Israeli forces recovered the bodies of three slain hostages from the Gaza Strip in a military operation, the IDF announced Sunday morning. The bodies of Ofra Keidar, Jonathan Samerano and Staff Sgt. Shay Levinson were brought to Israel for identification at National Center of Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv before their families were notified. Keidar, […]
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Israelis have been barred from gathering and most businesses have been ordered closed following the U.S. attack on Iranian nuclear sites. Schools were already closed and the civilian alert level was already high following Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear program that began June 13, triggering waves of missile attacks from Iran that have sent Israelis […]
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When Haviva Ner-David entered the Muslim-majority city of Tamra, about 15 miles from her kibbutz in the Lower Galilee, she was surprised to find it bustling. Despite the searing heat, ongoing Iranian missile strikes and the lack of bomb shelters, thousands had come to mourn four women from the Khatib family killed in a ballistic […]
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After days of hinting that the United States could join Israel in its fight against Iran, then backing away, President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would make a decision about the conflict “within the next two weeks.” Trump, who considers himself a master negotiator, invited Iran’s beleaguered leadership to resume talks over the country’s […]
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JAFFA, Israel — It was after 2 a.m. by the time I finally fell asleep, after yet another siren sent us scrambling to the safe room in our Jaffa apartment, which has transitioned — at least for this iteration of war — into a kind of Japanese-style tatami bed, sprawling mattresses wall-to-wall. Three hours later, […]
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It was early Tuesday morning when young adults on Birthright Israel boarded a fleet of buses, But their destination was not for a desert hike or a history tour, but a planned escape — on a cruise ship headed to Cyprus. The beginning of Israel’s war on Iran early Friday brought all air travel to a […]
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The Maccabiah Games scheduled for Tel Aviv next month will be postponed to 2026 amid widespread disruption wrought by the Israel-Iran war. The games, seen as akin to a Jewish Olympics, had been set to open July 8, with preliminary activities beginning earlier in July. It would have brought 8,000 athletes and their families and […]
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Why did Israel attack Iran now? Is Israel trying to force regime change, or just end Iran’s nuclear program? And how is Israel able to assassinate Iranian officials with pinpoint accuracy while struggling to defeat a more ragtag foe closer to home? We posed these questions and more to Yaakov Katz, the former editor of […]
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TEL AVIV — The booms from the night’s Iranian missile strike could be felt across the region, including in my home in Jaffa. In that moment, it felt — to this former Londoner’s ears — like a scene from the Blitz, when the Nazis pounded England with nightly bombs. Then, Brits poured into Tube stations […]
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The Israeli Ministry of Defense condemned a decision by French authorities to erect a black wall around some Israeli defense industry stands at the Paris Air Show Monday. Pro-Israel advocates graffitied the black wall with messages praising the technology as protecting Israelis from Iranian missiles — before the messages were themselves obscured. The Paris Air Show, […]
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