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Israeli soldiers carry the flag-covered coffin of Shilo Rauchberger at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. In Israel on Saturday, rabbis worked around the clock at Shura military base in Israel to identify and count the dead civilians and soldiers gunned down in the Hamas attack last week. Israel's military rabbinate is working on Shabbat for the first time since 2005. Some of the bodies have been brought to Mount Herzl, Israel's national cemetery in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

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Israeli rabbis work around the clock — even on the Sabbath — to count the dead from Hamas attack
By JULIA FRANKEL - Associated Press
Sun,10/15/23-12:48PM , 165 Reads
SITRIYA, Israel (AP) — Rarely do rabbis spend the Sabbath counting bodies. But on Saturday, a week after Hamas militants blew easily past Israel’s fortified security fence and gunned down hundreds of Israelis — at music festivals, in their homes, in cars while trying to flee — Israel’s military rabbinate made an exception.
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Palestinian shepherd Mustafa Arara, 24, stands in the ruins of the West Bank Bedouin village of al-Baqa where residents fled in July after settlers established an outpost a stone's throw from the village in June, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. Out of 33 people who fled the Palestinian hamlet east of Ramallah, just one six-person family has returned after settlers from a newly established outpost wreaked havoc on the village, setting their sheep loose on Palestinian grazing fields and torching a home. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

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3 small Palestinian villages emptied out this summer. Residents blame Israeli settler attacks
By JULIA FRANKEL - Associated Press
Thu,08/24/23-12:45AM , 124 Reads
AL-QABUN, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian hamlet of al-Qabun in the central occupied West Bank was silent this week — the grazing fields for sheep deserted, the empty schoolhouse locked, the makeshift homes left as steel carcasses.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman watch a video which shows the launch of the Arrow 3 hypersonic anti-ballistic missile during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on July 28 2019. The United States cleared a weapons agreement between Israel and Germany that marks Israel’s largest-ever defense deal on Thursday Aug. 17, 2023. (Menahem Kahana/Pool via AP, File)

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Israel clinches largest-ever defense deal with Germany for $3.5 billion after securing US approval
By JULIA FRANKEL - Associated Press
Thu,08/17/23-7:05AM , 188 Reads
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Defense Ministry said Thursday it has secured its largest-ever defense deal selling a sophisticated missile defense system to Germany for $3.5 billion after the United States approved the deal.
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A demonstrator waves a colored Israeli flag during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, outside the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, Monday, July 24, 2023. The demonstration came hours before parliament was set to vote on a key part of the plan. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Why is Israel's judicial overhaul so divisive?
By JULIA FRANKEL - Associated Press
Sat,07/22/23-4:04AM , 798 Reads
JERUSALEM (AP) — For seven months, tens of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to overhaul the judiciary and weaken the Supreme Court.
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