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After urging Iranians to rise up against regime, Trump admits overthrow a ‘very big hurdle’
35+ min ago (783+ words) After several statements over the past months and weeks urging Iranians to take to the streets and seize power from the government once the bombing stops, US President Donald Trump on Friday acknowledged that it will be very difficult for…...
Iranian cluster bombs cause damage but no injuries at multiple sites in central Israel
2+ hour, 50+ min ago (1182+ words) Iran fired several ballistic missile salvos at Israel on Friday, some of which carried cluster munition warheads, causing damage at several sites, as the Israel Defense Forces assessed between 4,000 and 5,000 Iranian troops have been killed in strikes since the start…...
Tech group led by Wiz CEO acquires Channel 13: ‘Israel deserves an independent news channel’
3+ hour, 51+ min ago (435+ words) Billionaire Len Blavatnik's Access Industries signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday to sell control in Channel 13 to a foundation backed by a group of tech entrepreneurs, led by Wiz co-founder Assaf Rappaport. The agreement came after Blavatnik previously accepted…...
Many American Jews want a close US-Israel alliance. The Iran war shows how it can be a trap
5+ hour, 2+ min ago (1364+ words) Ben Sales is a news editor at The Times of Israel As a high schooler in San Francisco decades ago, Aaron Keyak went downtown one day to check out a protest against the Iraq War. The slogans criticizing the war,…...
After Trump insults, Herzog decries PM’s non-response to ‘attack’ on Israeli sovereignty
7+ hour, 37+ min ago (571+ words) President Isaac Herzog said Friday that Israel's "dignity, independence and sovereignty" are not for sale, after US President Donald Trump on Wednesday called him "weak and pathetic" in his handling of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request for a pardon in…...
Explosion outside Rotterdam synagogue sparks fire, damages building; 4 arrested
8+ hour, 18+ min ago (436+ words) Dutch police said Friday they had arrested four young men on suspicion of setting off an explosion outside a synagogue in Rotterdam that caused a brief blaze and damage to the building. After the blast, police monitored other synagogues as…...
Some – but not all – US colleges that worked with Trump receive higher marks from ADL
8+ hour, 35+ min ago (344+ words) JTA " Universities that reached settlements with the Trump administration last year to preserve federal funding mostly received higher marks on the Anti-Defamation League's campus antisemitism "report cards," released this week. Columbia, Brown, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of…...
Lawsuit says DOGE used ChatGPT to tag Jewish-themed grants as DEI, then canceled them
8+ hour, 35+ min ago (1030+ words) JTA " The Department of Government Efficiency tagged Jewish themes as "DEI" in ChatGPT when searching for federal humanities grants to cancel last year, according to a class-action lawsuit. The methodology contributed to the cancellation of National Endowment for the Humanities…...
War aimed at preventing Iranian nukes may actually lead to them, ex-IDF expert warns
8+ hour, 56+ min ago (1747+ words) Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei saw his nuclear strategy blow up in his face when an Israeli strike killed him on the first day of the war Jerusalem launched together with the United States against the Islamic Republic on February…...
Michigan synagogue attacker was US-Lebanese citizen with relatives said killed in IDF strike
9+ hour, 8+ min ago (780+ words) The armed man who rammed his truck into a Reform synagogue in Michigan on Thursday has been identified as 41-year-old Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a naturalized citizen born in Lebanon, US federal officials said Friday. Multiple reports, as well as a…...