President Donald Trump suggested on Sunday that some Israeli hostages have died inside Gaza since the last ceasefire, alarming families of the 20 hostages thought to remain alive. Trump made the comment while speaking to reporters at the White House on Friday, where he took credit for the ceasefire earlier this year when 33 hostages, […]
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The head of the militant pro-Israel group Betar USA will be permitted to attend this fall’s World Zionist Congress as a delegate, months after the congress had barred him from the position over his “aggressive, hateful tone and vulgarity.” An appeals tribunal within the congress ruled Thursday in favor of Ronn Torossian, the combative public-relations […]
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An international hunger monitoring group says portions of Gaza now meet its standards for declaring a famine, crossing a threshold that it said had not previously been reached. The declaration on Friday by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification system adds to a contested field of claims about hunger in Gaza, with pro-Palestinian voices warning […]
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After a crisis that led to the resignation of its top leadership last month, Friends of the Israel Defense Forces was looking to rehabilitate its reputation. In his first address to supporters, the group’s new CEO, retired Israeli general Nadav Padan, pledged to turn the page and focus on the future. He also leaned on […]
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Israel has approved a long-delayed settlement project that would build 3,400 housing units for Jews in the West Bank, in a move that both its backers and its many critics say would undercut Palestinian ambitions to control the region. The E1 project would expand Jewish settlements on a stretch of land east of Jerusalem, effectively […]
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Dozens of Orthodox rabbis have issued “A Call for Moral Clarity, Responsibility, and a Jewish Orthodox Response in the Face of the Gaza Humanitarian Crisis,” in an addition to a recent cascade of open letters from Jewish voices responding to a hunger crisis in the Palestinian enclave nearly two years into the Israel-Hamas war there. […]
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FARMINGTON HILLS, Michigan — The bishop solemnly walked through the photos and illustrations documenting Nazi-led antisemitic sentiment, aided in several cases by Catholics, that doomed the Jews of Europe. At one point he proudly noted he had befriended the nephew of a prominent Dutch Catholic resistance figure. And when prompted to theorize why one Holocaust […]
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Jews around the world are marking a grim date on Tuesday: the first anniversary on the Jewish calendar of when six hostages were murdered by Hamas in captivity, shortly after the collapse of negotiations that would have freed at least some of them. The family of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, the American-Israeli who became an international symbol […]
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President Donald Trump said Monday morning that the remaining hostages in Gaza will only be returned when Hamas is “confronted and destroyed.” “We will only see the return of the remaining hostages when Hamas is confronted and destroyed!!! The sooner this takes place, the better the chances of success will be,” wrote Trump in a […]
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Hundreds of thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv on Sunday at the end of a day of demonstrations around the country to call for the release of 50 hostages held in Gaza. Demonstrations took place in at least 200 locations, and some municipalities and employers shut down completely in response to a call from […]
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