Category: Israel

Israel is embarking on the largest expansion of West Bank settlements in decades, its finance minister announced Thursday, a step meant to reinforce Israeli control of the territory. Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right minister who holds authority over civilian affairs in Israel’s settlements, announced the establishment of 22 settlements in the West Bank. Some are existing […]

As the international spokesperson for the Israeli military, Nadav Shoshani regularly posts on social media about Israeli soldiers killed in action and civilians lost to terror attacks. But his post about the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, was different. This time, he knew one of the victims. “I […]

Two weeks ago, an Israeli pregnant woman who was en route to deliver her baby was killed in a shooting attack in the West Bank. On Thursday morning, doctors communicated that that baby had died of his wounds. In the terror attack, near the Israeli settlement of Bruchin in the northern West Bank, a shooter […]

TEL AVIV — Tzemach David Schloss has spent 290 days in Israel’s army reserves over the last 19 months — close to half of the time that has passed since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. He says the hardest part isn’t just the danger of combat, but of what he experienced when he first […]

WASHINGTON – A hawkish Israeli leader, itching for a pretext to expand the war against Palestinian groups, seizes on the shooting of an Israeli diplomat in a foreign capital. That was how Israel’s first Lebanon war came to be, in 1982. Israel was chafing at the restraints of a Reagan administration-brokered ceasefire with the Palestine […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed Israeli missions around the world to ramp up security following the killing of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. The man authorities say is responsible for the shooting shouted “Free Palestine” afterwards, deploying a slogan widely used by critics of Israel and its war in Gaza. “We […]

Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel is taking complete control of Gaza and that he would not end the war there without the implementation of what he called the “Trump plan” to encourage voluntary migration from the territory.  In his first press conference in months, the Israeli prime minister also said for the second time this week […]

The moment that led to me being threatened with having my daughter booted out of her temple preschool for a social media status began the way every weekday began, with me dropping my daughter off late. I have a pet peeve — one many Americans don’t have to think about. I like correct maps in […]

Israeli left-wing leader Yair Golan is standing by his words after facing a wave of criticism for suggesting that Israel “kills babies as a hobby.” Golan is the most prominent voice in a growing chorus of Israelis who supported the war against Hamas following its Oct. 7, 2023, attack, but are now calling for the […]