Category: Israel

An Israeli man was killed in a stabbing spree in Haifa in what Israeli authorities are treating as a terror attack. The attack on Monday happened one day after the Israel-Hamas ceasefire formally expired and tensions threatened to escalate in the region. Israel announced over the weekend that it would stop all entry of aid […]

TEL AVIV — For his funeral, Tsachi Idan’s family chose a place that was sacred to him: Bloomfield Stadium, home to the Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer team. A VIP season-ticket holder, Idan often attended games with his daughters before Oct. 7, 2023, when he was abducted and his older daughter Maayan murdered during Hamas’ attack […]

As Hamas terrorists streamed into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, overrunning communities, killing 1,200 people and taking hundreds captive — many Israelis had one overarching question: Where is the army — and how did it let this happen? Now, nearly 17 months later, the Israel Defense Forces is providing a detailed response to that and […]

A 17-year-old girl was critically injured, along with 12 others who were wounded, when a Palestinian man rammed his car into an Israeli bus stop. Police are treating the ramming as a terror attack. The incident Thursday night, the beginning of the weekend in Israel, occurred at a junction roughly midway between Tel Aviv and […]

Hamas has returned bodies thought to be of of four Israeli hostages who were killed in captivity in Gaza — the final group of hostages to be released under the first phase of a ceasefire that began last month. The four hostages, all men 50 or older, were abducted in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack. […]

Is Donald Trump backing away from his vision to transform Gaza into a beachside resort? Not according to a video the president posted late Tuesday to his Truth Social account that imagines the Palestinian enclave as “Trump Gaza.” The AI-generated video opens with an image of destruction, dated 2025, then asks the question “What’s next?” […]

Israel was awash in orange on Wednesday as the Bibas family held a private funeral for Shiri, Ariel and Kfir, the mother and young sons murdered in captivity in Gaza. Israelis wearing orange lined a nearly 40-mile route that a funeral procession took on the way to the cemetery in southern Israel, near Nir Oz, […]

Israel and the United States were among a slim minority of countries that voted against a United Nations resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Also voting “no” were Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Hungary and around a dozen other countries. The resolution passed by a wide margin on Monday, the third anniversary of the war, but […]

Remains released by Hamas on Friday have been identified as belonging to Shiri Bibas, Israeli officials announced early Saturday. The identification came two days after Hamas released the bodies of Bibas’ young sons, Kfir and Ariel, who were killed after being abducted to Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. Hamas released a third body that it […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country’s military would crack down on terrorism in the West Bank after three empty buses exploded one after another in suburbs of Tel Aviv on Thursday night. The explosions, which further unsettled Israelis at a time when the country was grieving the return of the bodies of three […]