How to Use Israeli in a Sentence

Israeli

1 of 2 adjective
  • The third man was in the apartment at the time of the raid and opened fire on Israeli troops.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 4 May 2023
  • Early in the war, his home was bombed by Israeli forces and his father was killed.
    — Aya Batrawy, NPR, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Hamas has said that a number of hostages have been killed by Israeli bombings on the enclave.
    — Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The Israeli military did not respond to a request for comment on the claims.
    — Ameera Harouda, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Most of the fighters said they are focused on defense, shooting back at Israeli forces that enter the camps.
    — Lorenzo Tugnoli, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The Israeli military would not provide any numbers on bodies held.
    — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 5 May 2023
  • 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, 25 Apr. 2023
  • 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, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The deal was announced as Israeli forces were working their way through northern Gaza and across the Gaza Strip.
    — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 22 Nov. 2023
  • But the Houthis’ attacks are no longer only or even mostly aimed at ships with direct or indirect Israeli links.
    — Noam Raydan, Foreign Affairs, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Netanyahu said in a statement that Israeli forces are still committed to a Rafah invasion.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 11 May 2024
  • The Israeli government has also offered to pay African migrants to leave the country or face prison time if they are caught.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Turns out, this is the latest in a long series of nutty delights at the West Village Israeli restaurant.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 May 2023
  • The second suspect was caught and killed, according to a statement from Israeli security forces.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 20 June 2023
  • The campaign is expected to take months and is proving divisive among Israeli citizens.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 1 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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, 22 Sep. 2023
  • An Israeli nonprofit tried in 2019, but its attempt also ended in a crash landing.
    — Marcia Dunn, ajc, 26 May 2023
  • The moves come as a growing number of ultra-Orthodox women have joined the Israeli workforce and men have enlisted in the army.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
  • 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
  • Azerbaijan has also reportedly allowed the Israeli spy agency Mossad to use it as a hub to spy on Iran.
    — Max Saltman, CNN, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Now my youngest child, born in America in May 2021, is living through the third wave of Israeli bombing.
    — Mosab Abu Toha, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Most Israeli hostages have been released in ceasefires or other deals, but 50 remain in Gaza with around 20 believed alive.
    — Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Israel's government says the offensive is aimed at eradicating Hamas, which still holds Israeli hostages.
    — Aya Batrawy, NPR, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Distribution is just one part of the challenge for Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 30 Aug. 2025
  • However, other Israeli sources told CNN the plans have not received a green light from the US yet.
    — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Israeli estimates indicate that 48 captives remain in the Strip.
    — Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • That attack wounded at least 14 Israeli soldiers, six of them severely, the IDF said.
    — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Yemen's Houthi prime minister and other ministers were reportedly killed in an Israeli airstrike on Sanaa.
    — Reuters, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Until then the fund had divested from just two Israeli companies since the start of the war in October 2023.
    — Tom Little, Reuters, 29 Aug. 2025

Israeli

2 of 2 noun
  • Martha, this is going to be a very difficult task for the Israeli Defense Forces.
    — ABC News, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Lischinsky, an Israeli, and Milgrim, an American, both worked at the embassy.
    — David Spunt , Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Two women, Emirati and Israeli, posed for a photograph holding hands atop a skyscraper in Dubai.
    — Vivian Nereim, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
  • There was not a lot of dialogue with the Israeli Defense Forces contacts before this embed happened.
    — Michael Tobin, Fox News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Many of the crowdfunding sites use the popular payment app Bit, owned by Israeli Bank Hapoalim.
    — Julia Frankel, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The Israeli Defense Force declined to provide an attributable comment.
    — WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The victims were Yaron Lischinsky, an Israeli, and Sarah Milgrim, an American.
    — Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Orly Weintraub Gilad, a 45-year-old Israeli, chose to have her maternal grandfather’s number tattooed on her arm.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Earlier in the film, Adra recounts how his mother devised a plan to circumvent the Israeli Defense Forces’ antagonism.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The series won 17 Israeli Academy Awards, including best drama series, script, actor (twice) and actress.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The report showed forces from the Israeli Engineering Corps operating tractors, trucks and engineering tools.
    — Richard Allen Greene, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
  • With more than 4,000 Palestinians killed since the fighting broke out, and Gaza under bombardment, Israeli Arabs too are struggling to bury their dead.
    — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
  • For more than a year, the Israeli Occupation Forces, supported by the United States, have imposed a complete siege on Gaza from air, land, and sea.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Police officers outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington on Sunday.
    — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • 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, 31 Aug. 2023
  • 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, 29 Oct. 2023
  • 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, 25 July 2023
  • Earlier in the week, protesters disrupted an event by banging on and shattering glass doors to the auditorium where Israeli Defense Forces soldiers were scheduled to speak, videos posted on social media show.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 29 Feb. 2024
  • 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, 12 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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, 8 Nov. 2023
  • An Israeli armored personnel carrier moves through the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, on August 25, 2025.
    — Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
  • 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, 1 Nov. 2023
  • On Friday, the Israeli Security Cabinet unanimously approved the operation to take control of Gaza City.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 10 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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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