How to Use Israeli in a Sentence
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The third man was in the apartment at the time of the raid and opened fire on Israeli troops.
—Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 2023-05-04
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Hamas has said that a number of hostages have been killed by Israeli bombings on the enclave.
—Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 2023-10-16
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The Israeli military did not respond to a request for comment on the claims.
—Ameera Harouda, New York Times, 2024-01-24
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Most of the fighters said they are focused on defense, shooting back at Israeli forces that enter the camps.
—Lorenzo Tugnoli, Washington Post, 2023-08-07
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Either thin or fat stalks will work in our take on Israeli pashtida, an herbaceous vegetable and egg casserole that is like a crustless quiche.
—Christopher Kimball, BostonGlobe.com, 2023-04-25
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The Americans believed to still be held are one woman and seven men, some of whom may be Israeli soldiers.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 2023-12-14
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But the Houthis’ attacks are no longer only or even mostly aimed at ships with direct or indirect Israeli links.
—Noam Raydan, Foreign Affairs, 2024-02-06
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Netanyahu said in a statement that Israeli forces are still committed to a Rafah invasion.
—Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 2024-05-11
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Turns out, this is the latest in a long series of nutty delights at the West Village Israeli restaurant.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 2023-05-26
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In June, she was deported after her ship, the Madleen, was stopped by Israeli forces along with 11 others on board.
—Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2025
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But a sticking point could be the Israeli leader’s own government, the most religious and right-wing in his country’s history.
—Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, 2023-09-22
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An Israeli nonprofit tried in 2019, but its attempt also ended in a crash landing.
—Marcia Dunn, ajc, 2023-05-26
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The results of the strike were not immediately published as Israeli officials worked to confirm the target was killed.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 1 Sep. 2025
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Now my youngest child, born in America in May 2021, is living through the third wave of Israeli bombing.
—Mosab Abu Toha, The Atlantic, 2023-11-09
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This week, President Joe Biden issued a stark public warning to the Israeli government.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 2023-12-14
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He was killed in an Israeli airstrike on his sister’s home in Gaza City Dec. 26 that also killed his sister, his brother, and their families.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 2024-01-24
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Witnesses said Israeli troops opened fire on crowds in the Netzarim Corridor, an Israeli military zone that bisects Gaza.
—Wafaa Shurafa, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
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Jim Jarmusch has added his voice to the growing backlash against Mubi after the arthouse distributor took on an investor with close ties to the Israeli military earlier this year.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
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The first theft on Feb. 10 wasn't caught on camera, but on March 2, his home surveillance cameras captured the suspect pulling up to the home in a white Jeep and running straight to the Israeli flag.
—Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 2024-03-12
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The Houthi militant group claimed a missile attack on an Israeli oil tanker in the Red Sea on Monday and vowed to retaliate against the country and its interests in the region.
—Amira El-Fekki, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
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The appeal, organized by Reporters Without Borders and Avaaz, notes that at least 220 journalists have been killed by the Israeli army in Gaza in under two years of war.
—Aya Batrawy, NPR, 1 Sep. 2025
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The venture capital firm is reportedly a key investor in Kela, an Israeli tech startup founded after October 7 that develops military AI.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2025
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Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz identified the spokesperson as Abu Obeida, the nom de guerre for the person who represented Hamas' Qassam Brigades.
—Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2025
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The officials said there was a broader Israeli public consensus in favor of such a proposal, adding that Israel’s need to use it as a security perimeter would be easier to sell to the international community – and, most importantly, Washington.
—Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
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Palestinian Authority passports have been issued by the Palestinian Ministry of Interior, subject to Israeli approval, since 1995.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 1 Sep. 2025
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In the original open letter, the signatories highlighted Sequoia Capital’s growing investments in Israeli military technology companies.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2025
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People gather in the yard of the Ahli Arab hospital, also known as the Baptist hospital, to mourn and bid farewell to the bodies of victims killed in Israeli bombardment in Gaza City, on March 18, 2025.
—Natasha Turak, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2025
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The streamer and distributor accepted a $100 million investment from a company that also backs Kela, a defense startup founded in 2024 by Israeli intelligence veterans after the October 7 terrorist attacks.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
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The prime minister of Yemen's Houthi government and several other ministers were killed in an Israeli strike on the capital Sanaa, the news agency run by the group said on Saturday, citing a statement by the head of the Houthi Supreme Political Council, Mahdi al-Mashat.
