Keith Siegel, an American taken hostage on Oct. 7, 2023, will reportedly be released next week as part of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal. The report on NBC News, citing Israeli sources, is a sign that Siegel is alive. It came hours after four Israeli women soldiers went free in the agreement’s second hostage release on […]
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Before she was released from Gaza last week, Emily Damari asked her captors for a favor: to let her neighbor Keith Siegel go free instead. That’s according to a report in Israeli media on Friday, five days after Damari was released and on the eve of a second expected release of Israeli hostages from Gaza. […]
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JERUSALEM — On the final night of shiva for Yuval Shoham, an Israeli soldier killed in Gaza last month, the atmosphere felt strangely lively. Groups of people gathered in clusters chatting animatedly around the family — Yuval’s parents and four brothers — under a large tent set up around the corner from their congregation in […]
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Hamas has published the names of the four hostages it will release on Saturday, the second group of captives to go free in the initial phase of the ceasefire that began this week. The four hostages expected to be released on Saturday are Daniela Gilboa, Liri Albag, Naama Levy and Karina Ariev. All are Israeli […]
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Eight Wikipedia editors accused of disruptive behavior have been barred from making changes to articles on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, following a a ruling issued Thursday by the crowd-sourced encyclopedia’s highest oversight body. Of the editors banned from the topic area by the Arbitration Committee, often referred to as Wikipedia’s “supreme court,” six are from the […]
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Jeremy Ben-Ami did not want Donald Trump to win the election. J Street, the liberal Israel lobby Ben-Ami leads, accused Trump of antisemitism and undermining democracy. It raised millions for Kamala Harris. It said a Trump White House “endangers advancing a resolution between Israelis and Palestinians,” adding, “he is not a friend of Jewish-Americans supporting […]
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For months the international film community has rallied behind a documentary about the Israeli military’s destruction of a Palestinian village in the West Bank that has failed to land a U.S. distributor despite widespread acclaim. Now, “No Other Land” has another feather in its cap. On Thursday the movie, co-directed by an Israeli-Palestinian filmmaking collective, […]
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A survivor of the Nova music festival massacre will represent Israel in the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest. Yuval Raphael secured the position on Wednesday when she won “Rising Star,” the Israeli TV show that produces each year’s Eurovision entrant through a combination of professional judges and public voting. Abraham beat out three other finalists, including […]
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In one of his first actions as president, Donald Trump canceled sanctions targeting dozens of far-right Israeli individuals and settler organizations accused by the Biden administration of violent extremism against Palestinians. The rescinding of the sanctions appeared on a long list of executive orders signed by Trump immediately after his inauguration on Monday, many of […]
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The chief of Israel’s military announced his resignation, taking responsibility for the failures that led to the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023. The Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, is the latest senior Israeli leader to announce his resignation in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack, which killed approximately 1,200 people, […]
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