| Born in 1961 to a Jewish family in Duluth, Minnesota, Nides is a banking executive and if indeed picked, would bring both government and private-sector experience to the post | Though Hamas has halted rocket fire to Israel as a ceasefire takes effect in Gaza, it is trying to keep the unrest going on in Jerusalem, where tensions over the Temple Mount and planned evictions of Palestinians in Shiekh Jarrah caused the fighting to erupt |
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| The Shin Bet defines the stabbing as having a nationalist motive | The man, Tarek Agbaria, was shot to death at close range in front of his children and wife, whom he was returning from the hospital after the latter gave birth, Haaretz says |
The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls the Gaza Strip, and other armed groups in the enclave appeared to be holding Friday, after 11 days of fighting.
3| Santosh thanked the president for his warm embrace and Israel for helping to expedite the transfer of the body to India for burial | Critics of the premier have noted that the spiraling situation within and beyond Israel proper led Yamina chairman Naftali Bennett to walk out of his talks with Lapid to form a unity government that would replace Netanyahu and instead return to negotiations with Netanyahu |
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| Responding to a call by the Muslim Brotherhood, some 10,000 people, according to AFP journalists, gathered in the Sweimeh region near the border with the Israeli-occupied West Bank | Officers were then ordered to enter the site to quell the unrest and disperse the crowd |
Nides, for his part, has close ties with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and former president Barak Obama.
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