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Video Thousands of protesters demonstrated against the government on Saturday night on Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv. Several hundred protesters disturbed the peace, lit bonfires, attempted to overturn a police vehicle, blocked roads, and clashed with the police. A number of protesters broke through the police cordon and blocked Route 20. Police forces removed the protesters from the road with crowd control equipment and arrested those who disturbed the peace. Another video .....
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Ed Husain's autobiography The Islamist: why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I left (Penguin, 2007) is a remarkably candid account of the life of a British-born Muslim who was initially seduced by radicalism but gradually came to his senses to return to the more spiritual and devotional Islam that had defined his early years. It is also an important work, in that it both carefully grounds the issue of radicalisation that has so dominated recent intellectual and political discussion of Muslim communities in Britain, and points to potential solutions. Ed Husain grew up...
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Facing deportation, convicted terrorist Rasmea Odeh on Sunday bid a tearful but defiant farewell as she blasted “Zionists” and President Trump in a fiery speech that drew a standing ovation from a pro-Palestinian crowd in Chicago. “We need you to continue resisting Trump’s agenda and to continue challenging the Zionists and to continue providing your solidarity and support to the Palestinian and Arab national movement,” said Odeh, a featured speaker at the leftist Jewish Voice for Peace conference at the Hyatt Regency. Not far away at the same hotel complex, the mood was far more subdued as mourners remembered the...
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... 14:02 - a direct hit to a building in Tel Aviv, following a barrage of missiles to the center of the country and the lowlands; A 53-year-old and a 20-year-old were moderately injured and two other men were slightly injured from smoke inhalation. Apparently the damage is on the fourth floor of the building. At the same time, several successful interceptions of Iron Dome were carried out in the skies of Gush Dan. 13:43 - Alarms in Ashdod. One rocket was intercepted from the Gaza Strip and successfully intercepted by the Iron Dome system, no casualties or damage....
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A United States Carrier Strike Group is spotted off the coastline of Tel Aviv this morning
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Have you ever wondered why leftists, including radical feminists and LGBTQ+ activists and their allies, support Hamas? The reality is that radical feminists protesting for their rights in Gaza would either be jailed on the spot or killed. As for a gay pride event in Gaza, the very thought of it is ludicrous.
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A violent protest in Tel Aviv of foreign nationals from Eritrea ended with dozens wounded. Eritrean asylum seekers who oppose the regime in Eritrea and pro-regime activists clashed with Israeli police in south Tel Aviv. Magen David Adom teams treated a total of 114 individuals. The injuries span across various levels of severity: 8 individuals are in a serious condition, 13 have sustained moderate injuries, 93 have incurred mild injuries. Of the injured, 30 are police officers. Predominantly, these injuries comprise bruises, many resulting from stones and discarded objects. ....
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Demonstrations were held Saturday evening against the government's judicial reform legislation despite the legislation freeze that was announced on Monday. According to the protest organizers, demonstrations took place in 150 locations across the country, with the central one being in central Tel Aviv as in past weeks. Prior to the demonstration in Tel Aviv, protesters marched down Rothschild Boulevard to Kaplan Street, where Natan Netanyahu, the Prime Minister's cousin, whose mother served as a Supreme Court justice, spoke. In Jerusalem, the author David Grossman and Ori Banki, the father of Shira Banki, who was murdered at the city's LGBT...
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Three people were wounded, including one critically, one seriously and one lightly, in a terrorist shooting attack in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening. Two other people were hospitalized for shock. The shooter was eliminated by police and security forces. The wounded, who are reported to be men in their 20s, have been taken to Ichilov Hospital where medical personnel later reported that their lives are not in danger. Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai stated that the shooting was a terrorist attack and called on the protesters against the judicial reforms to vacate the scene of the attack. The terrorist has...
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement this evening (Wednesday) in response to the protests that took place during the day against the government's planned judicial reforms and the clashes with the police in Tel Aviv. "The freedom of demonstration is not a license to plunge the country into anarchy, because a sovereign country cannot tolerate anarchy. I know that there are citizens who love the country who passionately support the reform and there are others who love the country who passionately oppose the reform. In a democracy there are clear rules on how to conduct debate and there are...
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Madrid offered to replace Barcelona as Tel Aviv’s Spanish twin city, after Barcelona announced it would be cutting ties with Israel, JTA reports. Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau stated on Wednesday that she is suspending all of the city’s ties with Israel, citing what she called “the repeated violations of human rights of the Palestinian population and non-compliance with United Nations resolutions.” She added that Barcelona will maintain relations with “Israeli and Palestinian entities that continue to work for peace and against apartheid.” A day later, on Thursday, Madrid’s mayor, José Luís Martínez-Almeida, offered to step up as a replacement. In...
