Category: Israel

The Israeli electronic surveillance company NSO Group was ordered to pay $167 million in damages to WhatsApp and its parent company Meta, bringing a close to six years of litigation. WhatsApp filed suit against NSO in 2019 in U.S. federal court, alleging it hacked 1,400 WhatsApp users, including journalists and government officials, using its Pegasus […]

An Israeli released from Hamas captivity earlier this year is objecting to the Pulitzer Prize awarded this week to Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha, charging that he is “the modern-day equivalent of a Holocaust denier” because of his derisive comments about her and other hostages. Emily Damari issued an open letter to the members of […]

The president of the global private equity firm Blackstone and his wife are donating $125 million to Tel Aviv University’s health science and medical school, in the largest gift in the school’s history. The gift by Jonathan and Mindy Gray is meant to address a pressing doctor shortage in Israel. It also answers a question […]

President Donald Trump said that the number of living hostages in Gaza has recently fallen from 24 to 21, meaning that three more hostages have been killed since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas ended in March. Trump did not identify which hostages have been killed but appeared to say that three hostages had died […]

Israel and the United States often emphasize their close alliance, and for nearly two months, both countries were simultaneously attacking Yemen’s Houthi terror group, which has been bombing Israel as well as U.S. ships. But that alignment in Yemen ended abruptly on Tuesday, shortly after Israeli jets bombed a Houthi airport in Yemen’s capital in […]

When President Donald Trump removed Mike Waltz from his position as national security adviser last week, the most logical explanation was that Trump was penalizing Waltz for adding a journalist to an unsecured government group chat about military operations. But a report this weekend said Trump’s frustration with Waltz had begun far earlier — over […]

Israel’s government approved a plan on Sunday to conquer and occupy the Gaza Strip, a major expansion of its military campaign there and a sign that the war is far from ending. The plan passed unanimously in Israel’s cabinet despite warnings by the country’s military chief that it will endanger the lives of the hostages […]

Several airlines have again suspended flights into and out of Israel, following a missile strike that hit the grounds of Ben-Gurion Airport on Sunday. Israeli defenses tried but failed to intercept the missile fired by the Houthis in Yemen before it struck the airport, where it lightly injured several people and caused flights to be […]

Israel announced that it had “attacked near the Presidential Palace in Damascus” in order to warn the new Syrian government against harming the country’s Druze population. The Syrian government condemned the strike, which is Israel’s latest military action in Syria. After the fall of dictator Bashar Assad last year, Israel occupied a strip of territory […]

Last week, at a university known for its diverse population, more than a dozen students sat on the floor of a campus building for 10 minutes holding photos of Palestinian children killed in the war in Gaza.  Five days later, their group was suspended through the end of the semester for staging an unauthorized protest.  […]