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IDF chief holds talks in DC as US weighs Iran strikes

Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir held talks in Washington over the weekend with American officials, focusing on Iran.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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2,000-year-old Pilgrimage Road to Temple Mount opens to public after years of digging

For Michael Ganeles and his wife, visiting the City of David in Jerusalem was a must when they took their three children to Israel for the first time from West Hempstead, New York, to celebrate their middle daughter’s bat mitzvah.

IDF kills Hezbollah terrorist in Lebanon

The Israel Defense Forces on Monday targeted and killed a Hezbollah terrorist near Ansariyah in southwestern Lebanon “in response to Hezbollah’s repeated violations of the ceasefire understandings,” the military said.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Maryland man faces 20 years after admitting to trying to join ISIS, aiming to ‘gun down’ Zionists

Michael Sam Teekaye Jr., of Hanover, Md., pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to trying to join the Islamic State, a U.S.-designated terror organization.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Satellite photos track Iranian efforts to conceal nuke program’s status during threat of US attack

In recent days, multiple satellite photo providers have put out pictures of the latest Iranian efforts to conceal the status of their nuclear program rebuilding efforts at Natanz, Isfahan, and Parchin-Taleghan 2.

Father of former hostage to join faculty at Columbia University

Jonathan Dekel-Chen, the father of former Israeli-American hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen, 36, is slated to join the faculty at Columbia University as a visiting professor at the School of International and Public Affairs in July.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Iran assassin gets 15 years for trying to kill Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad

Carlisle Rivera, 50, a convicted murderer hired by Iran to assassinate Iranian-American journalist and human-rights activist Masih Alinejad, was sentenced on Jan. 28 to 15 years in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Israel responds to South Africa, declares chargé d’affaires persona non grata

Israel has declared South Africa's senior diplomatic representative, Chargé d'affaires Shaun Edward Byneveldt, persona non grata and has been given 72 hours to leave the country, as announced in a statement by the Israeli foreign affairs ministry on Friday.

Israel to reopen Rafah Crossing under ceasefire framework

Israel will reopen the Rafah Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt for pedestrian traffic in both directions on Sunday, according to the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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EU lists Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as terror group over protest crackdown

European Union foreign ministers on Thursday agreed to include the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the bloc’s list of terrorist organizations, putting the powerful Iranian military force in a category similar to that of Islamic State and al Qaeda and marking a symbolic shift in Europe’s approach to Iran’s leadership.

EU countries who blocked IRGC terror designation were threatened by Iran – report

Several European countries that had previously blocked the European Union from designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terror organization were threatened to do so by the IRGC Quds Force, according to several political sources.

Qatar ties linked to anti-Western ideological shift at Georgetown, Middle East Forum

Qatar has gained sizable control over Georgetown University, according to a new report by the Middle East Forum.
GU established a campus in Qatar in 2005 through a partnership with the Qatar Foundation and has since renewed its contract multiple times and extended it through 2035.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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Iran regime using hospitals as traps to harm protesters, doctors that provide aid

Iranian regime forces have used hospitals and doctors as tools for shutting down antigovernmental protests in recent weeks, according to various media reports, citing firsthand accounts.

Senior Hamas official: We did not discuss disarmament ‘for a single moment’

Senior Hamas official Musa Abu Marzouk told Al Jazeera on Wednesday that the terrorist organization never agreed to disarmament as part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s ceasefire deal for the Gaza Strip.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Document shows Palestinian terrorists knew rockets hit Gaza homes

Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday revealed a document recovered from the Gaza Strip acknowledging that Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Gaza’s second-largest terror group after Hamas, knowingly launched rockets that fell inside the Strip.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Driver smashes car into Chabad’s world headquarters in NYC

A driver smashed a car into a side entrance of the Chabad movement’s world headquarters in New York City on Wednesday, provoking widespread alarm in the Jewish community.

Read white: The Times of Israel

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Jerusalem Tunnel Checkpoint stabbing thwarted

The Israel Defense Forces said on Wednesday that it had received a report of a suspected stabbing near the Tunnel Checkpoint area in Jerusalem.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Tel Aviv hostage clock halted after 843 days

Families of hostages and their supporters gathered on Tuesday evening in central Tel Aviv as the iconic hostage clock was stopped after counting every second that captives were held by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza since the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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‘Armada heading to Iran’: Trump warns mullahs time running out

U.S. President Donald Trump warned Iran in a Truth Social post on Wednesday that “a massive armada” is making its way to the region and advised it to negotiate a settlement on its nuclear program as time was running out.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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20 Jews murdered, 815 severe antisemitic attacks took place worldwide in 2025

Twenty Jews were murdered worldwide and some 815 severe antisemitic incidents were documented in 2025, according to a report released Tuesday by the Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Ministry.