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According to police estimates, 100,000 protestors are currently participating in the demonstration. Additional demonstrations are planned to take place outside the President's residence in Jerusalem, in Be'er Sheva, and Herzliya.
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The Tel Aviv municipality has refused to authorize a right-wing counter-protest this Saturday night in addition to the left-wing anti-government protests which have been held for the last few weeks in the city, the JDN Hebrew news site reported. The right-wing protestors are hoping to demonstrate in support of Justice Minister Yariv Levin's proposed judicial reforms and Shas chairman Aryeh Deri, who was disqualified from serving as a minister One activist said: "They are trying to shut us up, only the leftists are allowed to demonstrate. Isn't our voice equal?" The activists are currently seeking to be allowed to demonstrate...
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Thousands of left-wing activists gathered at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening to protest Benjamin Netanyahu's new government. In an attempt to block the Ayalon highway, hundreds of protesters are reportedly attempting to push through police lines. Despite the organizer's attempts to fight the waving of PLO flags at the demonstration by distributing Israeli flags, countless PLO flags, along with flags of the radical Antifa movement, have been spotted at the demonstration. At 8:00 PM, police estimated that approximately 15,000 protesters had gathered at the square. At the same time, approximately 2,000 protesters demonstrated in Haifa, and in...
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The new Likud Party-led government in Israel, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, includes a new Social Equality Minister, Amichai Chikli, who has described the Tel Aviv Pride Parade as “disgraceful vulgarity,” according to Haaretz. Chikli’s new titles include Diaspora Affairs Minister and Social Equality Minister. It is his job to work with Jews abroad, the diaspora, many of whom are liberal and non-Orthodox, and to build support for the Likud Party through social issues. However, Chikli’s repudiation of his past liberal politics may cause problems in dealing with Israel’s LGBTQ community, said Haaretz. Chikli entered the Knesset first as...
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During construction work at Palmachim National Park near Tel Aviv, a fallen rock reveals an ancient treasure trove from the era of the biblically notorious pharoah A team of archaeologists was essentially transported back in time when it entered an untouched 3,300-year-old cave at the Palmachim National Park, just south of Tel Aviv, last week. The vast array of discovered items date to the Late Bronze Age, close to or during the rein of the biblically notorious Ramses II. The cave was spotted when a rock shifted during the course of construction work and light was literally shed on an...
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Thousands of Israelis gathered in a Tel Aviv hangar on Wednesday night as the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), one of the most influential political organizations in the United States, held its inaugural Israeli conference. Conservative activists and top Donald Trump administration officials spoke about how much the former US president has done for Israel, praised Israel’s high birthrate and called on Israelis to fight on the conservative side of America’s culture wars. But the key draw for many was celebrity pundit Ben Shapiro, who gave the evening’s keynote address. SNIP “Do any of you watch CNN International?” he...
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Puerto Rican Imam Ben Shaban Praises Perpetrator Of Tel Aviv Terrorist Attack: This Was A Man Who Was Worth 1,000 Men; He Single-Handedly Made Tel Aviv Stand Still; Men Like This Will Liberate Palestine, Restore The Muslims' Honor #9495 | 02:11 Source: The Internet - "Imam Shaban on YouTube" In a video that was uploaded to his YouTube channel on April 8, 2022, Palestinian-Puerto Rican imam Ben Shaban praised Raad Hazem, the Palestinian terrorist who killed three Israelis and injured several others in a shooting in a Tel Aviv bar the previous day. Citing a hadith from the Prophet Muhammad,...
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One got engaged a month ago, the other started a new job: Tomer Morad and Eitam Magini, 27-year-old childhood friends from Kfar Saba, decided to go out for a bar at the "Ilka" bar on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv. The terrorist trembled and Hazam killed them by firing squad. "When they did not answer - we realized that the worst had happened," said a friend of the two who will be buried side by side on Sunday.
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Officials at Ichilov Medical Center say two of the wounded in the Tel Aviv attack have died. The hospital is treating eight other wounded: Four are being operated on and are in serious condition, two more people are in moderate-to-serious condition, and two more are mildly hurt. Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai and Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai have arrived at the scene of the attack. A police spokesman says large police forces are scanning the area for the assailants. “We dove under the tables and people started crying, it was horrible,” says Evelyn Gertz, 34, who was having dinner next...
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