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Demonstrators protest against Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu outside the court in Tel Aviv Tuesday Dec. 10, 2024. Netanyahu is set to take the stand on Tuesday in his long-running trial for alleged corruption.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel’s Netanyahu takes the stand in long-running corruption trial

By Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

An Israeli bomb squad policeman carries the remains of a rocket that was fired from Lebanon in Kibbutz Kfar Blum, northern Israel Sunday Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Hezbollah fires about 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel in heaviest barrage in weeks

By Kareem Chehayeb and Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

Varda Ben Baruch, whose grandson Edan Alexander is held hostage in the Gaza Strip by Hamas militants, gestures to a Torah scroll in his bedroom at home in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

The family of Israeli-American hostage pleads with Biden and Trump to bring hostages home

Associated Press

An Israeli border police officer stands guard at the site of a Palestinian car-ramming and stabbing attack at a bus stop in Ra'anana, Israel, Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. Israeli police say a car-ramming and stabbing attack by Palestinians killed a woman and wounded at least 12 others north of Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israel busts another Iran-backed spy ring

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Israeli police and rescue services inspect the site where a truck driver rammed into a bus stop near an army base, wounding dozens of people, according to Israel's Magen David Adom rescue service in Ramat Hasharon, Israel, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Protesters disrupt a Netanyahu speech marking Oct. 7 attacks, chanting ‘Shame on you’

By Ami Bentov, Tia Goldenberg and Samy Magdy and Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

Israeli police and rescue services inspect the site where a truck driver rammed into a bus stop near an army base, wounding dozens of people, according to Israel's Magen David Adom rescue service in Ramat Hasharon, Israel, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israeli strikes on northern Gaza kill at least 22, while a truck ramming near Tel Aviv kills 1

By Ami Bentov, Tia Goldenberg and Samy Magdy and Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

An Israeli Apache helicopter flies past the sun, near the Israeli-Lebanon border, as seen from northern Israel, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Drone strike in Israel wounds more than 60 as Hezbollah claims responsibility

By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

People pass by a sign calling for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas for nearly a year, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

After a year, war casts a shadow over every aspect of life in Israel

Associated Press

People block a road as they protest, calling for a deal for the immediate release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Could mass protests in Israel over the hostages persuade Netanyahu to agree to a cease-fire deal?

By Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

Yigal Sarusi, center, mourns during the funeral of his son, slain hostage Almog Sarusi, who was killed in Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, at a cemetery in Ra'anana, Israel, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israelis erupt in protest to demand a cease-fire after 6 more hostages die in Gaza

By Josef Federman - Associated Press

A boy rides a bicycle past the damage after a bomb explosion in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Palestinian militant groups claim bombing in Tel Aviv

Associated Press

A man rests on the beach in Haifa, Israel, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024. Israel and Lebanon are the closest they have been to a full-fledged war after nearly 10 months of low-intensity cross-border exchanges. People on both sides of the border are girding for an escalation after the killings of two militant leaders in Beirut and Tehran, as worry and fatigue over a conflict with no end in sight sets in. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

In Israel and Lebanon, life goes on even as the region teeters on the edge of all-out war

By Melanie Lidman and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

In this image from video, smoke and flames rise from a site in Hodeidah, Yemen, on Saturday, July 20, 2024. The Israeli army says it struck several Houthi targets in western Yemen following a fatal drone attack by the rebel group in Tel Aviv the previous day. (AP Photo)

Israelis strike Houthi port after Tel Aviv attack; Yemeni retaliation bid blocked

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Israeli soldiers and family members visit the graves of fallen soldiers ahead of Israel's annual Memorial Day at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, Thursday, May 9, 2024. Israel marks its annual Memorial Day in remembrance of soldiers who died in the nation's conflicts, beginning at dusk Sunday, May 12, until Monday evening, May 13. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

With the shock of Oct. 7 still raw, profound sadness and anger grip Israel on its Memorial Day

By Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

Elisabeth Odegaard poses for a portrait with necklaces as she prepares food for Israeli soldiers on a brief respite from combat operations in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. Her visit to Israel is part of a wave of religious "voluntourism" to Israel, organized trips that include some kind of volunteering aspect connected to the ongoing war in Gaza. Israel's Tourism Ministry estimates around a third to half of the approximately 3,000 visitors expected to arrive each day in March are part of faith-based volunteer trips. Prior to Oct. 7, around 15,000 visitors were arriving in Israel per day, according to Tourism Ministry statistics. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Evangelical Christians are fierce Israel supporters. Now they are visiting as war-time volunteers

Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, sits across the table as he meets with former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) chief Gadi Eisenkot and former Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

Blinken ends latest Mideast mission after new Israeli snub of proposed Gaza cease-fire plan

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers load shells onto a tank at a staging area in southern Israel near the border with Gaza on Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack into Israel. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israel is pulling thousands of troops from Gaza as combat focuses on enclave’s main southern city

By Tia Goldenberg, Najib Jobain and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

A Palestinian wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip arrives at a hospital in Rafah on Thursday, Dec.14, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Israeli defense minister vows to fight on in Gaza despite rising international pressure

By Najib Jobain and Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

A Palestinian woman sits by houses destroyed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Rafah on Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Live updates | WHO official says Gaza hospital situation ‘catastrophic’

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the media during a press conference, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. Blinken is in Israel to press for more humanitarian aid to be allowed into besieged Gaza. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken says ‘we need to do more to protect Palestinian civilians’

By Najib Jobain, Bassem Mroue and David Rising - Associated Press