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Wed, 15 Sep 2021 22:30:09 +03:00
Bennett makes Time Magazine's 2021 list as Islamist coalition partner hails his 'courage'
Bennett has pledged that a Palestinian state will not arise on his watch, while his Arab-Israeli coalition partner Mansour Abbas leads a party that champions Palestinian self-determination

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:15:00 +03:00
Man seriously wounded in Jaffa stabbing; Palestinian suspect arrested
The victim is a 49-year-old Christian from East Jerusalem ■ Police believe assailant planned to harm Jews ■ Searches for two additional suspects continue

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:04:42 +03:00
EU, Israel to mutually recognize COVID proof of immunity
The move will ease travel in the bloc for Israelis, but each country still has the right to impose further restrictions on visitors

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:11:45 +03:00
Hundreds arrive in Israel from Iran, Syria, other enemy states, COVID data reveals
With COVID figures, Israel's Health Ministry aims to increase awareness on the countries from which people are bringing in the virus

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 14:43:14 +03:00
Israel could accept a U.S.–Iran nuclear deal, Defense Minister Gantz says
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz hinted that Israel has a military option prepared if necessary. 'If push comes to shove, we’ll get there,' he said in an interview

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 13:36:58 +03:00
Palestinian escapees wanted to reach West Bank, says one of their lawyers
The group of fugitives had no intention of committing acts of terror despite having passed by many Jewish towns, says an attorney of one of the prisoners who was caught

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 12:17:21 +03:00
Palestinian inmates backtrack on hunger strike as hunt for last two fugitives continues
Over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners had planned to go on a hunger strike as part of a campaign against the recent treatment of inmates in the aftermath of the escape of six high-risk captives

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:28:16 +03:00
Drones strike pro-Iran militants in Syria, war monitor says
The attack occurred shortly after the group crossed into Syria from Iraq, near the city of Albukamal

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:17:58 +03:00
COVID in Israel: Testing sites to shut down for Yom Kippur as infection rate rises
Israel's 17% unvaccinated now account for 65% of all serious COVID-19 cases

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:13:49 +03:00
Prescription magic mushrooms? This Israeli startup wants to make it happen
PsyRX wants to use natural, consciousness-altering materials to make new drugs to treat disorders like depression and PTSD – and to reduce the side effects of existing ones

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 09:23:06 +03:00
Why are U.S. Jews still calling Jimmy Carter an antisemite?
The American Jewish establishment, which has wrongly and perniciously attacked Jimmy Carter as an intransigent foe of Israel and even a Jew-hater, needs to start apologizing. Call it atonement

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 05:44:32 +03:00
Hebrew Israelite community ordered to leave Israel, but they plan to stay and fight
Scores of community members had been living in Israel for years illegally when they received deportation orders. They still hope they can remain in the place they believe God has sent them.

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 04:58:03 +03:00
A Palestinian Christian bought a Jaffa house. That’s not gentrification

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 04:21:42 +03:00
A wake-up call for meaning on Yom Kippur

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 03:50:59 +03:00
Over 1 in 3 hungry families are unknown to welfare authorities in Israel
A new study shows that 17 percent of Israeli families suffer from food insecurity, but only 11 percent of those families are known to the authorities

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 02:39:36 +03:00
Israel extends digital monitoring as serious COVID cases drop
Proof of immunity will also no longer be required to enter swimming pools, according to new regulations approved by Israel's coronavirus cabinet

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 02:12:34 +03:00
Cable car accident survivors' grandfather questioned on suspected abduction
Earlier this week, the 6-year-old survivor's family in Italy said that the child was abducted to Israel

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 02:05:18 +03:00
Bennett says Israel pushing for long-term truce in Gaza 'but if not, there are alternatives'
Israel's prime minister gave an interview to Channel 12, stating he left politics behind when he entered 'the most important' office in the world.' Smotrich, however, slammed Bennett: 'Everything is politics with him'

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 01:59:59 +03:00
Surprise! Monumental camel sculptures in Arabia are prehistoric, archaeologists find
Initially thought to be ‘only’ 2,000 years old, the life-size animal reliefs found in Saudi Arabia were actually carved nearly 8,000 years ago, during the Neolithic, when the desert was green

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 01:31:34 +03:00
The first 100 days of the Bennett-Lapid government

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 01:28:46 +03:00
Israel's government of change is taking commendable diplomatic steps

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 01:27:18 +03:00
Israel should help those who cannot live with the coronavirus

