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Workers attach decorative crowns to the ends of the flag poles, outside a building in central London, Wednesday, May 3, 2023. The Coronation of King Charles III will take place at Westminster Abbey on May 6. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Coronation to mix old rites, modern values; King Charles aims to broaden scope of British monarchy

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the Israel's judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, March 18, 2023. Netanyahu's corruption trial has resumed after a month-long break. The resumption refocuses the spotlight on the long-serving leader's legal woes after a wave of protests over his government's plan to overhaul the country's judiciary. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

What is the latest on Netanyahu’s corruption trial?

By Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

Israel illustration by Linas Garsys

Israel at 75: Survival and prospering of the Jewish state is a miracle

By Cal Thomas

Israeli scouts light torches during a Memorial Day ceremony, commemorating fallen soldiers, at the military cemetery of Mount Hertzl in Jerusalem, Monday, April 24, 2023. Israel will mark the annual Memorial Day in remembrance of soldiers who died in the nation's conflicts, beginning at dusk Monday until Tuesday evening. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israel marks Memorial Day plagued by divisions, violence

By Ohad Zwigenberg and Laurie Kellman - Associated Press

Israeli police examine the scene of a car ramming attack, in Jerusalem, Monday, April 24, 2023. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says multiple people have been attacked and wounded near a popular market in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Police say 5 wounded in ramming attack near Jerusalem market

Associated Press

Tens of thousands of Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, April 15, 2023. As Israel turns 75, it has much to celebrate. But instead of feting its accomplishments as a regional and economic powerhouse, the nation founded as a home for the world's Jews in the wake of the Holocaust finds itself under threat -- not by foreign enemies but by bitter internal divisions. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

A deeply divided Israel limps toward its 75th birthday

By Josef Federman - Associated Press

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa leads the Easter Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and rose from the dead, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sunday, April 9, 2023. Since the rise of Israel's most right-wing government in history, church leaders say the 2,000-year-old Christian community in Jerusalem has come under increasing attack, with an uptick in harassment of clergy and vandalism of religious properties. Several church leaders, including the head of the Roman Catholic Church in the region, told The Associated Press they fear that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ultranationalist coalition has empowered extremists. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Holy Land Christians say attacks rising in far-right Israel

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Israeli police escort Jewish visitors marking the holiday pf Passover to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount, in the Old City of Jerusalem during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Sunday, April 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Palestinian teen killed in army raid as settlers hold march

By Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press

People gather and lay flowers at the site where Alessandro Parini, an Italian tourist, was killed in a Palestinian attack, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, April 8, 2023. Israeli authorities said an Italian tourist was killed and five other Italian and British citizens were wounded Friday when a car rammed into a group of tourists in Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israeli military: 3 rockets fired from Syria toward Israel

By Josef Federman - Associated Press

Morning sun filters into the Holy Sepulcher, the site where according to tradition Jesus was crucified and buried, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Thursday, April 6, 2023 during the Holy Thursday Mass. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Why do Jerusalem tensions fuel regionwide unrest?

Associated Press

Israeli police deploy in the Old City of Jerusalem, hours after police raided the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Rockets fired from Gaza raise tension as Passover begins

Associated Press

Fire and smoke rise following an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza Strip, Friday, April 7, 2023. The Israeli military has struck targets in the Gaza Strip, pushing the region toward a wider conflagration after a day of rocket fire along the country's northern and southern borders. The fighting follows two days of unrest at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site. As Israeli aircraft began striking Gaza, Palestinian militants quickly fired off a new barrage of rockets, setting off air raid sirens across southern Israel. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Israel strikes targets in the Gaza Strip as Netanyahu warns enemies will pay ‘heavy price’

By Isabel Debre and Sam McNeil - Associated Press

Israeli police are deployed at the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound following a raid at the site during the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan in the Old City of Jerusalem, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. Palestinian media reported police attacked Palestinian worshippers, raising fears of wider tension as Islamic and Jewish holidays overlap. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Violence at holy Jerusalem site raises tension over holidays

By Mahmoud Illean and Fares Akram - Associated Press

A general view of the West Bank Jewish settlement of Efrat, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. An Israeli watchdog group says that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government has authorized construction bids for over a thousand new homes in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) **FILE**

Watchdog: Israel promotes bids for 1,000 settlement homes

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Israeli security forces search for a suspect in a shooting attack in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, March 9, 2023. Israeli police said a Palestinian gunman shot and wounded three people in central Tel Aviv before the attacker was shot and killed. Police initially suspected there was a second attacker but later determined the gunman had acted alone. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Palestinian suspect killed by Israeli fire in West Bank

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Demonstrators wave flags during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government to overhaul the judicial system, outside the offices of the conservative Kohelet Policy Forum think tank, which is helping spearheaded the overhaul to Israel's judiciary, in Jerusalem, Thursday, March 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Netanyahu airlifted to airport after protesters block road

By Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

Mourners comfort each other at the funeral of Elan Ganeles, 27, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen from West Hartford, Connecticut, in Raanana, Israel, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. The Israeli army said a suspected Palestinian gunman opened fire on Tuesday at an Israeli car near the Palestinian city of Jericho, hitting killing Ganeles. A friend told local media he had been visiting Israel for a wedding and driving on a highway near the Dead Sea when he was shot. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israeli army kills Palestinian in West Bank; 3 arrested

By Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press

Palestinians protest a deadly Israeli raid in the West Bank city of Nablus, as well as a crackdown on Palestinian prisoners by Israel's right-wing government, following Friday prayers at the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israel, Palestinian officials to meet over surge in violence

By Josef Federman - Associated Press

Palestinians protest a deadly Israeli raid in the West Bank city of Nablus, as well as a crackdown on Palestinian prisoners by Israel's right-wing government, following Friday prayers at the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israeli settlers shoot, wound 2 Palestinians in West Bank

Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, right, arrive to attend a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP)

Israel approves over 7,000 settlement homes, groups say

By Josef Federman - Associated Press