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"He who drags the country to a fifth election is playing into the hands of those who wish us harm."

Brodet noted that his eight months in office coincided with a time when the company's operations had been almost completely discontinued due to the Corona crisis.

Gafni's letter to Netanyahu was a kind of celebration of diaspora Judaism and the deep resistance of Haredi Jews to the most basic message of the Zionist movement.

A senior Hamas official warned that if Israel would eliminate Yahya Sinwar or Mohammed Deif – it would lead to another round of fighting.

Some cabinet ministers complained that the intelligence provided in the operation was "lousy" and did not provide "reality-changing targets" to be attacked.

Is it still safe to be a Jew in America?

His analysis of the politics behind the war channels the pure cynicism of a Jean-Paul Sartre epic feat of despair.

As in the case of so many celebrities, you have to wonder what came first, the anti-Semitism or the event that drove them to spill it out.

The mayor of Lod, Yair Revivo, tweeted: "70 years of coexistence have been trampled on."

It's a sober read, but Kaufman managed to compile a wealth of anecdotal evidence about a trend you have been terrified by for several years now.

It’s the kind of even-handed statement one would expect from, say, the BBC, or the AP.

"Americans should pray for the peace of Jerusalem and stand without apology for our most cherished ally, Israel, until the violence is quelled and Israel’s security is restored."

If Israel's security apparatus relies on the terrorists' bad memories from the punishment of this round of fighting for a future deterrence – it's not happening.

Meanwhile, The CEO and owner of the Yochananoff supermarket chain, Eitan Yohannoff, told Ynet that he is not excited over the employees' strike call.

“Leave it to whiny reporters to make themselves the story and the victim when terrorists are shooting missiles at innocent civilians,” Cotton said.

Washington vetoed a UN Security Council condemnation proposal against Israel because it did not include a reference to the Hamas rockets.

Yamina sources said that should negotiations between their party and Likud are not quick and serious, they have not yet taken off the table the possibility of joining the anti-Bibi forces.

Over the weekend, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz ordered to fly Israel's flag on the Chancellor's building in Vienna as a sign of solidarity with Israel.

In national press briefings and internationally, the United States has backed up a pledge to defend its ally. But that comes against pressure by progressive lawmakers and even some more moderate congress members who have issued statements that can be perceived as having moral equivalency between Israeli and Arab actions.

Arguably, when police are so reluctant to maintain law and order, those who go out and do it are not vigilantes.

Now it may be possible to call on Blue&White chairman Benny Gantz to join, which would give the Netanyahu government a majority of 67 MKs.

Bennett and Yamina No. 2 Ayelet Shaked will both receive spots on the Likud electoral slate, and will become defense and foreign ministers, respectively.

What I found was mostly… crickets.

I take back my endorsement…

"Yesterday was the day when Hamas realized it was not succeeding, and the momentum began to change," Zilberman stated.

At least one Democrat, Rep. Ted Deutch from Florida, stood up for the sanity of the party of FDR and JFK

Proving that intermarriage really is a slippery slope: among married Jews who say they have one Jewish parent, 82% have a non-Jewish spouse.

Both pieces of legislation bring hope to the right-wing lawmakers who have been pushing them stubbornly but with little success over several years.

The prime minister met with Abbas to persuade him not to support the formation of the Bennett-Lapid government.

The Haredi MKs letter is the first open expression of no confidence in Netanyahu, and much less blunt than those issued, reportedly, by Netanyahu's own senior party members.