn't like Sharon either," Mubarak told a group of Israeli reporters in Cairo. (foxnews.com)
Ms. Livni is a rising star in Israeli politics and a protege of former Prime Minister Sharon. (csmonitor.com)

An Israeli soldier was killed during the operation, and Palestinian witnesses say at least eight civilians were wounded by Israeli fire. (voanews.com)
Over the past four weeks, as Israeli forces have killed thousands of civilians and bombed residential, medical, educational, and religious buildings, allegations of war crimes have mounted. (commondreams.org)

Despite the ongoing violence, Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer met the Palestinian interior minister, Abdel Razak Yehiyeh, late Monday to discuss cease-fire proposals that could lead to Israeli troops leaving some Palestinian areas. (foxnews.com)
The Israeli military said troops encountered the two wanted men in Jabaa and killed them in a chase. (foxnews.com)
Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila said all except about 125 of around 1,000-1,500 war-wounded or sick patients, as well as 34 newborn babies along with a small number of doctors and nurses, had been forced to leave Al Shifa by Israeli troops. (rte.ie)
Israeli troops withdrew from Tulkarm, ending a two-day sweep for Palestinian militants. (voanews.com)
Israeli troops continued their withdrawal from Palestinian territories today, after intense pressure from the United States. (wbur.org)

The polls are part of a series conducted several times per year and attempt to be representative of the various factions of Israeli society, including Israeli citizens of Palestinian descent. (yahoo.com)

The Israeli military said 'several explosive devices and grenades' were hurled at soldiers, none of whom were hurt. (yahoo.com)
Israeli soldiers carried out house-to-house searches and exchanged fire with Palestinian gunmen. (voanews.com)
Also Saturday, the Israeli army says its soldiers detained a Palestinian teenager wearing a belt containing explosives. (voanews.com)
An Israeli army spokesman denied the woman was detained and said she was already under the care of the Palestinian ambulance team when soldiers arrived on the scene. (voanews.com)
But one Palestinian who went from throwing stones at Israeli soldiers to teaching non-violence says he began to change his mind about violence while in an Israeli prison. (wgbh.org)
It's a process," says Bassam Aramin, who became one of the co-founders of Combatants for Peace, a group of former Israeli soldiers and Palestinian ex-militants. (wgbh.org)

The first phase of the highway - a 90-kilometer toll road running parallel to the greater Tel Aviv metropolitan area - is being constructed by an Israeli-Canadian consortium under a build-operate-transfer (BOT) method, in which the government appoints a private company to build and operate a project for a period of time, after which it transfers the assets back to the government. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)

The Israeli military governed the remainder of the West Bank, as well as the Gaza Strip, as occupied territory from 1967 onwards. (amnesty.org)
Thomas Moorer accused the U.S. and Israeli governments yesterday of covering up evidence surrounding the 1967 Israeli attack on the American intelligence ship USS Liberty. (rense.com)

A separate agreement saw the division of the city of Hebron into Palestinian and Israeli-administered sectors, known as H1 and H2 respectively. (amnesty.org)
Maayan Poleg is a Middle East program director for the group Seeds of Peace, which brings Palestinian and Israeli teens together for summer camp in Maine. (wgbh.org)

The Israeli cabinet has approved the reinstatement of ultranationalist politician Avigdor Lieberman as foreign minister nearly a year after he resigned to fight corruption charges. (rferl.org)

But, following last week's remarks, MK Robert Ilatov (Yisrael Beytenu) said Sunday night that legislation to strip Zoabi of her Israeli citizenship would soon be introduced. (israelnationalnews.com)

Databases listing personal information of private citizens can be exploited for a number of purposes, including by criminals looking to make money through identity theft, or by foreign state-backed hackers looking to spy on Israeli voters ahead of a critical election. (asisonline.org)
The Israelis who manage mall kiosks - most of whom are here legally as dual citizens or resident aliens - say they are running franchise businesses. (jweekly.com)

Mubarak made the unusually frank comments to the Israeli reporters who covered a Monday meeting between the Egyptian president and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. (foxnews.com)

Hizbollah also frees 17 fighters of the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army (SLA) militia, which in turn frees 45 Lebanese captives. (telegraph.co.uk)
He also said that the Lebanese boycott of meetings with Israelis must be stopped and that now that there are many Israelis in the Gulf States, the boycott has become exceedingly unreasonable. (memri.org)
For that, I would be put on trial for antisemitism, in France and all over Europe, because my Lebanese country, whose passport I hold, forbids me from meeting with Israelis. (memri.org)
There are 15 million Lebanese living all over the world, and they cannot ask every person they meet every day whether or not he is Israeli. (memri.org)
Lebanese broadcaster Al Mayadeen said an Israeli strike on Tuesday near the town of Tir Harfa, about a mile from the Israeli frontier, had killed two of its journalists and a third person at the site where they were filming. (yahoo.com)

Hours later, Israeli F-16 warplanes attacked the Palestinian government headquarters in the West Bank town of Tulkarem in retaliation, destroying the large compound, killing a Palestinian policeman and injuring about 30. (foxnews.com)

The Israeli occupation forces have perpetrated crimes against humanity, breaching international and humanitarian laws. (who.int)

Eyad Al-Zaeem told Reuters he lost his aunt, her children and her grandchildren in the air strike in Khan Younis, and that all had evacuated from north Gaza on Israeli army orders only to die where the army told them they could be safe. (rte.ie)

