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June 16, 2021 at 4:02 pm

Israel and Hamas Scale Down the Conflict, Avoiding Another War

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The stage was set this week for another spasm of violence between Hamas and Israel. A provocative march was planned...

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May 20, 2021 at 5:16 pm

Israel, Hamas agree to truce in brief war that reverberated worldwide

JERUSALEM — After more than 10 days of fighting that has taken hundreds of lives and inspired protests and diplomatic efforts around the world, Israel...

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May 15, 2021 at 9:47 am

Why, after years of quiet, did Israeli-Palestinian conflict explode now?

JERUSALEM — Twenty-seven days before the first rocket was fired from Gaza this week, a squad of Israeli police officers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque in...

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April 4, 2021 at 5:38 pm

Divided Kingdom: Jordan Shaken by Split Between King and Ex-Crown Prince

AMMAN, Jordan — The kingdom of Jordan has long been considered an oasis of relative stability in the Middle East. While wars and insurgencies flared...

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March 25, 2021 at 4:03 pm

Israel’s election ends in a stalemate, final results show

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel’s fourth election in two years has ended in another stalemate, with neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his opponents able...

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March 24, 2021 at 4:20 pm

After 4th vote in 2 years, Israelis wonder: When will the political mayhem end?

JERUSALEM — When Israelis woke Wednesday, the day after their fourth election in two years, it felt nothing like a new dawn. With more than...

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Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, center, whose pronouncements have made him one of the most controversial figures in Israel today, with his grandson Yaakov Kanievsky, at the rabbi’s home in Bnei Brak, Israel, Jan. 24, 2021. Kanievsky is the spiritual authority for hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews, but his pronouncements on the coronavirus have made him a villain to many. (Dan Balilty/The New York Times)

January 29, 2021 at 3:29 pm

He Is Israel’s ‘Prince of Torah.’ But to Some, He Is the King of COVID.

Throughout the pandemic, authorities have clashed with the ultra-Orthodox over their resistance to antivirus protocols, particularly their early refusal to close schools or limit crowds...

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April 17, 2020 at 4:17 pm

In Denmark, a rare sight in the coronavirus era: Classrooms full of students VIEW

LOGUMKLOSTER, Denmark — The cluster of red brick buildings in a remote part of southern Denmark looks unremarkable from the outside, but this week, its...

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April 14, 2020 at 5:19 pm

Some European nations ease coronavirus rules, but move warily

BERLIN — Slowly, tentatively, a handful of European countries began lifting constraints on daily life this week for the first time since the start of...

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March 2, 2020 at 4:43 pm

Israeli election gives edge to Netanyahu, exit polls show

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel held a significant lead in his third electoral showdown with former army chief Benny Gantz, and was close to...

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