Category: Israel

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Israeli soldiers accidentally killed three hostages during combat in Gaza, an Israel Defense Forces spokesman said. The soldiers mistakenly identified the hostages as a threat during fighting on Friday in Shejaiya, a neighborhood that is a Hamas stronghold in the Gaza City area, said Daniel Hagari, the IDF spokesman. After combat in […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Police in three European countries arrested seven men they said were planning terror attacks against Jews and Jewish sites on Thursday. Some of the men arrested were longtime Hamas members who began building a weapons cache in Berlin after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, according to German officials. Three of the […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israeli soldiers will be disciplimed after broadcasting Jewish prayers from a West Bank mosque during a military operation there, which the Israel Defense Forces said ran counter to the army’s rules and values. Multiple videos began circulating on Thursday showing the incident, which took place as the IDF conducted a three-day operation […]

JERUSALEM ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — As rain pounded the gravestones, thousands of people crowded into Israel’s military cemetery on Mt. Herzl to pay their final respects to Lt. Col. Tomer Grinberg. It was one of many military funerals that day. Grinberg, 35, was the commander of the Golani infantry brigade’s elite 13th battalion, which lost nine […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Rutgers University suspended its campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine Monday, joining a growing number of American universities that have restricted the pro-Palestinian group’s operations as campus activism has spiked surrounding the Israel-Hamas war. The chapter has two business days to appeal the “interim” suspension. The university did not say […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — President Joe Biden had a menorah custom-made from a White House beam, but it was another menorah from thousands of miles away that elicited the most powerful reaction at the annual White House Hanukkah party Monday night. Partygoers making their way up to the mansion’s residence, where the celebration took place, […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Over the weekend, one Jewish Democratic congressman joined with Elise Stefanik, the number-three Republican in the House of Representatives, to demand accountability for antisemitism. Another took to cable TV to say she had no credibility on the issue. The gap between the two Jewish Democrats — Florida’s Jared Moskowitz and Maryland’s […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A top U.S. official denied reports that the Biden administration has set a deadline for Israel to end its war with Hamas. But U.S. officials are becoming more open and outspoken about differences between the two allies over the war’s conduct. “We’re not in the business of being that prescriptive with […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Hundreds of staffers for 140 Jewish organizations, most of them progressive, signed a letter to President Joe Biden and Congress urging them to press Israel to agree to a ceasefire in its war with Hamas, citing their work “building thriving Jewish communities.” The letter, which does not necessarily reflect the views […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – The son of an Israeli government minister and former military chief of staff was killed in combat in Gaza on Thursday, as Israel continued its war against Hamas, killing some of the terror group’s senior officials amid mounting civilian and troop casualties. Gal Meir Eisenkot, 25, the son of former Israel Defense […]