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      <title>Bill to split attorney general role clears key Knesset committee hurdle</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee approved the bill 9-0 as the opposition boycotted the vote, mainly on procedural grounds. It now moves to the Knesset plenum for the first of three votes.]]></description>
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      <title>Polymarket leads to whole new category of insider trading</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The United States and Israel are both coping with the emergence of a new type of gambling that could potentially put military operations at risk.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 05:15:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>'Trials of the modern Nazis’: Knesset establishes tribunal to prosecute Oct. 7 terrorists</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The law details how judges are to be selected, how trials are to be conducted and provides for an appeals process.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 06:30:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Israel to sue 'New York Times' over prison rape story</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[On May 11, the Times published a story by op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof, who cited Palestinians accusing Israel of "widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women and even children."]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 13:32:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Israel’s High Court hears challenge to Netanyahu’s pick for Mossad chief</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The case centers around whether Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman knew of the use of a minor as an agent in an undercover influence operation.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 05:26:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>'Vile antisemitism': US condemns Spain for awarding Francesca Albanese</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“Any award to Francesca Albanese only shames those who bestow it,” tweeted Amb. Mike Waltz.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 13:21:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>US Hormuz blockade succeeds in choking off Iran's oil lifeline</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[JINSA, the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, reviewed the data and found that the U.S. had redirected 62 vessels. The number continues to grow.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 11:08:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PM's pick for Mossad chief under fire as attorney general tells court to disqualify him</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara claims there were “substantial flaws” in the decision to appoint Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman to lead the intelligence agency.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 15:16:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Israel High Court freezes media regulator shake-up over new appointments</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Justice Alex Stein sided with largely left-wing petitioners against the government’s March 24 appointment of director for the Second Authority for Television and Radio.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 06:56:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Four anti-Israel radicals found guilty over $1.2 million rampage at Elbit Systems UK</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Charlotte Head, 30, Samuel Corner, 23, Leona Kamio, 30, and Fatema Rajwani, 21, destroyed property and clashed with security guards at the Israeli defense firm's facility near Bristol, England.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 17:50:15 GMT</pubDate>
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