After a crisis that led to the resignation of its top leadership last month, Friends of the Israel Defense Forces was looking to rehabilitate its reputation. In his first address to supporters, the group’s new CEO, retired Israeli general Nadav Padan, pledged to turn the page and focus on the future. He also leaned on […]
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Israel has approved a long-delayed settlement project that would build 3,400 housing units for Jews in the West Bank, in a move that both its backers and its many critics say would undercut Palestinian ambitions to control the region. The E1 project would expand Jewish settlements on a stretch of land east of Jerusalem, effectively […]
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Dozens of Orthodox rabbis have issued “A Call for Moral Clarity, Responsibility, and a Jewish Orthodox Response in the Face of the Gaza Humanitarian Crisis,” in an addition to a recent cascade of open letters from Jewish voices responding to a hunger crisis in the Palestinian enclave nearly two years into the Israel-Hamas war there. […]
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FARMINGTON HILLS, Michigan — The bishop solemnly walked through the photos and illustrations documenting Nazi-led antisemitic sentiment, aided in several cases by Catholics, that doomed the Jews of Europe. At one point he proudly noted he had befriended the nephew of a prominent Dutch Catholic resistance figure. And when prompted to theorize why one Holocaust […]
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Jews around the world are marking a grim date on Tuesday: the first anniversary on the Jewish calendar of when six hostages were murdered by Hamas in captivity, shortly after the collapse of negotiations that would have freed at least some of them. The family of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, the American-Israeli who became an international symbol […]
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President Donald Trump said Monday morning that the remaining hostages in Gaza will only be returned when Hamas is “confronted and destroyed.” “We will only see the return of the remaining hostages when Hamas is confronted and destroyed!!! The sooner this takes place, the better the chances of success will be,” wrote Trump in a […]
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Hundreds of thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv on Sunday at the end of a day of demonstrations around the country to call for the release of 50 hostages held in Gaza. Demonstrations took place in at least 200 locations, and some municipalities and employers shut down completely in response to a call from […]
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Some universities, municipalities and high-tech companies in Israel are shutting down on Sunday to demand an end to the war in Gaza. Other employers are staying open but allowing their workers to participate in a general strike issued by groups representing families of the victims of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack. But Israel’s largest labor […]
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is offering a lifeline to Iranians as their country faces an acute water crisis and energy shortage — as long as they overthrow their government first. “The thirst for water in Iran is only matched by the thirst for freedom,” said Netanyahu in a video address Tuesday to the people […]
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Israel is fending off criticism after killing a well known Al Jazeera correspondent whom it accused of being a Hamas fighter in a strike on Gaza City on Sunday night. Anas al-Sharif, 28, was killed while sheltering in a tent near Al-Shifa hospital with four other Al Jazeera journalists. Two other people were reportedly also […]
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