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 01:26:19 +03:00
Prestigious medical journal challenges need for third COVID shot, spiting Israel
The report, published in the Lancet, cites WHO and FDA officials, but fails to take into account recent data from Israel

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 01:25:32 +03:00
Bennett and Sissi understand that they can scratch each other's back
The Israeli Prime Minister and Egyptian President rightfully view each other as valuable partners, each for his own reasons. Meanwhile, a new report on the Iranian nuclear program is overblown, but much work is still to be done

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 01:24:21 +03:00
Ida Nudel, legendary ex-Soviet ‘prisoner of Zion,’ dies at 90
Nudel was a Zionist activist who fought to allow Russian Jews to come to Israel and helped Jews arrested because of their Zionist activity

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 23:54:04 +03:00
Haaretz cartoon

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 23:29:27 +03:00
Israel, Arab states celebrate Abraham Accords anniversary at Kushner's party
The UAE ambassador to the U.S. credited the accords with saving the two-state solution, while the Israeli ambassador explicitly mentioned Saudi Arabia as a potential future member

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 23:21:43 +03:00
He turned a village high school into Israel's best. Now he dreams to change the entire country
Ali Salalha led his high school in a Druze community in northern Israel to become a national success story. From his new position as a recently elected Member of Knesset, he has even greater plans for the future

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 23:12:56 +03:00
HBO’s ‘Scenes from a Marriage’ is bleak but unmissable
Hagai Levi manages to ‘outglum’ Ingmar Bergman in his remake of the ’70s classic, while Steve Martin makes a welcome return to our screens with ‘Only Murders in the Building’

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 23:12:07 +03:00
In Jerusalem's holiest site, these modern pilgrims are playing with fire
Despite religious edicts forbidding Jewish prayer, the status quo appears to be under threat at the Jerusalem holy site that’s sacred to both Muslims and Jews – and historically is at the heart of regional sectarian violence

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 22:47:41 +03:00
Iranian security guards at nuclear site harassed female UN inspectors, report says
Male security guards reportedly inappropriately touched female inspectors in 'sensitive places,' demanded that they remove items of clothing at the country’s main atomic facility at Natanz, diplomats tell WSJ

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 21:59:36 +03:00
Iran replaces deputy FM who negotiated 2015 nuclear deal with hardliner
The new chief, Ali Bagheri, was a senior negotiator in nuclear talks between Iran and the West under former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from 2007 to 2013

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 21:19:03 +03:00
Domestication of goats in Iran was earlier than thought
Time has not been kind to the goat, but we have been living alongside them for thousands of years. Where this started is still up for debate

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 20:27:23 +03:00
U.S. will hold back some Egyptian military aid due to human rights concerns, report says
The decision, reported by Politico, marks shift by Biden administration from predecessors, who had opted not to touch the $1.3 billion the U.S. gives Egypt annually despite mounting concerns over human rights violations

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:57:30 +03:00
One child per couple is all the planet can bear
It’s heartbreaking but establishing a large family is the most harmful thing we humans can do. Every new child born poses a danger to the children who are already here

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:50:22 +03:00
The West Bank archaeological site at the center of a passionate Jewish-Palestinian struggle
Tel Sebastia in the West Bank has become a battleground for both control of the site as well as over its historical narrative. The Israeli army, a huge Palestinian flag and Ahab, seventh king of Israel, have all been co-opted for the cause

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:30:29 +03:00
U.S. school to probe antisemitic vandalism, but Jewish groups let down by response
In a statement, the Anti-Defamation League said the Georgia high school’s letter addressing the graffiti had 'failed to characterize the incident as antisemitic'

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:25:30 +03:00
The Israeli tour guide unearthing remnants left behind in Egypt after the Yom Kippur War
Yoni Dinur forged links with Egyptian veterans and dug up missing items that were taken from Israeli soldiers who fought in '73. Now he wants to issue an appeal to Israelis who have similar ‘souvenirs’ in their possession

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:04:30 +03:00
‘Netanyahu turned his back on millions of Jews. We bring a new approach’
MK Gilad Kariv, the first non-Orthodox rabbi to be elected to the Knesset, slams the former PM for the ‘damage’ he did to Reform, Conservative and unaffiliated egalitarian movements in Israel and overseas

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 18:21:20 +03:00
Palestinian inmates began work on tunnel in November, and dug using sharpened pan handles
Investigators believe that one of the two prisoners still at large, Iham Kamamji, was a last gasp replacement for another prisoner who withdrew ■ Roughly 11 prisoners were in on the plot, with six of them making the break

