Category: Israel

Over 1,000 Diaspora Jews are petitioning Israeli President Isaac Herzog to intervene against settler violence in the West Bank, saying that the settlers are threatening Israeli security. “Mr. President, the terror, death and destruction inflicted by Jewish-Israeli extremists against innocent Palestinians across the West Bank is an abomination,” says an open letter published Thursday. “It […]

KIRYAT SHMONA, Israel — When sirens once again sounded in this northern Israel town on a recent  Thursday, Ala Ghassan, a paramedic trainee with Magen David Adom, gazed up at the sky with concern. Pausing for only a few seconds to check for incoming missiles or outgoing interceptors, Ghassan, wearing an MDA flak jacket and […]

Jewish National Fund-USA has raised $10 million in the past three weeks as philanthropists work to meet Israel’s urgent and long-term needs, including bomb shelters, fire trucks, resilience centers and more. The mayor of the southern Israeli city of Arad is crediting Jewish National Fund-USA with helping protect lives following a recent Iranian missile attack, […]

Len Saxe, a researcher at Brandeis University, has been studying the impact of Birthright trips to Israel since the initiative launched in 1999. Last year, he noticed something unusual in the data. At a rate far outpacing anything he’d ever detected before, people who signed up for Birthright in summer 2025 but did not participate […]

METULA, Israel — Daniel Dorfman had only recently reopened his pizza restaurant in this kibbutz just hundreds of meters from Israel’s border with Lebanon when war broke out again. His Ayuni Pizza Bar had been closed since October 2023, when Hezbollah began waging war on Israel, turning the border region into a dangerous ghost zone. […]

Five more people were killed overnight by Iranian missiles aimed at Israel: a man from Thailand in the country’s center, and four Palestinian women who had been preparing to break the Ramadan fast in their West Bank village. One was six months pregnant. The deaths come as Iran has increasingly turned to cluster munitions, which […]

A couple in their 70s were killed overnight Tuesday by an Iranian missile, apparently as they tried to reach a bomb shelter, amid an especially intense barrage of missiles aimed at the Tel Aviv area. Yaron and Ilana Moshe were killed near their home in Ramat Gan, an upscale suburb of Tel Aviv; a walker […]

The Israeli military announced on Tuesday that it had killed Ali Larijani, a top Iranian security official who was believed to be leading the country, in an overnight strike. While Iran has not yet confirmed or denied the death of Larijani, the announcement suggests a significant blow to the Iranian regime’s  leadership structure of Iran […]