Author: David Leibermann

This is a developing story. Hamas has released Edan Alexander, an American-Israeli citizen, back to Israel under a deal reached with the United States. The release, conducted Monday evening in Gaza, may inaugurate a new phase in the hostage crisis that has consumed Israel since Hamas attacked on Oct. 7, 2023, taking 251 captives and […]

President Donald Trump and Hamas have announced that Edan Alexander, the only U.S. citizen among the living hostages remaining in Gaza, will go free after the Trump administration negotiated his release. “I am grateful to all those involved in making this monumental news happen,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social late Sunday. “This […]

The U.S. ambassador to Israel denied that a rift was widening between President Donald Trump and Israel or its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, following concerns that the president was sidelining the country in his Middle East policy. “He spent more time with the prime minister of Israel than he has any other world leader, so […]

On Friday, a popular Hebrew X account called “News From a Year Ago” tweeted a short video of Donald Trump, then running for U.S. president, from May 2024. “If any Jewish person voted for Joe Biden, they should be ashamed of themselves,” Trump said in the video. “He’s totally abandoned Israel and nobody can believe […]

The Israeli electronic surveillance company NSO Group was ordered to pay $167 million in damages to WhatsApp and its parent company Meta, bringing a close to six years of litigation. WhatsApp filed suit against NSO in 2019 in U.S. federal court, alleging it hacked 1,400 WhatsApp users, including journalists and government officials, using its Pegasus […]

An Israeli released from Hamas captivity earlier this year is objecting to the Pulitzer Prize awarded this week to Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha, charging that he is “the modern-day equivalent of a Holocaust denier” because of his derisive comments about her and other hostages. Emily Damari issued an open letter to the members of […]

The president of the global private equity firm Blackstone and his wife are donating $125 million to Tel Aviv University’s health science and medical school, in the largest gift in the school’s history. The gift by Jonathan and Mindy Gray is meant to address a pressing doctor shortage in Israel. It also answers a question […]

President Donald Trump said that the number of living hostages in Gaza has recently fallen from 24 to 21, meaning that three more hostages have been killed since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas ended in March. Trump did not identify which hostages have been killed but appeared to say that three hostages had died […]

Israel and the United States often emphasize their close alliance, and for nearly two months, both countries were simultaneously attacking Yemen’s Houthi terror group, which has been bombing Israel as well as U.S. ships. But that alignment in Yemen ended abruptly on Tuesday, shortly after Israeli jets bombed a Houthi airport in Yemen’s capital in […]

When President Donald Trump removed Mike Waltz from his position as national security adviser last week, the most logical explanation was that Trump was penalizing Waltz for adding a journalist to an unsecured government group chat about military operations. But a report this weekend said Trump’s frustration with Waltz had begun far earlier — over […]