Category: Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed Israel’s intention to occupy the full Gaza Strip Thursday, despite opposition from the Israeli military and wide swaths of Israelis who say the plan will sound a death knell for the hostages still held there. Netanyahu offered his first public confirmation of his intention in an interview Thursday on […]

Boris Gorbis can talk for hours about what turned him into a collector. At 74, he has amassed what is likely the world’s largest assemblage of Zionist souvenirs — mass-produced menorahs, napkin holders, seder plates, plaques, and other mid-century tchotchkes from Israel that once filled American Jewish homes but have since been discarded or forgotten. […]

Nearly 2,000 prominent Jews around the United States and U.K. — and counting — have signed a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urging him to end the war in Gaza. Coming amid a flurry of open statements to similar effect, the letter is notable because it has garnered signatures from influential Jewish voices with […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly planning to fully occupy the Gaza Strip, including by launching operations in areas where Israeli hostages are held. Sources within Netanyahu’s government spoke to Israeli media outlets on Sunday and Monday about the plan, which would mark a stark departure in Israel’s tactics in Gaza. The announcement fulfills […]

Holocaust survivors say the hostage videos published in recent days recall for them their own torture and deprivation under the Nazis eight decades ago. “Their bodies are painfully thin—nearly Muselmänner—their eyes terrified and vacant, their faces marked by despair and hopelessness. These images take me back to those dark days—to the hell, the hunger, the […]

The American Jewish Committee is giving $25,000 to the Archdiocese of New York to aid in repairs of Gaza’s Holy Family Church, which was damaged by an Israeli strike last month. The donation is notable because it marks a rare if not unprecedented donation by a mainstream U.S. Jewish group toward Gaza Palestinians while Israel […]

The Israeli novelist David Grossman has joined a growing number of Jews and Jewish organizations saying that Israel is carrying out a “genocide” in Gaza. Grossman is a longtime left-wing peace activist whose son was killed while serving in the Israeli army in Lebanon in 2006. He told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica in an […]

For the first time in months, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have released videos of Israeli hostages they have held since Oct. 7, 2023, pleading for their release. The videos of Rom Braslavski and Evyatar David show the young men in dire physical conditions and come amid a breakdown in negotiations toward their release. “Those […]