A new website quietly launched by the Israeli military lets soldiers anonymously check whether their safety equipment complies with official standards, in a tacit admission both that donated gear is widespread, and that army-issued gear may be unsafe. It’s the latest development in a debate that has gone on since the start of the war […]
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump named Adam Boehler, who helped broker the Abraham Accords normalization agreements between Israel and four Arab states, as his top hostage negotiator. The announcement comes two days after Trump threatened “all hell to pay” in the Middle East unless the Israeli hostages held in Gaza are released by the time Trump […]
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Around the time he was preparing to release his new book earlier this year, David Friedman, the former U.S. ambassador to Israel under Donald Trump, was approached by an advocacy group that focuses on fostering support for Israel among Christians. The group, known as Israel365, asked Friedman to support a slate of candidates in next […]
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In a different world, Keith Siegel would have joined his siblings at their mother’s bedside as she breathed her last breath on Sunday. Instead, Gladys Siegel, the family’s matriarch and a pillar of her local Jewish community, slipped away at 97 — unaware that her youngest son had been a hostage of Hamas for 421 […]
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For months, the family of Omer Neutra has called, in speech after speech, for a deal that would free him and the other Israeli hostages held in Gaza. Now, in their first statement following the announcement that Neutra died in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack, his parents and brother are repeating that call. They said […]
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The United Nations’ main agency serving Palestinians said it was pausing its aid shipments through a border crossing into southern Gaza in the wake of repeated attacks on the aid trucks by armed gangs. The announcement came one day after another aid agency, World Central Kitchen, said three of its workers were killed in an […]
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President-elect Donald Trump promised “all hell to pay in the Middle East” if the Israeli hostages Hamas still holds are not released by Jan. 20, when he is inaugurated. Trump made the threat, which he did not elaborate upon, on social media on Monday, hours after Israel announced that an American-Israeli held hostage in Gaza […]
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PORAT, Israel — Eyal Golan sat at a table flanked by two citrus trees in his parents’ garden in the pastoral community of Porat – a makeshift office that has become, reluctantly, his command center. Here, he has conducted dozens of media interviews about his sister Shirel, who died by suicide at the family home […]
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WASHINGTON — After announcing a ceasefire deal on the Israel-Lebanon border, President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had sharply different takes on what might happen next in the Gaza Strip. The divide between the two men is the same one that’s existed for months: Biden wants to use the momentum from the […]
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France has joined the nations who are signatories to the agreement that established the International Criminal Court pledging not to honor its warrants to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant. The statement Wednesday by the French foreign ministry adds France to Argentina and Hungary as parties to the […]
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