France has yet to recognize Palestine | The ousting of a Jewish French officer in a modern European state motivated in organizing the and pledging for a home for the Jews in 1897 |
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The aims were to regain Western control of the Suez Canal and to remove Egyptian President from power, as well as reopening the to Israeli shipping and stop Egyptian-sponsored raids into Israel | In Israel, where NSO Group, which sells the Pegasus software, is based, a senior lawmaker said a parliamentary panel may look into spyware export restrictions |
Tuesday's UN Security Council session, the fourth since the conflict escalated, was called after the United States, a key Israel ally, had once again blocked adoption of a joint statement calling for a halt to the violence the previous day | The of 1956 marked a watershed for Israeli-French relations |
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On 12 January 1949 France recognized the existence of Israel and supported the decision for Israel to join the United Nations | In 1953 France started selling French weapons to Israel and became one of its closest allies and supporters |
This followed a crackdown against protests over planned expulsions of Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah.
20Israeli officials rejected what was considered an ultimatum, while Israeli opposition leaders said the French threat to recognize Palestine was triggered by the current Israeli government's failed diplomacy | France is Israel's 11th greatest supplier of goods and represents Israel's ninth largest market |
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France has decided to adapt government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Thursday, in one of the first concrete actions announced in relation to the scandal | Israel has appointed an inter-ministerial team to assess reports based on an investigation by 17 media organisations that said Pegasus had been used in attempted or successful hacks of smartphones using malware that enables the extraction of messages, records calls and secretly activates microphones |
A strike Monday knocked out Gaza's only Covid-19 testing laboratory, the health ministry said, and the Qatari Red Crescent said a strike damaged one of its offices.
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