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16+ min ago (78+ words) [Gaza City, November 25, 2025. (photo credit: TPS-IL)]The committee also expressed concern over the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank, citing both increased settler violence and the use of administrative detention against terror suspects. UN Committee against Torture condemns Israel's "disproportionate' response to October 7 attacks The committee also expressed concern over the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank, citing both increased settler violence and the use of administrative detention against terror suspects....

33+ min ago (114+ words) [Members of the Iranian Navy attend the joint Navy exercise of Iran, China and Russia in the Gulf of Oman, Iran, in this handout image obtained on March 12, 2025; illustrative. (photo credit: IRANIAN ARMY/WANA (WEST ASIA NEWS AGENCY)/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS)]The destroyer is equipped with a helicopter deck, torpedo launchers, anti-aircraft and anti-ship guns, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, and electronic-warfare systems, Iran claims. Repaired Sahand destroyer, floating base join Iranian Navy, state media say The destroyer is equipped with a helicopter deck, torpedo launchers, anti-aircraft and anti-ship guns, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, and electronic-warfare systems, Iran claims....

1+ hour, 24+ min ago (734+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 785 GIESSEN, Germany " Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the western German city of Giessen on Saturday as the far-right Alternative for Germany's new youth organization was set to kick off its founding convention. Groups of protesters blocked or tried to block roads in and around the city of some 93,000 people in the early morning. Police said they used pepper spray after stones were thrown at officers at one location. The new youth organization of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is to be set up in a meeting at Giessen's convention center. Its predecessor, the Young Alternative " a largely autonomous group with relatively loose links to the party " was dissolved at the end of March after AfD decided to formally cut ties with it. The meeting in Giessen was expected to start at around 10 a.m. and will…...

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2+ hour, 57+ min ago (21+ words) [An illustrative image of a hotel. (photo credit: SHUTTERSTOCK)]Movers and shakers in Israeli society. Movers and shakers in Israeli society....

3+ hour, 10+ min ago (1599+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 785 Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. For the first time, two scholars have used radiocarbon analysis to pinpoint the era in which Pharaoh Nebpehtire Ahmose reigned over Egypt, determining that he must have ascended the throne in the second half of the 16th century BCE. In so doing, they have also opened new avenues for investigating a long-rumored connection between the events described in the biblical Exodus and a devastating volcanic eruption in the Aegean Sea long considered contemporary to Ahmose, said Prof. Hendrik J. Bruins from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the lead author of a new study in which the scholars published their findings. The'study, published in the prominent journal PLOS ONE last month, has significant implications for understanding the history of Egypt, the land of Israel, and the wider region....

3+ hour, 43+ min ago (523+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 785 With a pot of glue, a blade, and a keen eye, Manal al-Saadani repairs tattered banknotes " a necessity in the Gaza Strip, where the cash in circulation is wearing out. For every revived note she gives back to a customer, they give her a few coins in return. As Gaza remained heavily blockaded for much of the war that began when Gazan terror groups carried out their October 7, 2023, massacre on southern Israeli communities, basic supplies were depleted, including banknotes, with no new ones supplied to its banks. Israel argues that its naval blockade is legal as it battles Hamas terrorists in the coastal enclave, and is designed to prevent the terror group from importing weapons. Every day, Saadani carries her small plastic table a few kilometres from Al-Bureij refugee camp and sets it up in the…...

4+ hour, 33+ min ago (778+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 785 JTA " Earlier this week, several pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel groups in North Carolina touted the state pension fund's sale of $6.7 million in Israeli government bonds as a "victory." But despite the groups' claims, the North Carolina Department of State Treasurer said that the sale had nothing to do with "divestment" but was simply a part of a routine portfolio rebalance. "The sale of two Israel Government International bonds was not related to a divestment exercise," the North Carolina Department of State Treasurer said in a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. "The previously held bonds were sold in October during a larger fixed income portfolio rebalancing exercise that sold bonds with shorter remaining maturity than the portfolio typically holds." The activists had hailed the sale as a win for the boycott Israel movement. "VICTORY: NC DIVESTS FROM ISRAEL!!...

4+ hour, 56+ min ago (633+ words) Locked away in prison for decades, Marwan Barghouti is a longstanding advocate for a two-state solution A global campaign is being launched to secure the release of Marwan Barghouti, the Palestinian prisoner seen by many as the best hope of leading a future Palestinian state, as negotiations continue in the context of the current Gaza ceasefire. The campaign, being led by Barghouti's West Bank-based family with UK civil society support, is seeking to put the 66-year-old's fate at the centre of the next stage of the ceasefire. Successive opinion polls show he is the most popular Palestinian politician in Gaza and the West Bank. Murals with the words Free Marwan, coordinated by Calum Hall, the founder of Creative Debuts, a creative consultancy and art platform, have started to appear in London, and a huge public art installation appeared in the…...

5+ hour, 20+ min ago (458+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 785 JTA " A Palestinian restaurant in New York City has named its new location "Hinds Hall" after the moniker anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University gave to a campus building they occupied last spring. In a post on Instagram on Thursday, the restaurant, Ayat NYC, which has eight locations, announced that its new storefront in Morningside Heights would be renamed in solidarity with the protesters at Columbia. "It stands right next to Columbia University where students stood up for Gaza and renamed Hamilton Hall, a campus building to Hinds Hall and we choose to stand with them and carry that name forward," the post read. Critics of Columbia's anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protests at the time accused its participants of antisemitism and calling for violence against Jews. In June, a report by the Columbia University Task Force on Antisemitism…...