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Israel’s chief rabbis to announce national fast day for hostages
Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi David Yosef announced on Tuesday that a national day of fasting in prayer for the hostages in the Gaza Strip would be announced "in the coming days.”
The announcement came in response to...
Rubio censures five nations imposing sanctions on Ben-Gvir, Smotrich
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio criticized five countries on Tuesday that placed sanctions on two Israeli cabinet members.
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom announced that they would impose sanctions on Bezalel Smotrich,...
IDF completes expansion of buffer zone with Gaza
Soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces 188th "Barak" Armored Brigade recently expanded the buffer zone between the Gaza Strip and the Jewish state's western Negev communities, the IDF stated on Tuesday.
The troops dismantled over 1,200 terrorist...
Florida post office renamed for Jewish lawyer who prosecuted Nazis
Naming a post office in Delray Beach, Fla., after Benjamin Berell Ferencz, a Jewish lawyer who prosecuted Nazis during the Nuremberg trials, is an effort to “not only remember the man” but also to “reaffirm...
Five countries sanction Ben-Gvir, Smotrich for ‘inciting violence’
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway and the U.K. are imposing sanctions on Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir for allegedly "inciting violence" against Palestinians in Judea and Samaria.
"Itamar...
Argentine president vows support for Israel at Western Wall
Argentinian President Javier Milei started his official state visit to Israel on Monday with an emotional pledge at Jerusalem’s Western Wall that he will “always stand” with the Jewish state, which he called "the...
Thunberg deported from Israel, eight activists refuse
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was deported from Israel on Tuesday morning after she and 11 other activists were stopped at sea by Israeli forces on Monday while attempting to break the Israeli blockade on...
Getting Gazans wrong: Understanding support for Hamas and the Oct. 7 attacks
Leila Fadel on NPR’s Morning Edition on June 5 interviewed Graeme Groom, a British surgeon who worked recently at Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip. Groom’s comments were entirely one-sided and naive. “The current campaign is...
Israel’s brilliant handling of the ‘flotilla’ affair
It was supposed to be a grand act of defiance—another headline-grabbing spectacle in the ongoing campaign to vilify the Jewish state. Instead, it became a floating punchline.
The so-called “freedom flotilla” set sail earlier this...
‘More Than Ever’: 2025 Maccabiah launches at festive event
Despite the ongoing war, the Maccabiah Games are scheduled to go ahead as planned in July. The third-largest sporting event in the world—and the largest in Israel—the so-called Jewish Olympics are held every four years and...