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26+ min ago (458+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 786 Northwestern University in Illinois will pay the US federal government $75 million to settle complaints about antisemitism on the campus, the university and the Justice Department announced on Friday. The agreement will restore $790 million in federal funding to the university that the Trump administration had frozen in April, and close federal investigations into the university. As part of the settlement, the university agreed to revoke a deal that the campus administration made with anti-Zionist protesters in 2024. The university made the so-called "Deering Meadow Agreement," named for a part of campus that was occupied by a protest encampment, to end a demonstration against Israel. The university agreed to protesters" demands to set up an advisory committee on university investments, to fund two Palestinian faculty per year and five Palestinian undergraduates, to create a house for Muslim students, and…...

1+ hour, 18+ min ago (663+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 786 Four foreign pro-Palestinian activists " three Italians and one Canadian " were injured Sunday, one of them seriously, in a settler attack near Jericho, the Palestinian Authority's WAFA news agency reported. Medical and security sources cited by WAFA said that, at dawn, some 10 masked settlers stormed the house where the activists were staying, beat them, and stole property, including passports and cellphones. They were treated at a Jericho hospital. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani confirmed to Italian media that three Italians were wounded, but not seriously, in the attack on the Palestinian community of Ein al-Duyuk. Tajani's ministry said in a statement that "three Italian international volunteers were attacked last night by Israeli settlers," adding that they were "still in shock from the incident." Last night, Israeli settler terrorists stormed the Ein al-Duyuk area near Jericho in the…...

1+ hour, 18+ min ago (375+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 786 Germany will return valuable artifacts looted during the Second World War to Poland, local media reported Sunday. A meeting on Monday to discuss Polish-German cooperation will include the "historic return of cultural goods looted during World War II," according to local news website Onet.pl. The Polish side described the return as having "groundbreaking character." The artifacts are said to include a sculpture of a saint's head stolen from Malbork Castle, a royal residence in northern Poland. The items reportedly also include documents from the Teutonic Order " a Catholic brotherhood of crusading knights active in the Middle Ages. Warsaw had been asking for the return of the Teutonic Order archives since 1948. During World War II, countless Polish artifacts, including historical archives and works of art, were looted by Nazi Germany. Nawrocki, a right-wing historian who won…...

2+ hour, 34+ min ago (652+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 786 Likud MK Dan Illouz demanded Sunday that Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Boaz Bismuth make multiple changes to his proposed bill regulating ultra-Orthodox draft exemptions, warning that he is unable to support the legislation as currently written. "Unfortunately, the proposed law not only fails to create change but may even undermine the progress already achieved on the ground," Illouz wrote in a letter to Bismuth, also of the ruling Likud party, arguing that "in such a situation, it is better to leave the current situation than to pass a law that will lead to long years of non-conscription." "I cannot support a law that does not really bring positive change on an issue of an existential security need," wrote Illouz, who is one of the more outspoken critics of the legislation within the coalition....

3+ hour ago (1067+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 786 Pope Leo XIV called a two-state arrangement the "only solution" to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, doubling down on the Holy See's longstanding position in his first airborne news conference en route to Lebanon on Sunday. "We all know that at this time Israel still does not accept that solution, but we see it as the only solution," he said, as he flew from Istanbul to Beirut for the second and final leg of his maiden voyage as pope. "We are also friends with Israel, and we are seeking to be a mediating voice between the two parties that might help them close in on a solution with justice for everyone," added the pope, speaking in Italian. The American pope arrived in Lebanon at a precarious moment for the country, after years of successive crises. He was…...

3+ hour, 22+ min ago (797+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 786 Diplomats have been focused on revisions to a proposed28-point plandeveloped in negotiations between Washington and Moscow. That plan has been criticized as being too weighted toward Russian demands. As the meeting began Sunday, Rubio focused on reassuring Ukraine. "The end goal, obviously, is not just the end of the war," Rubio said in brief remarks. "But it's also about securing an end to the war that leaves Ukraine sovereign and independent and with an opportunity at real prosperity." "This is not just about peace deals," the top American diplomat said as the teams sat down at the Shell Bay Club, a golf and racquet club developed by Witkoff in Hallandale Beach. Rustem Umerov, head of Ukraine's security council, responded to Rubio by expressing his country's appreciation for US efforts, a message geared toward Trump, who has…...

3+ hour, 47+ min ago (46+ words) Mijal and Noam break down Jewish law (halacha) as a living legal system'tracing its path from Sinai to the Mishnah, Talmud, Maimonides, and the Shulchan Aruch. The post What is Jewish Law, Really appeared first on The Times of Israel. [What is Jewish Law, Really]...

4+ hour, 54+ min ago (1008+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 786 Dror Or, a devoted father and husband from Kibbutz Be'eri who was murdered on October 7, 2023, was buried on Sunday morning, more than two years after his body was abducted to the Gaza Strip. Or, whose body was released to Israel last Tuesday under the terms of the ceasefire with Hamas, was buried alongside his wife, Yonat Or, who was also murdered by Hamas terrorists in the October 7 onslaught that sparked the war in Gaza. Elad, Or's older brother, said in his eulogy that he would never be able to comprehend the enormity of the tragedy. "I will never in my life really understand how this could have happened to you and to Yonat " how you were attacked like that in your beautiful home, with such terrible evil," he said. "And how you somehow managed to tell…...

5+ hour, 47+ min ago (504+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 786 Zev Stub is the Times of Israel's Diaspora Affairs correspondent. Three Irish figures, including actress Olwen Fou'r', have rejected honorary doctorates from the University of Galway due to the university's research partnership with The Technion " Israel Institute of Technology. Fou'r', who has appeared in movies and shows including "Derry Girls" and "The Crown," refused to receive the honor at a ceremony on Thursday, alongside filmmaker Margo Harkin and academic Kerby Miller, according to the Irish Times. Fou'r' said her decision was due to the university's "extremely problematic" ties with the Haifa-based Technion. Through the EU-funded ASTERISK program, Galway has a partnership worth some "4 million (NIS 15 million) with the Israeli university to derive sustainable green hydrogen from seawater. Anti-Israel groups like Academic for Palestine have called on Galway to withdraw from the program due to what they…...

5+ hour, 53+ min ago (363+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 786 TEHRAN, Iran " Iran and Turkey have agreed to begin constructing a new joint rail link to serve as a strategic gateway between Asia and Europe, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday. The planned route, known in Iran as the Marand'Cheshmeh Soraya railway transit line and running towards Turkey's Aralik border region, will cover around 200 kilometers (120 miles). It will cost roughly $1.6 billion and is expected to take three to four years to complete, Iranian authorities have said. Earlier this month, Iran's transport minister Farzaneh Sadegh said the rail line would transform the southern section of what was once the Silk Road into an "all-rail corridor ensuring the continuity of the network between China and Europe." It would also ensure "fast and cheap transport of all types of cargo with minimal stops," she added. At a joint…...