September 02, 2024
Israel's Shin Bet is examining connection between Netanyahu's top aides and Qatar
February 15, 2025
Amid revelations about Netanyahu's advisers' business ties with Qatar – including a campaign to improve its image ahead of the World Cup – and reports on his spokesman connections to Doha, Shin Bet announced a review of classified information security in the prime minister's office
'Our prayers have been answered': After 498 days in Gaza, Israeli hostages reunite with families
February 15, 2025
Sagui Dekel Chen's father addressed President Trump: 'You have given us the best gift anyone possibly could' ■ Iair Horn's mother said he met his brother, current hostage Eitan, in Gaza: 'He does not speak much, but eventually he will start talking' ■ 'We are...
Freed hostage Ohad Ben Ami urges Israelis to protest, saying it strengthens those still in Hamas captivity
February 15, 2025
Thousands of protesters demand Netanyahu's government to fully implement the hostage deal. Hostages' families accused Netanyahu of sabotaging the deal's Stage 2 and urged President Trump not to let the Israeli PM 'exploit' him
Dozens of Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in the West Bank; six wounded, no arrests
February 15, 2025
The attack took place in an area known as 'The Accords Reserve,' designated under Area B where Israeli settlement is prohibited by the Oslo Accords. As of Friday evening, four Palestinians remain hospitalized, including a pregnant woman
The hostage deal survived another week, but its future relies on Trump
February 15, 2025
As Netanyahu bows to pressure from extremists to resume the war, Trump must decide whether he risks becoming the president who oversaw the collapse of existing peace agreements between Israel, Egypt and Jordan
Israeli army operations drive 30,000 Palestinians from West Bank refugee camps
February 15, 2025
While the IDF says that the army allows residents who wish to leave to do so safely, eyewitness accounts indicate that the Israeli army is intentionally causing a mass exodus and prolonged displacement – unlike in past operations
Israel releases 369 Palestinian prisoners as part of Hamas hostage deal; most detained during Gaza war
February 15, 2025
Thirty-six of the prisoners released on Saturday were serving life sentences, and of them, 24 will be deported to a third country. Among the released prisoners is the former head of Fatah's military wing in Ramallah, Ahmed Barghouti
Freed hostages Alexander Troufanov, Iair Horn and Sagui Dekel Chen return to Israel after 498 days of Gaza captivity
February 15, 2025
Hostage Iair Horn was made to hold up an hourglass with writing under it that read, 'Time is running out,' featuring images of hostage Matan Zangauker and his mother Einav, a prominent activist, as he was handed over to the Red Cross by Hamas militants
Israeli scholar Hani Zubida has a question for Mizrahim: 'When will you realize you're Arabs?'
February 15, 2025
Scholar and social activist Hani Zubida refuses to accept stereotypes of Mizrahim and enjoys playing with the dual identity his name suggests while seeking to promote a new Israeli ethnic discourse
Netanyahu to hold security consultation on Israel-Hamas hostage deal, second-stage talks
February 15, 2025
■GAZA: Released hostages Alexander Troufanov, Iair Horn and Sagui Dekel Chen are back in Israel ■ ISRAEL: Shin Bet is examining connection between Netanyahu's top aides and Qatar ■ LEBANON: Two killed three injured in IDF strike in south, Lebanese media says ■ WEST BANK: Six Palestinians...
Nine days before German election, U.S. Vice President JD Vance meets far-right leader
February 14, 2025
Vance met with co-leader anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party after lecturing European leaders about the state of democracy
The rift between Trump and his allies in Egypt and Jordan is playing in Hamas' favor
February 14, 2025
Israel and the U.S. see Gaza as a tactical problem that will disappear with Hamas's destruction – or through the mass expulsion of its residents to make way for a Riviera. Arab states, however, view eliminating Hamas as little more than a fantasy
Replacing the irreplaceable: Judaica drive 'restores some joy' for families hit by Los Angeles fires
February 14, 2025
To help the more than 500 Jewish families who lost their homes in California's wildfires, a group of women launched Rebuilding Judaica, hoping to replace precious Jewish objects, many of them passed in families for generations. 'It just makes you feel like you can start to move...
Parents of soldier killed in Lebanon while guarding civilian meet with Israeli army chief
February 14, 2025
Ron and Maayan Kehati, whose son Gur was killed in November, met with Herzl Halevi at IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, where the latter took responsibility for the fatal incident
Netanyahu plans to attack Iran and is plotting to lure Trump into the war
February 14, 2025
By attacking Iran, with or without the United States, Israel's prime minister seeks to turn the October 7 calamity into an epic strategic triumph. Will the Saudis help Trump avert this?
