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Iran: US attack will mean all-out war
The specter of a US attack on Iran reached a fevered pitch over the weekend as the head of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), Gen. Brad Cooper, arrived in Israel on Saturday and met with senior IDF officials in Tel Aviv. Iran will treat any attack “as...
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Court allows naming of suspect who infiltrated IDF base on Oct. 7
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the identity of a man accused of infiltrating IDF command facilities in the immediate aftermath of the October 7 Hamas attack may be published, marking a significant shift in a case that has raised acute...
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PM accepts Trump’s invitation to become founding member of his Board of Peace
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted US President Donald Trump’s invitation to join the Board of Peace and is set to become one of the board’s founding members, the Prime Minister’s Office announced on Wednesday. The Board of Peace...
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‘We in Iran are 80 million hostages’
Many have described the current protests inside Iran as a “Berlin Wall” moment, meant to evoke the unforgettable, positive transformation European geopolitics underwent when the wall came down. Instead, for the past few weeks, what has taken place in...
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Two infants dead, dozens injured in J’lem daycare center incident
Two babies died and at least 55 others sustained injuries in an incident at a daycare center in Jerusalem’s Romema neighborhood on Monday, Magen David Adom (MDA) reported. Three-month-old Lia Tzipora Golovnetsitz and sixmonth-old Aharon Katz were...
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US beefs up military presence in region, strike on Iran ‘still possible’
The United States Armed Forces continue to reinforce their military presence in the Middle East amid the possibility that US President Donald Trump may order an attack against Iran. Aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and its strike teams have...
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‘We didn’t agree to Trump’s Board of Peace members’
The makeup of the Gaza Board of Peace (BoP) contradicts Israeli policy and was not brought up with Israeli authorities, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a Saturday statement. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar to...
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Qatar, Saudi lead drive to persuade Trump against attacking Iran
Officials from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Oman worked “behind the scenes” to defuse tensions between the US and Iran in an attempt to prevent an attack, a person with knowledge about the matter told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. Egypt was also...
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Iranian official admits at least 3,000 killed in protests, UN dismayed
Around 3,000 people have been killed in Iran amid the ongoing protests, a senior Iranian Health Ministry official speaking on condition of anonymity, told The New York Times on Tuesday. Another source, speaking to Reuters, blamed “terrorists” for the...
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Pezeshkian faults Israel, US as over 2,000 likely dead
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian blamed the United States and Israel for ordering “rioters” to create instability in Iran, in a speech released Sunday. He called on Iranians to distance themselves from “rioters and terrorists,” adding that his...
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PM: Lebanon not doing enough to disarm Hezbollah
Lebanon’s government and army have not made sufficient efforts to disarm Hezbollah, and this is evidenced by the terror group’s efforts, with Iran’s help, to rearm and reestablish its infrastructure, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office stated on...
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One killed at J’lem haredi draft law protest after driver rams crowd
An 18-year-old man was killed and three others were injured after a bus driver rammed into a crowd of protesters during a massive haredi (ultra-Orthodox) draft protest in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Reports said that a group of protesters was arguing with...
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America is weighing Iran intervention, ‘Post’ learns
Jerusalem Post has received multiple potential indications that the US is considering some kind of intervention in the Iran protests standoff, while Israel is checking whether the removal of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro will make action against the...
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When Khamenei speaks, Iran’s crackdown on demonstrators hardens
It took until the seventh day of the Iranian protests for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to utter a public statement. The protests began last Sunday when Tehran’s bazaaris (merchants) shut their shops and took to the streets over the country’s...
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US captures Maduro in daring overnight operation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States attacked Venezuela and captured its long-serving President Nicolás Maduro in an overnight operation on Saturday, US President Donald Trump said, promising to put the country under American control for now,...
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Several reported killed as Iran protests intensify
Several people were killed during unrest in Iran, Iranian media and rights groups said on Thursday, as the biggest protests to hit the Islamic Republic for three years over worsening economic conditions sparked violence in several provinces. The...
