“It’s a symbol that had been hijacked for way too long by the right,” one Yom Haatzmaut partier in Tel Aviv said about the flag. TEL AVIV (JTA) — Avigail Arnheim has been protesting ...

(JTA) — Fourteen people have been selected to light the symbolic torches at this year’s Israel Independence Day ceremony on Wednesday night, according to Israeli news site Maariv. The ceremony ...

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