Category: Israel

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 […]

Some universities, municipalities and high-tech companies in Israel are shutting down on Sunday to demand an end to the war in Gaza. Other employers are staying open but allowing their workers to participate in a general strike issued by groups representing families of the victims of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack. But Israel’s largest labor […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is offering a lifeline to Iranians as their country faces an acute water crisis and energy shortage — as long as they overthrow their government first. “The thirst for water in Iran is only matched by the thirst for freedom,” said Netanyahu in a video address Tuesday to the people […]

Israel is fending off criticism after killing a well known Al Jazeera correspondent whom it accused of being a Hamas fighter in a strike on Gaza City on Sunday night. Anas al-Sharif, 28, was killed while sheltering in a tent near Al-Shifa hospital with four other Al Jazeera journalists. Two other people were reportedly also […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is rejecting an NBC News report that a recent conversation between him and President Donald Trump “devolved into shouting” on the issue of humanitarian aid in Gaza. NBC reported that four sources characterized a July 28 phone call between the two leaders that way. That was the day Trump told […]

Israel’s security cabinet has endorsed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to expand fighting in Gaza, despite warnings from military leaders and others that doing so would put soldiers and hostages at risk. The plan approved early Friday morning does not specify that Israel will “occupy” Gaza, as Netanyahu said shortly before entering the marathon meeting […]

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 […]