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San Diego Jewish Academy holds Israel Independence Day celebration
3+ hour, 39+ min ago (206+ words) San Diego Union-Tribune San Diego Jewish Academy celebrated Israel's birthday recently with an all-school ceremony and activities throughout the day, which included arts and crafts, baking, dancing, and more. Yom Ha'atzmaut commemorates the Israeli Declaration of Independence on May 14, 1948, a…...
Palestinians mourn teenager shot dead in the occupied West Bank
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (219+ words) By SAM METZ and WAFAA SHURAFA Israel's military said soldiers had fired on Palestinians during an operation in Hebron after Palestinians hurled rocks toward them. Mumtaz Shabaneh, al-Khayyat's schoolteacher, said the killing reflected a wider pattern of violence against Palestinians…...
Hezbollah adopts a new weapon: Fiber-optic drones, used widely in the war in Ukraine
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (1126+ words) By MELANIE LIDMAN, BASSEM MROUE and EMMA BURROWS These drones " used widely in the war in Ukraine " are small, hard to track and lethal. Drones killed an Israeli soldier in southern Lebanon and injured at least a dozen others in…...
Media orgs call on Israel to allow foreign reporters access to Gaza
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (323+ words) Leaders of major media companies are urging Israel to lift a ban preventing foreign journalists from independently entering Gaza....
Emory professors take on their own university after arrests at 2024 Israel-Hamas war protest
1+ week, 1+ day ago (314+ words) Laura Diamond, a spokesperson for Emory, said the university believes "this lawsuit is without merit." "Emory acts appropriately and responsibly to keep our community safe from threats of harm," Diamond said in a statement. "We regret this issue is being…...
Israel pauses for Memorial Day, a public day for mourning in the shadow of war
1+ week, 4+ day ago (515+ words) In downtown Tel Aviv, many people visited an informal memorial that sprouted up around a sunny, circular fountain immediately after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack that killed more than 1, 200 people. He said the informal memorial has become so meaningful because it…...
Stocks and oil prices hold relatively steady in the countdown to US-Iran ceasefire talks
1+ week, 4+ day ago (614+ words) The S&P 500 added 0. 3%, coming off just'its second drop in 14 days, and is close to'another all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 309 points, or 0. 6%, as of 10: 10 a. m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0. 4% higher. United Health helped lead…...
US and Iran signal new ceasefire talks in Islamabad as truce nears end
1+ week, 4+ day ago (878+ words) By MUNIR AHMED, JON GAMBRELL and SAMY MAGDY Neither the U. S. nor Iran has publicly confirmed the timing of the talks in Islamabad, with Iranian state television denying any official was already in Pakistan's capital. The officials spoke on condition of…...
UCSD professors are facing discipline over conduct, not speech
1+ week, 5+ day ago (128+ words) The school's actions would have been the same regardless of the content of the protest. When someone disruptively occupies school space, the issue is their conduct, not the content of their speech. " David Rodstein, Carmel Valley UCSD's discipline of professors…...
What to know as ceasefire in the Iran war hangs in the balance
1+ week, 5+ day ago (267+ words) San Diego Union-Tribune As of right now, the two-week ceasefire will expire at 8 p. m. ET Tuesday. But the truce between Iran, Israel and the United States started after multiple deadlines posed by President Donald Trump that threatened Iran's very "civilization" at…...