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The visitors were “shooting from vehicles with half their bodies outside. Our houses have bullet holes on the balconies,” a local resident said.
“Troops have been reinforced and wanted suspects have been apprehended.”
The fast-growing city in central Israel has just opened its first hotel in a bid to attract business and leisure tourism.
“Instead of merely reacting to developments, we now see an Israel that actively shapes events,” Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak tells JNS.
The massacre of Alawites highlights the danger of radical Islam’s rise to power, Israeli officials and analysts warn.
“This U.N. report reflects the rampant anti-Israel disease that has infected U.N. agencies,” wrote the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Women gather before Purim for a no-nonsense, do-it-yourself session, flavored by some stories of family traditions.
“It is both necessary and the right thing to do to assist other minorities in a region where we will always be a minority ourselves,” said Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar.
The world body again attacked “the State of Israel with false accusations, including baseless charges of sexual violence,” the premier said.
Jerusalem’s permanent mission to the United Nations in Geneva called the allegations unfounded, biased and lacking credibility.
Israel has warned al-Sharaa’s Damascus government against harming Syria’s Druze community.
Avi Sinclair, owner of the Jerusalem-based Piedra, called for the release of the Gaza hostages on the Tokyo stage when he received his award.
