Author: David Leibermann

As tensions between Israel and Hezbollah have shot up to new highs, Israeli soldiers anticipating being deployed to the north are increasingly turning for help to the civilian donation efforts that have kept them stocked in Gaza. Adi Vaxman, who heads the U.S.-based donation effort called Operation Israel, fields requests from individual soldiers and says […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israel’s military intelligence chief resigned, saying he assumed responsibility for the intelligence failures that failed to prevent the Oct. 7 Hamas invasion that launched the current war. The resignation letter Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva sent Monday to the Israeli military chief of staff, Lt. Herzi Halevi, is unusual in that he assumed […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israeli officials are decrying reports that the United States plans to sanction an Israeli military unit for human rights abuses, a step the State Department has never before taken.  The report of sanctions comes amid escalating violence in the West Bank. Last week, an Israeli teenager was murdered in what authorities said […]

(New York Jewish Week) — To celebrate the end of his two years of service as a medic in the Israel Defense Forces’ paratrooper division, Tomer Meir joined 13 of his friends at the Nova Musica Festival on the weekend of October 6 in Re’im in southern Israel.  It was his first ever music festival. […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The State Department on Friday announced sanctions against Ben Zion “Bentzi” Gopstein, a prominent far-right Israeli activist, for his “destabilizing” activities in the West Bank, along with two Israeli organizations that raised funds for sanctioned settlers. The penalties were the third round of sanctions the State Department has levied against far-right Israelis […]

This story is part of “Israel’s Northern Front,” a series examining life during wartime at Israel’s northern border. KIRYAT SHMONA, Israel ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — One evening last November, Toby Abutbul was busy with his family’s shawarma restaurant on the main drag of the northern Galilee city of Kiryat Shmona when an anti-tank missile fired by […]

This is a developing story. ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Five days after fending off a sweeping direct attack by Iran, Israel has struck back by bombing Iranian territory, according to several reports that cite an unnamed U.S. government source. The exact site of the strike early Friday morning Iranian time is unknown but explosions were reported […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — When the question came, Columbia University’s president was ready. Her answer was “Yes.” Just minutes into a congressional hearing on campus antisemitism on Wednesday, Nemat Shafik had been asked, “Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Columbia’s code of conduct?” It was a knowing repeat of the now-infamous question that cost […]

This story is part of an occasional series examining life during wartime at Israel’s northern border. MAJDAL SHAMS, Israel ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — For each of the last four winters, Mount Hermon ski area CEO Refael Nave spent practically every day at the mountain whose peaks straddle the borders of Syria, Lebanon and Israel. As the […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – A Holocaust research center founded by Steven Spielberg has gotten embroiled in a drama over campus Israel speech that is dividing the University of Southern California, where it is housed. The USC Shoah Foundation is downplaying its role in the school’s academics after the university’s valedictorian, a pro-Palestinian student who earned a […]