First discovered Israel in a Birthright trip, the trained lawyer was killed in action defending residents of Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7
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IAF strikes on underground targets are intensifying. But dislodging Hamas will require clearing out its vast tunnel network, a nightmarish task complicated by presence of hostages
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Unprecedented circumstances call for quick thinking and last-minute changes as rockets fall and men go to reserves - but for many couples the only unacceptable option is canceling
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IDF says that freeing the captives is a national imperative and the military's efforts are aimed at achieving this goal even as it steps up airstrikes and sends troops into Strip
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Israel has severely reduced water supply to Strip and halted provision of all electricity and fuel, but maintains there is enough water and power to prevent a humanitarian crisis
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A missive signed by 2,700 set to be published in The Lancet had text about kidnapped civilians removed after signatories complained
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Many Jewish progressives find that unlike the outpouring of support five years ago, allies don't show up for Israel, regardless of magnitude and brutality of the violence suffered
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Civil society groups, including many anti-overhaul protesters, take responsibility over aid efforts, after many government functions neglected over past year
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'Our country is bleeding, and we are standing with it,' says Brhane Negasi, who experienced Islamist terror in the Sinai Desert; 'Hamas is even worse than they were,' he insists
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Survivors of massacre on IDF base say they passed information up the chain of command on digging, mapping, training near the fence long before mass onslaught, but were ignored
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