David Sassoon has been serving as an Israeli soldier in Gaza for nearly a year. On Wednesday, his tank unit took a moment to celebrate something that they believe will change their fight for the better: Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election. “Just so you know, in the artillery corps we have not […]
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“Kamala Harris supports endless wars in the Middle East,” reads a mailer sent to households in Michigan the day before Election Day, ostensibly imploring voters to support Green Party candidate Jill Stein instead. “I am reaching out to make sure that you know Kamala will always stand with Israel,” reads an apparent pro-Harris text sent […]
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Two Jews who publicly resigned from posts in the Biden administration over its handling of the Gaza war now say they will be voting for Vice President Kamala Harris. In a joint op-ed published Monday, on the eve of Election Day, Lily Greenberg Call, 26, and Harrison Mann, 35, expressed anger that the Harris campaign […]
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, saying he no longer trusted him, a drastic step while Israel is fighting on multiple fronts, faces domestic political turmoil and is contending with regional and global uncertainty. The decision — the second time in as many years that Netanyahu has announced Gallant’s termination […]
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The publisher of Haaretz, Israel’s most influential left-leaning publication, sent shockwaves through his newspaper and beyond after saying Israel fought “Palestinian freedom fighters” and calling for sanctions against Israel. In Amos Schocken’s remarks last week, he also accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of apartheid and a “second Nakba” and compared Israel to apartheid-era […]
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American Airlines announced over the weekend it would not be resuming flights to Israel until September 2025, extending an existing pause by an additional six months and potentially sparking a cascade of other airline delays in resuming regular Israel service. The move makes American Airlines the first United States-based carrier to push back flights to […]
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During campaign stops ahead of Election Day, both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris promised Michigan voters that they would work to end Israel’s conflicts — with Trump pledging “peace in the Middle East” and Harris promising to “do everything in my power to end the war in Gaza.” Some of Harris’ most outspoken pro-Palestinian critics, […]
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Last week the Brooklyn rabbi Andrue Kahn received a request from a group of Jewish students at New York University: Would he come to lead prayers at their sukkah? It wasn’t an unusual request for a rabbi during the holiday of Sukkot, but the circumstances behind it were decidedly more so. The student group was […]
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WASHINGTON — When Benjamin Netanyahu was contemplating how and when to retaliate for a missile barrage from Iran, his government was, unsurprisingly, in constant consultation with the leadership of its closest ally — the Biden administration. At the same time, the Israeli prime minister was talking to, and getting a different message from, another American […]
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Hezbollah rocket attacks killed seven people in northern Israel on Thursday, in one of the deadliest days for the country since the start of its multi-front war last year. The strikes took place as Israeli, Lebanese and U.S. negotiators worked toward a peace agreement in Lebanon. The IDF reported that Hezbollah fired dozens of projectiles […]
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