About 20 businesses in Jaffa closed for two hours daily on a strike organized by the Arab-Jewish group Standing Together. Activists said they intend to interrupt everyday routines and force public attention back to the war's devastating toll

The dismissal of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, and the dismantling of Israel's judicial system may generate nothing more than an indifferent eye-rolling shrug from those who accuse Israel of pinkwashing. But make no mistake – this is a direct threat to the civil rights of all minorities in Israel

As mayors across the country accused signatories of 'incitement against IDF soldiers' and 'weakening Israeli society,' widespread backlash led some signatories to backtrack on their support for the petitions they signed and to limit their criticism of the government's actions in Gaza