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IDF, US deep in plans for ISF moves, Gaza neighborhood
The Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC), led by the US, with significant Israeli and global participation, is deep into planning the building of new neighborhoods on the Israeli-controlled side of Rafah in Gaza, as well as the deployment of an...
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Trump, Netanyahu make progress on next Gaza phase
US President Donald Trump on Monday said he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu settled three difficult issues concerning Gaza within five minutes of their meeting. “We had about a five-minute meeting, and we’ve already settled about three of the...
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Stormy weather whips up flood alerts, road rescues
A powerful winter storm swept across Israel on Sunday, bringing heavy rain, strong winds, and snow. Flooding is expected to intensify throughout Monday. There was rainfall from the North to the northern Negev, prompting flood warnings for riverbeds in...
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IDF launches massive op in West Bank town after terrorist attack kills two
The IDF is carrying out a large counterterrorism operation in Qabatiya in the West Bank following a terrorist attack that took place in the North on Friday in which two Israelis were killed, and two more were wounded. Sixty-eight-year-old Shimshon...
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‘I’m not religious but prayer found me’
He had stepped away for food, the kind of mundane errand that is supposed to be safe on a holiday night, even more so on a beach that sells itself as paradise. Arsen Ostrovsky was at Bondi for a Hanukkah celebration. Minutes later, he was injured in a...
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Katz accepts Zamir’s next air force, navy chiefs
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir on Wednesday was finally able to declare victory in convincing Defense Minister Israel Katz to approve Brig.-Gen. Omer Tishler as the next chief of the air force and V.-Adm. Eyal Harel as the next chief of the...
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Bid for gov’t-run inquiry on October 7 steams ahead
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved on Monday a bill proposal by Likud MK Ariel Kallner that would establish a politically appointed commission of inquiry into the failures surrounding the October 7 Hamas attack. The approval came just...
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Iran’s renewed ballistic missile buildup poses grave threat to Israel
Iran’s renewed push to rebuild its ballistic missile arsenal now poses as grave a threat as its nuclear program, US Sen. Lindsey Graham (R South Carolina) warned in an interview with The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. “This trip is about elevating the risk...
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In Reykjavik, Hanukkah offers chance for Iceland’s tiny, isolated Jewish community to come together
REYKJAVIK – December light is brief in Iceland. It was not even 4 p.m. yet when the day had slipped into darkness, and by the time a giant hanukkiah was already lit in downtown Reykjavik. A steady drizzling rain blurred the streetlights and soaked the...
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Funeral held for Matilda, Bondi’s youngest victim
The youngest victim of the Bondi Beach massacre, 10-year-old Matilda, who was remembered as a “ray of sunshine” and loved animals and dancing, was laid to rest on Thursday. Yellow toy bees topped her coffin as Australian Prime Minister Anthony...
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Police arrest suspect linked to missing Safed girl Kasau
In a case that has gripped the country for nearly two years, the first arrest in connection with the disappearance of Haymanut Kasau, who went missing from an absorption center in Safed on February 25, 2024, has been made. Police believe that the...
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Bondi gunmen were inspired by ISIS, had traveled to Philippines, police say
SYDNEY (Reuters) – The two alleged gunmen who attacked a Hanukkah event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach had traveled to the Philippines before the assault, which killed 15 people, and appeared to be inspired by Islamic State, police said on Tuesday. The...
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‘Intifada has been globalized’ – Australian Jews
The Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre was the expected progression of two years of rising antisemitic actions and rhetoric, two top Jewish officials said. New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies president David Ossip and Executive Council of Australian...
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At least 15 murdered in Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre
At least 15 people were murdered and dozens more wounded when a mass shooting targeted a Hanukkah celebration in Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia, on Sunday. New South Wales Police, on Monday morning, updated that 40 others remain hospitalized. Among...
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Top Hamas official killed over rearming efforts
An order to assassinate Hamas’s second-highest ranking official, Raad Saad, was given earlier on Saturday due to his leadership role concerning the terrorist group’s rearmament activities, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel...
