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World Taekwondo bans boycotts of competitors from Israel

Governing body is amending its rules after a Jordanian refused to fight an Israeli earlier this year

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Turkey's Rukiye Yildirim (Blue) and Israel's Abishag Semberg (Red) compete in the taekwondo women's -49kg bronze medal A bout during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Makuhari Messe Hall in Tokyo on July 24, 2021. (Photo by Javier SORIANO / AFP) (Photo by JAVIER SORIANO/AFP via Getty Images)

Young students seen learning in the classroom at the opening of the new school year in a school for ultra orthodox jewish boys, in Beit Shemesh, August 28, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** ???? ????? ??????? ????? ?????

Orthodox students twice as likely to experience sexual abuse says Israeli report

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Bloodmobile for Magen David Adom dedicated in memory of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Bloodmobile for Magen David Adom dedicated in memory of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

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Liraz Charhi is singing for her sisters

Liraz Charhi is singing for her sisters

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TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - MAY 06: Yesh Atid Party leader, Yair Lapid, speaks at a press conference on May 6, 2021 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin asked Lapid to form a new Israeli government after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fails to form a new government. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Anshel Pfeffer

By Anshel Pfeffer

Lapid tries to charm the world as West Bank burns

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Israeli equality campaigner sets her sights on ‘gender-neutral Hebrew’

Israeli equality campaigner sets her sights on ‘gender-neutral Hebrew’

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A garbage container burns after Palestinian youths set up a makeshift road block during a raid by Israeli troops in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank on September 28, 2022. - An Israeli raid targeting alleged militants in a West Bank flashpoint killed three Palestinians, including the brother of a man blamed for a deadly attack in Tel Aviv. The violence was the latest to hit Jenin, in the north of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, an area that has seen near daily clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen since an escalation that began in March. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Fatah orders ‘day of rage’ after IDF kills terror suspects in Jenin raid

By Georgia L Gilholy

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Israeli PM's Rosh Hashanah message to Jews worldwide

Next year 'we should focus on what unites us', says Yair Lapid

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September 25, 2022 12:02

Prime Minister Yair Lapid leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on July 24, 2022. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL ***POOL PICTURE, EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES, PLEASE CREDIT THE PHOTOGRAPHER AS WRITTEN - MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/POOL*** *** Local Caption *** ישיבת ממשלה ראש הממשלה יעיר לפיד פגישה קבינט

Obituary: Michael Brecker

Property magnate and artist who survived the Altalena tragedy

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September 22, 2022 13:02

Obituary: Michael Brecker

Alan Aziz

Only Israel could create honey without bees

Scientists from the Startup Nation are solving the world’s environmental crises one at a time

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September 22, 2022 11:04

Only Israel could create honey without bees

Anshel Pfeffer

By Anshel Pfeffer

Israelis may miss their unremarkable year, with so many crises now arriving

The country may look back on 5782 as an comparatively uneventful period

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September 22, 2022 10:35

Head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu attends Kikar HaShabbat conference at the Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem Hotel, September 12, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** בחירות 2022 מפלגת הליכוד בנימין נתניהו ביבי נתניהו ראש מפלגת הליכוד בנימין נתניהו נואם בכנס "כיכר השבת" בוולדורף אסטוריה ירושלים

Football club loses sponsors after Palestinian flag hoisted over pitch

League One side Forest Green Rovers FC also displayed anti-Israel advert boards

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September 22, 2022 09:11

Football club loses sponsors after Palestinian flag hoisted over pitch

Oldest evidence of opium use discovered at Israeli burial site

The area's Canaanite inhabitants believed the narcotic-filled vessels accompanied one's spirit to the afterlife

By Georgia L Gilholy

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September 21, 2022 16:54

An employee at the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) holds one of the vessels that are believed to have contained opium in the 14th century BC, found at the Tel Yehud burial site and on display at the IAA offices in Jerusalem on September 20, 2022. - Israeli experts on September 20 said that they had uncovered the oldest known evidence of opium use, after discovering residue of the hallucinogenic drug in pottery dating from the 14th Century BC. A joint study by the Israel Antiquities Authority and Weizmann Institute of Science found evidence that opium was used in burial rituals in Canaan, a ancient territory that roughly encompasses modern day Israel and the Palestinian territories. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

Most Israelis think having a Jewish father doesn't make you Jewish

70 per cent of Jewish Israelis reject patrilineal descent

By Georgia L Gilholy

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September 21, 2022 12:11

Close up image depicting a rear view of two Jewish men sitting together inside a synagogue. They have their heads bowed in prayer and they are wearing the traditional Jewish skull cap - otherwise known as a kippah or yarmulke - on their heads. Horizontal color image with copy space.

Israel slams 'unprecedented' behaviour of Chile's president who refused new envoy

Chile's President Boric refused to accept Israel's new ambassador in a move that 'seriously harms' Israel-Chile relations

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September 16, 2022 13:59

Israel slams 'unprecedented' behaviour of Chile's president who refused new envoy

Clarence House changed the mood in Israel

Israeli officials say a change in UK relations was immediately felt when the Queen, due to her age, began to travel abroad much less and the international face of the royal family became Prince Charles

By Anshel Pfeffer

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September 16, 2022 13:49

12th July 1967: General Chaim Herzog, the first military governor of the West Bank of Jordan, arriving at London Airport. (Photo by J. Wilds/Keystone/Getty Images)

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