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 17:59:46 +03:00
Germany's Merkel to visit Israel for final time in October
The German Chancellor's trip was initially cancelled last month in reaction to the Kabul bombings

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 17:00:46 +03:00
UN says Syria unsafe for refugees amid host country pressure to return
UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria notes hostilities in several areas of the fractured country, its collapsing economy, drying riverbeds and increased attacks by Islamic State militants

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:53:29 +03:00
Larry Ellison, Netanyahu trial witness, offers ex-PM seat on Oracle's board
Offer by billionaire Ellison is estimated at some $450,000 ■ The former prime minister would have to quit Knesset to accept a job in the private sector ■ Netanyahu, who recently stayed on Oracle founder's Hawaiian island, denies the report

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:07:26 +03:00
This app wants to prevent your company's next scandal
Vault lets employees report everything from racism to fraud to COVID violations – before it becomes a reason to quit, a media scandal or an environmental disaster

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:30:51 +03:00
Palestinian prisoners run ‘a state within a state’ in Israel’s jails, officials say
'The [Palestinian] security prisoners run their own affairs and are in control from the inside,' a guard told a state committee

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:38:22 +03:00
Israel's 17% unvaccinated now account for 65% of all serious COVID-19 cases
For every death of an Israeli over 60 that had received the booster shot, there are roughly 15 deaths of unvaccinated Israelis in the same age group

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 12:57:54 +03:00
Putin meets Assad, takes swipe at foreign forces in Syria
Russia's air force played a critical role in turning the tide of the Syrian conflict in Assad's favor, helping him recover most territory lost to insurgents

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 12:34:52 +03:00
Bennett has no plans to meet with President Abbas, Israeli minister says
President Mahmoud Abbas 'pays money to terrorists that murder Jews and files lawsuits in The Hague against Israel Defense Forces soldiers – he’s not a partner,' says Ayelet Shaked

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 12:29:19 +03:00
Prominent Israeli anti-vaxxer dies of COVID. His followers remain unwavering
Even as his condition deteriorated, Hai Shaulian posted a message to his followers urging them not to give up. Some of them now believe that he was killed by the Israeli ‘establishment’ for revealing the ‘truth’ about COVID

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 12:22:52 +03:00
LISTEN: When will Saudi Arabia also make peace with Israel
A year after the Abraham Accords were signed under Trump and Netanyahu, how are Biden and Bennett promoting new agreements between Israel and Arab states? Also: the Israeli lawmaker who won his battle with COVID

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 12:00:51 +03:00
The Israeli director in bed with Jessica Chastain, Oscar Isaac – and Ingmar Bergman
After remaking the Swedish master's seminal miniseries ‘Scenes From a Marriage’ for HBO, Hagai Levi, the co-creator of ‘In Treatment’ and ‘The Affair,’ reveals why he is drawn to exploring the topic of infidelity

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 11:34:00 +03:00
11% of Israeli children infected with virus suffer from 'long COVID'
Health Ministery survey conducted among parents found that between 1.8% and 4.6% of Israel's youth aged up to 18 experienced COVID symptoms six months after recovery

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:28:17 +03:00
Do cats speak? Of course. Do they have language? Not exactly
Variations in 'purring, chirping, chattering, trilling, tweedling, murmuring, meowing, moaning, squeaking, hissing, yowling, howling, growling, and other modes of cat–human communication' can tell us a lot, it turns out

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:07:32 +03:00
How the Legend of Modi, Hindu hero and political messiah, is breaking India's politics
Cultivating the Modi myth: How the illustrated booklets I bought for 50 rupees at a train station kiosk explain his devotees’ loyalty, despite COVID and Pegasus, eclipsing Trump and Netanyahu, and why it’s such grim news for India

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 09:13:53 +03:00
Apple fixes security hole reportedly used by Israel's NSO to hack an iPhone
Researchers said they had high confidence that the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire firm, Israel’s NSO Group, was behind the attack, which planted spyware on a Saudi activist’s iPhone

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:52:01 +03:00
Iran one month away from enough weapons-grade uranium for nuke, report says
Iran is one month out of having enough material for 'a single nuclear weapon,' the New York Times reported, but assembling the warhead itself will take much longer - months, perhaps even years

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:11:23 +03:00
Why Israel's vaccine deal with Pfizer has nothing to do with clinical trials

