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26+ min ago (458+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 785 JTA " A Palestinian restaurant in New York City has named its new location "Hinds Hall" after the moniker anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University gave to a campus building they occupied last spring. In a post on Instagram on Thursday, the restaurant, Ayat NYC, which has eight locations, announced that its new storefront in Morningside Heights would be renamed in solidarity with the protesters at Columbia. "It stands right next to Columbia University where students stood up for Gaza and renamed Hamilton Hall, a campus building to Hinds Hall and we choose to stand with them and carry that name forward," the post read. Critics of Columbia's anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protests at the time accused its participants of antisemitism and calling for violence against Jews. In June, a report by the Columbia University Task Force on Antisemitism…...

1+ hour, 9+ min ago (907+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 785 Deep in a rugged valley of southern Lebanon, a cave complex offers a small picture of the subterranean infrastructure Hezbollah relied on near the Israeli border, along with the difficult task the country's army faces as it seeks to disarm the terror group. Roughly 100 meters (330 feet) long, the complex in the Zibqin area, outfitted with electrical power and ventilated shafts, likely served as a command center and contained a smattering of abandoned equipment including first-aid kits and military jackets. Weapons there had already been confiscated by the army. The army took dozens of journalists from local and and international media outlets Friday on a tour of the rugged area along the border. Its troops could be seen in places where Hezbollah once had a heavy military presence. The Lebanese army has intensified its efforts in areas…...

1+ hour, 45+ min ago (692+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 785 The Times of Israel is liveblogging Saturday's events as they happen. Charges against the man accused of shooting two National Guard members have been upgraded to first-degree murder after one of the soldiers died, the US attorney for the District of Columbia has announced, while investigators continue to seek a motive. Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, were hospitalized in critical condition after the'Wednesday afternoon shooting'near the White House. President Donald Trump announced Thursday evening that Beckstrom had died. US Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office has said the charges against Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national who worked with the CIA during the Afghanistan War, now include one count of first-degree murder and two counts of assault with intent to kill while armed. Beckstrom and Wolfe were deployed with the West Virginia National Guard as…...

1+ hour, 59+ min ago (558+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 785 The military is considering an expanded operation in southern Syria if it finds that Syrian government forces were involved in gunfire at soldiers during an arrest operation in Syria's south early Friday morning, Channel 13 said in an unsourced report. According to the network, the Israel Defense Forces could transition to conducting fewer arrest operations against terror operatives active near the border and instead increase airstrikes to eliminate targets. Kan news reported that Israel has identified that some of those planning attacks against IDF soldiers and the Druze community in southern Syria work for the Syrian government's intelligence forces. It was unclear from the report to what degree they are involved with the government and whether their actions against Israel are known to Syrian authorities. The IDF said troops came under fire early Friday morning in the…...

4+ hour, 53+ min ago (38+ words) [ MDA ambulances (photo credit: MDA)]MDA paramedics who arrived at the scene confirmed his death. 20-year-old shot dead in violent incident in Arraba, northern Israel MDA paramedics who arrived at the scene confirmed his death....

5+ hour, 4+ min ago (1113+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 785 When author Rachel Cockerell started a nonfiction book project about her late Jewish grandmother in the UK, the last thing she suspected her research would turn up was a long-forgotten great-grandfather's involvement in an obscure early 20th-century initiative to bring refugee Jews to Galveston, Texas. "I think it dawned on me that I was not a character in the book," Cockerell said in a phone interview with The Times of Israel. "I was not there when the first Galveston immigrants arrived in Texas. I was not there in my family house [in London] after World War II " I began to wonder what my voice was doing in the story." Cockerell said she found inspiration for her approach from George Saunders's American Civil War novel "Lincoln in the Bardo," which is told in part through the perspective…...

5+ hour, 6+ min ago (358+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 785 WASHINGTON " US President Donald Trump said Friday that all documents signed by autopen under Joe Biden were "terminated," in a legally uncertain move as the US president escalated a favorite attack line against his predecessor. Trump has often sought to drum up outrage over Biden's alleged use of autopen to sign pardons, executive orders and other documents " accusing Biden of being too senile to govern while in power. "Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect," Trump said on social media. "I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally." Various autopen systems have been used by previous presidents,…...

5+ hour, 22+ min ago (842+ words) Israeli and Palestinian rights groups gave harrowing details about conditions in Israeli detention centres The United Nations committee on torture says there is evidence that Israel is operating a "de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture". The committee regularly reviews the records of all countries which have signed the convention against torture, taking testimony from their governments, and from human rights groups. During Israel's review both Israeli and Palestinian rights groups gave harrowing details about conditions in Israeli detention centres. It is alleged that thousands of Palestinians have been detained by Israel since the Hamas attacks of October 7th 2023. Under Israel's laws on administrative detention and on Unlawful Combatants " suspects who cannot be classed as prisoner of war - they can be held for long periods without access to a lawyer or family members. Many Palestinian families say they have…...

5+ hour, 37+ min ago (255+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 785 Police on Friday arrested anti-government activist Yolanda Yavor, a Tel Aviv University lecturer from Or Akiva, for social media posts allegedly inciting violence against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others. "The only choice is to be " that is, to fight the traitor, the mouthpieces, the damned collaborators and his bargain-bin Freikorps militias with all the strength and all means " or not to be," she wrote on Facebook. "Make the right choice, my brothers and sisters," she said. "There won't be another round." "We said "Democracy or rebellion,' remember?" she added, referencing a popular chant at pro-democracy protests. "So rebellion it is. But a real one, like one imported from Romania, not AliExpress-meets-Kaplan." She hashtagged "Dictators are not overthrown at the ballot box," "Netanyahu is a traitor," and "We're coming for you." Yavor, a lecturer in TAU's…...

6+ hour, 37+ min ago (432+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 785 Haifa police raided an event organized by the left-wing Standing Together movement Thursday night and then again Friday morning, ordering activists to take down a sign urging Israel to withdraw from Gaza, participants said. Standing Together director Alon-Lee Green told The Times of Israel that police had come to the event, the Jewish-Arab movement's annual assembly at a convention center in the city, to vet political messaging on signs. "They first said that they came to ensure that all was well, but then began to explain that they came to check what the [political] messages were, in their view, in accordance with the law," Green said. After meandering around the venue, officers told a group of participants to remove a sign displaying the slogan "Getting out of Gaza," calling on the IDF to withdraw from the…...