PARIS — Holding olive branches and white banners, French performers from different religious and ethnic backgrounds led thousands of people on a silent march through central Paris on Sunday to call for peace between Israelis and Palestinians and unity in France. The crowd, which included actors Isabelle Adjani and Emmanuelle Beart as well as singers … Read more
New opinion polls just released from Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University’s Peace Index indicate that Israeli attitudes towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are more hawkish than at any point in recent memory. Both surveys were conducted in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 massacre and the resulting war with Hamas, and sampled approximately 600 … Read more
Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. Yoav Peled says he has started wondering if the world has gone mad. Sitting outside the Kirya, Israel’s equivalent of the Pentagon in Tel Aviv, Peled was cutting pieces of yellow … Read more
Play video content A mob of angry, antisemitic protestors stormed a Russian airport tarmac to decry a flight touching down from Israel — and the whole thing proved to be incredibly dangerous. This wild scene unfolded Sunday in the city of Makhachkala — which is the capital of a predominantly Muslim region in Russia known … Read more
With antisemitism on the rise, many Jewish Americans and Israelis in Los Angeles are taking steps to protect themselves and their families … and some are turning to firearms. Eric Fletcher, a manager for Burbank Ammo and Guns, tells TMZ … the shop has recently seen a huge influx of Jewish Americans and Israelis who … Read more
The app and sirens are a backstop to Israel’s extensive military defenses. The Iron Dome missile defense system effectively intercepts or destroys most airborne weapons headed to Israel. But some rockets have slipped through, causing injuries in recent days, and the government has encouraged people in Israel to download its app. Across the border, Israel’s … Read more
JERUSALEM — More than two weeks after Hamas militants rampaged through a string of sleepy farming towns, many Israelis are furious at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, not just for failing to prevent the attack, but for failing to come to their aid afterward. While the military is launching unrelenting airstrikes in Gaza that have … Read more
Play video content A dentist in Miami is out of a job after he was spotted ripping down posters of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas … learning the definition of f*** around and find out. A viral video from earlier this week shows two men removing missing people posters put up in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood. Internet … Read more
Across 75 years, Israel has built itself around a military so formidable in battle that the country qualifies as a warrior state. But for the 2,000 years before that, the story of the Jews was one of perseverance through persecution, flight, and the kind of intimate, house-to-house slaughter Israelis awoke to on the morning of … Read more
UPDATE, Sunday: President Biden told 60 Minutes that it would be a “big mistake” for Israel to occupy Gaza but said that the country had to respond to the Hamas attack last weekend. Asked by Scott Pelley whether it was “time for a ceasefire” given the loss of life, Biden said, “Look, there’s a fundamental … Read more