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Storm Byron wreaks havoc with severe flooding across country
Several Israelis were injured, and at least one was found dead, as Storm Byron made landfall in Israel throughout Thursday. Severe flooding and heavy winds were recorded across the country. Flooding along highways and roads in central Israel trapped...
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Smotrich approves hundreds of housing units in settlements
Israel has given final approval for 764 housing units to be built in three settlements in Judea and Samaria, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionist Party) said Wednesday. The move is part of an ongoing initiative to expand housing in the...
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Ex-Shin Bet chief Bar calls for state inquiry into Oct. 7
Former Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, in his first public address since leaving his post in June, called on Tuesday for the government to establish a state commission of inquiry into the Hamas invasion on October 7, 2023. It is Israel’s responsibility to...
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Latet report warns: Growing ‘war poor’ class is free-falling into poverty
A growing class of “war poor” – namely families pushed into financial crisis after October 7 and the ensuing Israel-Hamas War skyrocketed the cost of living – is struggling to afford necessities even when both parents work full-time, Latet’s 2025...
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No annexation of West Bank in near future – Netanyahu
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel did not expect to annex any parts of the West Bank in the near future, aligning himself with a plea from visiting German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Following their meeting in Jerusalem, Merz...
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‘Gaza talks at critical stage, ceasefire incomplete’
DOHA (Reuters) – Negotiations on consolidating the US-backed truce in the war in Gaza are at a “critical” moment, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said on Saturday. Mediators are working to force the next phase of the...
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Netanyahu surprisingly taps military secretary Gofman to be next Mossad chief
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday selected Maj.-Gen. Roman Gofman, his current military secretary, to be the next Mossad director. Gofman is multitalented and “has demonstrated creativity, initiative, stratagem, a deep understanding of the...
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Germany deploys Arrow system
HOLZDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Germany – Germany on Wednesday deployed its Israeli-made Arrow air defense system at Holzdorf Air Force base with top Israeli defense officials and select media, including The Jerusalem Post, in attendance, at a historic...
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Red Cross delivers remains Hamas claims belong to slain hostage
Hamas on Tuesday handed over the remains of one of the last two deceased hostages still in Gaza, the International Committee of the Red Cross said, under terms of the October ceasefire deal. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said that the IDF...
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Coalition MKs vow to vote down Bismuth’s haredi draft legislation
Coalition MKs vowed to vote against the current outline of Likud MK Boaz Bismuth’s haredi (ultra-Orthodox) conscription bill during the Knesset’s heated Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on Monday, restarting the long-anticipated process of...
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PM asks Herzog for pardon amid criminal trial
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu submitted a formal request for a presidential pardon to President Isaac Herzog on Sunday. It was an extraordinary move with significant implications, the President’s Residence said. Netanyahu’s attorney, Amit Hadad,...
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IDF ambushed in Syrian raid to arrest terrorists
The IDF’s 55th Brigade killed three terrorists and arrested two in Beit Jinn in southern Syria in an overnight Friday raid, the military announced. The terrorists were members of al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya, a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in Lebanon,...
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Bismuth issues updated, weakened haredi draft bill
Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Boaz Bismuth (Likud) on Thursday distributed the updated text of the government’s haredi (ultra-Orthodox) draft bill to the committee’s members. It sets the stage for intensive deliberations next...
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Dror Or, one of the last three slain Gaza hostages, returns
Dror Or was identified as the slain Gaza hostage whose remains were returned to Israel by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) on Tuesday, the Prime Minister’s Office and the IDF announced on Wednesday morning. Following Or’s return to Israel,...
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Rise and fall of GHF: A metaphor for good intentions but strategic failure for replacing Hamas politically
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) officially closed its doors on Monday, though it had not been in operation since early October. Its eventual closure, encapsulating the rise and fall of a noble idea, was due to a failed strategy and...
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Zamir, Katz clash over Oct. 7 probe
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir went head-tohead with Defense Minister Israel Katz on Monday night in a battle royale over the October 7 probes and their consequences for IDF commanders. Zamir called Katz out for interjecting politics into the...
