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A law enforcement vehicle is parked at a school in the area where a man believed to have taken people hostage at a synagogue during services that were being streamed live, in Colleyville, Texas, US, January 15, 2022.

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Analysis and Features

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Israel's opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu is seen gesturing at the Knesset, on July 26, 2021.

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The ‘Netanyahu = Hitler’ sign at an anti-Israel demonstration in London on June 12.

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World News

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KAZEM GHARIB ABADI, Iran’s permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, leaves a meeting in Vienna on following up the Iran nuclear agreement.

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People pose in front of a display showing the word 'cyber' in binary code, in this picture illustration taken in Zenica December 27, 2014. Picture taken December 27, 2014.

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Health & Wellness

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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the cabinet meeting, December 19, 2021.

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Scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, also known as novel coronavirus

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Antisemitism / BDS

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Antisemitic graffiti on a Jewish family house in the city center of Lyon in France.

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Participants of an annual event in honor of Stepan Bandera march through Kyiv, Ukraine on Jan. 1, 2021.

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The House of Fates Holocaust museum, housed in a former railway station that deported Jews to concentration camps, seen in Budapest, Jan. 21, 2019.

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Environment & Climate Change

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Science

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US Politics

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The funeral of Eli Kay, the lone soldier who was fatally shot by a terrorist in an attack in Jerusalem's Old City, November 22, 2021.

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Diaspora

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Judaism

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Food

Decadent dried fruit cake.

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Culture

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Dan Hotel, Eilat, Israel, February 1, 2012.

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Travel

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OMG

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