A 24-year-old Irish-American man with a military record was indicted on terrorism charges for traveling to Lebanon and Syria in an attempt to join Hezbollah, the Justice Department announced Thursday. Jack Danaher Molloy was arrested in Chicago in early December for lying to FBI agents while being investigated for his effort to join the Lebanese […]
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WASHINGTON — After announcing a ceasefire deal on the Israel-Lebanon border, President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had sharply different takes on what might happen next in the Gaza Strip. The divide between the two men is the same one that’s existed for months: Biden wants to use the momentum from the […]
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Israel’s security cabinet has approved a U.S.-brokered ceasefire proposal with Hezbollah, which would end more than a year of conflict with the terror group on Israel’s border with Lebanon. President Biden said in an address to the nation after the agreement that Lebanon’s government had agreed to the agreement, and that the withdrawal of forces […]
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In the first casualties in Lebanon since Israel launched a ground incursion this week, eight Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes with Hezbollah fighters. The army said Wednesday that six soldiers were killed in one clash and that two were killed in another. Israeli sent ground troops into Lebanon on Monday night for the first […]
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WASHINGTON — Sirens blared across much of Israel late Tuesday after Iran fired a barrage of missiles toward the country. More than 100 ballistic missiles were incoming, Israeli officials said, as sirens blared across most of the country and Israelis raced for their bomb shelters. Explosions could be heard widely, including in Tel Aviv, as […]
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WASHINGTON — As Israel escalates its fight against Hezbollah, Jewish security organizations are on particularly heightened alert ahead of the High Holidays. On Friday, Israel assassinated Hezbollah’s longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, following a barrage of strikes that have eliminated much of the group’s leadership, the latest stage of an intensifying multi-front war launched last Oct. […]
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Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah showed no signs of abating in the hours after a group of countries led by the United States and France proposed a ceasefire. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement Thursday denied reports that he had agreed to the proposal, released before dawn in Israel. In fact, he said, […]
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Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly, President Joe Biden warned against “full-scale war” in Israel and Lebanon, sounding a warning as massive exchanges of fire escalated between Israel and Hezbollah. In his final speech as president to the international body, Biden squarely blamed the Hezbollah for the hostilities on Israel’s northern border, which began […]
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The National Council for Planning and Construction, led by Rabbi Natan Elnathan, has unanimously approved plans to fortify and expand the Levon and Harashim settlements in the Galilee. The council announced the revision of the housing unit quotas outlined in the district’s master plan. In the Levon settlement, the council has decided to increase the […]
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More than 70 business and startup owners and investors drove to the northern Israeli community of Kibbutz Mahanayim in the Upper Galilee region near the Lebanese border last week on a mission to show solidarity and support for the once-robust economy there, which today, after nearly five months of war, is slipping towards collapse. For […]
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