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:21:10 +03:00
Israel's fluctuating COVID infection rate makes pandemic predictions difficult
The R number, which represents the infection rate, dropped to 0.81 last Monday, suggesting that the latest wave of infection was weakening. But it has risen over the past week to 1.01

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:06:39 +03:00
Other prisoners knew of Palestinian jailbreak efforts at Gilboa Prison
Digging went on for over 6 months without prison officials ever noticing, a Palestinian source close to the prisoners confirmed

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 23:55:08 +03:00
Israel could approve vaccines for ages 5-11 by November
If the move is approved, one of the most difficult consequences of the COVID pandemic – school closures – would no longer be an obstacle, bringing relief to children, parents and the economy

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 23:51:35 +03:00
The culprit is always underfunding

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 23:43:47 +03:00
Israeli minister asks Immigration Authority to disregard expiration of Palestinian unification law
The interior minister ordered the immigration authority to examine the consequences of the expiration of the law, before formulating a new policy

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 23:39:39 +03:00
It's time for Israel to beef up coronavirus testing centers

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 23:24:41 +03:00
Mr. Bennett goes to Egypt, under shadow of Biden and renewed violence
The amicable Bennett-Sissi meeting serves both sides, but Israel is also expected to take some confidence-building steps

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 23:16:02 +03:00
Haaretz Cartoon

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 23:01:38 +03:00
Palestinian PM calls for national unity with Israeli Arabs following treachery claims
'We’re one people, and a single goal unites us' says Mohammed Shtayyeh after West Bank Palestinians blasted Israeli Arabs for allegedly turning in jail-breakers

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 22:32:12 +03:00
Prosecution witness in Netanyahu trial killed in plane crash
Esti and Haim Garon, a married couple, were killed in the crash off Greek island of Samos. Haim Garon served as the deputy Communications Ministry director

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 21:29:46 +03:00
Over 1,000 Palestinian inmates to go on hunger strike in light of 'violent repression' of rights
Detainees may attack wardens in the Gilboa and Shita prisons, leadership inside the prisons warned, following the stripping back of their rights after the high-profile escape last week

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 20:33:40 +03:00
Israel police chief dubs May riots 'intifada,' sparks uproar in Knesset
Joint List lawmakers urged the police commissioner to retract his statement that 'zero' had died in riots, saying it exposes how he 'relates to Arab deaths'

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 19:55:49 +03:00
Israeli woman arrested by police after she reported assault
According to the woman, the police threatened to cuff her 'hands and feet' and put a bag over her head and jokingly suggested taking her to a psychiatric hospital while she was detained

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 19:47:38 +03:00
Israel's border crossing to Sinai reopens without restrictions
Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli says 'we will do everything to ensure that it is as accessible, available and quick as possible' to go through the Taba crossing

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 18:35:56 +03:00
Gantz seeks delay in evicting West Bank settlers, citing Jewish agricultural sabbatical year
The settlers initially agreed to leave the site in the Shilo Valley voluntarily in exchange for new lands inside Israel and the relocation of their groves, but the eviction could be postponed due to the religious edict on planting trees

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 17:45:26 +03:00
North Carolina is quieter than Ramallah – sometimes even too quiet
Our neighbors during our stay in the United States have a different idea about what is a reasonable noise for children to make ■ Post #34

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 17:06:10 +03:00
Nationalist pundit drops out of right-wing talk show that wouldn’t let him call Bennett gov’t ‘Judenrat’
Yoram Sheftel says he wasn’t fired but quit after management 'was not willing for me to call the Israeli government by the most appropriate name for it'

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:48:36 +03:00
As Israel’s infections rise, so does its forged COVID test industry
Over 200 travelers returned from Ukraine with fake negative COVID tests. On Telegram, forgers offer this and more

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:40:53 +03:00
Antisemitic author’s manuscripts, worth millions, are setting France’s literary scene on fire
6,000 recently discovered manuscripts by Louis-Ferdinand Céline are roiling both admirers and detractors of the antisemitic French writer. The controversy over his estate is a continuation of the scandal-filled life of the author who collaborated wi...

