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The Treasury secretary said she called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to reduce barriers to commerce for Palestinians.

Ownership of the artifacts is being restored to Yemen, but given the civil war there Yemeni officials have asked the museum to safeguard them for now through a custodial agreement.

The Israeli military said it had thwarted a batch of “aerial threats” but did not say who was behind them.

It was unclear to what extent the Iranian-backed militia, which controls northern Yemen, would be able to act on its expanded warning.

Only hours earlier, the Iran-backed militia issued a statement threatening to target Israeli-flagged, -owned and -operated ships. Israel said the vessel was not an Israeli ship.

Yevgeny V. Prigozhin has used his leadership of the Wagner mercenary force and social media to turn brutality into a personal brand.

A tycoon and a Putin ally, he built a paramilitary force that fought by Russia’s side even as he castigated its military leaders. He died at 62 in a plane crash, Russian authorities said.

Australia has the largest proportion of Holocaust survivors of any country besides Israel. In Melbourne, some of their descendants are leading the way to preserve the Yiddish language.

Yocheved Lifshitz, a grandmother and Israeli peace activist, was kidnapped, beaten and held in tunnels built by Hamas for 17 days.

A confrontation in Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur is part of a wider battle over the character of Israel as the government tries to weaken the judiciary.