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In bold move, IAF kills Hezbollah military chief
In the most aggressive strike by Israel against Hezbollah since the November 2024 ceasefire, an IDF airstrike on Sunday killed Hezbollah military commander Ali Tabatabai, in the heart of Beirut. Throughout the last year, the air force has targeted...
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Trump calls on Herzog to pardon Netanyahu
Five years after his trial began, and several months into cross-examination, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should receive a pardon from President Isaac Herzog, US President Donald Trump wrote in a letter to the president on Wednesday. “It is time...
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Hadar Goldin laid to rest after 11 years in Gaza
Lt. Hadar Goldin was laid to rest on Tuesday at the military cemetery in Kfar Saba after a harrowing fight to return his body following 11 years in Hamas captivity. Goldin was abducted while dismantling a Hamas terror tunnel in Rafah in 2014, the...
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PM speaks at Knesset debate on Oct. 7 inquiry, families turn backs
Bereaved family members turned their backs on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in protest during the Monday Knesset’s 40-signature debate on establishing a state commission of inquiry into the government’s handling of the October 7...
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Hadar Goldin’s body returns home after 11 years
Forensic scientists at the L. Greenberg Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir identified the deceased hostage returned from Gaza as Lt. Hadar Goldin on Sunday, the Prime Minister’s Office confirmed. Goldin was a Givati Brigade platoon commander...
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Hamas claims it has found body of Hadar Goldin
The IDF was preparing to receive the remains of a deceased hostage late on Saturday, possibly of Lt. Hadar Goldin, who was killed in Operation Protective Edge in 2014, and whose body has been held in Gaza since then. Hamas said earlier on Saturday...
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IDF escalates airstrikes against Hezbollah
The IDF carried out a series of airstrikes against Hezbollah on Thursday. They were an escalation of its pressure to convince the Lebanese government to disarm the terrorist group if it remains intransigent. The IDF has continued striking Hezbollah,...
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Anti-Zionism at City Hall
The election of Zohran Mamdani as the next mayor of New York City is a historic moment for the United States, the citizens of New York, and Jews worldwide — especially in Israel. Mamdani is a talented politician with an easy facility with words. He is...
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Thousands honor ex-hostage Lt.-Col. Asaf Hamami at Tel Aviv funeral
Thousands of mourners gathered at Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery in Tel Aviv on Tuesday to bid their final farewells to Lt.-Col. Asaf Hamami. His body was returned from Gaza by Hamas on Sunday night as part of the ceasefire agreement. Hamami, who...
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COMMEMORATING A GIANT
(From left) Dalia Rabin, daughter of Yitzhak Rabin, Supreme Court President Yitzhak Amit, Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter, President Isaac Herzog and his wife, Michal, and other officials, including IDF chief Eyal Zamir (right) stand to remember...
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Tomer-Yerushalmi found alive after massive search
Former IDF Military Advocate-General Maj.-Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was found alive and unharmed on Sunday evening on a beach in north Tel Aviv after a widespread search lasting hours, following a report of her disappearance, and fears raised that...
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Egypt opens colossal antiquities museum in Giza after two-decade wait
CAIRO (Reuters) – Prime ministers, presidents and royalty descended on Cairo on Saturday to attend the spectacle-laden inauguration of a sprawling new museum built near the pyramids to house one of the world’s richest collections of antiquities. The...
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Hundreds of thousands of haredim block J’lem streets to oppose draft
Clashes broke out between demonstrators and passersby as hundreds of thousands of haredim (ultra-Orthodox) convened in Jerusalem on Thursday to protest Israel’s proposed military conscription law for the ultra-Orthodox, dubbed the “Million Man...
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Gaza ceasefire reinstated after IDF responses to Hamas violations
Following a series of strikes across the Gaza Strip in response to Hamas’s numerous ceasefire violations, the IDF on Wednesday said it had resumed enforcing the ceasefire. “In accordance with the directive of the political echelon, and following a...