—Reuters, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025
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Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, whose new film Father Mother Sister Brother is being released by Mubi, addressed the company’s controversial ties to the Israeli military during today’s Venice Film Festival press conference.
—Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025
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Martha, this is going to be a very difficult task for the Israeli Defense Forces.
—ABC News, 2023-10-29
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Two women, Emirati and Israeli, posed for a photograph holding hands atop a skyscraper in Dubai.
—Vivian Nereim, New York Times, 2024-03-10
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There was not a lot of dialogue with the Israeli Defense Forces contacts before this embed happened.
—Michael Tobin, Fox News, 2024-02-12
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Film industry figures are increasingly putting themselves on the front lines of protests against Israeli’s actions in Gaza.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
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Many of the crowdfunding sites use the popular payment app Bit, owned by Israeli Bank Hapoalim.
—Julia Frankel, Quartz, 2024-02-22
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An Israeli tank moves on an area near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, on Monday.
—Andrew Jones, NBC news, 21 Aug. 2025
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Some young voters of color are upset Biden hasn’t called for a cease-fire in the Israeli/Hamas war, in which thousands of Palestinians have been killed or injured.
—Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 2024-02-22
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The Israeli Defense Force declined to provide an attributable comment.
—WIRED, 2023-11-07
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The victims were Yaron Lischinsky, an Israeli, and Sarah Milgrim, an American.
—Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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Maccabi Ra’anana plays in the Israeli National League, which is the second-tier division league of Israel.
—Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2025
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Orly Weintraub Gilad, a 45-year-old Israeli, chose to have her maternal grandfather’s number tattooed on her arm.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 2024-01-25
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Abraham: For me, as an Israeli, the film represents the need to address the political roots of the situation, basically.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 2024-02-17
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Earlier in the film, Adra recounts how his mother devised a plan to circumvent the Israeli Defense Forces’ antagonism.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 2024-02-20
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The report showed forces from the Israeli Engineering Corps operating tractors, trucks and engineering tools.
—Richard Allen Greene, CNN, 2024-03-08
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Police officers outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington on Sunday.
—Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 2024-02-27
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On loan from the Israeli Antiquities Authority, the exhibits include pottery, ceramics, and tools, as well as a life-size recreation of a biblical village.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 2023-08-31
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The Dagestani government has supported Gaza citizens previously, but also issued a statement to discourage the protests against these Israeli's.
—Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 2023-10-29
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Netanyahu ignored those entreaties, although the Israeli Knesset, or parliament, is entering a long recess and won’t be able to take further action until returning in October.
—Melanie Lidman and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 2023-07-25
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In addition to the thousands killed, Israeli's retaliatory air and ground offensive has displaced over 80% of the population and set off a massive humanitarian crisis.
—TIME, 2024-02-12
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Artists and academics have issued petitions, acknowledging Israeli’s responsibility for the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and calling for the end of the war.
—Asher Kaufman, The Conversation, 23 Aug. 2025
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Notably, that list includes a handful of restaurants serving cuisines sometimes overlooked by the Michelin inspectors, including Peruvian, Indian, and Israeli.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 2023-11-08
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But there was no mention of the more than 5,000 Palestinians who were murdered by the Israeli Defense Forces at the time that the letter was released or the decades- long occupation that creates this cycle of violence.
—Brea Baker, refinery29.com, 2023-11-01
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On Friday, the Israeli Security Cabinet unanimously approved the operation to take control of Gaza City.
—David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 10 Aug. 2025
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The response came in the days after Houthi authorities in Yemen said airstrikes by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) had killed senior political leaders including the Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahwi.
—Amira El-Fekki, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
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The electricity sector remained almost entirely dependent on the Israeli Electric Corporation, with Palestinian providers forced to act primarily as payment collectors rather than independent utilities, and new electricity infrastructure projects requiring Israeli approval.
—Literary Hub august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
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While some people have died of starvation and hunger, others have been killed trying to receive aid at distribution sites run by the controversial US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which was brought in place to replace a UN system long criticized by Israel.
—Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
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By October 1985, Israeli KC-707s refueled F-15s, enabling them to fly all the way from their home airbases over the Eastern Mediterranean to strike the headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Tunisia.
—Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
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During the Thursday event, constituents questioned the Massachusetts Democrat over her acceptance of $371,187 from the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), as shown in a video posted by a reporter at The Grayzone.
—Amalia Huot-Marchand, The Hill, 15 Aug. 2025
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