Tamir Yadai chosen as Israeli army's next deputy chief of staff
February 14, 2025
Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that Yadai, a former Ground Forces Command and Central Command chief, will serve as Eyal Zamir's deputy
'I don't know how I go on, but I try to be strong for him'
February 14, 2025
Rom Braslavski worked as a guard at the Nova music festival – eyewitnesses say he could have saved himself, but stayed to help others. His family hasn't received signs of life of the 21-year-old from former hostages
These are the three Israeli hostages released from Hamas captivity on Saturday
February 14, 2025
Sagui Dekel Chen, Iair Horn and Alexander 'Sasha' Troufanov, all Nir Oz residents, have been announced as the hostages to be released in the next weekly phase of the cease-fire deal
New IDF chief needs to stop Israel's army from becoming 'God's Revenge Forces'
February 14, 2025
As one battalion commander says about the Gaza war, 'If a child or an old man enters a forbidden area and isn't directly endangering you, morally you're not allowed to shoot them. Here the IDF needs a very large correction'
Israeli ministers set to back bill blocking courts from hearing cases involving foreign-funded NGOs
February 14, 2025
The bill would also impose an 80-percent tax on donations from foreign state entities, with one NGO official saying the criteria are designed to target government critics
With crucial evidence missing, Sara Netanyahu's investigation 'could end in nothing'
February 14, 2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is elated after a successful Washington visit. As he admires Trump's consolidation of power, he can also be glad that the investigation into his wife Sara on suspicion of harassing a witness is stalled over a missing phone
The Palestinian father begged the Israeli troops to postpone the demolition due to the cold, to no avail
February 14, 2025
While the creators of 'No Other Land,' a documentary about the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta, prepare for the Oscars, Israeli authorities carry a large and cruel demolition operation there. 'Masafer Yatta is disappearing before my eyes,' wrote the film's co-director...
Since October 7, Israeli dreams have turned into nightmares. Literally
February 14, 2025
Ever since October 7, many Israelis have been unable to sleep. But even when they do manage to drift off, their dreams often center around the Hamas massacre, the fighting and the hostages languishing in Gaza. Experts explain
As Netanyahu maneuvers, hostages are left out and war is on the mind
February 14, 2025
As the hostage deal narrowly clings to life, its completion remains uncertain. Netanyahu continues to maneuver against it, placing legacy and grand strategy top of his priorities. However, unlikely heroes of the hostage return movement have emerged and are the only things standing in the way of...
From Washington to the Qatari connection, the spirit of Trump rules over Netanyahu
February 14, 2025
The prime minister is thriving in the chaos created by the president ■ The absence of Netanyahu, Levin and Ohana from Isaac Amit's inauguration ceremony is a badge of honor for the Supreme Court president ■ The opposition received a treasure, and came out a loser
Islamic Jihad publishes video of hostage Sasha Troufanov ahead of expected release
February 14, 2025
LEBANON: Lebanon, France say IDF must withdraw by February 18; Pro-Hezbollah protesters wound UNIFIL deputy chief ■ ISRAEL: Israel confirms receiving names for Saturday hostage release; PM calls reports linking his aides to Qatar 'fake news' ■ GAZA: Thirty-six Palestinians serving life...
The Qatari connection: Yair Golan calls for probe into 'treason' by Netanyahu and his staff
February 13, 2025
The leader of the Democrats Party commented on a Channel 12 News report claiming that one staffer provided PR services to Qatar on hostage negotiation and on Haaretz's revelation that two others provided similar services to the Gulf state in 2022. Netanyahu's Likud party dismissed the...
Jordan's King Abdullah slammed in Arab world for response to Trump's Gaza plan
February 13, 2025
Critics condemn King Abdullah II for what he said and also how he conducted himself during his meeting with Donald Trump while discussing a U.S. 'takeover' of Gaza. 'An American president humiliated the Jordanian state's sovereignty,' wrote one
Head of Israeli army's probe into October 7 co-owns a company that worked with Qatar
February 13, 2025
Eli Ben-Meir, a former head of research at Military Intelligence and current CEO of Amidar, is one of the owners of Koios, which carried out the campaign crafted by Netanyahu advisers Urich and Einhorn for Qatar ahead of the 2022 World Cup. Ben-Meir: 'I'm a silent partner, I never met the...
