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Madonna, on Eurovision, says she won't bow 'to suit someone's political agenda'
The venue has prompted calls for a boycott by pro-Palestinian activists who want companies, performers and governments to disengage from Israel.
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Israel reopens Gaza crossings as calm restored
Both the Erez crossing for people and Kerem Shalom crossing for goods had been closed on 4 May, when Gaza rulers Hamas and its ally Islamic Jihad fired hundreds of rockets at Israel.
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Netanyahu vows more 'massive strikes' in response to Gaza rockets
Israel said around 450 rockets or mortars had been fired from the Palestinian enclave run by Hamas since Saturday, and it responded with waves of air and tank strikes.
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Anti-Jewish hate consuming Europe and America, says French Nazi hunter
John Earnest, 19, posted a virulently anti-Semitic letter on right-wing internet forums and armed himself with an assault rifle before carrying out the attack on the Chabad of Poway synagogue, near San Diego, on Saturday.
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Israeli AG gives Netanyahu ultimatum on graft hearing
In a letter made public Sunday evening Avichai Mandelblit told Benjamin Netanyahu lawyers that if he wants to exercise his right to defend himself before possible indictment he must notify authorities by 10 May.
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Arab League pledges $100m to Palestinians, rejects Trump's 'deal'
Israel collects taxes on behalf of the PA, but withheld $138 million in transfers in February over Palestinian payments to political prisoners jailed for attacks against Israelis.
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Palestinians call off Israeli prison hunger strike
Palestinian groups said hundreds of inmates began refusing food on 8 April after negotiations with prison authorities broke down.
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Scientists unveil 'first' 3D print of heart with human tissue, vessels
The heart, about the size of a rabbit's, marked 'the first time anyone anywhere has successfully engineered and printed an entire heart replete with cells, blood vessels, ventricles and chambers'.
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Israel's Netanyahu wins re-election, main challenger concedes defeat
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured a clear path to re-election on Wednesday, with religious-rightist parties set to hand him a parliamentary majority and his main challenger conceding defeat.
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Israel's Netanyahu wins re-election with parliamentary majority
The close and often vitriolic contest was widely seen in Israel as a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu’s character and record in the face of corruption allegations.
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Netanyahu on course to win Israeli election - partial results
Partial results with 95% of votes counted showed Netanyahu’s Likud party tied with Gantz’s centrist Blue and White Party with 35 parliamentary seats each, the Knesset website and Israeli Channel 12 said.
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Israel votes with Netanyahu's future at stake
The vote is expected to be close and likely lead to frantic negotiations to form a coalition government once results are in, with opinion polls having shown Netanyahu best placed to do so.
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Netanyahu lauds US terror designation for Iran Revolutionary Guards
Israeli prime minister says Donald Trump responded to 'another important request of mine, which serves the interests of our countries and countries of the region.'
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Maimane criticises Dirco for downgrading diplomatic relations with Israel
DA leader Mmusi Maimane said that he wants a two-state solution to be reached between Palestine and Israel and that this can’t be reached if decisions like the one made by Dirco continue elsewhere.
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Turkey says 'irresponsible' Netanyahu cannot change West Bank status
Palestinian leaders reacted angrily, blaming what they said was a failure by world powers to stand up for international law.
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The winding road to power in Israel: How elections work
Israel's system of proportional representation allows small parties a chance of getting a seat in the 120-member Knesset, Israel's parliament.
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US isolated at UN Security Council over Golan decision
Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in 1981 in a move the 15-member UN Security Council declared 'null and void and without international legal effect.'
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Syria requests urgent UN Security Council meeting on Golan
The council is scheduled to discuss the latest crisis on Wednesday during a meeting on renewing the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force deployed between Israel and Syria in the Golan, known as UNDOF.
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No halt to Gaza flare-up despite 'ceasefire'
Gaza's Islamist rulers, Hamas, had said on Monday evening that an Egypt-brokered ceasefire has been agreed following a flare-up of violence just two weeks before an Israeli general election.
