Israel’s pager attack was a tactical success without a strategic goal, analysts say
20 Sep
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Israel’s pager attack was a tactical success without a strategic goal, analysts say

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Politics tamfitronics Home / WorldBy Patrick KingsleyNew York Times·20 Sep, 2024 06:00 AM6 mins to readPeople run for cover and chant slogans after an explosion went off during a funeral for Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese capital. Video / AFPBy targeting so many pagers at the same time, Israel demonstrated technical prowess and partly restored the aura of its intelligence agencies. But its long-term intent is unclear. Israel’s attack on pagers and AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.
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Israel’s military drafts ultra-Orthodox Jews, but the battle over serving the ‘army of God’ vs. the army of the state isn’t over
02 Aug
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Israel’s military drafts ultra-Orthodox Jews, but the battle over serving the ‘army of God’ vs. the army of the state isn’t over

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Politics tamfitronics (The Conversation) — In late July 2024, the Israeli military sent out the first 1,000 conscription notices to ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, following a unanimous Supreme Court ruling that the government must stop exempting them.But will these Haredim, as the ultra-Orthodox are called in Israel, actually join the Israel Defense Forces and be followed by thousands more in the near future? It depends on whom they obey: the state authorities or their religious authorities.Yitzhak Yosef, whose term as one of the government’s two chief rabbis recently ended, told religious students that “anyone who receives a draft notice should tear it up and not go,” the Israeli paper Yedioth Ahronoth reported. “He is a soldier in the army of God.”Yosef is not the only Haredi rabbi to oppose army service, and many Haredi men have...
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03 Apr
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Bye, bye Bibi: Is the game up for Israel’s huge survivor Netanyahu?

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Politics tamfitronics Benjamin Netanyahu, the Houdini of Israeli politics and its longest serving top minister, has been written off continually sooner than. But with thousands of protesters on the streets every evening this week anxious he resign, and rising arouse at his handling of the battle in Gaza, many shock how lengthy the aged political escapologist can survive.The on the full bullish Netanyahu, 74, appears to be like each and every bodily and politically fragile.Deeply unpopular -- no greater than four p.c of Israelis belief him, in accordance to one poll unhurried final year -- the battle in Gaza is taking its toll on the man Israelis name Bibi.Visibly outdated college and sallow, he was fretful and distracted one day of a tv speech Saturday which his frail minister and Likud colleague Limor Livnat known...
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