Hersh Goldberg-Polin and Yuval Shoham were childhood friends, having grown up together in Jerusalem’s Baka neighborhood, where both their families were involved in the egalitarian prayer community Hakhel. When Hersh, a 23-year-old American-Israeli, was taken hostage from the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023, Yuval was among the soldiers tasked with finding him, shouting […]
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The Israeli government plans to offset wartime spending and an economic slowdown with tax hikes and deep cuts to public services. But the proposed budget for 2025 also includes a massive new allocation: toward pro-Israel advocacy efforts abroad. Under the new budget, Israel’s Foreign Ministry will receive $150 million, on top of what it gets […]
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The Israeli army substantially loosened its rules of engagement in the weeks immediately following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack, according to a new investigation by the New York Times. A seven-member reporting team, interviewing more than 100 people including senior military officials, documented that the Israel Defense Forces suspended or relaxed rules meant to limit […]
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Israel hit multiple targets in Yemen on Thursday, escalating what has newly become one of the most active fronts in Israel’s war with Iran and its surrogates. The strikes Thursday, which hit power stations and the airport, come as Israelis in the country’s densely populated center endure almost nightly rocket attacks from the Houthi militia […]
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Jack Lew, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, said that a humanitarian group’s report on famine conditions in northern Gaza was “outdated and inaccurate” because its population figures were incorrect. The group now says it is reviewing its assessment, and will release an update next month. Lew was responding to a Monday report by the Famine […]
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TEL AVIV — Ilana Decker, who moved from Israel to New York three years ago, says she doesn’t agree often with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Arguing, as he does, that the government should not make health mandates, she said, makes her “sound like an anti-vaxxer, which I’m not.” But there is one issue, she said, […]
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A group of Northern California residents has filed a class-action lawsuit against their congressional representatives, Democrats Mike Thompson and Jared Huffman, accusing them of causing harm to local communities and to Palestinians in Gaza by voting to send billions in U.S. military aid to Israel. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in San Francisco federal court, claims […]
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Israeli authorities are investigating after a mosque in the northern West Bank town of Marda was torched and graffitied with Hebrew slogans. No one was injured in the incident. Footage from the scene appeared to show burn marks and Hebrew graffiti featuring a Star of David and reading “revenge” and “burn the mosque, build the […]
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LARNACA, Cyprus — Galia Sopher and her two young daughters had spent the night of Oct. 6, 2023, camping in the fields near their home in Kibbutz Mefalsim on the Gaza border when, at 6:30 the next morning, air-raid sirens woke them and rockets began raining down from the sky. Sopher tried calling her husband, […]
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A ballistic missile fired from Yemen severely damaged a Tel Aviv-area school early Thursday morning, in some of the most significant damage yet in an ongoing barrage from Houthi rebels based there. No children were present at the school in the suburb of Ramat Gan, which officials said would be rebuilt, and would reopen in […]
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