A spokeswoman for the Israeli military said the army was investigating. (thedailybeast.com)
An Israeli military statement said only that over the past 24 hours its air force hit dozens of Gaza targets including militants, command centres, rocket launch sites and munitions factories. (rte.ie)
He suggested the incident was a deliberate attack to prevent the Liberty from picking up signals that could have forewarned the United States of an Israeli military push into Syria the next day. (rense.com)
Israeli military forces have pulled out of the West Bank town of Tulkarm after arresting at least four Palestinian militants. (voanews.com)
Israeli military personnel and journalists are now openly calling for ethnic cleansing and genocide,' the letter adds. (commondreams.org)
The Israeli military has previously said it cannot guarantee journalists' safety in areas where it is fighting. (yahoo.com)

On November 9, Israeli airstrikes hit Al-Nasr Medical Center in Gaza City, cutting off the neonatal intensive care unit's oxygen supply. (hrw.org)

Israeli jets have carried out air strikes in eastern Lebanon near the border with Syria, Lebanon's state news agency says. (bbc.com)

Last week US officials told the Israeli ambassador that the project should be suspended, Israeli media said. (bbc.co.uk)
Israeli officials said the US State Department summoned Ambassador Michael Oren last week and told him that the construction should not go ahead. (bbc.co.uk)
Palestinian officials accused the Israeli army of forcibly evacuating most staff, patients and displaced people from Gaza's largest hospital in the north and abandoning them to perilous journeys southwards on foot. (rte.ie)
The pending Israeli advance into south Gaza may prove more complicated and deadlier than in the north, however, with the civilian population swelled by some 400,000 evacuees and fiercer fighting expected with militants dug into the Khan Younis region, a senior Israeli source and two ex-top officials said. (rte.ie)
Israeli officials blamed Arafat for the attack, saying he is doing little to stop extremists. (foxnews.com)

Israelis leave Sinai following warnings [pg. (jpost.com)

Two Israelis were rescued with another tourist on Thursday after an avalanche at a ski resort in Gulmarg, India. (jpost.com)

Moshe Goldshmidt and his wife Lea at a new synagogue under construction in the Israeli settlement Itamar in the West Bank. (ipsnews.net)
This is Har Bracha, an illegal Israeli settlement near Nablus, one of the West Bank's largest Palestinian cities. (ipsnews.net)
Ariel [a nearby Israeli settlement] is a city of 20,000 people or more. (ipsnews.net)

Leftist incoherence and despair have cost them votes, with the nationalist-rightist Likud Party dominating Israeli politics for decades, since 1977. (frontpagemag.com)

Together with the building of new roads, the Ministry of Transport is also trying to coax Israelis out of their cars and onto buses. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)

It was the deadliest single attack in the region since Arafat announced a cease-fire Dec. 16, following more than a year of Israeli-Palestinian violence that had left hundreds dead on both sides. (foxnews.com)

Yassin was by far the most senior Palestinian militant killed in more than three years of Israeli-Palestinian fighting. (chinadaily.com.cn)
Covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the past three years, I've often wondered if people here ever do. (wgbh.org)

The Israeli Medicine on the Equator (IME) implements an innovative model for the development of rural medicine in Africa through the "Kiboga" model. (who.int)

Some 82% of Thai respondents said they prefer cars, as did 57% of Israelis. (ynetnews.com)
Most notably there were no respondents with Israeli backgrounds and only four Hispanic respondents. (cdc.gov)

In the Gaza Strip, Israeli helicopters fired missiles at a suspected weapons factory late Monday, lightly injuring four people and damaging three buildings. (foxnews.com)
The head of the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said it had received "horrifying" images and footage of scores of people killed and wounded in an attack on an UNRWA school in the Israeli-occupied north. (rte.ie)
Another Israeli strike on a car about seven miles (11 km) from the border and near the southern city of Tyre killed four people later in the day, Lebanon's state media reported. (yahoo.com)
People have a lot of [psychological] resources invested in what they believe about the conflict," says Thomas Zeitzoff, a political scientist at American University in Washington, D.C., who has researched Israeli and Palestinian attitudes. (wgbh.org)
Four people - two Israeli and two Palestinian - told me their stories of personal, radical belief change related to the conflict. (wgbh.org)
Based on the proposed Israeli disengagement plan, it is surprising that no attention has been given to the fate of dozens of Palestinian patients: chronically ill people who need treatment that is not available in Gaza. (who.int)

Near the northern West Bank town of Jenin, the two Palestinian militiamen were tracked by Israeli forces as they left a home in the village of Jabaa around midnight Monday, relatives said. (foxnews.com)

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We are extremely concerned by the Israeli institutional calls for genocide that are being loudly and clearly voiced in Hebrew and believe that they should be seriously taken into consideration as thousands, if not millions, of lives are at stake,' says the letter to the ICC prosecutor. (commondreams.org)
While behind bars, he learned Hebrew, saw his first movie about the Holocaust, and got to know Israeli prison guards. (wgbh.org)

The app's maker, Feed-b, issued a statement to the Israeli news media, describing the leak as a "one-off incident that was immediately dealt with" and claiming it has since improved site security. (asisonline.org)

The Israeli army says one soldier was killed and at least two wounded on Friday after their armored vehicle was ambushed. (voanews.com)

By contrast, just 11% of Israelis believe that Zoabi - like she claims - is a 'paragon of free speech' and that her remarks are warranted within the right to freedom of expression. (israelnationalnews.com)

The exposure of the database of Israeli voters could have significant consequences," The New York Times reports. (asisonline.org)
The consequences, as the arrested Israelis are finding out, are not so minimal. (jweekly.com)

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