Tia Goldenberg, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Tens of thousands Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan outside the parliament in Jerusalem, Monday, March 27, 2023. (AP Photo)

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Netanyahu delays judicial overhaul after mass protests

by Ilan Ben Zion Associated Press, and Tia Goldenberg Associated PressMarch 27, 2023

JERUSALEM — Bending to a wave of mass protests, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delayed his contentious judicial overhaul plan Monday and said he wanted “to avoid civil war” by making time to seek a compromise with political opponents.The…

A general view of the West Bank Jewish settlement of Efrat, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. Israel's West Bank settler population now makes up more than half a million people, a pro-settler group said Thursday, crossing a major threshold. Settler leaders predicted even faster population growth under Israel's new ultra-nationalist government. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

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Israeli settler population in West Bank surpasses 500K

by Tia Goldenberg Associated PressFebruary 3, 2023

Palestinians clash with Israeli forces following an army raid in the West Bank city of Jenin, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. Israeli forces killed at least nine Palestinians, including a 60-year-old woman, and wounded several others during a raid in a flashpoint area of the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Palestinian health officials said, in one of the deadliest days in months of unrest. The Israeli military said it was conducting an operation to arrest a militant grouping linked to the...

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Palestinians: Israeli troops kill 10 in West Bank violence

by Majdi Mohammed Associated Press, and Tia Goldenberg Associated PressJanuary 26, 2023

Israeli police inspect the scene of an explosion at a bus stop in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Two blasts went off near bus stops in Jerusalem on Wednesday, injuring several people in what police said were suspected attacks by Palestinians. (Ohad Zwigenberg/HAARETZ via AP)

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Twin blasts hit Jerusalem, killing teen, wounding 18

by Alon Bernstein Associated Press, and Tia Goldenberg Associated PressNovember 23, 2022

Former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the Likud party, with his wife, Sara, waves to supporters at party headquarters in Jerusalem, Wednesday.

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Netanyahu, still on trial for corruption, set to become Israel’s prime minister again

by Tia Goldenberg Associated PressNovember 3, 2022

An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man votes for Israel's parliamentary election at a polling station in Bnei Brak, Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. Israel is holding its fifth election in less than four years. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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Israeli exit polls point to Netanyahu win

by Tia Goldenberg Associated PressNovember 1, 2022

Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, in Gaza City, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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Palestinians, Israel declare cease-fire

by Fares Akram Associated Press, and Tia Goldenberg Associated PressAugust 7, 2022

An Israeli soldier guards an opening in Israel's West Bank separation barrier that was reinforced with barbed wire to prevent Palestinians from crossing into Israel, in the West Bank village of Nilin, west of Ramallah, Sunday, April 10, 2022. Israel has stepped up its surveillance of the barrier following a pair of attacks in recent weeks carried out by Palestinians who had entered Israel without a permit. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

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Israeli forces shoot, kill 2 Palestinians

by Tia Goldenberg Associated Press, and Laurie Kellman Associated PressApril 10, 2022

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept 8, 2020 file photo, ultra-Orthodox Jews keep social distancing and wear face masks during a morning prayer next to their houses as synagogues are limited to twenty people following the government's measures to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, in Bnei Brak, Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has faced a national furor over his handling of the coronavirus, but that anger is boiling over among the ultra-Orthodox, or Haredim, who have used...

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Israel to set new lockdown over virus surge

by Tia Goldenberg Associated Press, and Aron Heller Associated PressSeptember 13, 2020

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement in Jerusalem, Wednesday.

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Netanyahu begins effort to build coalition

by Tia Goldenberg Associated PressSeptember 27, 2019