A look at the improbable return of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the arrival of the nation’s most right-wing government.
Tag: Israel
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As Netanyahu Nears Power, the Far Right Wants to Oversee the Army
Bezalel Smotrich is an ultranationalist who opposes Palestinian sovereignty and wants to govern Israel by Jewish law. He seeks the Defense Ministry in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
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Israel’s Election Empowers a More Muscular Religious Zionism
The extreme wing of the nationalist religious community has prevailed. At the same time, religious Zionists are increasingly part of the Israeli mainstream.
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Internal Documents Show How Close the F.B.I. Came to Deploying Spyware
Christopher Wray, the F.B.I.’s director, told Congress last December that the bureau purchased the phone hacking tool Pegasus for research purposes.
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84 Years Later, a New Look at the Nazi Attacks of Kristallnacht
Newly released photographs of the assaults on Jews during the 1938 pogrom, which is widely commemorated as the start of the Holocaust, had been kept by a former American serviceman.