Author: David Leibermann

BEIT JALA, West Bank — Sitting in a secluded West Bank forest, listening to the account of an elderly Palestinian displaced from his home during Israel’s War of Independence, Kate Kaufman couldn’t help but think of her great-uncle. Harold Livingstone was among a group of Jewish American pilots who helped create the Israeli Air Force […]

President Donald Trump said people are “starving” in Gaza and the United States will help “get that taken care of” as he wrapped up his trip to the Middle East. Later, when asked whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can free the remaining hostages held captive by Hamas, Trump said, “I don’t know. We’re going […]

When he announced the impending release of Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander earlier this week, President Donald Trump posted, “Hopefully this is the first of those final steps necessary to end this brutal conflict. I look very much forward to that day of celebration!” He’s not alone. More than 19 months after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, […]

An Israeli pregnant woman who was on the way to deliver her baby was killed in a shooting attack in the West Bank on Wednesday night. The Israeli military said that a terrorist fired on cars next to the settlement of Bruchin in the northern West Bank. The pregnant woman, named in Israeli media as […]

An Israeli strike attempted to kill Mohammed Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza and brother of slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, though his fate remains unclear. In the strike on Tuesday, Israel bombed the European Hospital in Khan Younis, based on intelligence that Sinwar was hiding in a tunnel underneath the hospital. The strike […]

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 […]