Category: Israel

TEL AVIV, Israel — The quavering sound of the shofar pealed through the small crowd gathered in Hostages Square on Sunday night for an evening of Selichot, the penitential prayers recited in the run-up to the High Holidays. The shofar blower, singer-songwriter Kaley Halperin, reflected on what was going through her mind as she sounded […]

As tensions between Israel and Hezbollah have shot up to new highs, Israeli soldiers anticipating being deployed to the north are increasingly turning for help to the civilian donation efforts that have kept them stocked in Gaza. Adi Vaxman, who heads the U.S.-based donation effort called Operation Israel, fields requests from individual soldiers and says […]

Plus, the NFL season begins with no openly Jewish players. Hello! The calendar flips to September this weekend, which means it’s officially football season. But before the NFL kicks off on Thursday, there’s big football — as in soccer — news expected for Israel. The NFL season begins without an openly Jewish player Greg Joseph kicks […]

“On the day we mark the destruction of the temple, I’m really really worried that soon we’ll mark the destruction of the State of Israel,” one Israeli posted online. If Iran begins its long-awaited attack on Israel sometime before Tuesday night, some Jews may say the timing of the strike had been preordained for almost […]

Iran and Hamas said Israel was responsible and vowed retaliation. This is a developing story. Iran and Hamas announced early Wednesday that Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’ political arm, had been assassinated in Tehran, the most senior leader of the terror group to be killed since Oct. 7. Hamas blamed Israel for what it […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israel’s military intelligence chief resigned, saying he assumed responsibility for the intelligence failures that failed to prevent the Oct. 7 Hamas invasion that launched the current war. The resignation letter Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva sent Monday to the Israeli military chief of staff, Lt. Herzi Halevi, is unusual in that he assumed […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israeli officials are decrying reports that the United States plans to sanction an Israeli military unit for human rights abuses, a step the State Department has never before taken.  The report of sanctions comes amid escalating violence in the West Bank. Last week, an Israeli teenager was murdered in what authorities said […]

(New York Jewish Week) — To celebrate the end of his two years of service as a medic in the Israel Defense Forces’ paratrooper division, Tomer Meir joined 13 of his friends at the Nova Musica Festival on the weekend of October 6 in Re’im in southern Israel.  It was his first ever music festival. […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The State Department on Friday announced sanctions against Ben Zion “Bentzi” Gopstein, a prominent far-right Israeli activist, for his “destabilizing” activities in the West Bank, along with two Israeli organizations that raised funds for sanctioned settlers. The penalties were the third round of sanctions the State Department has levied against far-right Israelis […]