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Israeli police and security personnel stand next to a destroyed bus at the site of a bombing in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. A bomb ripped through an Israeli bus near the nation's military headquarters in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, wounding several people, Israeli officials said. The blast came amid a weeklong Israeli offensive against Palestinian militants in Gaza. Israeli authorities on Wednesday arrested a suspected terrorist accused of being behind a Feb. 20, 2025, bombing attack targeting buses in the Tel Aviv suburbs of Bat Yam and Holon, Israeli Defense Forces officials said. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Israeli police arrest suspected Tel Aviv-area bus bomber

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

The bodies of victims of an Israeli army airstrike are prepared for burial at Indonesia Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israel’s Cabinet votes to fire the head of the country’s Shin Bet internal security service

By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

FILE - Ronen Bar, chief of Israel's domestic Shin Bet security agency, attends a ceremony marking Memorial Day for fallen soldiers of Israel's wars and victims of attacks at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery, May 13, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool photo via AP, File)

Netanyahu says he will seek to dismiss the head of Israel’s internal security service

By Melanie Lidman - Associated Press

A worshipper stands in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, Jan. 29, 2022, and holds his mobile phone showing a threatening message. The May 2021 text, signed "Israeli intelligence," reads: "Hello! You have been spotted as having participated in acts of violence in Al-Aqsa Mosque, and we will hold you accountable." Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency is defending its use of a surveillance tool that was used to send threatening text messages to Palestinian protesters at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site two years ago. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Israeli security agency defends use of threatening messages

By Josef Federman - Associated Press

A man in a protective mask passes another man talking on his mobile phone at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. In the early days of the pandemic, a panicked Israel began using a mass surveillance tool on its own people, tracking civilians’ mobile phones to halt the spread of the coronavirus. But months later, the tool’s effectiveness is being called into question and critics say its use has come at an immeasurable cost to the country’s democratic principles. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Israel’s virus surveillance tool tests its democratic norms

By TIA GOLDENBERG - Associated Press

A lifeguard stand is decorated with a large mask to remind people to wear masks as precaution against the new coronavirus at a beach in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, June 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israeli lawmakers approve phone tracking of virus cases

Associated Press

People wearing masks visit a food market that was shut down in order to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, as markets, shopping malls, gyms are reopen as Israel seeks to exit the virus lockdown in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, May 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israeli security head calls for halt in virus phone tracking

Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2019 file photo, Israeli police push a man during a protest outside a hospital in Jerusalem where Samir Arbeed, a Palestinian suspect in a deadly West Bank bombing, is being treated. Israel faces allegations of severely torturing three alleged Palestinian militants rounded up after the rare bombing in the occupied West Bank killed a 17-year-old girl in August. Lawyers and family members say the three top suspects were severely beaten to the point of being hospitalized before being returned to their interrogators. A Supreme Court ruling in 1999 forbids torture, but Israeli and Palestinian rights groups say interrogators routinely exploit a loophole intended for rare, ticking time-bomb scenarios, and act with impunity. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Israel accused of torturing Palestinians after fatal bombing

By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Sunday, Feb. 11 2018, a Palestinian waits for Israeli soldiers to open the barrier gate of the to enter his farm in the village of Habla, near the West Bank city Qalqilya, Over 25 years, Israel's military permit system has evolved into the increasingly complex, computerized centerpiece of control over millions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/ Majdi Mohammed)

In Israel’s permits, Palestinians see tool to control lives

By KARIN LAUB and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH - Associated Press

File - In this Friday, June 17, 2015 file photo, Israeli border police officers stand guard as a Palestinian woman waits to cross the Qalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem. Over 25 years, Israel's military permit system has evolved into the increasingly complex, computerized centerpiece of control over millions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

For Palestinians, Israeli permits a complex tool of control

By KARIN LAUB and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH - Associated Press

French consulate worker Romain Franck, a French employee of France's Consulate in Jerusalem, covers his face during a hearing at the district court in in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, Monday, March 19, 2018. Franck has been arrested on charges of smuggling dozens of guns from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. Israel's internal security agency said Franck smuggled more than 70 guns on five occasions in his consular vehicle, which was subjected to more lenient security checks than other vehicles. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israel arrests French Consulate driver for gun smuggling

By TIA GOLDENBERG - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during in his Cabinet meeting in his office in Jerusalem on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Jim Hollander, Pool)

Israel uncovers Hamas cell plotting to attack Jerusalem

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Ami Ayalon, center, in a scene from the Oscar-nominated documentary, "The Gatekeepers," about former heads of the Israeli security agency, Shin Bet. (AP Photo/Sony Pictures Classics)

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Gatekeepers’

By Adam Mazmanian - Special to the Washington Times

Hamas militant Fakhri Barghouti waves to the crowd after arriving in the West Bank city of Ramallah after his release in October. Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel in a swap for an Israeli soldier are racing to make up for lost time. Many of the 477 ex-inmates are getting married, building homes or enrolling in college. (Associated Press)

Freed Palestinians build new lives as Israelis monitor them

By Daniella Cheslow and Dalia Nammari - Associated Press

Mosab Hassan Yousef walks into his deportation hearing held at the immigration detention center in San Diego Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Yousef says he will be killed if he is deported from the United States to the West Bank. The oldest son of one of Hamas' founders, he was an Israeli spy for a decade, and he abandoned Islam for Christianity, further marking him a traitor. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)

U.S. judge agrees to grant asylum to ex-Israeli spy

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

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