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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu poses for a selfie with Itzik Zarka, a Likud activist, during a Likud Party faction meeting at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, on July 9, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Netanyahu ousts Likud party activist for telling protesters he wishes ‘another 6 million would burn’

His comments, which were condemned by a wide range of senior Likud politicians, were a crude allusion to a perceived ethnic split in Israel between supporters and opponents of the judicial overhaul.

Swedish man abandons Torah-burning, saying it was a stunt: ‘We have to respect each other’

Israeli and Jewish leaders had decried the planned burning, which follows a Quran-burning in Stockholm earlier this month.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins growing list of progressives who will skip Israeli president’s speech to Congress

She joins fellow New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman, Ilhan Omar and Cori Bush. More progressives have yet to make up their minds.

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