Category: Israel

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Hamas delivered a long-awaited response to an Israeli proposal for a hostage deal on Tuesday, eliciting cautious optimism from some involved in negotiations even as Israeli officials dimmed hopes about how many hostages could ultimately return alive. Israel has not responded officially to the counterproposal, which reportedly lays out a 135-day path […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A bid to rush wartime emergency assistance to Israel failed in the U.S. House of Representatives, running into opposition from a trio of factions who opposed the bill for widely divergent reasons. The bill for $17.6 billion in emergency assistance needed a two-thirds majority under a special House procedure. It garnered […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, has traveled to Israel to fulfill his foreign policy pledges — and his own personal religious aspirations. Milei, an avowed philosemite who was elected in November, will travel with his rabbi-turned-ambassador and will meet with families of Argentinians held hostage in Gaza. Milei is the first Latin […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Relatives of Israeli hostages who have drawn international criticism for blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza are planning a multi-day march in support of ramped-up measures to debilitate Hamas. The march will go from the Gaza border to Jerusalem. It will start at Zikim, one of the crossings into the Gaza Strip, and […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Progressive mayors of two major American cities took opposite tacks Wednesday toward local resolutions endorsing a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, a sign of enduring divisions between Democrats as the war is about to enter its fifth month.  Jacob Frey, the Jewish mayor of Minneapolis, vetoed his city council’s resolution endorsing a […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A conflict that started on a tiny perimeter of land on Oct. 7 is, less than four months later, reverberating throughout the region, from Turkey in the north to Morocco in the west, Iran in the east and Yemen in the south. “This is an incredibly volatile time in the Middle East,” […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel would achieve a “total victory” in its war against Hamas as Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he is “hopeful” that the sides are nearing an extended truce. Blinken’s comments came while Hamas said it was considering Israel’s latest proposal for a temporary ceasefire, which would […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Palestinian activists within Israel and outside of it are arguing over whether to boycott a leading Israeli peace organization, and are accusing each other of playing into the Israeli government’s hands. The public debate concerns Standing Together, a joint Jewish-Arab Israeli activist group with more than 5,000 members. The group has drawn […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A growing number of countries has suspended funding to the main United Nations agency aiding Palestinians in the wake of allegations that a number of its staffers were involved in Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre in Israel. The U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, known as UNRWA, protested the cuts, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Eighty-four years after Dov Golebowicz fled Poland with his family days before Germany invaded, the Holocaust survivor found himself facing an invasion once again when Hamas terrorists stormed his kibbutz of Nirim on Oct. 7. For 12 hours, Golebowicz was trapped with his son, Gideon, in his safe room. His son fashioned […]