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:32:28 +03:00
One tooth proves sapiens didn’t just stroll in and replace the Neanderthals
Neanderthal tooth in Iran from 42,000 years ago redraws human evolution. The Middle East was a border zone and we lived cheek by jowl, climatic conditions permitting, for hundreds of thousands of years

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:40:28 +03:00
Israeli police searching for two suspects who assaulted ultra-Orthodox lawmaker
Young Haredi-looking attackers tried to cut the United Torah Judaism lawmaker's beard off, and fled after he pushed them off

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:57:44 +03:00
Bennett praises Egypt’s role after Sissi meeting, hails start of ‘deep relationship’
The leaders discussed Gaza reconstruction and the Iran nuclear deal in the first formal meeting between the countries' leaders in a decade

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:56:45 +03:00
A rainy Yom Kippur? Such things happen
Most Israelis will tell you Yom Kippur is always hot. Not this time

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:12:03 +03:00
As Netanyahu's trial resumes, his lawyers will claim his media requests were nothing out of the ordinary
Netanyahu’s lawyers will attempt to draw parallels between the Walla website CEO’s alleged attempts to obtain advertising business in exchange for favorable news coverage and the regulatory benefits worth billions its parent company received

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:10:43 +03:00
Egypt ended Hamas-Israel war in Gaza – and thwarted 'get tough' approach from Biden
Prior to entering the White House, the U.S. president promised to reexamine the U.S.-Egypt relationship. Nine months and one Middle Eastern war later, Democratic lawmakers are concerned by what they see

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 12:16:31 +03:00
Haifa-Nazareth light rail project back on track, after almost scrapped due to budget overruns
The line is planned to wind its way through Haifa's suburbs and take roughly 55 minutes. To recoup funds for new budget transportation ministry will reprioritize expansion of Route 6 and Haifa rapid-bus line

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 12:09:00 +03:00
The best science-fiction author to read this year
Many of his Western peers enjoyed great success outside the sci-fi community and became cultural icons. But Jewish Polish author Stanisław Lem – born 100 years ago this week – remained relatively unknown. His writings on man’s insignificance a...

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 11:54:34 +03:00
Lebanon’s new government of technocrats is fake news
No real economic reform is going to come out of Najib Mikati’s government. Behind Lebanon’s new technocratic cabinet lies more of the same old corruption

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 11:33:43 +03:00
COVID in Israel: Infection rate continues rise, serious cases decline
COVID testing sites throughout Israel will be closed for Yom Kippur between Wednesday and Friday

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 11:24:38 +03:00
Two wounded in stabbing in central Jerusalem, 17-year-old assailant shot
Jerusalem police chief describes the attack, which left two ultra-Orthodox men in a stable condition, as an 'escalation' ■ Earlier, a Palestinian was shot after a suspected attempted stabbing at West Bank junction

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 11:03:58 +03:00
Report: Israeli grandfather absconded 6-year-old survivor of Italy cable car accident on private jet
According to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, grandfather Shmuel Peleg picked up the boy for a court-ordered visit, drove him to Switzerland and then the two boarded a chartered business jet to Tel Aviv

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:28:23 +03:00
Start and end the Yom Kippur fast with tradition: Two kugel recipes
They say that all the kugel one ate in honor of Shabbat is weighed in heavenly court alongside one’s deeds and misdeeds

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:01:53 +03:00
A brief history of chicken soup, the ‘Jewish penicillin’
Way before Campbell’s iconic cans, Jews around the world prepared the savory broth. We take a closer look at its unique origins, just in time for Yom Kippur

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:27:10 +03:00
After extradition from Israel, Malka Leifer appears in Australian court on child abuse charges
Leifer’s accusers said Israeli authorities had dragged out the case, while the former school principal, who faces 74 charges including rape and indecent assault, claimed she was mentally unfit to stand trial

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:01:25 +03:00
Judge in line to be first Muslim picked as permanent justice on Israel's Supreme Court
Tel Aviv District Court Judge Khaled Kabub was reportedly bitter when passed over in 2017

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 00:23:41 +03:00
Israel, an overly emotional, easily rattled military power

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 00:07:05 +03:00
Look who's been suspiciously quiet about the Palestinian jailbreak

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 23:52:54 +03:00
Save Eilat's coral reefs

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 23:19:05 +03:00
Haaretz cartoon

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 22:40:14 +03:00
Israeli man convicted of stabbing baby daughter to death, attempting to murder wife
Barak Ben Ami confessed to the charges under a plea deal. Prosecution seeks life sentence for him

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 22:07:42 +03:00
Building in Tel Aviv suburb topples day after cracks prompt evacuation
Residents evacuated from 40-year-old Holon building: 'Our entire lives were here in this house, and now we’ve been left with nothing'

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 21:20:17 +03:00
Rosh Hashanah and the paradigm of loving-kindness

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 21:09:25 +03:00
Israel strikes Hamas targets after third straight night of rockets from Gaza
There were no reports of casualties, as tensions spike over Palestinian prison break



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