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IDF launches ‘powerful strikes’ in Gaza after Hamas truce breach
The IDF has intensified its strikes across Gaza after Hamas fired at soldiers in the southern part of the enclave on Tuesday evening, according to Palestinian reports. It struck in the area of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, per Muhammad Abu Salmiya, the...
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The Moral Ultimatum: Shraga Biran’s Challenge to Trump and Xi
“The difference between the absolute and the almost is the fate of humanity.” Shraga Biran issues an uncompromising call to Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping: Act now to end global terrorism and antiSemitism, or face the consequences. In an...
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IDF searching for hostage remains in Gaza areas under Israel’s control
Israel believes that several deceased hostages may be located in areas of the Yellow Line under IDF control, and searches are currently underway to locate them, two Israeli officials told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday morning. The Yellow Line marks the...
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Gaza security force to involve states Israel ‘is comfortable with’ – Rubio
The US-proposed international peace force in Gaza would have to be comprised of countries that Israel approves, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. “To get through all of the things we are trying to achieve, it’s not gonna be a linear journey,” he...
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Hamas must disarm, return bodies for Gaza deal to advance
The IDF considers the disarmament of Hamas a necessary condition for moving to the next stage of the US-brokered Gaza deal, Chief of Staff Lt.Gen. Eyal Zamir told US Vice President JD Vance on Thursday. During the meeting, which included Defense...
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Vance warns of tough task ahead
US Vice President JD Vance stressed on Wednesday during his meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US does not want to control Israel, and in response, Netanyahu stated that “Israel is not an American protectorate,” adding that the...
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Knesset report: ‘Tsunami’ of citizens opt to leave Israel in recent years
A report showing a spike in citizens leaving Israel since 2022, revealing a decline of 125,200 people from the country’s migration balance, was presented on Monday in the Knesset’s Committee for Immigration, Absorption, and Diaspora Affairs. The...
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Knesset opens in stormy session as Netanyahu lauds gov’t policies
The Knesset’s opening ceremony for its winter session erupted with divisive clashes on Monday, as MKs were removed from the plenum ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address in which he spoke on upcoming legislation to be passed and peace...
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Gov’t okays PM proposal to change name Swords of Iron to ‘War of Revival’
The government voted in favor of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal to change the official name of the Israel-Hamas War from Operation Swords of Iron to the War of Revival during Sunday’s cabinet meeting. Directly after Hamas’s October 7...
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Hamas delivers three more hostages over weekend
Hamas was to return the remains of two more hostages to Israel late on Saturday night, with the terrorist organization saying that they found them earlier in the day. Additionally, the body of slain hostage Eliyahu Margalit was released by the...
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Remains of captives Inbar Hayman, Muhammad al-Atarash identified
L. Greenberg Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir confirmed that Inbar Hayman and M.-Sgt. Muhammad al-Atarash were the two deceased hostages returned to Israel on Wednesday night, the Prime Minister’s Office stated on Thursday morning. “The...
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Freed hostage Angrest attends funeral of slain comrade Peretz
Former Gaza hostage Captain Daniel Peretz was laid to rest at Mount Herzl on Wednesday after being returned during phase one of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan. Released hostage Matan Angrest, who served under Peretz, attended the funeral,...
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Nation elated as living hostages return home
In a historic day for the State of Israel, Hamas on Monday returned all the remaining 20 live hostages it had held captive for two years while US President Donald Trump, who helped broker the deal, arrived in the country for a celebratory visit,...
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GOD BLESS THE PEACEMAKER
Thank you for your unwavering commitment to peace and stability in the Middle East and beyond. Your visionary leadership is making history paving the way for a new era where wars AnD ConflICts EnD, rEpLACED By CoopErAtIon, unDErstAnDInG, AnD...
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Israel braces to receive hostages within hours
Israel has begun preparations for the return of the 20 living hostages and 28 deceased ones as part of Israel’s agreed-upon ceasefire deal with Hamas, as IDF forces have withdrawn from parts of Gaza and forensic teams are readying to identify the...
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