Hezbollah crisis adds to threats facing Jews during High Holidays and ahead of Oct. 7, experts say

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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Netanyahu vows in UN speech to fight on in Lebanon and Gaza, as Israel strikes Hezbollah HQ in Beirut

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to keep fighting in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon until his war objectives were reached and warned that “there is no place in Iran that the long arm of Israel cannot reach.” Netanyahu’s speech Friday at the United Nations General Assembly opening came as Israel hit a key Hezbollah […]

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Biden warns against ‘full-scale war’ in Lebanon in speech to United Nations

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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Montana Tucker: This is the story behind the women of Magen David Adom

In Israel on International Women’s Day, after the October 7 massacre, female empowerment will be celebrated in a slightly different way. Watch below to get the story of the Israeli national rescue organization, the women of Magen David Adom (MDA). On International Women’s Day, meet the 20,000 female volunteers of @Mdais with @montanatucker. pic.twitter.com/eikOPCVsCC — […]

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The shekel is getting stronger, but for the wrong reasons – analysis

Amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, a peculiar financial trend has caught the attention of experts and market observers: the strengthening of the shekel against major currencies. Despite the tumultuous Iron Swords operation in Gaza, the representative shekel-dollar exchange rate unexpectedly fell by 0.47% on Friday to NIS 3.5990/$, reaching its lowest level […]

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