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27+ min ago (232+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 791 Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now, Friday Focus and The Reel Schmooze podcasts, and heads up The Times of Israel's features. Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter Welcome to The Times of Israel's Lazar Focus. Each Friday, join host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan and diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman for a deep dive into what's behind the news that spins the globe. This week, we're joined by Julien Lerisson, the head of delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Israel and the Occupied Territories. Berman reviews the organization's troubling history of failures regarding Jews, specifically during the Holocaust, but also moving forward in its rejection of Israel's national Magen David Adom chapter until two decades ago. We learn about the…...

35+ min ago (57+ words) Real time news brief - "I have become small:" What does it mean to be the Chosen People? - Israel National News flashes around the clock are waiting for you on the site "I have become small:" What does it mean to be the Chosen People? "I have become small:" What does it mean to be the Chosen People?...

35+ min ago (898+ words) I do not see a way of rationally explaining the obsessive hatred of Israel and Jews without the faith that Jews are G-d's chosen people to make the world a place of goodness and kindness. The obsession with Israel makes no sense unless you can appreciate the truth that we are G-d's people. We were chosen to serve as a light onto the nations, a Divine flame lit on the cosmic way, hence we trigger the world in unimaginable ways. But when you tell a Jew you are chosen, he says: "Me? Never. I am just a human being." Of course, Jewish chosen-ness cannot be racist because Jews are not a race; there are Jews of every race. What is more, any person of any race, ethnicity, or nationality can become a member of the Jewish people and thereby be…...

36+ min ago (1642+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 791 Zev Stub is the Times of Israel's Diaspora Affairs correspondent. In early November, the University of Naples Federico II, the oldest public university in the world and one of the largest in Europe, signed a resolution to boycott cooperation with Israeli institutions. The boycott came weeks after a ceasefire in the two-year Israel-Hamas war took hold in the Gaza Strip. The resolution announcing the measure expressed "hope that the truce will lead to a real turning point toward conditions of stable and lasting peace." Henceforth, it said, the university would suspend "the signing of new scientific and educational collaboration agreements with Israeli universities, institutions, and public and private companies." The statement, which followed an appeal to the university's administration in August from more than 230 professors and faculty members, may have been surprising in its timing. But…...

59+ min ago (85+ words) [Ronen Gofman at a ceremony while commander of the IDF]Elmakayes was 17 when Shin Bet detained him for over a year after intelligence officers from the IDF's 210th Division, then headed by Gofman, passed him classified information to publish on Telegram. 'Danger to Israel's national security': Elmakayes warns against Gofman's Mossad appointment Elmakayes was 17 when Shin Bet detained him for over a year after intelligence officers from the IDF's 210th Division, then headed by Gofman, passed him classified information to publish on Telegram....

1+ hour, 20+ min ago (136+ words) Police reported that officers from the Menashe District arrested a 24-year-old man from Baka al-Gharbiya last night on suspicion of firing shots at a business in the city. Station detectives who were patrolling the area heard the gunfire, arrived at the scene, identified the suspect, and arrested him.The handgun that was seized has been sent for examination, and the suspect was taken into custody. Police reported that officers from the Menashe District arrested a 24-year-old man from Baka al-Gharbiya last night on suspicion of firing shots at a business in the city. Station detectives who were patrolling the area heard the gunfire, arrived at the scene, identified the suspect, and arrested him. The handgun that was seized has been sent for examination, and the suspect was taken into custody....

1+ hour, 32+ min ago (162+ words) Geert Wilders, the Dutch right-wing leader, posted a response on the social network X following the Netherlands" decision to withdraw from the Eurovision Song Contest.Antisemitism and hatred of Israel in their ugliest form. Cancel AVROTROS!" wrote Wilders, directing his remarks at one of the media companies within the Dutch public broadcasting corporation. Geert Wilders, the Dutch right-wing leader, posted a response on the social network X following the Netherlands" decision to withdraw from the Eurovision Song Contest. Antisemitism and hatred of Israel in their ugliest form. Cancel AVROTROS!" wrote Wilders, directing his remarks at one of the media companies within the Dutch public broadcasting corporation. Geert Wilders, the Dutch right-wing leader, posted a response on the social network X following the Netherlands" decision to withdraw from the Eurovision Song Contest. Antisemitism and hatred of Israel in their ugliest form....

1+ hour, 35+ min ago (28+ words) Real time news brief - The canonization of Marwan Barghouti - Israel National News flashes around the clock are waiting for you on the site The canonization of Marwan Barghouti...

1+ hour, 35+ min ago (1278+ words) Melanie Phillips, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a weekly column for JNS. Currently a columnist for The Times of London, her new book, The Builder's Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West and Why Only They Can Save It, is published by Wicked Son and can be purchased on Amazon. To access her work, go to: melaniephillips.substack.com. ( JNS) Celebrity narcissists looking for another virtue to signal have alighted upon a fresh cause appropriate to their moral stature: freedom for a notorious mass murderer of the innocent. Some 200 high-profile actors and musicians, including Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Ruffalo, Cynthia Nixon, Sir Ian McKellen, Paul Simon, Sting and Brian Eno, have called for pressure on Israel to release the former Fatah terrorist leader, Marwan Barghouti, from prison. Barghouti, 66, consistently comes top of opinion polls asking Palestinian Arabs who…...

1+ hour, 41+ min ago (38+ words) Real time news brief - Podcast: The one-word habit that can save your portfolio - Israel National News flashes around the clock are waiting for you on the site Podcast: The one-word habit that can save your portfolio...