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In The News

‘I am paralyzed by the pain’: Hundreds accompany funeral of Lucy Dee

Hundreds of people gathered for the funeral of Lucy (Leah) Dee in Kfar Etzion on Tuesday afternoon, just two days after Dee's daughters were buried at the cemetery.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

In The News

Despite lull, officials know heightened tensions are here to stay

No matter how you look at it, the current escalation is here to stay. Even if the flare-up with Hamas in Gaza and in the north is over for now, the chances of a multi-theater conflagration fomented by Iran have risen significantly, and it is doubtful whether the genie can be put back in the bottle.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Two Israeli soldiers wounded during Nablus raid

Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were wounded overnight Sunday in an operation in the Palestinian Authority-controlled city of Nablus in Samaria.

Israeli forces detained a suspected terrorist during the operation, during which Palestinians threw stones and explosive devices at the troops, the military said.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Hezbollah chief meets Hamas officials in Lebanon

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah met with Hamas leaders on Friday in Beirut amid escalating tensions in Israel following a series of terror and rocket attacks.

Among those at the meeting were Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh, his deputy Saleh al-Arouri, Khalil al-Hayya, head of the terror group’s Arab and Islamic Relations Portfolio and...

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Lucy Dee dies of wounds three days after terror attack that killed her 2 daughters

Lucy (Lucianne) Dee died of her wounds on Monday, three days after a West Bank terror shooting in which her two daughters were slain, hospital officials said.

Dee, 48, was critically injured in the Friday shooting in the northern Jordan Valley and her condition remained dire since then.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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IDF calls up reserves in preparation for possible large-scale military op

Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi ordered on Friday the call-up of reserve troops amid an explosion of terror emanating from Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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In north, 50,000 residents without rocket shelters brace for escalation with Lebanon

In the event of rocket attacks on Israel’s north, the escalation would find about 50,000 people living in homes without an adequate sheltered area, despite a NIS 5 billion ($1.38 billion) plan to address the issue.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Israel hits Hamas targets in Lebanon, Gaza in response to rocket attacks

Israel launched airstrikes in the Gaza Strip overnight Thursday-Friday, hitting a series of sites belonging to the Hamas terror group, in retaliation for a barrage of rockets from the Palestinian enclave as well as from Lebanon — attacks Israel blames on Hamas.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Two Israeli sisters killed in Palestinian shooting attack in Jordan Valley

Two Israeli sisters were killed and their mother was critically wounded on Friday in a Palestinian shooting attack in the Jordan Valley.

The attack took place on the Route 57 highway near the Hamra Junction, the Israel Defense Forces said.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Azerbaijan arrests six radical Islamists over ‘coup plot’ blamed on Iran

Azerbaijan on Thursday arrested six men it said were linked to Iranian secret services and were plotting a coup in the Caspian nation, in the latest friction between Baku and Tehran.

Relations between the neighbors have long been strained, with Azerbaijan being a close ally of Iran’s historical rival Turkey and holding close ties with arch-foe...

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Police clash with rioters in Umm al-Fahm as violence at Al-Aqsa Mosque spreads

Police clashed late Wednesday with residents of the northern Arab Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm, in a spillover of violent tensions at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The rioting came as clashes erupted at the mosque for a second straight night and Palestinians terrorists in the Gaza Strip again fired rockets toward Israel, further stoking concerns...

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Rockets launched at Israel from Gaza during Passover feast

Rocket sirens sounded in the communities of Chavat Shikmim and Dorot near Sderot and in the towns of Patish and Ranen, close to Ofakim near the Gaza Strip early on Thursday morning, the IDF stated. While no interceptors were required, seven rockets were fired and exploded in air, with five fired toward Israeli territories and two fired into the...

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Rocket barrages fired at Israel from Lebanon as Hezbollah warns over Al-Aqsa clashes

Several rockets were fired from southern Lebanon on Thursday afternoon with at least one intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system over northern Israel, the military said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the launches came just hours after Lebanon’s Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah said it would support “all measures”...

Event Recaps

April 2 – Israel Is – The Colony, TX

This is the first Cambodian church that has hosted a CUFI event.  The pastor shared with me that Cambodians can relate to the Jewish people and the Holocaust. Cambodians themselves were victims of genocide. In 1975-1979 about 2 million of them were slaughtered by the Khmer Rouge Communist  regime. Many were scattered to other nations to escape the...

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Israeli strikes on Syria intensify as tensions with Iran rise

Suspected Israeli airstrikes in Syria in recent weeks have killed two Iranian military advisers, temporarily put the country’s two largest airports out of service, and raised fears of regional escalation.

While Israel has fought a shadow war with Iran in Syria for years, it has intensified recently, with near-daily airstrikes attributed to...

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Arab League to meet on Al-Aqsa clashes; Netanyahu: We’re committed to calming tension

The Arab League was set to meet for an emergency session Wednesday after Israeli forces entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque overnight and clashed with Palestinians inside.

Jordan, in partnership with the Palestinian Authority and Egypt, had earlier called for the body to hold an emergency session.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Israeli police clear Muslim rioters from Al Aqsa Mosque

Israeli police arrested more than 350 Muslim rioters on Wednesday who had barricaded themselves inside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The rioters, who had smuggled fireworks, clubs and stones into the mosque, blocked the doors inside using iron rods, closets and other objects, police reported.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Gaza terrorists fire 16 rockets at Israel; Israeli hits Hamas targets

Sirens went off in Israel on Tuesday night—the night before Passover—as terrorists launched a total of 16 rockets from the Gaza Strip towards Israel.

Ten rockets were launched overnight and six in two separate barrages in the early morning hours on Wednesday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Hamas sentences 2 Gazans to death, 4 to hard labor over ‘collaboration’ with Israel

A military court in the Gaza Strip on Monday convicted six people of “collaboration” with Israel, sentencing two of them to death.

The court said in a statement that the death sentences would be carried out “one by firing squad and the other by hanging.”

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Biden set to present new ‘interim’ Iran deal – report

The Biden administration has reportedly discussed a proposal for an interim Iran agreement with European and Israeli officials in recent weeks, Axios reported on Monday evening.

According to the report, the proposed agreement would see some sanctions being eased in exchange for a partial freezing of the Iranian nuclear program.

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