'I'm asking myself if I'm really safe in Australia as a Jew'
February 13, 2025
This week at Ben-Gurion Airport: Young Jews from Down Under arrive in Israel for a gap year during a tense time, and two Israelis explain what it's like being secular West Bank settlers
'Die from a missile or die from the heat': How extreme weather could affect Israel's future wars
February 13, 2025
At a panel on energy solutions in the aftermath of war, experts stressed that with Israel's natural gas reserves expected to last only another 20-30 years, the government must prioritize energy security, including through clear legislation with no room for loopholes
The deeply Zionist, maverick photographer who was excluded from the Israeli canon
February 13, 2025
While the internationally renowned photographer Moï Ver was alive, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art declined to hold an exhibition by the avant-garde artist. Now, 30 years after his death, and after retrospectives in European capitals, his wish has come true
For Israelis, 'from the river to the sea' is a reality. For Palestinians, it's a crime
February 13, 2025
It is nonsensical, and hypocritical, to arrest or accuse Palestinians of promoting the ideology of 'From the river to the sea,' while in Israel, school maps don't show the Green Line and the government is advancing full annexation
Israel is throwing a trillion shekels at a 'hysterical army' that can't defend its borders
February 13, 2025
Failing to safeguard its borders, Israel tries to conquer territory as a defensive tactic, whose success is highly questionable. 'The IDF has lost its self-confidence,' says a veteran military historian
Hundreds of U.S. rabbis, Jewish celebrities condemn Trump Gaza plan in NYT ad
February 13, 2025
Signatories of the ad include rabbis from Conservative, Orthodox, Reform, Reconstructionist, Renewal movements working in congregations, campuses, hospitals, rabbinical seminaries, and community organizations in the U.S. and Israel
U.S. sanctions International Criminal Court's Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan
February 13, 2025
According to the U.S. Treasury Department, Khan's U.S. assets have been frozen and entry into the U.S. may be restricted, after Trump accused him of 'illegitimate and baseless actions,' against the U.S. and Israel
Israeli schools in towns on Lebanese border will resume in March, despite parents' protest
February 13, 2025
The Kiryat Shmona municipality and the city's parent association are protesting the move, and have appealed the decision to the High Court of Justice
'Even if we win an Oscar, I will go back to my cruel reality in the West Bank'
February 13, 2025
Basel Adra, co-director of 'No Other Land,' nominated for an Academy Award, hopes his documentary will raise awareness in Israel and abroad of the plight of his beleaguered West Bank community
Bitter-sweet recovery: bakery at kibbutz devastated on October 7 finally reopens
February 13, 2025
Pastry chef Yaki Sagi is reopening his bakery at Kibbutz Be'eri, where he lost many close friends in the October 7 attack. All he's waiting for now is staff – and customers
Jewish refugee aid group sues Trump administration over refugee ban
February 13, 2025
The lawsuit marks a return to HIAS' legal strategy from Trump's first term, when the group challenged the 2017 travel ban and temporarily delayed its implementation. The agency's president, Mark Hetfield, called the ban 'illegal and immoral'
Trump's Palestinian plan has triggered a new, united and angry Arab front
February 13, 2025
'The Palestinians will be a hotbed of trouble throughout the Arab world' said the Syrian Foreign Minister in 1982. Apparently, not much has changed
Israel seeks to postpone IDF withdrawal from five outposts in Lebanon along border
February 13, 2025
Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer said that the IDF wouldn't leave Lebanon soon and refused to specify a withdrawal date. The U.S., which mediated the agreement, has yet to decide if it will approve another delay, but has not rejected the request
State to top court: Issues with 195 gun licenses given out under Ben-Gvir
February 13, 2025
Under the former national security minister, thousands of gun licenses were given out by clerks who were unauthorized to grant them; the government's response comes after a review of 1,144 such licenses
Hamas commits to continue Gaza cease-fire deal, including release of three Israeli hostages on Saturday
February 13, 2025
Three days after announcing it would halt the release of hostages due to alleged Israeli truce violations, Palestinian sources say an agreement was made to increase aid into the strip. Israel is yet to respond to Hamas' announcement
'100,000 votes will change everything': Meet the rising Haredi power in World Zionist movement
February 13, 2025
Eretz Hakodesh won 25,000 votes in 2020's Zionist Congress election and hopes to quadruple its electoral power this year. Online, it boasts of helping constituents obtain Israeli army exemptions and helping secure a right-wing majority in the World Zionist Congress
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